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.
When an in-band data port is set up to provide access to required services, what is required for an interface that is assigned to service routes?
2.
Updates to dynamic user group membership are automatic therefore using dynamic user groups instead of static group objects allows you to:
3.
When setting up a security profile, which three items can you use? (Choose three.)
4.
Match each type of DoS attack to an example of that type of attack
5.
A system administrator runs a port scan using the company tool as part of vulnerability check. The administrator finds that the scan is identified as a threat and is dropped by the firewall. After further investigating the logs, the administrator finds that the scan is dropped in the Threat Logs. What should the administrator do to allow the tool to scan through the firewall?
6.
What is the dependency for users to access services that require authentication?
7.
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:
8.
Which Panorama mode should be used so that all logs are sent to, and only stored in Cortex Data Lake?
9.
PBF can address which two scenarios? (Choose two.)
10.
Which two events trigger the operation of automatic commit recovery? (Choose two.)
11.
The decision to upgrade to PAN-OS 10.2 has been approved. The engineer begins the process by upgrading the Panorama servers, but gets an error when trying to install. When performing an upgrade on Panorama to PAN-OS 10.2, what is the potential cause of a failed install?
12.
An administrator is required to create an application-based Security policy rule to allow Evernote. The Evernote application implicitly uses SSL and web browsing. What is the minimum the administrator needs to configure in the Security rule to allow only Evernote?
13.
Given the following snippet of a WildFire submission log. did the end-user get access to the requested information and why or why not?
14.
What are two characteristic types that can be defined for a variable? (Choose two.)
15.
Which two are valid ACC GlobalProtect Activity tab widgets? (Choose two.)
16.
When overriding a template configuration locally on a firewall, what should you consider?
17.
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?
18.
SD-WAN is designed to support which two network topology types? (Choose two.)
19.
A network engineer has discovered that asymmetric routing is causing a Palo Alto Networks firewall to drop traffic. The network architecture cannot be changed to correct this. Which two actions can be taken on the firewall to allow the dropped traffic permanently? (Choose two.)
20.
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.)
21.
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?
22.
A network administrator plans a Prisma Access deployment with three service connections, each with a BGP peering to a CPE. The administrator needs to minimize the BGP configuration and management overhead on on-prem network devices. What should the administrator implement?
23.
An engineer is designing a deployment of multi-vsys firewalls. What must be taken into consideration when designing the device group structure?
24.
Which three items are import considerations during SD-WAN configuration planning? (Choose three.)
25.
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?
26.
Which statement about High Availability timer settings is true?
27.
When you navigate to Network: > GlobalProtect > Portals > Method section, which three options are available? (Choose three)
28.
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?
29.
An administrator is attempting to create policies tor deployment of a device group and template stack When creating the policies, the zone drop down list does not include the required zone. What must the administrator do to correct this issue?
30.
The administrator for a small company has recently enabled decryption on their Palo Alto Networks firewall using a self-signed root certificate. They have also created a Forward Trust and Forward Untrust certificate and set them as such. The admin has not yet installed the root certificate onto client systems. What effect would this have on decryption functionality?
31.
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?
32.
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?
33.
Refer to the exhibit. An administrator cannot see any if the Traffic logs from the Palo Alto Networks NGFW on Panorama. The configuration problem seems to be on the firewall side. Where is the best place on the Palo Alto Networks NGFW to check whether the configuration is correct?
34.
What are two valid deployment options for Decryption Broker? (Choose two)
35.
In a Panorama template which three types of objects are configurable? (Choose three)
36.
What are three reasons for excluding a site from SSL decryption? (Choose three.)
37.
How can an administrator configure the firewall to automatically quarantine a device using GlobalProtect?
38.
In SSL Forward Proxy decryption, which two certificates can be used for certificate signing? (Choose two.)
39.
An administrator wants to upgrade a firewall HA pair to PAN-OS 10.1. The firewalls are currently running PAN-OS 8.1.17. Which upgrade path maintains synchronization of the HA session (and prevents network outage)?
40.
An administrator needs firewall access on a trusted interface. Which two components are required to configure certificate based, secure authentication to the Web Ul? (Choose two )
41.
Which rule type controls end user SSL traffic to external websites?
42.
A firewall should be advertising the static route 10.2.0.0/24 into OSPF. The configuration on the neighbour is correct, but the route is not in the neighbour's routing table. Which two configurations should you check on the firewall? (Choose two.)
43.
An administrator creates an application-based security policy rule and commits the change to the firewall. Which two methods should be used to identify the dependent applications for the respective rule? (Choose two.)
44.
An engineer must configure the Decryption Broker feature Which Decryption Broker security chain supports bi-directional traffic flow?
45.
What are three reasons why an installed session can be identified with the application incomplete" tag? (Choose three.)
46.
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?
47.
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.)
48.
A network administrator wants to use a certificate for the SSL/TLS Service Profile. Which type of certificate should the administrator use?
49.
An administrator wants to upgrade a firewall HA pair to PAN-OS 10.1. The firewalls are currently running PAN-OS 8.1.17. Which upgrade path maintains synchronization of the HA session (and prevents network outage)?
50.
Which three statements accurately describe Decryption Mirror? (Choose three.)
51.
An administrator receives the following error message. How should the administrator identify the root cause of this error message?
"IKE phase-2 negotiation failed when processing Proxy ID. Received local id 192. 168.33.33/24 type IPv4 address protocol 0 port 0, received remote id
172.16.33.33/24 type IPv4 address protocol 0 port 0."
52.
Which option is part of the content inspection process?
53.
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?
54.
When you import the configuration of an HA pair into Panorama, how do you prevent the import from affecting ongoing traffic?
55.
What happens when an A P firewall cluster synchronies IPsec tunnel security associations (SAs)?
56.
An administrator discovers that a file blocked by the WildFire inline ML feature on the firewall is a false-positive action. How can the administrator create an exception for this particular file?
57.
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?
58.
A company with already deployed Palo Alto firewalls has purchased their first Panorama server. The security team has already configured all firewalls with the Panorama IP address and added all the firewall serial numbers in Panorama. What are the next steps to migrate configuration from the firewalls to Panorama?
59.
Before an administrator of a VM-500 can enable DoS and zone protection, what actions need to be taken?
60.
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?
61.
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?
62.
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?
63.
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.)
64.
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?
65.
Which option describes the operation of the automatic commit recovery feature?
66.
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'?
67.
Which feature checks Panorama connectivity status after a commit?
68.
An administrator is using Panorama to manage me and suspects an IKE Crypto mismatch between peers, from the firewalls to Panorama. However, pre-existing logs from the firewalls are not appearing in Panorama. Which action should be taken to enable the firewalls to send their pre-existing logs to Panorama?
69.
An administrator wants to grant read-only access to all firewall settings, except administrator accounts, to a new-hire colleague in the IT department. Which dynamic role does the administrator assign to the new-hire colleague?
70.
An administrator has a PA-820 firewall with an active Threat Prevention subscription. The administrator is considering adding a WildFire subscription How does adding the WildFire subscription improve the security posture of the organization?
71.
Panorama provides which two SD-WAN functions? (Choose two.)
72.
Which Security Policy Rule configuration option disables antivirus and anti-spyware scanning of server-to-client flows only?
73.
The Aggregate Ethernet interface is showing down on a passive PA-7050 firewall of an active/passive HA pair. The HA Passive Link State is set to "Auto" under Device > High Availability > General > Active/Passive Settings. The AE interface is configured with LACP enabled and is up only on the active firewall. Why is the AE interface showing down on the passive firewall?
74.
An engineer needs to collect User-ID mappings from the company's existing proxies. What two methods can be used to pull this data from third party proxies? (Choose two.)
75.
Which action disables Zero Touch Provisioning (ZTP) functionality on a ZTP firewall during the onboarding process?