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Check Point Certified Security Expert (CCSE) & Troubleshooting Expert (CCTE) R81.20 Bundle (includes 180 days' lab access)

  • Course Code CKT_CPSECCTE
  • Duration 5 days

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£2,995.00

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Course Overview

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This bundle course covers the following two Check Point training courses: 

Check Point Certified Security Expert (CCSE) R81.20 (3 days) 

Check Point Certified Troubleshooting Expert (CCTE) R81.20 (2 days) 

The CCSE R81.20 part of the course covers the fundamentals needed to deploy, configure, and manage daily operations of Check Point Security Gateways and Management Software Blades that run on the Gaia operating system.

The CCTE R81.20 part of the course provides advanced troubleshooting skills to investigate and resolve more complex issues that may occur while managing your Check Point security environment.

Goals:

Learn advanced concepts and develop skills necessary to design, deploy, and upgrade Check Point Security environments.

Provide advanced troubleshooting skills to investigate and resolve more complex issues that may occur while managing your Check Point Security environment.

Course Schedule

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    • Delivery Format: Virtual Learning
    • Date: 11-15 August, 2025 | 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM
    • Location: Virtual (GMT Standa)
    • Language: English

    £2,995.00

    • Delivery Format: Virtual Learning
    • Date: 22-26 September, 2025 | 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM
    • Location: Virtual (GMT Standa)
    • Language: English

    £2,995.00

    • Delivery Format: Virtual Learning
    • Date: 03-07 November, 2025 | 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM
    • Location: Virtual (GMT Standa)
    • Language: English

    £2,995.00

    • Delivery Format: Virtual Learning
    • Date: 15-19 December, 2025 | 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM
    • Location: Virtual (GMT Standa)
    • Language: English

    £2,995.00

Target Audience

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Technical Professionals who architect, upgrade, maintain, and support Check Point products.

Security experts and Check Point resellers who desire to obtain the necessary knowledge required to perform more advanced troubleshooting skills while managing their security environments.

Course Objectives

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CCSE R81.20

Identify basic interfaces used to manage the Check Point environment. 

Identify the types of technologies that Check Point supports for automation. 

Explain the purpose of the Check Management High Availability (HA) deployment. 

Identify the workflow followed to deploy a Primary and solution Secondary servers.  

Explain the basic concepts of Clustering and ClusterXL, including protocols, synchronization, connection stickyness. 

Identify how to exclude services from synchronizing or delaying synchronization. 

Explain the policy installation flow. 

Explain the purpose of dynamic objects, updatable objects, and network feeds. 

Understand how to manage user access for internal and external users.

Describe the Identity Awareness components and configurations. 

Describe different Check Point Threat Prevention solutions. 

Articulate how the Intrusion Prevention System is configured. 

Obtain knowledge about Check Point’s IoT Protect. 

Explain the purpose of Domain-based VPNs. 

Describe situations where externally managed certificate authentication is used. 

Describe how client security can be provided by Remote Access. 

Discuss the Mobile Access Software Blade. 

Explain how to determine if the configuration is compliant with the best practices. 

Define performance tuning solutions and basic configuration workflow. 

Identify supported upgrade and migration methods and procedures for Security Management Servers and dedicated Log and SmartEvent Servers. 

Identify supported upgrade methods and procedures for Security Gateways.

CCTE R81.20

Identify and use Linux-based and Check Point commands and tools for system monitoring, file editing, and file viewing. 

Identify and use the appropriate troubleshooting and debug commands/tools to resolve advanced Management Server and API Server issues. 

Investigate and troubleshoot traffic or security-related issues using logs and events monitoring tools. 

Identify and use the appropriate troubleshooting and debug commands/tools to resolve advanced Security Gateway issues. 

Demonstrate an understanding of advanced troubleshooting tools and techniques for kernel debugging.

Identify and use the appropriate troubleshooting and debug commands/tools to resolve advanced Access Control issues. 

Identify and use the appropriate troubleshooting and debug commands/tools to resolve advanced Identity Awareness issues. 

Identify and use the appropriate troubleshooting and debug commands/tools to resolve advanced Site-to-Site VPN Troubleshooting issues. 

Identify and use the appropriate troubleshooting and debug commands/tools to resolve advanced Client-to-Site VPN Troubleshooting issues.

Course Content

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CCSE R81.20

Advanced Deployments

Management High Availability

Advanced Gateway Deployment

Advanced Policy Configuration

Advanced User Access Management

Custom Threat Protection

Advanced Site-to-Site VPN

Remote Access VPN

Mobile Access VPN

Advanced Security Monitoring

Performance Tuning

Advanced Security Maintenance

CCTE R81.20

Introduction to Advanced Troubleshooting 

Advanced Management Server Troubleshooting 

Advanced Troubleshooting with Logs and Events

Advanced Gateway Troubleshooting 

Advanced Firewall Kernel Debugging 

Advanced Access Control Troubleshooting

Advanced Identity Awareness Troubleshooting 

Advanced Site-to-Site VPN Troubleshooting 

Advanced Client-to-Site VPN Troubleshooting

Exercises:

CCSE R81.20

Navigating the Environment and Using the Management API 

Deploying Secondary Security Management Server 

Configuring a Dedicated Log Server 

Deploying SmartEvent 

Configuring a High Availability Security Gateway Cluster 

Working with ClusterXL 

Configuring Dynamic and Updateable Objects 

Verifying Accelerated Policy Installation and Monitoring Status 

Elevating Security with HTTPS Inspection

Deploying Identity Awareness 

Customizing Threat Prevention 

Configuring a Site-to-Site VPN with an Interoperable Device 

Deploying Remote Access VPN 

Configuring Mobile Access VPN 

Monitoring Policy Compliance 

Reporting SmartEvent Statistics 

Tuning Security Gateway Performance

CCTE R81.20

Collect and read live and historical CPView data.

Troubleshoot CPM and SmartConsole login issues. 

Restore a Management High Availability environment from a temporary Primary Down condition. 

Troubleshoot SmartLog processes. 

Collect and interpret user mode debugs. 

Collect and interpret kernel debugs. 

Debug Unified Policy Inspection in kernel to understand match process. 

Debug the Identity Awareness user mode processes. 

Collect and interpret Site-to-Site VPN Debugs. 

Collect and interpret Remote Access VPN Debugs.

Course Prerequisites

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Working knowledge of UNIX and/or Windows operating systems, 

Working knowledge of Networking, 

TCP/IP, z,

Advanced knowledge of Check Point Security Products.

Test Certification

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This course prepares you for exams #156-315.81.20 (CCSE R81.20) and #156.587 (CCTE R81.20) at www.VUE.com/checkpoint 

Exam vouchers are available at an additional cost - please ask for details.

Full information on Check Point’s Certification Program can be viewed at https://www.checkpoint.com/downloads/training/check-point-certification-faq.pdf

Follow on Courses

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Attend two Infinity Specialization courses and pass their exams to automatically become a Check Point Certified Security Master (CCSM).

Attend four Infinity Specialization courses and pass their exams to automatically become a Check Point Certified Security Master Elite (CCSM Elite).

Choose from the following Infinity Specialization courses:

• Check Point Certified Endpoint Specialist (CCES)

• Check Point Certified Troubleshooting Administrator (CCTA)

• Check Point Certified Automation Specialist (CCAS)

• Check Point Certified Cloud Specialist (CCCS)

• Check Point Certified MDSM Specialist (CCMS) 

• Check Point Certified VSX Specialist (CCVS)

• Check Point Certified Troubleshooting Expert (CCTE)

• Check Point Certified Maestro Expert (CCME)

• Check Point Certified Cloud Network Security Expert for AWS (CNSE-AWS)

• Check Point Certified Cloud Network Security Expert for Azure (CNSE-AZURE)

Further Information

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Please note that Check Point only offer e-kit courseware for training courses. Each delegate will be provided with an official set of e-kit courseware.

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