156-590 Exam Preparation Material | Check Point Certified Threat Prevention Specialist (CTPS)

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Question#1

Benign testing sites are useful for what purpose?

A. Testing rulebase reaction to tested traffic
B. Verify if SmartEvent is capturing appropriate traffic
C. Testing if URLs are malicious
D. Verify Threat Prevention Blades are performing properly

Question#2

What is/are the enabled by default protocols supported by the Antivirus Blade?

A. HTTP/HTTPS, FTP, SMB, SMTP
B. HTTP/HTTPS, FTP, SMB
C. HTTP/HTTPS
D. HTTP/HTTPS, FTP

Question#3

What is the recommended setting for Anti-Virus and why?

A. Background because it is Post-infection
B. Hold because it is Pre-infection and inspects a limited subset of traffic
C. Hold because it inspects a limited subset of traffic
D. Background because it inspects a large subset of traffic

Question#4

What is the purpose of the Packet Capture Track option?

A. You can visualize traffic information with a third-party XDR tool.
B. The security Gateway sends a packet capture file along with the log file. The former can by analyzed with an external tool, such as WireShark.
C. You can specify the time after which the connection has to be reinitialized.
D. You can specify a threshold value which serves as a limit after which the connection will be reset.

Question#5

What is the purpose of the Profile Cleanup option?

A. It lets you start over by removing all administrator overrides.
B. It merges protection settings from multiple profiles into the Optimized Profile.
C. It serves as a cleanup policy if none of the protection matches the packets.
D. It eliminates protections automatically which hasn't been used for a predefined amount of time.

Exam Code: 156-590
Q & A: 75 Q&As         Updated:  Oct 17,2026

 

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