Free CyberArk CPC-CDE-RECERT Practice Exam with Questions & Answers | Set: 2

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The sshd_config file is the correct configuration file that must be updated to define maintenance users for administering the Privilege Cloud PSM for SSH connector. This file contains configurations for the SSH daemon, including user permissions and group settings. When adding maintenance users, their user accounts are created on the PSM server, and then they are added to the AllowGroups parameter within the sshd_config file to grant them the necessary permissions.

CyberArk’s PSM for SSH administration documentation explains how to create maintenance access by updating the SSH daemon configuration:

In /etc/ssh/sshd_config, add an AllowGroups entry that includes the maintenance group(s):AllowGroups PSMConnectUsers ..

This matches option C exactly: you enable the additional maintenance user by placing them in the group(s) referenced by AllowGroups in sshd_config.

When deploying a CyberArk Identity Connector to integrate Privilege Cloud Shared Services with an Active Directory environment, the server hosting the Identity Connector must meet specific requirements to ensure proper integration and functionality. The necessary condition is:

The Identity Connector Server must be joined to the Active Directory (Option A). This requirement ensures that the server can communicate effectively with the Active Directory services and manage identity data securely and efficiently. Being part of the Active Directory domain facilitates authentication and authorization processes required for the connector to function correctly.

To configure a platform to work with load-balanced Privileged Session Managers (PSMs), you should:

Create a new PSM definition that targets the load balancer IP address and assign it to the platform (Option B). This approach involves configuring the platform settings to direct session traffic through a load balancer that distributes the load across multiple PSM servers. This is effective in environments where high availability and fault tolerance are priorities.

For customers using CyberArk Privilege Cloud Shared Services, the correct format for the CyberArk Vault address is:

vault-<subdomain>.privilegecloud.cyberark.cloud (Option B). This format is used to access the vault services provided by CyberArk in the cloud environment, where <subdomain> is the unique identifier assigned to the customer’s specific instance of the Privilege Cloud.

In CyberArk Privilege Cloud / PSM deployments, PSM Health Check is implemented as a dedicated PSM Web Service on each PSM node (typically used by a load balancer to query application-level health). (docs.cyberark.com)

Because the Health Check relies on IIS, CyberArk includes PSM Health Check hardening activities as part of the setup. These hardening activities specifically focus on reducing IIS exposure by removing default/unused IIS components (for example, CyberArk documents that the setup deletes IIS application pools such as “Classic .NET AppPool”, “.NET v2.0”, “.NET v4.5”, etc.). This is a hardening action aimed at minimizing IIS attack surface / insecure defaults—i.e., removing IIS settings/configurations that could be considered security vulnerabilities. (docs.cyberark.com)

Why the other options are not the “purpose”:

B: While Health Check is used for load balancer health probing, “hardening” is not about validating readiness for a load balancer; it’s about tightening IIS-related configuration. (docs.cyberark.com)

C: Service-running checks are part of health determination, but the hardening step is described in docs in terms of IIS hardening activities (like deleting app pools), not just confirming services. (docs.cyberark.com)

D: AppLocker is part of PSM hardening overall, but it’s not the purpose of PSM Health Check hardening (which is IIS-focused). (docs.cyberark.com)

In the Privilege Cloud Shared Services model, user access and MFA are driven through CyberArk Identity / Shared Services, and CyberArk publishes a dedicated list of “MFA options in Shared Services” for the user portal and supported challenges.

In CyberArk PAM Self-Hosted, MFA is typically achieved by enabling and integrating additional authentication methods such as RADIUS, SAML, PKI, LDAP, Windows, CyberArk, etc., depending on the organization’s design.

So, the accurate comparison is that Privilege Cloud (Shared Services) leverages CyberArk Identity, while PAM Self-Hosted relies on enabling/integrating the relevant authentication/MFA methods in the self-hosted environment → B.

For PSM Web Connectors developed using the CyberArk Plugin Generator Utility (PGU), the supported browser is Google Chrome. This is because the PGU is designed to create plugins that are most compatible with Chrome's web technologies and security frameworks. Chrome is generally recommended by CyberArk for its up-to-date security features and extensive support for web applications. This is further supported by the CyberArk documentation on the Plugin Generator Utility, which specifies browser compatibility and the optimal environment for deploying web connectors.

CyberArk’s Privilege Cloud SAML configuration documentation explicitly states: Privilege Cloud supports only one assertion and instructs you to ensure only one assertion is configured in the IdP.