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.
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)
2.
What file type upload is supported as part of the basic WildFire service?
3.
A variable name must start with which symbol?
4.
When you navigate to Network: > GlobalProtect > Portals > Method section, which three options are available? (Choose three)
5.
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?
6.
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?
7.
As a best practice, which URL category should you target first for SSL decryption?
8.
Which two are valid ACC GlobalProtect Activity tab widgets? (Choose two.)
9.
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?
10.
What are three reasons why an installed session can be identified with the application incomplete" tag? (Choose three.)
11.
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.)
12.
An engineer must configure the Decryption Broker feature Which Decryption Broker security chain supports bi-directional traffic flow?
13.
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.)
14.
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?
15.
An engineer is tasked with deploying SSL Forward Proxy decryption for their organization. What should they review with their leadership before implementation?
16.
In a security-first network what is the recommended threshold value for content updates to be dynamically updated?
17.
Which two statements correctly identify the number of Decryption Broker security chains that are supported on a pair of decryption-forwarding interfaces'? (Choose two)
18.
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?
19.
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?
20.
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?
21.
How can an administrator configure the firewall to automatically quarantine a device using GlobalProtect?
22.
When overriding a template configuration locally on a firewall, what should you consider?
23.
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?
24.
What are three types of Decryption Policy rules? (Choose three.)
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.
What are two characteristic types that can be defined for a variable? (Choose two.)
27.
As a best practice, which URL category should you target first for SSL decryption?
28.
Which option is part of the content inspection process?
29.
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?
30.
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?
31.
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?
32.
What are three types of Decryption Policy rules? (Choose three.)
33.
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.)
34.
What is a correct statement regarding administrative authentication using external services with a local authorization method?
35.
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?
36.
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?
37.
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.)
38.
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?
39.
An engineer is planning an SSL decryption implementation. Which of the following statements is a best practice for SSL decryption?
40.
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:
41.
What are the two behavior differences between Highlight Unused Rules and the Rule Usage Hit counter when a firewall is rebooted? (Choose two.)
42.
When you import the configuration of an HA pair into Panorama, how do you prevent the import from affecting ongoing traffic?
43.
Given the following snippet of a WildFire submission log. did the end-user get access to the requested information and why or why not?
44.
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?
45.
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.)
46.
Which Panorama mode should be used so that all logs are sent to, and only stored in Cortex Data Lake?
47.
An administrator wants to enable WildFire inline machine learning. Which three file types does WildFire inline ML analyze? (Choose three.)
48.
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?
49.
What are two valid deployment options for Decryption Broker? (Choose two)
50.
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?
51.
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?
52.
An administrator notices that an interface configuration has been overridden locally on a firewall. They require an configuration to be managed from Panorama and overrides are not allowed. What is one way the administrator can meet this requirement?
53.
In an HA failover scenario what occurs when sessions match an SSL Forward Proxy Decryption policy?
54.
Which CLI command is used to determine how much disk space is allocated to logs?
55.
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?
56.
Which Security Policy Rule configuration option disables antivirus and anti-spyware scanning of server-to-client flows only?
57.
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?
58.
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?
59.
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?
60.
Which configuration is backed up using the Scheduled Config Export feature in Panorama?
61.
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?
62.
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?
63.
Which function is handled by the management plane (control plane) of a Palo Alto Networks firewall?
64.
An engineer has been tasked with reviewing traffic logs to find applications the firewall is unable to identify with App-ID. Why would the application field display as incomplete?
65.
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?
66.
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.)
67.
What are two common reasons to use a "No Decrypt" action to exclude traffic from SSL decryption? (Choose two.)
68.
A network administrator wants to use a certificate for the SSL/TLS Service Profile. Which type of certificate should the administrator use?
69.
Match each type of DoS attack to an example of that type of attack
70.
When overriding a template configuration locally on a firewall, what should you consider?
71.
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?
72.
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.)
73.
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'?
74.
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?
75.
Which two mechanisms help prevent a spilt brain scenario an Active/Passive High Availability (HA) pair? (Choose two)