Novell’s exam 050-650 (course 770), “Internet Security Management With BorderManager Enterprise Edition 3.5 Version 1.02” is one of the electives for the Certified Novell Engineer (CNE) 5 certification. This exam is designed for candidates who can “implement BorderManager as part of an intranet or Internet security solution” and who can “install, configure, administer, maintain, and troubleshoot the following components of BorderManager: packet filtering, network address translation (NAT), proxy services, Virtual Private Networks (VPNs).” There is no specific prerequisite for this exam.

This exam is easy to moderately difficult and is priced at $125, $55.50, or $27.50 depending on the region in which it's taken.  Most North American and European and some Asia Pacific countries fall under the highest price tier. The exam may be taken from Pearson Vue or Thomson Prometric.

The passing score is 608. This exam is a form test (traditional), consisting of 71 questions, and has a duration of 90 minutes.

The topics covered by this exam include:

• Identify Network Security Issues
• Identify Firewall Components and Technologies
• Identify BorderManager Service Categories
• List BorderManager hardware requirements
• List BorderManager software requirements
• List BorderManager environment requirements
• List BorderManager routing requirements
• Install BorderManager server components
• Install licensing certificates
• Define packet filtering
• Identify the filter types supported by BorderManager
• Apply predefined filters to secure your network
• Read filters and exceptions
• Test filter configurations
• Create filter configuration manually
• Identify the characteristics of network address translation (NAT)
• Configure and use NAT in dynamic mode
• Configure and use NAT in static mode
• Configure and use NAT in static and dynamic mode
• Monitor NAT functions
• Define proxy services
• Define and configure application proxy services
• Define and configure transparent proxy
• Define and configure proxy acceleration
• Define and configure ICP hierarchical caching
• Define SOCKS
• Monitor proxy service trends
• Configure access rules
• Monitor access rules
• Configure content filtering
• Define a VPN, its purposes, benefits, and implementations
• Explain the function of BorderManager's encryption and authentication technology
• Identify VPN configuration prerequisites and tasks
• Configure a VPN server to support remote clients
• Configure a client to connect to a VPN server
• Manage a VPN