Check Point Certified Troubleshooting Administrator course
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Master the essential troubleshooting skills for maintaining a stable and secure Check Point Security Management environment. This training gives you hands-on experience with traffic analysis, log collection issues, NAT and Identity Awareness troubleshooting, application control failures, and Threat Prevention investigations. You learn to work confidently with diagnostic tools, interpret system behavior, and quickly resolve issues in real-world enterprise security infrastructures.
This training is ideal for security administrators responsible for maintaining Check Point environments, IT professionals working with enterprise-grade firewalls, and engineers who handle incident analysis or ongoing security operations. It is especially useful for those who already manage Check Point policies daily and want to strengthen their troubleshooting skills for complex, real-world issues. It also fits partners and integrators who support customers running Check Point Security Management solutions.
- CCSA Training or Certification
- Working knowledge of UNIX and/or Windows operating systems
- Working knowledge of Networking, TCP/IP
- Advanced knowledge of Check Point Security products
The Check Point Certified Troubleshooting Administrator (CCTA) course gives you a practical, in-depth understanding of how to diagnose and resolve issues within a Check Point Security Management environment. As modern infrastructures rely heavily on layered security controls, quick and accurate troubleshooting becomes essential for maintaining availability and reducing incident impact.
During the training you explore how Check Point components interact, how traffic moves through inspection chains, and how logs, policies, Identity Awareness, NAT, Application Control and Threat Prevention behave under real operational conditions. You work directly with diagnostic tools, packet captures and system utilities to identify root causes and verify security functionality.
The result is a clear, structured troubleshooting methodology you can apply instantly in enterprise environments—accelerating incident resolution and improving the overall stability of the security architecture.
COURSE OBJECTIVES:
- Identify online resources for Check Point security products and solutions.
- Demonstrate understanding of capture packet technologies.
- Demonstrate understanding of Firewall chain modules, Kernel and User Mode, and Kernel and User Space.
- Use Linux and Check Point utilities to review processes and system information.
- Troubleshoot log collection issues and interrupted communications.
- Monitor network activity and traffic flow.
- Demonstrate understanding of Check Point SmartConsole and Policy installation.
- Investigate and troubleshoot issues with Check Point SmartConsole and Policy installation.
- Demonstrate understanding of Check Point Identity Awareness.
- Investigate and troubleshoot issues with Check Point Identity Awareness.
- Demonstrate understanding of Check Point Application Control and URL Filtering.
- Investigate and troubleshoot issues with Check Point Application Control and URL Filtering.
- Demonstrate understanding of Check Point Network Address Translation.
- Investigate and troubleshoot issues with Check Point Network Address Translation.
- Demonstrate understanding of Check Point Threat Prevention.
- Investigate and troubleshoot issues with Check Point Threat Prevention.
- Demonstrate understanding of Check Point licenses and contracts.
- Investigate and troubleshoot Check Point licenses and contracts.
EXERCISES:
- Using tcpdump and Wireshark
- Viewing Firewall Chain Modules
- Using Basic Linux and Check Point Commands
- Troubleshooting Logging Communication Issues
- Analyzing Traffic Captures
- Troubleshooting SmartConsole and Using SmartConsole Tools
- Troubleshooting Identity Awareness
- Troubleshooting Application Control and URL Filtering
- Investigating Network Address Translation Issues
- Evaluating Advanced Threat Prevention Products
- Verifying Licenses
This course prepares you for the CCTA exam, version R81.
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What I liked was that the different functions and tasks were presented interactively through exercises.
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