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.
Which value in the Application column indicates UDP traffic that did not match an App-ID signature?
2.
Before an administrator of a VM-500 can enable DoS and zone protection, what actions need to be taken?
3.
An administrator is building Security rules within a device group to block traffic to and from malicious locations. How should those rules be configured to ensure that they are evaluated with a high priority?
4.
An existing NGFW customer requires direct interne! access offload locally at each site and iPSec connectivity to all branches over public internet. One requirement is mat no new SD-WAN hardware be introduced to the environment. What is the best solution for the customer?
5.
As a best practice, which URL category should you target first for SSL decryption?
6.
Which CLI command is used to determine how much disk space is allocated to logs?
7.
A critical US-CERT notification is published regarding a newly discovered botnet. The malware is very evasive and is not reliably detected by endpoint antivirus software. Furthermore, SSL is used to tunnel malicious traffic to command-and-control servers on the internet and SSL Forward Proxy Decryption is not enabled. Which component once enabled on a perirneter firewall will allow the identification of existing infected hosts in an environment?
8.
Which configuration is backed up using the Scheduled Config Export feature in Panorama?
9.
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?
10.
What are two best practices for incorporating new and modified App-IDs? (Choose two.)
11.
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?
12.
During the packet flow process, which two processes are performed in application identification? (Choose two.)
13.
A company requires that a specific set of ciphers be used when remotely managing their Palo Alto Networks appliances. Which profile should be configured in order to achieve this?
14.
An administrator wants to enable Palo Alto Networks cloud services for Device Telemetry and IoT. Which type of certificate must be installed?
15.
A network security engineer needs to enable Zone Protection in an environment that makes use of Cisco TrustSec Layer 2 protections. What should the engineer configure within a Zone Protection profile to ensure that the TrustSec packets are identified and actions are taken upon them?
16.
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.)
17.
An organization wishes to roll out decryption but gets some resistance from engineering leadership regarding the guest network. What is a common obstacle for decrypting traffic from guest devices?
18.
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?
19.
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?
20.
A network administrator wants to use a certificate for the SSL/TLS Service Profile. Which type of certificate should the administrator use?
21.
Which two mechanisms help prevent a spilt brain scenario an Active/Passive High Availability (HA) pair? (Choose two)
22.
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?
23.
What are two characteristic types that can be defined for a variable? (Choose two.)
24.
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?
25.
An administrator receives the following 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." How should the administrator identify the root cause of this error message?
26.
To ensure that a Security policy has the highest priority, how should an administrator configure a Security policy in the device group hierarchy?
27.
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?
28.
What are the two behavior differences between Highlight Unused Rules and the Rule Usage Hit counter when a firewall is rebooted? (Choose two.)
29.
When you configure an active/active high availability pair which two links can you use? (Choose two)
30.
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?
31.
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."
32.
Before you upgrade a Palo Alto Networks NGFW, what must you do?
33.
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?
34.
What are three reasons for excluding a site from SSL decryption? (Choose three.)
35.
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?
36.
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?
37.
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?
38.
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?
39.
When you import the configuration of an HA pair into Panorama, how do you prevent the import from affecting ongoing traffic?
40.
When you navigate to Network: > GlobalProtect > Portals > Method section, which three options are available? (Choose three)
41.
Which statement accurately describes service routes and virtual systems?
42.
Which two features require another license on the NGFW? (Choose two.)
43.
A variable name must start with which symbol?
44.
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?
45.
A firewall administrator has been tasked with ensuring that all Panorama-managed firewalls forward traffic logs to Panorama. In which section is this configured?
46.
What are two common reasons to use a "No Decrypt" action to exclude traffic from SSL decryption? (Choose two.)
47.
When overriding a template configuration locally on a firewall, what should you consider?
48.
Which log type would provide information about traffic blocked by a Zone Protection profile?
49.
WildFire will submit for analysis blocked files that match which profile settings?
50.
Which GlobalProtect component must be configured to enable Clientless VPN?
51.
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:
52.
What happens when an A P firewall cluster synchronies IPsec tunnel security associations (SAs)?
53.
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?
54.
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?
55.
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.)
56.
An organization is building a Bootstrap Package to deploy Palo Alto Networks VM-Series firewalls into their AWS tenant. Which two statements are correct regarding the bootstrap package contents? (Choose two.)
57.
An engineer is planning an SSL decryption implementation Which of the following statements is a best practice for SSL decryption?
58.
A firewall is configured with SSL Forward Proxy decryption and has the following four enterprise certificate authorities (CAs): i. Enterprise-Trusted-CA, which is verified as Forward Trust Certificate (The CA is also installed in the trusted store of the end-user browser and system.) ii. Enterprise-Untrusted-CA, which is verified as Forward Untrust Certificate iii. Enterprise-Intermediate-CA iv. Enterprise-Root-CA, which is verified only as Trusted Root CA An end-user visits https://www.example-website.com/ with a server certificate Common Name (CN): www.example-website.com. The firewall does the SSL Forward Proxy decryption for the website and the server certificate is not trusted by the firewall. The end-user's browser will show that the certificate for www. example-website.com was issued by which of the following?
59.
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?
60.
Place the steps to onboard a ZTP firewall into Panorama/CSP/ZTP-Service in the correct order.
61.
Which option describes the operation of the automatic commit recovery feature?
62.
A remote administrator needs access to the firewall on an untrust interface. Which three options would you configure on an Interface Management profile to secure management access? (Choose three.)
63.
What are two valid deployment options for Decryption Broker? (Choose two)
64.
Panorama provides which two SD-WAN functions? (Choose two.)
65.
Place the steps in the WildFire process workflow in their correct order.
66.
Which three options are supported in HA Lite? (Choose three.)
67.
The UDP-4501 protocol-port is used between which two GlobalProtect components?
68.
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?
69.
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?
70.
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?
71.
In SSL Forward Proxy decryption, which two certificates can be used for certificate signing? (Choose two.)
72.
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?
73.
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.)
74.
Review the screenshot of the Certificates page. An administrator for a small LLC has created a series of certificates as shown, to use for a planned Decryption roll out. The administrator has also installed the self-signed root certificate in all client systems. When testing, they noticed that every time a user visited an SSL site, they received unsecured website warnings. What is the cause of the unsecured website warnings?
75.
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?