Certification Provider:Â Palo Alto Networks
Exam: Palo Alto Networks Certified Network Security Engineer (PCNSE)
Exam Code: PCNSE v10
Total Question: 181
Question per Quiz: 75
Updated On: 20 April 2023
Note: In order to practice all the Q/A's, you have to practice multiple time. Question's and Answer's will be presented randomly and will help you get hands-on for real exam.
1.
Cortex XDR notifies an administrator about grayware on the endpoints. There are no entries about grayware in any of the logs of the corresponding firewall. Which setting can the administrator configure on the firewall to log grayware verdicts?
2.
Before you upgrade a Palo Alto Networks NGFW, what must you do?
3.
Which two features require another license on the NGFW? (Choose two.)
4.
When you import the configuration of an HA pair into Panorama, how do you prevent the import from affecting ongoing traffic?
5.
Below are the steps in the workflow for creating a Best Practice Assessment in a firewall and Panorama configuration. Place the steps in order. Select and Place:
6.
Which User-ID mapping method should be used in a high-security environment where all IP address-to-user mappings should always be explicitly known?
7.
Place the steps to onboard a ZTP firewall into Panorama/CSP/ZTP-Service in the correct order.
8.
Which Device Group option is assigned by default in Panorama whenever a new device group is created to manage a Firewall?
9.
Which two statements correctly identify the number of Decryption Broker security chains that are supported on a pair of decryption-forwarding interfaces'? (Choose two)
10.
Which GlobalProtect component must be configured to enable Clientless VPN?
11.
An engineer is pushing configuration from Panorama to a managed firewall. What happens when the pushed Panorama configuration has Address Object names that duplicate the Address Objects already configured on the firewall?
12.
Match each type of DoS attack to an example of that type of attack
13.
When overriding a template configuration locally on a firewall, what should you consider?
14.
When planning to configure SSL Froward Proxy on a PA 5260, a user asks how SSL decryption can be implemented using phased approach in alignment with Palo Alto Networks best practices What should you recommend?
15.
An administrator needs to troubleshoot a User-ID deployment. The administrator believes that there is an issue related to LDAP authentication. The administrator wants to create a packet capture on the management plane. Which CLI command should the administrator use to obtain the packet capture for validating the configuration?
16.
Which feature checks Panorama connectivity status after a commit?
17.
A firewall has been assigned to a new template stack that contains both "Global" and "Local" templates in Panorama, and a successful commit and push has been performed. While validating the configuration on the local firewall, the engineer discovers that some settings are not being applied as intended. The setting values from the "Global" template are applied to the firewall instead of the "Local" template that has different values for the same settings. What should be done to ensure that the settings in the "Local" template are applied while maintaining settings from both templates?
18.
An administrator plans to deploy 15 firewalls to act as GlobalProtect gateways around the world Panorama will manage the firewalls. The firewalls will provide access to mobile users and act as edge locations to on-premises infrastructure. The administrator wants to scale the configuration out quickly and wants all of the firewalls to use the same template configuration. Which two solutions can the administrator use to scale this configuration? (Choose two.)
19.
Which three statements accurately describe Decryption Mirror? (Choose three.)
20.
Which two features require another license on the NGFW? (Choose two.)
21.
The following objects and policies are defined in a device group hierarchy. Dallas-Branch has Dallas-FW as a member of the Dallas-Branch device-group NYC-DC has NYC-FW as a member of the NYC-DC device-group What objects and policies will the Dallas-FW receive if "Share Unused Address and Service Objects" is enabled in Panorama?
22.
Which two features can be used to tag a username so that it is included in a dynamic user group? (Choose two.)
23.
In SSL Forward Proxy decryption, which two certificates can be used for certificate signing? (Choose two.)
24.
When you navigate to Network: > GlobalProtect > Portals > Method section, which three options are available? (Choose three)
25.
Which Security Policy Rule configuration option disables antivirus and anti-spyware scanning of server-to-client flows only?
26.
When you configure an active/active high availability pair which two links can you use? (Choose two)
27.
An engineer must configure a new SSL decryption deployment Which profile or certificate is required before any traffic that matches an SSL decryption rule is decrypted?
28.
PBF can address which two scenarios? (Select Two)
29.
An administrator needs to implement an NGFW between their DMZ and Core network EIGRP Routing between the two environments is required Which interface type would support this business requirement?
30.
To more easily reuse templates and template stacks, you can create template variables in place of firewall-specific and appliance-specific IP literals in your configurations. Which one is the correct configuration?
31.
Which three items are important considerations during SD-WAN configuration planning? (Choose three.)
32.
An engineer is tasked with deploying SSL Forward Proxy decryption for their organization. What should they review with their leadership before implementation?
33.
Updates to dynamic user group membership are automatic therefore using dynamic user groups instead of static group objects allows you to:
34.
To ensure that a Security policy has the highest priority, how should an administrator configure a Security policy in the device group hierarchy?
35.
An Administrator is configuring Authentication Enforcement and they would like to create an exemption rule to exempt a specific group from authentication. Which authentication enforcement object should they select?
36.
A firewall administrator has been tasked with ensuring that all Panorama-managed firewalls forward traffic logs to Panorama. In which section is this configured?
37.
Which function is handled by the management plane (control plane) of a Palo Alto Networks firewall?
38.
What are two best practices for incorporating new and modified App-IDs? (Choose two.)
39.
Four configuration choices are listed, and each could be used to block access to a specific URL. If you configured each choice to block the same URL, then which choice would be evaluated last in the processing order to block access to the URL?
40.
An engineer is configuring Packet Buffer Protection on ingress zones to protect from single-session DoS attacks. Which sessions does Packet Buffer Protection apply to?
41.
What file type upload is supported as part of the basic WildFire service?
42.
The SSL Forward Proxy decryption policy is configured. The following four certificate authority (CA) certificates are installed on the firewall. An end-user visits the untrusted website https://www.firewall-do-not-trust-website.com. Which certificate authority (CA) certificate will be used to sign the untrusted webserver certificate?
43.
Which log type would provide information about traffic blocked by a Zone Protection profile?
44.
What are two common reasons to use a "No Decrypt" action to exclude traffic from SSL decryption? (Choose two.)
45.
An engineer must configure the Decryption Broker feature Which Decryption Broker security chain supports bi-directional traffic flow?
46.
An engineer wants to configure aggregate interfaces to increase bandwidth and redundancy between the firewall and switch. Which statement is correct about the configuration of the interfaces assigned to an aggregate interface group?
47.
A variable name must start with which symbol?
48.
An engineer has been given approval to upgrade their environment 10 PAN-OS 10.2. The environment consists of both physical and virtual firewalls a virtual Panorama HA pair, and virtual log collectors. What is the recommended order when upgrading to PAN-OS 10.2?
49.
Your company has to Active Directory domain controllers spread across multiple WAN links All users authenticate to Active Directory Each link has substantial network bandwidth to support all mission-critical applications. The firewalls management plane is highly utilized Given this scenario which type of User-ID agent is considered a best practice by Palo Alto Networks?
50.
SD-WAN is designed to support which two network topology types? (Choose two.)
51.
During a laptop-replacement project, remote users must be able to establish a GlobalProtect VPN connection to the corporate network before logging in to their new Windows 10 endpoints. The new laptops have the 5.2.10 GlobalProtect Agent installed, so the administrator chooses to use the Connect Before Logon feature to solve this issue. What must be configured to enable the Connect Before Logon feature?
52.
An internal system is not functioning. The firewall administrator has determined that the incorrect egress interface is being used After looking at the configuration, the administrator believes that the firewall is not using a static route What are two reasons why the firewall might not use a static route"? (Choose two.)
53.
A network administrator wants to use a certificate for the SSL/TLS Service Profile Which type of certificate should the administrator use?
54.
You have upgraded Panorama to 10.2 and need to upgrade six Log Collectors. When upgrading Log Collectors to 10.2, you must do what?
55.
An administrator wants to enable WildFire inline machine learning. Which three file types does WildFire inline ML analyze? (Choose three.)
56.
An engineer is tasked with enabling SSL decryption across the environment. What are three valid parameters of an SSL Decryption policy? (Choose three.)
57.
Which configuration task is best for reducing load on the management plane?
58.
A network administrator troubleshoots a VPN issue and suspects an IKE Crypto mismatch between peers. Where can the administrator find the corresponding logs after running a test command to initiate the VPN?
59.
An administrator has 750 firewalls The administrator's central-management Panorama instance deploys dynamic updates to the firewalls The administrator notices that the dynamic updates from Panorama do not appear on some of the firewalls. If Panorama pushes the configuration of a dynamic update schedule to managed firewalls, but the configuration does not appear what is the root cause?
60.
A network security administrator wants to begin inspecting bulk user HTTPS traffic flows egressing out of the internet edge firewall. Which certificate is the best choice to configure as an SSL Forward Trust certificate?
61.
Your company occupies one floor in a single building. You have two Active Directory domain controllers on a single network. The firewall's management-plane resources are lightly utilized. Given the size of this environment, which User-ID collection method is sufficient?
62.
To protect your firewall and network from single source denial of service (DoS) attacks that can overwhelm its packet buffer and cause legitimate traffic to drop, you can configure:
63.
The manager of the network security team has asked you to help configure the company's Security Profiles according to Palo Alto Networks best practice. As part of that effort, the manager has assigned you the Vulnerability Protection profile for the internet gateway firewall. Which action and packet-capture setting for items of high severity and critical severity best matches Palo Alto Networks best practice'?
64.
During the process of developing a decryption strategy and evaluating which websites are required for corporate users to access, several sites have been identified that cannot be decrypted due to technical reasons. In this case, the technical reason is unsupported ciphers. Traffic to these sites will therefore be blocked if decrypted How should the engineer proceed?
65.
An administrator has configured a pair of firewalls using high availability in Active/Passive mode. Link and Path Monitoring is enabled with the Failure Condition set to "any". There is one link group configured containing member interfaces ethernet1/1 and ethernet1/2 with a Group Failure Condition set to "all". Which HA state will the Active firewall go into if ethernet1/1 link goes down due to a failure?
66.
What does SSL decryption require to establish a firewall as a trusted third party and to establish trust between a client and server to secure an SSL/TLS connection?
67.
An engineer is bootstrapping a VM-Series Firewall other than the /config folder, which three directories are mandatory as part of the bootstrap package directory structure? (Choose three.)
68.
A network security engineer is attempting to peer a virtual router on a PAN-OS firewall with an external router using the BGP protocol. The peer relationship is not establishing. What command could the engineer run to see the current state of the BGP state between the two devices?
69.
Panorama provides which two SD-WAN functions? (Choose two.)
70.
When you configure an active/active high availability pair, which two links can you use? (Choose two.)
71.
What happens when an A P firewall cluster synchronies IPsec tunnel security associations (SAs)?
72.
Which value in the Application column indicates UDP traffic that did not match an App-ID signature?
73.
Which two are valid ACC GlobalProtect Activity tab widgets? (Choose two.)
74.
An organization has recently migrated its infrastructure and configuration to NGFWs, for which Panorama manages the devices. The organization is coming from a L2-L4 firewall vendor, but wants to use App-ID while identifying policies that are no longer needed. Which Panorama tool can help this organization?
75.
An administrator notices that an interface configuration has been overridden locally on a firewall. They require an configuration to be managed from Panorama and overrides are not allowed. What is one way the administrator can meet this requirement?