* Learn about the various firewall models, user interfaces, feature sets, and configuration methods
* Understand how a Cisco firewall inspects traffic
* Configure firewall interfaces, routing, IP addressing services, and IP multicast support
* Maintain security contexts and flash and configuration files, manage users, and monitor firewalls with SNMP
* Authenticate, authorize, and maintain accounting records for firewall users
* Control access through the firewall by implementing transparent and routed firewall modes, address translation, and traffic shunning
* Define security policies that identify and act on various types of traffic with the Modular Policy Framework
* Increase firewall availability with firewall failover operation
* Understand how firewall load balancing works
* Generate firewall activity logs and learn how to analyze the contents of the log
* Verify firewall operation and connectivity and observe data passing through a firewall
* Configure Security Services Modules, such as the Content Security Control (CSC) module and the Advanced Inspection Processor (AIP) module

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