Certification Provider:Â Palo Alto NetworksExam:Â Palo Alto Networks Certified Network Security Engineer (PCNSE)Exam Code:Â PCNSE v10Total Question: 181Question per Quiz: 75Updated On: 29 April 2024Note: 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 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? You must set the interface to Layer 2 Layer 3. or virtual wire You must use a static IP address You must enable DoS and zone protection The interface must be used for traffic to the required services None 2. In an HA failover scenario what occurs when sessions match an SSL Forward Proxy Decryption policy? A Sync does not occur the existing session is transferred to the active firewall. HA Sync occurs the firewall allows the session Put does not decrypt the session. HA Sync does not occur the firewall drops the session. HA Sync occurs the session is sent to testpath None 3. Which three statements accurately describe Decryption Mirror? (Choose three.) Decryption Mirror requires a tap interface on the firewall Only management consent is required to use the Decryption Mirror feature Decryption, storage, inspection and use of SSL traffic are regulated in certain countries You should consult with your corporate counsel before activating and using Decryption Mirror in a production environment Use of Decryption Mirror might enable malicious users with administrative access to the firewall to harvest sensitive information that is submitted via an encrypted channel 4. 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? Create a Security policy to allow access to those sites Install the unsupported cipher into the firewall to allow the sites to be decrypted Allow the firewall to block the sites to improve the security posture Add the sites to the SSL Decryption Exclusion list to exempt them from decryption None 5. In SSL Forward Proxy decryption, which two certificates can be used for certificate signing? (Choose two.) self-signed CA certificate client certificate wildcard server certificate enterprise CA certificate 6. What are the two behavior differences between Highlight Unused Rules and the Rule Usage Hit counter when a firewall is rebooted? (Choose two.) Highlight Unused Rules will highlight zero rules. Rule Usage Hit counter will reset. Rule Usage Hit counter will not be reset Highlight Unused Rules will highlight all rules. 7. An engineer must configure the Decryption Broker feature Which Decryption Broker security chain supports bi-directional traffic flow? Transparent Bridge security chain Transparent Proxy security chain Layer 3 security chain Layer 2 security chain None 8. A network administrator wants to use a certificate for the SSL/TLS Service Profile. Which type of certificate should the administrator use? client certificate machine certificate certificate authority (CA) certificate server certificate None 9. Place the steps in the WildFire process workflow in their correct order. None 10. Which two statements correctly identify the number of Decryption Broker security chains that are supported on a pair of decryption-forwarding interfaces'? (Choose two) L3 security chains support up to 32 security chains L3 security chains support up to 64 security chains A single transparent bridge security chain is supported per pair of interface A single transparent bridge security chain is supported per firewall 11. Your company has to Active Directory domain controllers spread across multiple WAN links All users authenticate to Active Directory Each link has substantial network bandwidth to support all mission-critical applications. The firewalls management plane is highly utilized Given this scenario which type of User-ID agent is considered a best practice by Palo Alto Networks? Captive Portal Windows-based User-ID agent on a standalone server PAN-OS integrated agent Citrix terminal server agent with adequate data-plane resource None 12. Given the following snippet of a Wild Fire submission log. did the end-user get access to the requested information and why or why not? No because WildFire categorized a file with the verdict "malicious" Yes. because the action is set to "allow '' No because WildFire classified the seventy as "high." Yes, because the action is set to "alert" None 13. 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? Add the template as a reference template in the device group Add a firewall to both the device group and the template Enable "Share Unused Address and Service Objects with Devices" in Panorama settings Specify the target device as the master device in the device group None 14. Which action disables Zero Touch Provisioning (ZTP) functionality on a ZTP firewall during the onboarding process? removing the firewall as a managed device in Panorama removing the Panorama serial number from the ZTP service performing a local firewall commit performing a factory reset of the firewall None 15. What are three types of Decryption Policy rules? (Choose three.) SSH Proxy Decryption Mirror SSL Inbound Inspection Decryption Broker SSL Forward Proxy 16. Which Security Policy Rule configuration option disables antivirus and anti-spyware scanning of server-to-client flows only? Apply an Application Override Add server IP Security Policy exception Disable Server Response Inspection Disable HIP Profile None 17. 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? profiles stateful firewall connection link state certificates None 18. The UDP-4501 protocol-port is used between which two GlobalProtect components? GlobalProtect app and GlobalProtect portal GlobalProtect app and GlobalProtect gateway GlobalProtect app and GlobalProtect satellite GlobalProtect portal and GlobalProtect gateway None 19. Which two features can be used to tag a username so that it is included in a dynamic user group? (Choose two.) log forwarding auto-tagging Global Protect agent User-ID Windows-based agent XML API 20. PBF can address which two scenarios? (Select Two) enabling the firewall to bypass Layer 7 inspection forwarding all traffic by using source port 78249 to a specific egress interface providing application connectivity the primary circuit fail routing FTP to a backup ISP link to save bandwidth on the primary ISP link 21. An engineer is planning an SSL decryption implementation Which of the following statements is a best practice for SSL decryption? Use an enterprise CA-signed certificate for the Forward Untrust certificate Use the same Forward Trust certificate on all firewalls in the network Obtain an enterprise CA-signed certificate for the Forward Trust certificate Obtain a certificate from a publicly trusted root CA for the Forward Trust certificate None 22. What are three reasons for excluding a site from SSL decryption? (Choose three.) certificate pinning unsupported ciphers the website is not present in English unsupported browser version mutual authentication 23. Which three split tunnel methods are supported by a Global Protect Gateway? (Choose three.) Client Application Process Source Domain Destination Domain Destination user/group video streaming application URL Category 24. What are three reasons why an installed session can be identified with the application incomplete" tag? (Choose three.) There is not enough application data after the TCP connection was established The client sent a TCP segment with the PUSH flag set The TCP connection did not fully establish The TCP connection was terminated without identifying any application data There was no application data after the TCP connection was established 25. 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.) variables collector groups virtual systems template stacks 26. In a security-first network what is the recommended threshold value for content updates to be dynamically updated? 6 to 12 hours 1 to 4 hours 36 hours 24 hours None 27. What are two valid deployment options for Decryption Broker? (Choose two) Layer 3 Security Chain Transparent Bridge Security Chain Layer 2 Security Chain Transparent Mirror Security Chain 28. 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.) no install on the route disabling of the static route duplicate static route path monitoring on the static route 29. Which configuration task is best for reducing load on the management plane? Enable session logging at start Disable pre-defined reports Set the URL filtering action to send alerts Disable logging on the default deny rule None 30. A variable name must start with which symbol? # & ! $ None 31. An administrator wants to upgrade a firewall HA pair to PAN-OS 11.1. The firewalls are currently running PAN-OS 10.1.4-h1. Which upgrade path maintains synchronization of the HA session (and prevents network outage)? Upgrade one major version at a time Upgrade one major version at a time Upgrade directly to the target major version Upgrade two major versions at a time None 32. 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) The /config /content and /software folders are mandatory while the /license and /plugin folders are optional The bootstrap package is stored on an AFS share or a discrete container file bucket The init-cfg txt and bootstrap.xml files are both optional configuration items for the /config folder The bootstrap xml file allows for automated deployment of VM-Series firewalls with full network and policy configurations. The directory structure must include a /config /content, /software and /license folders 33. When planning to configure SSL Froward Proxy on a PA 5260, a user asks how SSL decryption can be implemented using phased approach in alignment with Palo Alto Networks best practices What should you recommend? Enable SSL decryption for source users and known malicious URL categories Enable SSL decryption for known malicious source IP addresses Enable SSL decryption for malicious source users Enable SSL decryption for known malicious destination IP addresses None 34. Which two statements correctly identify the number of Decryption Broker security chains that are supported on a pair of decryption-forwarding interfaces'? (Choose two) L3 security chains support up to 64 security chains L3 security chains support up to 32 security chains A single transparent bridge security chain is supported per firewall A single transparent bridge security chain is supported per pair of interfaces 35. Which option is part of the content inspection process? SSL Proxy re-encrypt Packet forwarding process Packet egress process IPsec tunnel encryption None 36. 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? Firewall-Trusted-Root-CA Firewall-CA Forward-Untrust-Certificate Forward-Trust-Certificate None 37. SD-WAN is designed to support which two network topology types? (Choose two.) point-to-point hub-and-spoke ring full-mesh 38. An administrator has 850 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? Locally-defined dynamic update settings take precedence over the settings that Panorama pushed Panorama has no connection to Palo Alto Networks update servers No service route is configured on the firewalls to Palo Alto Networks update servers Panorama does not have valid licenses to push the dynamic updates None 39. What are two common reasons to use a "No Decrypt" action to exclude traffic from SSL decryption? (Choose two.) the web server requires mutual authentication the website matches a category that is not allowed for most users the website matches a sensitive category the website matches a high-risk category 40. During the packet flow process, which two processes are performed in application identification? (Choose two.) application override policy match session application identified application changed from content inspection pattern based application identification 41. Place the steps to onboard a ZTP firewall into Panorama/CSP/ZTP-Service in the correct order. None 42. When you navigate to Network: > GlobalProtect > Portals > Method section, which three options are available? (Choose three) user-logon (always on) certificate-logon pre-logon then on-demand on-demand (manual user initiated connection) post-logon (always on) 43. 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'? action 'default' and packet capture 'single-packet' action 'reset-both' and packet capture 'extended-capture' action 'reset-server' and packet capture 'disable' action 'reset-both' and packet capture 'single-packet' None 44. Which two features require another license on the NGFW? (Choose two.) Decryption Mirror SSL Forward Proxy SSL Inbound Inspection Decryption Broker 45. What are three valid qualifiers for a Decryption Policy Rule match? (Choose three) App-ID User-ID Destination Zone Source Interface Custom URL Category 46. Match each type of DoS attack to an example of that type of attack. Application Based -> Slowris Volumetric Based -> SYN Flood Attack Volumetric Based -> UDP Flood Attack Protocol Based -> SYN flood Attack None 47. An administrator is considering upgrading the Palo Alto Networks NGFW and central management Panorama version What is considered best practice for this scenario? Export the device state, perform the update, and then import the device state. Upgrade Panorama to a version at or above the target firewall version. Upgrade the firewall first, wait at least 24 hours, and then upgrade the Panorama version. Perform the Panorama and firewall upgrades simultaneously. None 48. 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? Perform a commit force from the CLI of the firewall. Perform a template commit push from Panorama using the "Force Template Values'' option Perform a device-group commit push from Panorama using the "Include Device and Network Templates" option. Reload the running configuration and perform a Firewall local commit. None 49. 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? Address Objects -Shared Address1 -Branch Address1 Policies -Shared Policy1 -Branch Policy1 Address Objects -Shared Address1 -Shared Address2 -Branch Address1 -DC Address1 Policies -Shared Policy1 -Shared Policy2 -Branch Policy1 Address Objects -Shared Address1 -Shared Address2 -Branch Address1 Policies -Shared Policy1 -Branch Policy1 Address Objects -Shared Address1 -Shared Address2 -Branch Address1 Policies -Shared Policy1 -Shared Policy2 -Branch Policy1 None 50. Which value in the Application column indicates UDP traffic that did not match an App-ID signature? unknown-udp incomplete unknown-ip not-applicable None 51. Which rule type controls end user SSL traffic to external websites? SSL Inbound Inspection SSH Proxy SSL Outbound Proxyless Inspection SSL Forward Proxy None 52. 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? Tunnel interfaces to terminate EIGRP routing on an IPsec tunnel {with the Global Protect License to support LSVPN and EIGRP protocols) Layer 3 interfaces but configuring EIGRP on the attached virtual router Layer 3 or Aggregate Ethernet interfaces but configuring EIGRP on sub interfaces only Virtual Wire interfaces to permit EIGRP routing to remain between the Core and DMZ None 53. When you configure an active/active high availability pair which two links can you use? (Choose two) HA2 backup HA3 Console Backup HSCI-C 54. Which two mechanisms help prevent a spilt brain scenario an Active/Passive High Availability (HA) pair? (Choose two) Configure the management interface as HA3 Backup Configure the management interface as HA2 Backup Configure Ethernet 1/1 as HA1 Backup Configure Ethernet 1/1 as HA2 Backup 55. Before you upgrade a Palo Alto Networks NGFW, what must you do? Export a device state of the firewall Make sure that the PAN-OS support contract is valid for at least another year Make sure that the firewall is running a supported version of the app + threat update Make sure that the firewall is running a version of antivirus software and a version of WildFire that support the licensed subscriptions. None 56. 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 ) certificate authority (CA) certificate client certificate certificate profile server certificate 57. Which two are valid ACC Global Protect Activity tab widgets? (Choose two.) Global Protect Quarantine Activity Successful Global Protect Deployed Activity Successful Global Protect Connection Activity Global Protect Deployment Activity 58. What happens when an A/P firewall cluster synchronies IPsec tunnel security associations (SAs)? Phase 1 and Phase 2 SAs are synchronized over HA3 links Phase 2 SAs are synchronized over HA2 finks Phase 1 SAs are synchronized over HA1 links Phase 1 and Phase 2 SAs are synchronized over HA2 links None 59. 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 id172.16.33.33/24 type IPv4 address protocol 0 port 0." Check whether the VPN peer on one end is set up correctly using policy-based VPN. In the IKE Gateway configuration, verify that the IP address for each VPN peer is accurate. Verify that the IP addresses can be pinged and that routing issues are not causing the connection failure. In the IPSec Crypto profile configuration, verify that PFS is either enabled on both VPN peers or disabled on both VPN peers. None 60. 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? A Decryption profile must be attached to the Security policy that the traffic matches There must be a certificate with only the Forward Trust option selected There must be a certificate with both the Forward Trust option and Forward Untrust option selected A Decryption profile must be attached to the Decryption policy that the traffic matches None 61. To ensure that a Security policy has the highest priority, how should an administrator configure a Security policy in the device group hierarchy? Reference the targeted device's templates in the target device group Clone the security policy and add it to the other device groups Add the policy to the target device group and apply a master device to the device group Add the policy in the shared device group as a pre-rule None 62. A network administrator wants to use a certificate for the SSL/TLS Service Profile Which type of certificate should the administrator use? server certificate machine certificate certificate authority (CA) certificate client certificate None 63. In a Panorama template which three types of objects are configurable? (Choose three) HIP objects security profiles certificate profiles interface management profiles QoS profiles 64. Which Device Group option is assigned by default in Panorama whenever a new device group is created to manage a Firewall? Universal Master Shared Global None 65. What are two common reasons to use a "No Decrypt" action to exclude traffic from SSL decryption? (Choose two.) the website matches a category that is not allowed for most users the website matches a sensitive category the web server requires mutual authentication the website matches a high-risk category 66. 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? Windows-based User-ID agent Global Protect PAN-OS integrated User-ID agent LDAP Server Profile configuration None 67. Match each Global Protect component to the purpose of that component. None 68. Which three options are supported in HA Lite? (Choose three.) Active/passive deployment Synchronization of IPsec security associations Configuration synchronization Virtual link Session synchronization 69. When you import the configuration of an HA pair into Panorama, how do you prevent the import from affecting ongoing traffic? Disable the HA2 link Disable HA Disable config Sync Set the passive link state to 'shutdown' None 70. As a best practice, which URL category should you target first for SSL decryption? Financial Services Online Storage and Backup High Risk Health and Medicine None 71. 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? Protection against unknown malware can be provided in near real-time WildFire and Threat Prevention combine to minimize the attack surface Wild Fire and Threat Prevention combine to provide the utmost security posture for the firewall After 24 hours Wild Fire signatures are included in the antivirus update None 72. 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? File Blocking profiles applied to outbound security policies with action set to alert Anti-Spyware profiles applied outbound security policies with DNS Query action set to sinkhole Vulnerability Protection profiles applied to outbound security policies with action set to block Antivirus profiles applied to outbound security policies with action set to alert None 73. Which three items are import considerations during SD-WAN configuration planning? (Choose three.) IP Addresses link requirements branch and hub locations the name of the ISP 74. 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? None 75. What are two characteristic types that can be defined for a variable? (Choose two) path group FQDN IP netmask zone 76. 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? Deploy Prisma SD-WAN with Prisma Access Upgrade to a PAN-OS SD-WAN subscription Configure a remote network on PAN-OS Configure policy-based forwarding None 77. When overriding a template configuration locally on a firewall, what should you consider? Panorama will update the template with the overridden value The firewall template will show that it is out of sync within Panorama Panorama will lose visibility into the overridden configuration Only Panorama can revert the override None Time's up