Zscaler ZDTA Questions Answers

A common use case for adopting Zscaler’s Data Protection is to prevent data loss to Internet and Cloud Apps. Data protection focuses on detecting and stopping sensitive data exfiltration or leakage to unauthorized destinations over web and cloud channels.

While reducing the attack surface and blocking malicious downloads are important security functions, they are addressed by other Zscaler capabilities such as threat protection. Secure connection to private apps is covered by ZPA, not data protection.

The study guide emphasizes that data protection’s primary purpose is to safeguard sensitive data from being lost or leaked to internet or cloud applications.

By blocking suspected phishing sites in the Advanced Threats policy, you stop users from reaching malicious pages engineered to capture their credentials.

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.

ZDX supports two probe types: Web Probes and Cloud Path Probes. Web Probes actively retrieve web objects to measure application health, while Cloud Path Probes map the end‑to‑end network path to pinpoint transit issues.