Zscaler ZDTA Zscaler Digital Transformation Administrator Exam Practice Test

Tenant Restriction is the ZIA feature that enforces access control policies to prevent access to certain SaaS applications from unmanaged or non-compliant devices. This ensures that only authorized and managed devices can access sensitive corporate SaaS resources, enhancing security posture.

The study guide highlights Tenant Restriction as an essential control for enforcing device compliance in SaaS access policies.

Malware Protection for HTTPS traffic relies on the Zero Trust Exchange’s TLS Inspection to decrypt the SSL/TLS stream, enabling the malware‑detection engines to scan payloads against known threat signatures.

Prevent Compromise analyzes device and network telemetry - including security configurations, event logs, and traffic flows - to gauge how well you’re blocking initial intrusion attempts and misconfigurations.

Yes, the Access Control suite includes controls for segmentation and conditional access, which are designed to prevent lateral movement within networks. These features allow organizations to restrict access between different segments and enforce policies that limit the spread of threats or unauthorized access within internal environments.

You need at least two App Connectors per data center to ensure high availability and load distribution, so with four data centers the minimum total is eight.

Certificate pinning prevents SSL interception by validating a server’s certificate against known values. When ZIA performs SSL inspection, it substitutes the certificate with one signed by Zscaler’s CA. This causes the handshake to fail for pinned applications. To troubleshoot, an administrator should review SSL logs to identify handshake failures, which indicate certificate pinning issues. Logs will show the TLS negotiation details, including any disruptions.

Out of the box, Zscaler’s Malware Protection policy is configured to block any traffic identified as a virus, ensuring known malicious files are denied immediately.

Zscaler Client Connector’s Tunnel 2.0 uses a packet‑filter based tunnel that encapsulates all IP traffic - both TCP and UDP on any port, plus ICMP - to the Zero Trust Exchange

When creating SSL inspection policies, the exception policy for the specific URL category must appear first in the policy list, followed by the more generic "inspect all" policy further down. Zscaler evaluates policies in order, so placing the exception first ensures that traffic matching that category bypasses inspection before the generic policy is applied.

The study guide emphasizes the importance of policy order to ensure correct application of exceptions and general rules.

Beyond email, Alert Rule notifications can be pushed via Webhooks to integrate with ITSM platforms or UCaaS tools, enabling real‑time incident management and collaboration in your existing service desks or messaging systems.

The Experience Center delivers a single-pane console for managing internet and SaaS access, private applications, digital experience monitoring, and endpoint agent configurations.

ZDX collects Wi‑Fi signal strength as part of its Endpoint Monitoring metrics and also displays it in Cloud Path Probe results, so you can spot low signal quality either in the device health Wi‑Fi indicator or when examining the Cloud Path visualization.

Phishing campaigns, exploit kits, watering‑hole sites, and leveraging an existing compromise are all widely observed vectors for delivering malware, as they effectively trick users or exploit vulnerabilities to gain initial footholds.

Zscaler’s Workflow Automation integrates with collaboration platforms like Microsoft Teams and Slack to send real‑time DLP violation alerts directly to end‑users.

Advanced Threat Protection (ATP) defends users from malicious active content, which includes malware, exploit kits, malicious scripts, and other forms of active content designed to compromise user systems. ATP employs multiple techniques such as sandboxing, malware scanning, and threat intelligence to detect and block these threats before they reach the user.

The TLS Decryption platform service intercepts and decrypts SSL/TLS sessions, granting Zscaler access to both headers and payloads of encrypted traffic for inspection and policy enforcement.

Valid criteria for Access Policy Rules in ZPA include Group Membership, ZIA Risk Score, Domain Joined, and Certificate Trust. These attributes allow granular policy decisions based on user identity, device posture, and risk context.

Options including password are invalid as passwords are not used as policy criteria; similarly, SNI and Branch Connector Group are more relevant to other controls. The study guide lists these user and device attributes explicitly as policy criteria within ZPA access policies.

In API architecture, an Endpoint is defined as a URL or URI that provides access to a specific resource or service within the API. It acts as a point of interaction where clients send requests and receive responses. This is a standard definition across API implementations, including Zscaler's API framework, where each endpoint represents a distinct function or data resource accessible via the API.

Option A refers to physical devices, which are not considered endpoints in API terms. Option C describes network infrastructure components but not API endpoints. Option D describes an API gateway, which manages API traffic but is not itself an endpoint.

This explanation is consistent with the Zscaler Digital Transformation study guide’s section on Integration and APIs, which clarifies that API endpoints are URLs pointing to specific resources or services within the API framework.

By deploying multiple, overlapping security controls at different layers, you force adversaries to overcome each barrier, significantly raising the cost, complexity, and time required for a successful attack.

The user risk score enables organizations to configure stronger user-specific policies to monitor and control user-level risk exposure. This score reflects a user's risk posture based on behaviors and detected anomalies and helps in tailoring security policies to address individual risk levels.

While the score gives insight into user risk, it is primarily designed for adaptive policy enforcement rather than direct compromise detection or cross-company comparison. The study guide highlights that user risk scores drive policy adjustments to better secure user activity.

Before you start the zpa-connector service on the new host, you must place the App Connector Group’s provisioning key into /opt/zscaler/var/provision_key so it can register with the control plane.

When you create a Server Group in the ZPA admin console (or via API/Infrastructure-as‑Code), you explicitly select which App Connector Groups should serve that Server Group. Those connector groups are then used to advertise reachability and steer traffic to the included application servers.

Trusted Network Detection in Zscaler Client Connector can reference DNS Search Domains, DNS Server IPs, and Hostname Resolution (i.e. a hostname and the IP it resolves to) as criteria for determining a trusted network.

For a unified, seamless experience - and because ZPA only supports SAML while ZIA’s recommended authentication is also SAML - you should configure SAML‑based SSO on both ZIA and ZPA. This ensures one consistent identity flow and eliminates multiple credential prompts across the platforms.

The primary role of Sandbox functionality is to detect and analyze zero‑day and other unknown threats by executing suspicious files in an isolated environment before they reach users.

Zscaler’s out‑of‑band CASB solution supports data‑at‑rest protection for cloud storage platforms like Google Drive, enabling scanning and governance of files stored there.

When you set up application monitoring in ZDX, you can create Web Probes to measure application performance from the browser and Cloud Path Probes to map and monitor the network path to those applications.

The Zscaler Client Connector is the lightweight agent installed on endpoints - whether at home, in the office, or on the road - to securely forward user traffic into the Zero Trust Exchange.

After the Zscaler Client Connector (ZCC) receives a valid SAML response, Zscaler Internet Access (ZIA) takes over to validate the SAML assertion. Upon successful validation, ZIA issues an authentication token that allows the user to access services securely. This centralized validation ensures authentication integrity and enables seamless policy enforcement across Zscaler services.

When SSL Inspection is enabled and a user accesses a private application through Zscaler, the user will see a Zscaler generated MITM (Man-In-The-Middle) Certificate on their browser session. Zscaler intercepts and decrypts SSL/TLS traffic at the Service Edge and then re-encrypts it before forwarding it to the client, presenting its own certificate to maintain the security of the connection while enabling inspection.

This allows Zscaler to inspect encrypted traffic for threats and policy enforcement transparently without exposing the original server’s certificate. The study guide clarifies this mechanism under SSL Inspection details.

SSH tunneling falls under unsanctioned protocol use, which Zscaler’s Cloud App Control feature detects via deep packet inspection and then blocks according to policy.

Zscaler supports RDP, VNC, and SSH protocols for Privileged Remote Access. These are commonly used protocols for remote management and privileged user sessions, allowing secure access to internal applications or systems without exposing the network or requiring VPN connections.

The study guide clearly states that Privileged Remote Access capabilities focus on these protocols to ensure secure, monitored, and controlled remote sessions for administrators and privileged users, supporting remote desktop and shell access securely .

A Server Group holds the actual backend endpoints - defined by FQDNs (or IPs) and ports - and effectively maps those FQDNs to their IP addresses so ZPA knows which hosts to steer traffic toward.

Zscaler’s SaaS Security Posture Management natively supports platforms such as Microsoft 365, Google Workspace, Slack, Salesforce, and Atlassian, so among the options listed, Google Workspace is the supported platform.

The Microtunnel (M-Tunnel) in Zscaler is designed to create an end-to-end communication channel to internal applications. This tunnel facilitates secure and direct access from the client device to internal corporate applications without exposing the network or requiring traditional VPN infrastructure. The M-Tunnel is part of ZPA’s mechanism to ensure secure, zero-trust access to private resources.