Certification Provider: 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.
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."
2.
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?
3.
Which two statements correctly identify the number of Decryption Broker security chains that are supported on a pair of decryption-forwarding interfaces'? (Choose two)
4.
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.)
5.
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.)
6.
An administrator wants to enable WildFire inline machine learning. Which three file types does WildFire inline ML analyze? (Choose three.)
7.
In a security-first network what is the recommended threshold value for content updates to be dynamically updated?
8.
Which three items are import considerations during SD-WAN configuration planning? (Choose three.)
9.
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?
10.
Match each type of DoS attack to an example of that type of attack
11.
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?
12.
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.)
13.
When setting up a security profile, which three items can you use? (Choose three.)
14.
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?
15.
What is the dependency for users to access services that require authentication?
16.
To ensure that a Security policy has the highest priority, how should an administrator configure a Security policy in the device group hierarchy?
17.
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?
18.
In SSL Forward Proxy decryption, which two certificates can be used for certificate signing? (Choose two.)
19.
PBF can address which two scenarios? (Choose two.)
20.
Which two statements correctly identify the number of Decryption Broker security chains that are supported on a pair of decryption-forwarding interfaces'? (Choose two)
21.
Starting with PAN-OS version 9.1, application dependency information is now reported in which two locations? (Choose two.)
22.
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?
23.
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.)
24.
Given the following snippet of a WildFire submission log. did the end-user get access to the requested information and why or why not?
25.
What is a correct statement regarding administrative authentication using external services with a local authorization method?
26.
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?
27.
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?
28.
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?
29.
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:
30.
In SSL Forward Proxy decryption, which two certificates can be used for certificate signing? (Choose two.)
31.
Place the steps in the WildFire process workflow in their correct order. Select and Place:
32.
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.)
33.
What are three types of Decryption Policy rules? (Choose three.)
34.
Which option is part of the content inspection process?
35.
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?
36.
What are two characteristic types that can be defined for a variable? (Choose two)
37.
An engineer is planning an SSL decryption implementation Which of the following statements is a best practice for SSL decryption?
38.
Which configuration is backed up using the Scheduled Config Export feature in Panorama?
39.
In a Panorama template which three types of objects are configurable? (Choose three)
40.
What are two characteristic types that can be defined for a variable? (Choose two.)
41.
When overriding a template configuration locally on a firewall, what should you consider?
42.
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.)
43.
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?
44.
An engineer is planning an SSL decryption implementation. Which of the following statements is a best practice for SSL decryption?
45.
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?
46.
What are two common reasons to use a "No Decrypt" action to exclude traffic from SSL decryption? (Choose two.)
47.
SD-WAN is designed to support which two network topology types? (Choose two.)
48.
How can Panorama help with troubleshooting problems such as high CPU or resource exhaustion on a managed firewall?
49.
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?
50.
What are three reasons why an installed session can be identified with the application incomplete" tag? (Choose three.)
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.
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'?
53.
How can an administrator configure the firewall to automatically quarantine a device using GlobalProtect?
54.
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?
55.
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?
56.
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:
57.
When you configure an active/active high availability pair which two links can you use? (Choose two)
58.
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?
59.
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.)
60.
What are two common reasons to use a "No Decrypt" action to exclude traffic from SSL decryption? (Choose two.)
61.
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?
62.
Which three items are important considerations during SD-WAN configuration planning? (Choose three.)
63.
An engineer is tasked with deploying SSL Forward Proxy decryption for their organization. What should they review with their leadership before implementation?
64.
A network administrator wants to use a certificate for the SSL/TLS Service Profile Which type of certificate should the administrator use?
65.
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?
66.
Which log type would provide information about traffic blocked by a Zone Protection profile?
67.
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?
68.
What are three reasons for excluding a site from SSL decryption? (Choose three.)
69.
Which configuration task is best for reducing load on the management plane?
70.
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?
71.
When you import the configuration of an HA pair into Panorama, how do you prevent the import from affecting ongoing traffic?
72.
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?
73.
Match each GlobalProtect component to the purpose of that component
74.
Which CLI command is used to determine how much disk space is allocated to logs?
75.
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)