Which tasks is the session management path responsible for? (Choose three.)
A. Verifying IP checksums
B. Performing route lookup
C. Performing session lookup
D. Allocating NAT translations
E. Checking TCP sequence numbers
F. Checking packets against the access list
•Is this a new connection?
If it is a new connection, the ASA has to check the packet against access lists and perform other tasks to determine if the packet is allowed or denied. To perform this check, the first packet of the session goes through the “session management path,” and depending on the type of traffic, it might also pass through the “control plane path.”
The session management path is responsible for the following tasks:
–Performing the access list checks
–Performing route lookups
–Allocating NAT translations (xlates)
–Establishing sessions in the “fast path”
The ASA creates forward and reverse flows in the fast path for TCP traffic; the ASA also creates connection state information for connectionless protocols like UDP, ICMP (when you enable ICMP inspection), so that they can also use the fast path.
https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/security/asa/asa82/configuration/guide/config/intro.html