- Review how the 300-710 SNCF exam supports the Cisco Certified Network Professional Security certification path as a concentration exam.
- Understand that passing SNCF earns the Cisco Certified Specialist - Securing Networks with Cisco Firewalls certification.
- Clarify how SNCF fits after or alongside SCOR and why it is a strong concentration for learners focused on Cisco firewall security implementation.
- Connect exam preparation to practical enterprise responsibilities such as firewall deployment, policy configuration, device management, reporting, troubleshooting, and integrated threat defense.
Cisco CCNP Security SNCF 300-710 Concentration Training Course
Cisco CCNP Security 300-710 SNCF Certification Training Course
Prepare for the Cisco 300-710 SNCF exam and build professional-level capability for securing networks with Cisco Secure Firewall and Cisco Secure Firewall Management Center across deployments, configuration, management, troubleshooting, and integrations.
Course focus: SNCF 300-710 concentration exam readiness for Cisco Secure Firewall implementation, Secure Firewall Management Center policy configuration, operational management, troubleshooting, and security integrations.
Course Overview
Build the Cisco Secure Firewall implementation skills required to deploy, configure, manage, troubleshoot, and integrate enterprise firewall environments.
Accumentum’s Cisco CCNP Security 300-710 SNCF: Securing Networks with Cisco Firewalls Certification Training Course prepares learners for Cisco’s professional-level SNCF concentration exam. The course is built around Cisco’s current 300-710 SNCF v1.2 exam topics and focuses on Cisco Secure Firewall and Cisco Secure Firewall Management Center.
Cisco identifies the 300-710 SNCF exam as a 90-minute exam associated with CCNP Security. Passing the exam earns the Cisco Certified Specialist - Securing Networks with Cisco Firewalls certification and can be used to meet the concentration exam requirement for Cisco Certified Network Professional Security.
The course emphasizes Cisco’s SNCF exam areas: firewall deployment, Secure Firewall Management Center configuration, management and troubleshooting, and integrations. Learners connect these topics to real security engineering responsibilities such as policy configuration, NGIPS deployment, high availability, device management, risk reporting, packet-level troubleshooting, malware defense, endpoint integration, and threat intelligence workflows.
This course is designed for professionals who need structured preparation for Cisco Secure Firewall certification while building practical understanding of enterprise firewall operations, centralized firewall management, security policy behavior, visibility, reporting, and integrated threat defense.
Course Objectives
Prepare for SNCF certification while building practical Cisco Secure Firewall deployment and operations skills.
01
Deploy Secure Firewall Solutions
Build readiness across routed and transparent firewall modes, NGIPS passive and inline deployment models, high availability options, and virtual appliance management.
02
Configure FMC Policies and Objects
Prepare to configure system settings, access control, DNS, identity, network analysis policies, network discovery, application detectors, object management, intrusion rules, and device settings.
03
Manage and Troubleshoot Operations
Develop operational readiness across Secure Firewall Management Center dashboards, reporting, CLI and GUI troubleshooting, Packet Tracer, packet capture, engine debug, and system support traces.
04
Integrate Threat Defense Workflows
Understand Secure Firewall Malware Defense, Secure Endpoint integration, Threat Intelligence Director, Cisco XDR, pxGrid, Rapid Threat Containment, Cisco Security Analytics and Logging, Splunk, and AI-driven threat intelligence.
Who Should Attend
- Network security engineers preparing for the Cisco 300-710 SNCF concentration exam as part of the CCNP Security certification pathway.
- Firewall administrators, security engineers, systems engineers, infrastructure engineers, and technical professionals responsible for Cisco Secure Firewall environments.
- Professionals working with Secure Firewall Management Center, firewall policy configuration, NGIPS, VPN, NAT, routing, QoS, threat defense, reports, logs, or security integrations.
- CCNP Security candidates who have completed or are preparing for SCOR and want to satisfy the firewall concentration requirement with SNCF.
Recommended Readiness
- Learners should have a working foundation in networking, TCP/IP, routing, switching, security concepts, firewall operations, access control, NAT, VPN, and troubleshooting.
- CCNA-level networking knowledge is helpful, and SCOR-level security knowledge is strongly recommended because SNCF is a professional-level CCNP Security concentration exam.
- Hands-on practice is important because SNCF emphasizes implementation, policy configuration, operational validation, and troubleshooting using Cisco Secure Firewall technologies.
- Learners should be prepared to study Secure Firewall Management Center, Secure Firewall Threat Defense, NGIPS, high availability, reporting, security analytics, and integrated threat defense workflows.
Exam Area Map
The Cisco SNCF 300-710 training course is aligned to the firewall security areas Cisco identifies for the exam.
The course organizes Cisco’s SNCF v1.2 exam topics into a practical study path across deployment, configuration, management and troubleshooting, and integration.
Deployment 30%
Secure Firewall modes, NGIPS modes, high availability options, and virtual appliance management.
Configuration 30%
FMC system settings, policies, objects, device settings, network settings, secure access, and Snort.
Management & Troubleshooting 25%
GUI and CLI troubleshooting, dashboards, reporting, Packet Tracer, packet capture, debug, traces, and reports.
Integration 15%
Malware Defense, Secure Endpoint, Threat Intelligence Director, Cisco XDR, pxGrid, RTC, analytics, Splunk, and AI-driven intelligence.
Pathway Map
Move from Cisco Secure Firewall foundations to full SNCF exam readiness.
The pathway below gives learners a clear structure for preparing across deployment, firewall and NGIPS modes, high availability, FMC policy configuration, device settings, management, troubleshooting, integrations, and certification strategy.
Course Content
Full Cisco SNCF 300-710 curriculum breakout.
- Prepare for the deployment objective covering Cisco Secure Firewall routed mode and transparent mode.
- Understand when each firewall mode is appropriate in enterprise environments and how mode selection affects traffic flow, policy design, and operational validation.
- Review deployment considerations that connect firewall mode decisions to routing, segmentation, inspection, and troubleshooting outcomes.
- Build exam readiness by translating firewall deployment options into implementation scenarios.
- Prepare for the NGIPS objective covering passive and inline modes.
- Understand how inspection mode affects visibility, enforcement, policy outcomes, and deployment risk.
- Connect NGIPS concepts to Secure Firewall Threat Defense, intrusion prevention, malware defense, and traffic analysis.
- Evaluate how NGIPS implementation supports enterprise detection, prevention, and security operations goals.
- Study Cisco’s high availability objective for Secure Firewall deployment.
- Review port channels, failover, Equal-Cost Multipath routing, static route tracking, and clustering in firewall environments.
- Connect high availability options to resiliency, routing behavior, operational continuity, and enterprise firewall design.
- Prepare to recognize how high availability decisions affect traffic handling, policy enforcement, and troubleshooting.
- Review virtual appliance deployment and management concepts for Secure Firewall environments.
- Understand on-premises and cloud management options and how they influence enterprise firewall operations.
- Connect virtual firewall deployment to device management, policy consistency, visibility, scalability, and operational responsibility.
- Prepare to distinguish Secure Firewall Management Center, Cisco Security Cloud Control Firewall Management, and Secure Firewall Device Manager use cases.
- Prepare to configure system settings in Secure Firewall Management Center.
- Review security policy configuration areas including access control, DNS, identity, and network analysis policies.
- Study FMC-based features including network discovery, application detectors, correlation, and Encrypted Visibility Engine.
- Connect policy configuration to operational outcomes such as enforcement, visibility, reporting, and threat detection.
- Configure and manage FMC objects, including object management and intrusion rules.
- Review device management areas such as certificates, platform settings, health policy, NAT, QoS, and routing.
- Connect secure access topics such as zero trust network access and VPN to firewall policy and device configuration.
- Describe Snort within Secure Firewall Threat Defense and understand how inspection logic supports Cisco firewall security operations.
- Prepare to configure dashboards and reporting in Secure Firewall Management Center.
- Analyze risk and standard reports, including connection, discovery, intrusion, malware, and unified events.
- Review network map usage and how operational reporting supports policy validation and security investigation.
- Describe device management tools including Cisco Security Cloud Control Firewall Management, Secure Firewall Device Manager, and Secure Firewall Management Center.
- Prepare to troubleshoot using the Secure Firewall Management Center GUI and device CLI.
- Review packet capture procedures and Packet Tracer for validating firewall behavior and traffic disposition.
- Understand Firewall engine debug and System Support Trace as troubleshooting tools for deeper operational analysis.
- Connect troubleshooting workflows to policy configuration, deployment validation, reporting, and incident response.
- Configure Cisco Secure Firewall Malware Defense in Secure Firewall Management Center.
- Configure Cisco Secure Endpoint integration and implement Threat Intelligence Director for third-party security intelligence feeds.
- Describe Cisco XDR investigations, Secure Firewall Management Center integration using pxGrid, Rapid Threat Containment, Cisco Security Analytics and Logging, Splunk integration, and AI-driven threat intelligence.
- Use a structured readiness plan to connect the 300-710 SNCF exam objectives to specialist certification, CCNP Security concentration completion, and long-term recertification goals.
Course Features
Designed for practical SNCF training and Cisco Secure Firewall implementation preparation.
Firewall Deployment Focus
Prepare across routed and transparent modes, NGIPS passive and inline modes, high availability options, and virtual appliance management.
FMC Configuration Readiness
Build readiness around Secure Firewall Management Center system settings, security policies, discovery, application detection, objects, device settings, NAT, QoS, routing, VPN, and Snort.
Troubleshooting and Reporting
Reinforce GUI and CLI troubleshooting, dashboards, reporting, Packet Tracer, packet capture, firewall engine debug, traces, risk reports, standard reports, and network map interpretation.
Security Integrations
Connect Secure Firewall to Malware Defense, Secure Endpoint, Threat Intelligence Director, Cisco XDR, pxGrid, Rapid Threat Containment, Cisco Security Analytics and Logging, Splunk, and AI-driven threat intelligence.
Certification Exam
Prepare for the official Cisco 300-710 SNCF certification exam.
SNCF Exam Readiness
Accumentum’s Cisco SNCF 300-710 Training Course prepares learners to pursue the CCNP Security concentration exam and the Cisco Certified Specialist - Securing Networks with Cisco Firewalls certification.
The Cisco 300-710 SNCF exam, Securing Networks with Cisco Firewalls, is a CCNP Security concentration exam. Passing this exam earns the Cisco Certified Specialist - Securing Networks with Cisco Firewalls certification and can be used to meet the CCNP Security concentration exam requirement.
Cisco describes SNCF as a 90-minute exam that tests knowledge of Cisco Secure Firewall and Cisco Secure Firewall Management Center, including policy configurations, integrations, deployments, management, and troubleshooting.
Cisco lists the SNCF exam language as English. Cisco also lists the price as $US300 or Cisco Learning Credits.
Cisco’s current SNCF v1.2 exam topics organize the exam into Deployment, Configuration, Management and Troubleshooting, and Integration. Cisco also recommends beginning with the SFWIPF training and then continuing to the SFWIPA training when preparing for the exam.
Frequently Asked Questions
Understand how Accumentum’s Cisco CCNP Security 300-710 SNCF Training Course supports Cisco Secure Firewall implementation, CCNP Security concentration completion, and specialist certification readiness.
300-710 SNCF is Cisco’s Securing Networks with Cisco Firewalls exam. It validates knowledge of Cisco Secure Firewall and Cisco Secure Firewall Management Center across deployment, configuration, management, troubleshooting, and integration.
Passing SNCF earns the Cisco Certified Specialist - Securing Networks with Cisco Firewalls certification and can be used to meet the concentration exam requirement for Cisco CCNP Security.
Cisco lists 300-710 SNCF as a 90-minute professional-level concentration exam.
Cisco’s current SNCF v1.2 exam topic areas are Deployment, Configuration, Management and Troubleshooting, and Integration.
Yes. The course includes Secure Firewall Management Center policy configuration, system settings, objects, device configuration, dashboards, reporting, troubleshooting workflows, and integrations.
No. SNCF includes deployment, configuration, management, troubleshooting, and integrations, including Secure Endpoint, Malware Defense, Threat Intelligence Director, Cisco XDR, pxGrid, Rapid Threat Containment, analytics, Splunk, and AI-driven threat intelligence.
This course is best suited for network security engineers, firewall administrators, security engineers, infrastructure engineers, and CCNP Security candidates responsible for Cisco Secure Firewall environments.
Cisco states that passing the 300-710 SNCF exam can also be used toward recertification.
Prepare for Cisco CCNP Security 300-710 SNCF with Accumentum.
Build the firewall deployment, configuration, management, troubleshooting, and integration skills needed to pursue Cisco Secure Firewall specialist certification and advance through the CCNP Security pathway.