Free CheckPoint 156-561 Practice Test & Real Exam Questions

Exam Code/Number: 156-561
Exam Name/Title: Check Point Certified Cloud Specialist - R81.20 (CCCS)
Certification Provider: CheckPoint
Corresponding Certification: CheckPoint CCCS

Exam Questions: 209
Updated On: Aug 18, 2026

Question #1

Elastic licensing tracks licenses by counting the number of:

A. Application Servers

B. Security Gateways

C. Management Servers

D. Virtual Cores in Use

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Correct Answer: D Vote an answer

Question #2

How is the South Hub Traffic Flow defined?

A. The traffic flow is handled by the Southbound Hub and manages the East-West and outbound traffic

B. The traffic flow is handled by the Southbound Hub and manages the South-North traffic and inbound/outbound traffic

C. The traffic flow is handled by the Southbound Hub and manages the South-North traffic and inbound traffic

D. The traffic flow is handled by the Southbound Hub and manages the South-North traffic and outbound traffic

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Correct Answer: B Vote an answer

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Question #3

One of the limitations in deploying Check Point CloudGuard Cluster High Availability is that:

A. VMAC mode is mandatory for all cluster interfaces

B. State synchronization is required and must be done ONLY on a dedicated link

C. High Availability configurations support only two Security Gateway Members

D. High Availability configurations support only three Security Gateway members

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Correct Answer: C Vote an answer

Question #4

What does the Adaptive Security Policy involve to import the Data Center Objects?

A. CloudGuard Access Control

B. CloudGuard API

C. CloudGuard Controller

D. CloudGuard Gateway

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Correct Answer: C Vote an answer

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Question #5

Which APIs are used by Public clouds and Hybrid clouds to support the interactions between cloud resources, on-premises equipment, scripts, orchestration playbooks and CloudGuard Network cloud resources, on-premise equipment, scripts?

A. Representational State Transfer (REST) APIs

B. CloudGuard Controller API (CG-API)

C. CloudGuard Management Extension API (CME-API)

D. Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM)

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Correct Answer: A Vote an answer

Question #6

Which of these operations will delete all inbound and outbound rules in a Security Group?

A. Policy Lock

B. Full Protect Lock

C. Region Lock

D. Rule Lock

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Correct Answer: C Vote an answer

Question #7

One of the five pillars of the framework for cloud security is 'Performance Efficiency'. The design principles of Performance Efficiency include:

A. Apply security at all layers
Automate security best practices

B. Go Global in minutes
Use serverless architectures

C. Automatically recover from failure
Test recovery procedures

D. Adopt a consumption model
Measure overall efficiency

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Correct Answer: B Vote an answer

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Question #8

What makes up a Hybrid Data Center Deployment?

A. Some components of the data center reside in an organization's on-premises data center, and some are housed by a Cloud Service Provider in their Cloud-based data center.

B. This is a deployment in which data can be stored in the AWS's BLOB storage and the corresponding Meta data in the file server located in the organization's on-premises data center.

C. This is a multi-cloud environment in which some workloads are run in an Amazon AWS Cloud and others in a cloud of another CSP, such as Microsoft Azure or Google Cloud.

D. This is a single-cloud environment in which some resources need the authorization via the local Active Directory Domain Controller and some other resources via the AWS Active Directory.

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Correct Answer: A Vote an answer

Question #9

The framework for cloud security consists of five basic components, or pillars Making small, reversible changes is a design principle of which of these five pillars?

A. Reliability

B. Operational Excellence

C. Performance Efficiency

D. Cost Optimization

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Correct Answer: B Vote an answer

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Question #10

Can you deploy a gateway with only one NIC on azure with full functionality?

A. Yes, you can deploy with 1 NIC but only for Auto scaling use cases

B. Yes, this deployment scenario is fully supported

C. No, you must deploy a gateway with NIC on every internal subnet

D. No, a gateway on Azure have to be deployed with at least 2 NIC's

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Correct Answer: B Vote an answer

Question #11

One of the advantages of deploying Security Gateways in the cloud is:

A. Deploying resources takes more time.

B. Deploying resources takes less time.

C. Deploying resources is more expensive.

D. Deploying resources take the same amount of time.

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Correct Answer: B Vote an answer

Question #12

When using Data Center Objects in a policy and the objects are not updating, what are two steps we can check?

A. 1. Verify process is running with 'cloudguard on' and 2. 'test communication' button the Data Center Server object

B. 1. Reboot the Security Management Server and 2. restart the cloudguard process with
'cloudguard on'

C. 1. Reboot the Security Management Server and 2. restart the api process with 'api restart'

D. 1. Verify process is running with 'cloudguard on' and 2. restart the api process with 'api restart'

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Correct Answer: A Vote an answer

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Question #13

What do CloudGuard cluster members use to perform a failover?

A. API calls to the Cloud Service Provider

B. GARP

C. Custom routes

D. Private IP

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Correct Answer: D Vote an answer

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Question #14

What is Cost Optimization?

A. The ability to support development and run workloads effectively

B. The ability of the system to deliver business value at the lowest cost point

C. In terms of the cloud, security is about architecting every workload to prevent

D. The ability of a Workload to function correctly and consistently in all expected

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Correct Answer: B Vote an answer

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