Qualys VMDR Exam Prep

What you will be able to do

• You will be able to explain the four phases of the Qualys VMDR lifecycle and how data flows from discovery through response.
• You will be able to choose the correct sensor - Cloud Agent, scanner appliance, external scanner, or passive sensor - for a given asset-inventory requirement.
• You will be able to build dynamic asset tags and use them to scope scans, reports, dashboards, and patch jobs.
• You will be able to distinguish authenticated from unauthenticated scanning and interpret QIDs, Qualys severities, and detection states.
• You will be able to prioritize vulnerabilities using QDS bands, Real-Time Threat Indicators, and TruRisk asset criticality.
• You will be able to configure patch deployment jobs and zero-touch patching and hand prioritized findings off to remediation.
• You will be able to design VMDR dashboards and reports that communicate risk to both technical and executive audiences.

What is inside

5 modules, 5 lessons. Each module ends in a graded quiz.

1. 01

   Asset inventory

   How VMDR discovers and continuously maintains a complete inventory of hosts and their metadata using Cloud Agents, scanner appliances, external scanners, and passive sensing - and how asset tags scope everything that follows.

   1 lessons · 5 quiz questions

2. 02

   Vulnerability detection

   How Qualys detects vulnerabilities: the KnowledgeBase and QIDs, authenticated versus unauthenticated scanning, Qualys severity, confirmed/potential/information-gathered findings, and the detection lifecycle states.

   1 lessons · 5 quiz questions

3. 03

   Prioritization

   Risk-based prioritization in VMDR: why severity alone is not enough, the Qualys Detection Score (QDS) and its bands, the TruRisk framework with asset criticality, Real-Time Threat Indicators, and the prioritization workflow driven by QQL.

   1 lessons · 5 quiz questions

4. 04

   Patch & response workflows

   Closing the loop with Qualys Patch Management: how the Cloud Agent deploys patches, how deployment jobs target assets by tag and schedule, zero-touch automation, the prioritization-to-patch handoff, and uninstall/rollback and verification.

   1 lessons · 5 quiz questions

5. 05

   Reporting

   Communicating risk and progress: VMDR dashboards and widgets driven by QQL, classic report templates and output formats, trending and scorecards with TruRisk, and matching the report to its audience and distribution.

   1 lessons · 5 quiz questions