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.
How can Panorama help with troubleshooting problems such as high CPU or resource exhaustion on a managed firewall?
2.
An administrator wants to enable WildFire inline machine learning. Which three file types does WildFire inline ML analyze? (Choose three.)
3.
Before an administrator of a VM-500 can enable DoS and zone protection, what actions need to be taken?
4.
To ensure that a Security policy has the highest priority, how should an administrator configure a Security policy in the device group hierarchy?
5.
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?
6.
An engineer is tasked with enabling SSL decryption across the environment. What are three valid parameters of an SSL Decryption policy? (Choose three.)
7.
In SSL Forward Proxy decryption, which two certificates can be used for certificate signing? (Choose two.)
8.
How can an administrator configure the firewall to automatically quarantine a device using GlobalProtect?
9.
When configuring forward error correction (FEC) for PAN-OS SD-WAN, an administrator would turn on the feature inside which type of SD-WAN profile?
10.
Which Security Policy Rule configuration option disables antivirus and anti-spyware scanning of server-to-client flows only?
11.
What are two common reasons to use a "No Decrypt" action to exclude traffic from SSL decryption? (Choose two.)
12.
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."
13.
In a security-first network what is the recommended threshold value for content updates to be dynamically updated?
14.
What is the dependency for users to access services that require authentication?
15.
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?
16.
A network security engineer has applied a File Blocking profile to a rule with the action of Block. The user of a Linux CLI operating system has opened a ticket. The ticket states that the user is being blocked by the firewall when trying to download a TAR file. The user is getting no error response on the system. Where is the best place to validate if the firewall is blocking the user's TAR file?
17.
An administrator needs to assign a specific DNS server to one firewall within a device group. Where would the administrator go to edit a template variable at the device level?
18.
When you configure an active/active high availability pair which two links can you use? (Choose two)
19.
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?
20.
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:
21.
Which two are valid ACC GlobalProtect Activity tab widgets? (Choose two.)
22.
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.)
23.
An organization is building a Bootstrap Package to deploy Palo Alto Networks VM-Series firewalls into their Microsoft Azure. Which two statements are correct regarding the bootstrap package contents? (Choose two)
24.
An administrator is considering upgrading the Palo Alto Networks NGFW and central management Panorama version What is considered best practice for this scenario?
25.
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?
26.
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?
27.
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.)
28.
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:
29.
During the packet flow process, which two processes are performed in application identification? (Choose two.)
30.
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?
31.
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?
32.
When you navigate to Network: > GlobalProtect > Portals > Method section, which three options are available? (Choose three)
33.
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?
34.
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?
35.
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?
36.
Which feature checks Panorama connectivity status after a commit?
37.
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.)
38.
A network administrator is troubleshooting an issue with Phase 2 of an IPSec VPN tunnel. The administrator determines that the lifetime needs to be changed to match the peer. Where should this change be made?
39.
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?
40.
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?
41.
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?
42.
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?
43.
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?
44.
Which three items are import considerations during SD-WAN configuration planning? (Choose three.)
45.
An engineer is planning an SSL decryption implementation Which of the following statements is a best practice for SSL decryption?
46.
When you configure an active/active high availability pair, which two links can you use? (Choose two.)
47.
Which three statements accurately describe Decryption Mirror? (Choose three.)
48.
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'?
49.
PBF can address which two scenarios? (Select Two)
50.
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.)
51.
What are two characteristic types that can be defined for a variable? (Choose two.)
52.
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?
53.
Which three options are supported in HA Lite? (Choose three.)
54.
Which statement accurately describes service routes and virtual systems?
55.
What file type upload is supported as part of the basic WildFire service?
56.
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?
57.
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?
58.
Which three items are important considerations during SD-WAN configuration planning? (Choose three.)
59.
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?
60.
When overriding a template configuration locally on a firewall, what should you consider?
61.
An engineer needs to configure SSL Forward Proxy to decrypt traffic on a PA-5260. The engineer uses a forward trust certificate from the enterprise PKI that expires December 31, 2025. The validity date on the PA-generated certificate is taken from what?
62.
In a Panorama template which three types of objects are configurable? (Choose three)
63.
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?
64.
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.)
65.
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?
66.
Which GlobalProtect component must be configured to enable Clientless VPN?
67.
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?
68.
A firewall has Security policies from three sources: 1. locally created policies 2. shared device group policies as pre-rules 3. the firewall's device group as post-rules. How will the rule order populate once pushed to the firewall?
69.
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 )
70.
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.)
71.
Which two statements correctly identify the number of Decryption Broker security chains that are supported on a pair of decryption-forwarding interfaces'? (Choose two)
72.
Which two statements correctly identify the number of Decryption Broker security chains that are supported on a pair of decryption-forwarding interfaces'? (Choose two)
73.
What are two common reasons to use a "No Decrypt" action to exclude traffic from SSL decryption? (Choose two.)
74.
Which CLI command is used to determine how much disk space is allocated to logs?
75.
A variable name must start with which symbol?