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1. In a scenario where an email is quarantined by both a spam policy (Spam) and an email firewall rule (Dictionary), which folder will the message ultimately be sent to?

2. What is the difference between the Discard and Reject dispositions?

3. During the configuration of an alert profile, which option is specifically required to ensure alerts are delivered to the appropriate individuals?

4. If an email is incorrectly filtered as spam, what should an administrator do first when reviewing the filter logs?

5. Which Email Firewall features should be used together to mitigate directory harvest attacks?

6. What is the primary role of SMTP in the process of email communication?

7. The Abuse Mailbox event source was working in Cloud Threat Protection, but is now showing red under status and is no longer processing emails. After editing the source and clicking “Validate Source,” you receive the error “Unable to validate mailbox.”

What is the likely cause of this error?

8. What is the reason for the “reject_size” action shown in the message processing result?

9. You have just been licensed to export the Smart Search data from your PoD protection server in JSON format.

Where would you create the API keys needed by your SIEM to ingest the JSON stream?

10. You are reviewing the MTA logs for a message that has been deferred.

Which Delivery Status Notification (DSN) code indicates that the receiving server was temporarily unable to process the message?

11. You are tasked with configuring outbound mail for an organization where an external domain has multiple MX records. Only one specific host is accepting mail.

What is the best way to specify this specific hostname for outbound mail?

12. In the context of email authentication, what is added to the headers of an email message that includes a selector and a hash of the values of selected message headers?

13. Which of the following are true regarding Email Warning Tags? Pick the 2 correct responses below.

14. 1.In the context of spam detection, what is the primary function of Proofpoint Dynamic Reputation (PDR)?

15. As an administrator, you need to research why an email was sent instead of being blocked; where would you go in Cloud Admin to find which rule triggered the final disposition?

16. You need to generate a report from the Cloud Admin Interface.

What file formats are available to export?

17. Which of the following is required to configure an outbound mail route in the Proofpoint Protection Server? Pick the 3 correct responses below.

18. If one of your corporate email accounts is sending excessive outbound emails, the Outbound Throttle feature can help.

Which of the following is true regarding Outbound Throttle?

19. Which feature on the Protection Server would you use to prevent Email Warning Tags being inserted into a trusted sender’s emails?

20. What is the primary purpose of SPF in Email Authentication?

21. When setting up an Import/Authentication Profile in PPS, which of the following is a required piece of information to connect to an LDAP server?

22. What option will release a quarantined message without further filtering?

23. An email message fails an SPF check; which of the following is a likely reason for this failure?

24. What are the three default methods available in Recipient Verification to verify that a recipient mailbox exists?

Pick the 3 correct responses below.

25. An inbound message matches the inbound_protected policy route and also the default spam policy.

Which policy will be applied?

26. What is the primary purpose of outbound mail filtering in Proofpoint?

27. In the context of Proofpoint, what is an SMTP Profile?

28. When employees at your company change their name, their email address also changes.

To ensure that the user import process associates the new email addresses with the existing users, how should you configure the primary key?

29. When TLS is enabled, what is the default behavior regarding TLS on the Protection Server?

30. What is the main purpose of the sendmail SMTP queue in a Proofpoint system?