Network Security 1.0 Final PT Skills Assessment (PTSA) Exam

Network Security 1.0 Final PT Skills Exam (PTSA) (Answer Key)

Network Security (Version 1) – Network Security Final PT Skills Assessment (PTSA)

Network Security 1.0 Final PT Skills Exam (PTSA)

Network Security 1.0 Final PT Skills Exam (PTSA)

Network Security – Practice PT Skills Assessment (PTSA) Answers

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Objectives

In this practice Packet Tracer Skills Based Assessment, you will:

  • Configure an ASA firewall to implement security policies.
  • Configure Layer 2 security on a LAN switch.
  • Configure a site-to-site IPsec VPN

Background / Scenario

Your company has been hired by a used car dealership that has a corporate headquarters and multiple branch offices. The Car1 Company has become concerned about network security and has contracted you to implement Layer 2 security, an ASA device, and VPN services from HQ to the branches. Your job is to prototype the network in the lab prior to your company installing the equipment at the Car1 sites. In this case, you will only implement a VPN between headquarters and a single branch.

Note: Some values and approaches to configuring devices in this simulated assessment may not conform to current security best practices. In some cases, values have been simplified to streamline the assessment, and in other cases, values have been used by necessity in order to facilitate the assessment of certain skills in Packet Tracer.

Instructions

Addressing Table

Device Interface IP Address Subnet Mask Gateway DNS server
Internet S0/0/0 209.165.200.225 255.255.255.252 n/a n/a
Internet S0/0/1 192.31.7.1 255.255.255.252 n/a n/a
Internet S0/1/0 198.133.219.1 255.255.255.252 n/a n/a
Internet G0/0 192.135.250.1 255.255.255.0 n/a n/a
HQ S0/0/0 209.165.200.226 255.255.255.252 n/a n/a
HQ G0/0 209.165.200.254 255.255.255.240 n/a n/a
HQ-ASA5506 G1/1 209.165.200.253 255.255.255.240 n/a n/a
HQ-ASA5506 G1/2 192.168.10.1 255.255.255.0 n/a n/a
HQ-ASA5506 G1/3 192.168.20.1 255.255.255.0 n/a n/a
Branch S0/0/0 198.133.219.2 255.255.255.252 n/a n/a
Branch G0/0 198.133.219.62 255.255.255.224 n/a n/a
ExternalWeb Svr NIC 192.31.7.35 255.255.255.224 192.31.7.62 n/a
ExternalUser NIC 192.31.7.33 255.255.255.224 192.31.7.62 192.135.250.5
AAA/NTP/SyslogSvr NIC 192.168.10.10 255.255.255.0 192.168.10.1 n/a
DMZDNS Svr NIC 192.168.20.5 255.255.255.0 192.168.20.1 n/a
DMZWeb Svr NIC 192.168.20.2 255.255.255.0 192.168.20.1 192.168.20.5
PC0,PC1, and PC2 NIC DHCPclient 255.255.255.0 192.168.10.1 192.168.10.10
BranchAdmin NIC 198.133.219.35 255.255.255.224 198.133.219.62 192.135.250.5
NetAdmin PC NIC 192.168.10.250 255.255.255.0 192.168.10.1 192.168.10.10

Part 1: Configure the ASA 5506-X

Step 1: Configure Basic Settings on the ASA device.

HQ-ASA5506 is already configured with a password: Thecar1Admin.

Note: In order to receive full credit for you configuration, you must save your configuration file after making any changes to the device configuration.

  • a. Configure the domain name as thecar1.com.
  • b. Configure the hostname as HQ-ASA5506.
  • c. Configure the INSIDE, OUTSIDE, and DMZ interfaces with the following:
    • IP address 209.165.200.253/28, nameif OUTSIDE, security-level 1, assign to G1/1
    • IP address 192.168.10.1/24, nameif INSIDE, security-level 100, assign to G1/2
    • IP address 192.168.20.1/24, nameif DMZ, security-level 70, assign to G1/3

HQ-ASA5506

enable
Thecar1Admin
conf term
domain-name thecar1.com
hostname HQ-ASA5506

interface g1/1   
nameif OUTSIDE
security-level 1
ip address 209.165.200.253 255.255.255.240
no shutdown

interface g1/2
nameif INSIDE
security-level 100
ip address 192.168.10.1 255.255.255.0
no shutdown

interface g1/3
nameif DMZ
security-level 70
ip address 192.168.20.1 255.255.255.0
no shutdown
exit

NOTE: After this step, check again to make sure that the interfaces G1/1, G1/2, G1/3 are configured with IP addresses. If there is any interface that does not receive an IP address, please reconfigure the IP address for that interface.
Network Security 1.0 Final PT Skills Assessment (PTSA) Exam 5

Step 2: Configure the DHCP service on the ASA device for the internal network.
  • a. The DHCP pool is 192.168.10.25 – 192.168.10.35.
  • b. The DHCP service should provide DNS server (AAA/NTP/syslog server) information.
  • c. PC0, PC1, and PC2 should receive their addresses over DHCP.

HQ-ASA5506

dhcpd address 192.168.10.25-192.168.10.35 INSIDE
dhcpd dns 192.168.10.10 interface INSIDE
dhcpd option 3 ip 192.168.10.1
dhcpd enable INSIDE

PC0-PC1-PC2 received their addresses over DHCP

Step 3: Configure routing on the ASA.

Configure a default route that will enable hosts on the HQ INTERNAL and DMZ networks to communicate with outside hosts. Use the IP address of the HQ router interface as the gateway interface.
HQ-ASA5506

route OUTSIDE 0.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 209.165.200.254
Step 4: Configure Secure Network Management for the ASA Device.

a. Configure the ASA with NTP and AAA:

  1. The ASA is a NTP client to the AAA/NTP/Syslog server.
  2. Enable the authentication to the ASA.
  3. The authentication key is key 1 with the password is corpkey.

HQ-ASA5506

ntp authenticate
ntp authentication-key 1 md5 corpkey
ntp server 192.168.10.10
ntp trusted-key 1

b. Configure AAA and SSH.

  1. Configure the ASA device with AAA authentication using the username of Car1Admin and password of adminpass01.
  2. Configure AAA to use the local database for SSH connections to the console port.
  3. Generate a RSA key pair to support with modulus size of 1024 bits.
  4. Configure HQ-ASA5506 to accept SSH connections only from the Net Admin workstation.
  5. Configure SSH session timeout to be 20 minutes.

HQ-ASA5506

username Car1Admin password adminpass01
aaa authentication ssh console LOCAL
crypto key generate rsa modulus 1024
yes
ssh 192.168.10.250 255.255.255.255 INSIDE
ssh timeout 20
Step 5: Configure NAT Service for the ASA device for both INSIDE and DMZ networks.
  • a. Create a network object called INSIDE-nat with subnet 192.168.10.0/24 and enable the IP addresses of the hosts in the internal network to be dynamically translated to access the external network via the outside interface.
  • b. Create a network object DMZ-web-server to statically translate the DMZ web server internal IP address to the outside public IP address 209.165.200.241.
  • c. Create a network object DMZ-dns-server to statically translate the DMZ DNS server internal IP address to the outside public IP address 209.165.200.242.

HQ-ASA5506

object network INSIDE-nat
subnet 192.168.10.0 255.255.255.0
nat (inside,outside) dynamic interface
exit
configure terminal 
object network DMZ-web-server
host 192.168.20.2
nat (dmz,outside) static 209.165.200.241
exit
configure terminal 
object network DMZ-dns-server
host 192.168.20.5
nat (dmz,outside) static 209.165.200.242
exit
Step 6: Configure ACL on the ASA device to implement the Security Policy.

a. Configure a named extended ACL to permit inside hosts to be translated to the pool of outside IP addresses. Name the ACL NAT-IP-ALL.

b. Apply NAT-IP-ALL ACL to the DMZ and OUTSIDE interfaces in the inward direction.

c. Configure an ACL to allow access to the DMZ servers from the internet. Create an extended named ACL (named OUTSIDE-TO-DMZ) to filter incoming traffic to the HQ ASA. The ACL statements should be created in the order specified in the following guidelines:
(Note: The order of ACL statements is significant only because of the scoring requirements for this assessment.)

  1. The ACL should contain four access control entries (ACEs).
  2. HTTP traffic is allowed to DMZ Web Svr.
  3. DNS traffic (both TCP and UDP) is allowed to the DMZ DNS server (two separate ACEs).
  4. FTP traffic from the Branch administrator workstation is allowed to the DMZ web server.

Note: For the purposes of this assessment, do NOT apply this ACL.
HQ-ASA5506

configure terminal
access-list NAT-IP-ALL extended permit ip any any

access-group NAT-IP-ALL in interface OUTSIDE
access-group NAT-IP-ALL in interface DMZ

access-list OUTSIDE-TO-DMZ extended permit tcp any host 209.165.200.241 eq 80
access-list OUTSIDE-TO-DMZ extended permit tcp any host 209.165.200.242 eq 53
access-list OUTSIDE-TO-DMZ extended permit udp any host 209.165.200.242 eq 53
access-list OUTSIDE-TO-DMZ extended permit tcp host 198.133.219.35 host 209.165.200.241 eq ftp

end
copy running-config startup-config

Part 2: Configure Layer 2 Security on a Switch

For this part of the assessment, you will be configuring Switch1 in the internal network with Layer 2 attack mitigation measures.

Step 1: Disable Unused Switch Ports
  • a. Disable all unused switch ports on Switch1.
  • b. Configure all unused ports in static access mode so that they will not negotiate trunks.

Switch 1

enable
conf t
interface range f0/2-4, f0/6-9, f0/11-22, g0/2
shutdown
switchport mode access
switchport nonegotiate
Step 2: Implement Port Security

On Switch1, configure port security on all of the switch ports that are connected to hosts according to the following requirements:

  • The ports should be configured as static access ports.
  • The ports should learn a maximum of two MAC addresses.
  • The ports should record the MAC addresses that have been learned in the device running configuration.
  • If a violation occurs, the port should drop packets from host MAC addresses that have not been learned, increment the violation counter, and generate a syslog message.

Switch 1

interface range f0/1, f0/5, f0/10
switchport mode access
switchport port-security
switchport port-security maximum 2
switchport port-security mac-address sticky
switchport port-security violation restrict
switchport nonegotiate
Step 3: Implement STP Security

On Switch1, implement STP security measures on the active ports that are connected to hosts.

  • a. Configure the switch to disable host ports that receive a BPDU.
  • b. Configure the ports to quickly go into STP forwarding mode without going through the STP transitional modes. Do this on a port-by-port basis, not on the entire switch.

Switch 1

interface range f0/1, f0/5, f0/10, g0/1
spanning-tree bpduguard enable
spanning-tree portfast

end
copy running-config startup-config

Part 3: Configure a Site-to-Site IPsec VPN between the HQ and the Branch Routers

Note: The Branch and HQ routers have already been configured with a username of CORPADMIN and a password of NetSec-Admin1. The enable secret password is RTR-AdminP@55.

Configure a site-to-site IPsec VPN between the HQ and Branch routers according to the requirements below.

The following tables list the parameters for the ISAKMP phase 1 and phase 2 policies:

ISAKMP Phase 1 Policy Parameters

Key Distribution Method ISAKMP
EncryptionAlgorithm AES
Numberof Bits 256
HashAlgorithm SHA-1
AuthenticationMethod Pre-share
KeyExchange DH2
IKESA Lifetime 1800
ISAKMPKey Vpnpass101

IPsec Phase 2 Policy Parameters Table

Parameters HQ Router Branch Router
TransformSet Name VPN-SET VPN-SET
TransformSet esp-aesesp-sha-hmac esp-aesesp-sha-hmac
PeerHost Name Branch HQ
PeerIP Address 198.133.219.2 209.165.200.226
EncryptedNetwork 209.165.200.240/28 198.133.219.32/27
CryptoMap Name VPN-MAP VPN-MAP
SAEstablishment ipsec-isakmp ipsec-isakmp

a.Configure ACL 120 on the HQ router to identify the interesting traffic to be sent across the VPN. The interesting traffic is all IP traffic from the HQ LAN to the Branch LAN.

b.Configure the ISAKMP Phase 1 properties on the HQ router. The crypto ISAKMP policy is 10. Refer to the ISAKMP Phase 1 Policy Parameters Table for the specific details needed.

c.Configure the ISAKMP Phase 2 properties on the HQ router using 10 as the sequence number. Refer to the ISAKMP Phase 2 Policy Parameters Table for the specific details needed.

d.Bind the VPN-MAP crypto map to the outgoing interface.

e.Configure IPsec parameters on the Branch router using the same parameters as on the HQ router. Note that interesting traffic is defined as the IP traffic from the Branch LAN to the LAN that is attached to HQ.

f.Save the running-config, then reload both the HQ and Branch routers.

HQ Router

Username: CORPADMIN
Password: NetSec-Admin1
enable
Password: RTR-AdminP@55
conf ter

access-list 120 permit ip 209.165.200.240 0.0.0.15 198.133.219.32 0.0.0.31

crypto isakmp policy 10
encryption aes 256
hash sha
authentication pre-share
group 2
lifetime 1800
exit

crypto isakmp key Vpnpass101 address 198.133.219.2

crypto ipsec transform-set VPN-SET esp-aes esp-sha-hmac

crypto map VPN-MAP 10 ipsec-isakmp
match address 120
set transform-set VPN-SET
set peer 198.133.219.2
set pfs group2
set security-association lifetime seconds 1800
exit

int s0/0/0
crypto map VPN-MAP
end   
copy running-config startup-config

Branch Router

Username: CORPADMIN
Password: NetSec-Admin1
enable
Password: RTR-AdminP@55
conf ter

access-list 120 permit ip 198.133.219.32 0.0.0.31 209.165.200.240 0.0.0.15

crypto isakmp policy 10
encryption aes 256
hash sha
authentication pre-share
group 2
lifetime 1800
exit

crypto isakmp key Vpnpass101 address 209.165.200.226

crypto ipsec transform-set VPN-SET esp-aes esp-sha-hmac

crypto map VPN-MAP 10 ipsec-isakmp
match address 120
set transform-set VPN-SET
set peer 209.165.200.226
set pfs group2
set security-association lifetime seconds 1800
exit

int s0/0/0
crypto map VPN-MAP
end   
copy running-config startup-config

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User
User
4 months ago

Thank you!

FFR
FFR
1 year ago

Thanks alot for the time you put into putting all the exam answers up.

Oliva
Oliva
1 year ago

can someone provide me the router and ASA enable password please?

Oliva
Oliva
1 year ago
Reply to  Oliva

Now I got it thanks to Henge.

LAF
LAF
1 year ago

I cannot get the commands for HQ Router to work (Part 3)

crypto isakmp policy 10
encryption aes 256
hash sha
authentication pre-share
group 2
lifetime 1800
exit

crypto isakmp key Vpnpass101 address 198.133.219.2

crypto ipsec transform-set VPN-SET esp-aes esp-sha-hmac

crypto map VPN-MAP 10 ipsec-isakmp
match address 120
set transform-set VPN-SET
set peer 198.133.219.2
set pfs group2
set security-association lifetime seconds 1800
exit

These commands produce multiple errors, even when done individually. Cannot get past crypto isakmp policy 10

Henge
Henge
2 years ago

i´m having a problem at part 3.
whenever i try to complete this part it doesn’t recognized the commands starting from “crypto isakmp policy 10”

Username: CORPADMIN
Password: NetSec-Admin1
enable
Password: RTR-AdminP@55
conf ter

access-list 120 permit ip 209.165.200.240 0.0.0.15 198.133.219.32 0.0.0.31

crypto isakmp policy 10
encryption aes 256
hash sha
authentication pre-share
group 2
lifetime 1800
exit
rayyan
rayyan
1 year ago
Reply to  Henge

Did you manage to fix this?

Latitude
Latitude
1 year ago
Reply to  Henge

Check the seck9 license is active, I found the same issue — easy fix using:

Check securityk9 is running and activate if not

en
show license feature
conf t
license boot module c1900 technology-package securityk9 
Yes
Reload

VitalyES
VitalyES
2 years ago

HQ-ASA5506:

ssh 192.168.10.250 255.255.255.255 INSIDE 

ERROR: entry for 192.168.10.250/255.255.255.255 exists

ssh 192.168.10.250 255.255.255.254 INSIDE

Jaya
Jaya
2 years ago

Why I couldn’t able to connect DMZ web server from the External User

Iwan
Iwan
2 years ago

GOD BLESS YOU Brother

zada
zada
2 years ago

Thanks for sharing,

Just a quick tip that I want to add here in the configuration.
Today I came across the following problem when I was configuring the DHCP with the provided ip address.

In PART1:Step2: Configure the DHCP service on the ASA device for the internal network.

  • a. The DHCP pool is 192.168.10.25 – 192.168.10.35

I put the the following command but the ASA was giving me error.

ASA omitted output:

HQ-ASA5506#conf t
HQ-ASA5506(config)#dhcpd address 192.168.10.25-192.168.10.35 INSIDE
Interface INSIDE ip address or netmask not valid (0.0.0.0/255.255.255.255)

so how to fix this:

RECONFIGURE THE INTERFACE G1/2 as a following with the same ip address that is in the pt-file.

First do the following:
HQ-ASA5506#conf t
HQ-ASA5506(config)#int g1/2
HQ-ASA5506(config-if)#ip add 192.168.10.1 255.255.255.0
HQ-ASA5506(config-if)#exit

Reconfigure the DHCP it will work as you can see in the following out put from ASA after reconfiguring the G1/2 interface.

HQ-ASA5506(config)#dhcpd address 192.168.10.25-192.168.10.35 INSIDE
HQ-ASA5506(config)#dhcpd dns 192.168.10.10 interface INSIDE
HQ-ASA5506(config)#dhcpd option 3 ip 192.168.10.1
HQ-ASA5506(config)#dhcpd enable INSIDE
HQ-ASA5506(config)#exit

Thank you and best of luck.

Jaya
Jaya
2 years ago
Reply to  zada

Are you able to connect the DMZ web server from the External User PC

Shubh
Shubh
6 months ago
Reply to  zada

I am getting below error can you help me to solve part 3 issue by providing part 3 code
HQ(config)#crypto isakmp policy 10
^
% Invalid input detected at ‘^’ marker.

HQ(config)#crypto isakmp policy 10
^
% Invalid input detected at ‘^’ marker.

HQ(config)# encryption aes 256
^
% Invalid input detected at ‘^’ marker.

HQ(config)# hash sha
^
% Invalid input detected at ‘^’ marker.

HQ(config)# authentication pre-share
^
% Invalid input detected at ‘^’ marker.

HQ(config)# group 2
^
% Invalid input detected at ‘^’ marker.

HQ(config)# lifetime 1800
^
% Invalid input detected at ‘^’ marker.

DJEBBARI Majid
DJEBBARI Majid
2 years ago

Thank IT Administrator for helping me with this PTSA Thank you very much!
Could someone please put the exam answers here? Thank you in advance!

3r!v@s
3r!v@s
2 years ago

I love how this website can help a lot of students! Thank you so much for sharing information with us!

Jhon
Jhon
2 years ago

Error

ip access-list extended NAT-IP-ALL
permit ip 192.168.10.0 0.0.0.255 any

The step 6, Configure ACL on the ASA device to implement the Security Policy doesn’t work.The command above is not allowed on the ASA configuration.

Paul
Paul
2 years ago

Hi IT Administrator!
Have you ever thought about having Cisco’s Python and IoT courses on this site?

Paul
Paul
2 years ago

I would like to hugely thank IT Administrator for helping me with this PTSA!! Thank you very much!!

Erik
Erik
2 years ago
Reply to  Paul

What score did you get with this resolution ?

Lair
Lair
2 years ago
Reply to  Erik

What is your score Erik?

Tony
Tony
2 years ago
Reply to  Paul

may i have the packet tracer file

Luck
Luck
2 years ago

help with Step 3: Implement STP Security

Luck
Luck
2 years ago

thks!

Shubh
Shubh
6 months ago

Part 3 is not working giving invalid input detected at .. error

Mustard
Mustard
2 years ago

HQ

enable
conf t

access-list 120 permit ip 209.165.200.240 0.0.0.15 198.133.219.32 0.0.0.31

crypto isakmp policy 10
encryption aes 256
hash sha
authentication pre-share
group 2
lifetime 1800
exit

crypto isakmp key Vpnpass101 address 198.133.219.2

crypto ipsec transform-set VPN-SET esp-aes esp-sha-hmac

crypto map VPN-MAP 10 ipsec-isakmp
match address 120
set transform-set VPN-SET
set peer 198.133.219.2
set pfs group2
set security-association lifetime seconds 1800
exit

int s0/0/0
crypto map VPN-MAP
exit

BRANCH
enable
conf t

access-list 120 permit ip 198.133.219.32 0.0.0.31 209.165.200.240 0.0.0.15

crypto isakmp policy 10
encryption aes 256
hash sha
authentication pre-share
group 2
lifetime 1800
exit

crypto isakmp key Vpnpass101 address 209.165.200.226

crypto ipsec transform-set VPN-SET esp-aes esp-sha-hmac

crypto map VPN-MAP 10 ipsec-isakmp
match address 120
set transform-set VPN-SET
set peer 209.165.200.226
set pfs group2
set security-association lifetime seconds 1800
exit

int s0/0/0
crypto map VPN-MAP
exit

Shubh
Shubh
6 months ago
Reply to  Mustard

It’s not working giving lots of error

Luck
Luck
2 years ago

very good!

Luciano Mendes
Luciano Mendes
2 years ago

Hello Guys. Does anyone find the answers for this PTSA? I did not find anywhere.

Paul
Paul
2 years ago

Could someone please put the exam answers here? Thank you in advance!

Seeker
Seeker
2 years ago
Reply to  Tiger

It’s different…

Luck
Luck
2 years ago

when did you post the answers?

Seeker
Seeker
2 years ago

Will the exam be available soon?

Moisés Lima Santos
Moisés Lima Santos
2 years ago

Exam?

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