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 configuring forward error correction (FEC) for PAN-OS SD-WAN, an administrator would turn on the feature inside which type of SD-WAN profile?
2.
When setting up a security profile, which three items can you use? (Choose three.)
3.
You have upgraded your Panorama with Log Collectors to 10.2. Before upgrading your firewalls using Panorama, what do you need do?
4.
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?
5.
In an HA failover scenario what occurs when sessions match an SSL Forward Proxy Decryption policy?
6.
Which value in the Application column indicates UDP traffic that did not match an App-ID signature?
7.
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?
8.
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?
9.
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'?
10.
In a Panorama template which three types of objects are configurable? (Choose three)
11.
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:
12.
Which three split tunnel methods are supported by a GlobalProtect Gateway? (Choose three.)
13.
Match each type of DoS attack to an example of that type of attack
14.
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?
15.
In SSL Forward Proxy decryption, which two certificates can be used for certificate signing? (Choose two.)
16.
Which two statements correctly identify the number of Decryption Broker security chains that are supported on a pair of decryption-forwarding interfaces'? (Choose two)
17.
Which function is handled by the management plane (control plane) of a Palo Alto Networks firewall?
18.
How should an administrator enable the Advance Routing Engine on a Palo Alto Networks firewall?
19.
What are three types of Decryption Policy rules? (Choose three.)
20.
What are two common reasons to use a "No Decrypt" action to exclude traffic from SSL decryption? (Choose two.)
21.
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?
22.
What is the dependency for users to access services that require authentication?
23.
An engineer is creating a template and wants to use variables to standardize the configuration across a large number of devices. Which two variable types can be defined? (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.
What are three reasons for excluding a site from SSL decryption? (Choose three.)
26.
An engineer is designing a deployment of multi-vsys firewalls. What must be taken into consideration when designing the device group structure?
27.
A variable name must start with which symbol?
28.
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?
29.
What are three reasons for excluding a site from SSL decryption? (Choose three.)
30.
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.)
31.
Which configuration is backed up using the Scheduled Config Export feature in Panorama?
32.
Which three statements accurately describe Decryption Mirror? (Choose three.)
33.
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?
34.
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?
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.
An engineer is tasked with enabling SSL decryption across the environment. What are three valid parameters of an SSL Decryption policy? (Choose three.)
37.
When overriding a template configuration locally on a firewall, what should you consider?
38.
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?
39.
When you configure an active/active high availability pair, which two links can you use? (Choose two.)
40.
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?
41.
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?
42.
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."
43.
Which configuration task is best for reducing load on the management plane?
44.
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?
45.
What file type upload is supported as part of the basic WildFire service?
46.
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?
47.
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?
48.
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?
49.
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?
50.
An engineer must configure the Decryption Broker feature Which Decryption Broker security chain supports bi-directional traffic flow?
51.
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.)
52.
Updates to dynamic user group membership are automatic therefore using dynamic user groups instead of static group objects allows you to:
53.
When you import the configuration of an HA pair into Panorama, how do you prevent the import from affecting ongoing traffic?
54.
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?
55.
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?
56.
Which two events trigger the operation of automatic commit recovery? (Choose two.)
57.
Which value in the Application column indicates UDP traffic that did not match an App-ID signature?
58.
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.)
59.
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)
60.
How can an administrator configure the firewall to automatically quarantine a device using GlobalProtect?
61.
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?
62.
Which three options are supported in HA Lite? (Choose three.)
63.
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?
64.
Which statement accurately describes service routes and virtual systems?
65.
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)?
66.
Which option is part of the content inspection process?
67.
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?
68.
Which two features can be used to tag a username so that it is included in a dynamic user group? (Choose two.)
69.
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?
70.
The UDP-4501 protocol-port is used between which two GlobalProtect components?
71.
What are two characteristic types that can be defined for a variable? (Choose two)
72.
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.)
73.
What are three reasons why an installed session can be identified with the application incomplete" tag? (Choose three.)
74.
Which feature checks Panorama connectivity status after a commit?
75.
Which Security Policy Rule configuration option disables antivirus and anti-spyware scanning of server-to-client flows only?