HPE7-A02 Exam Information and Outline
HPE Network Security Professional Exam
Syllabus Update Checked on: November 3, 2026
HPE7-A02 Exam Syllabus & Study Guide
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- Exam Format
- Proctored; 70 questions; 1 hour 45 minutes; passing score 67%
- Protect and Defend – Core Concepts (26%)
- Security terminology and PKI
- CPDI/CPPM tag-based actions and profiling
- Zero Trust, WIPS/WIDS
- Dynamic segmentation, VPN/IPsec
- Protect and Defend – Device Hardening (6%)
- TACACS+ authorization and MFA
- Secure L2/L3 protocols and SFTP
- Secure WLAN (12%)
- AAA with ClearPass
- Advanced firewall policies (AppRF, PEF, WebCC, UTM)
- Rogue AP detection
- Secure Wired AOS-CX (19%)
- 802.1X, dynamic segmentation, certificate-based authentication
- Secure the WAN (5%)
- SD-Branch VPN automation
- Remote VPN with VIA
- Endpoint Classification – Deploy (8%)
- Active and passive methods
- ClearPass and CPDI integration
- Analyze – Threat Detection (9%)
- Central alerts, packet captures and endpoint posture
- Analyze – Troubleshooting (6%)
- NAE scripts and packet capture
- Analyze – Endpoint Classification (8%)
- Risk identification on CPDI
- Investigate – Forensics (1%)
- CPDI network conversations