Certification Provider: PaloaltoExam: Paloalto Certified Network Security ConsultantExam Code: PCNSCTotal Question: 60Question per Quiz: 50Updated On: 12 April 2025Note: 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 creating a custom application signature, which field allows you to specify the layer 7 protocol details to match? Pattern Match Protocol Decoder Signature ID Application None 2. What are the three predefined external dynamic lists in PAN-OS that customers receive with their content and threat updates? (Choose three.) embargoed-country IP addresses bulletproof IP addresses known-malicious IP addresses command-and-control IP addresses high-risk IP addresses 3. Which three steps must admin perform to load only objects from PANOS saved config file into VM-300 firewall that is in production? (Choose 3) enter config mode from CLI Load config in web interface and commit use load config partial command use device config import in panorama import names config snapshot through web interface 4. TAC has requested a PCAP on your Panorama lo see why the DNS app is having intermittent issues resolving FODN What is the appropriate CLI command? tcpdump snaplen 0 filter "port 53" tcpdump snaplen 53 filter "port 53" tcp dump snaplen 53 filter "tcp 53" tcp dump snap-en 0 filter "app dns" None 5. After you run command "sudo apt-get update", which command will you run to install? sudo apt-get upgrade sudo apt-get expedition install sudo apt-get install expedition-beta sudo apt-get install expedition None 6. A customer has firewalls deployed at multiple data centers globally, and which are managed by a single Panorama pair. Each data center has multiple PA-7080 firewalls running PAN-OS 9.0. What are two recommended logging infrastructures across the data centers if the customer needs to log? (Choose two.) Single log collector in the main data center Distributed log collector Cortex Data Lake Mixed mode Panorama 7. In preparation for a cutover event, what two processes or procedures should be verified? (Choose 2) change management requirements roles and responsibilites logging and reporting auditing 8. A customer has deployed a GlobalProtect portal and gateway as its remote-access VPN solution for its fleet of Windows 10 laptops The customer wants to use Host information Profile (HIP) data collected at the GlobalProtect gateway throughout its enterprise as an additional means of policy enforcement What additional licensing must the customer purchase? DNS Security on the perimeter firewall GlobalProtect license for the gateway firewall GlobalProtect license for each firewall that will use HIP data to enforce policy WildFire license None 9. Match the task for servr setting in group mapping with its order in the process. None 10. A customer's Palo Alto Networks NGFW currently has only one security policy allowing all traffic They have identified that this is a substantial security risk and have heard that the Expedition tool can help them extract security policies from an "allow any" rule What should the consultant say about Expedition? Live firewall traffic can be viewed on Expedition when connected to a firewall, and Expedition can automatically create and push policies to the firewall he log files can be viewed on Expedition, and right-clicking a log entry gives the option to create security policy from the log entry. By using the Machine Learning feature Expedition can parse the traffic log files related to the policy and extract security rules for matching traffic Expedition cannot parse log files and therefore cannot be used for this purpose None 11. Which of the following is a primary use case for the Decryption Broker feature? Aggregating traffic logs from different sources Managing multiple decryption rules Decrypting outbound SSL traffic Sharing decrypted traffic with multiple security appliances None 12. Examine the configured Security policy rule. Which day one/Iron Skillet Security Profile Group is used to secure the traffic that is permitted through this rule? Default Internal Inbound Outbound None 13. In Expedition, which objects are classified as “Ghost objects”? Addresses imported from Security and NAT policies without corresponding address objects. Address objects that are not part of an Address Group Address objects that are not applied in Security or NAT policies Unused address objects None 14. A company has deployed an Active/Passive 5280 HA pair with BGP configured to the company’s ISP. The lead firewall engineer has set the HA Timer to “Recommended”. Upon failing over the HA pair, there is a two-minute outage and internet traffic is dropped. What should the engineer do to eliminate or minimize the outage in the future? Enable Path Monitoring to the ISP Change the HA Timer to “Aggressive” Ensure that “Graceful Restart” has been enabled on all peers Change the HA Timer to “Advanced” with “Preemption Hold Time” of one minute None 15. Which CLI command should you use to verify whether all SFP, SFP+, or QSFP modules are installed in a firewall? show system state filter sys.s*.p*.phy show system state filter sys.p*.phy show system info show interface detail None 16. A customer recently purchased a license for URL filtering and is having trouble activating PAN-DB. Which two commands can be used to troubleshoot this issue? (Choose two.) request license info request url-database license info show system setting url-database show device setting pan-db 17. What command can you use to check the status of GlobalProtect clients connected to the firewall? show globalprotect gateway show globalprotect statistics show globalprotect current-user show globalprotect status None 18. What information is necessary to properly plan the deployment of a Panorama hardware appliance for firewall management? Wiring, power, Console access, and management interface connectivity Panorama Mode, number of managed devices, CPU, and memory allocation in the hypervisor Virtual router, zones, and interface configuration of the dataplane interface ESXi Server location and routing to the Panorama appliance None 19. How can you verify that new security policy is correctly blocking traffic without disrupting network? Enable logging on the rule and monitor logs Disable all other rules temp Use the test security-policy-match CLI command Implement the policy in lab environment first None 20. Which interface deployments support the Aggregate Ethernet Active configuration? (Choose three.) LACP in Layer 2 LACP in Virtual Wire LLDP in Layer 3 LACP in TAP LACP in Layer 3 21. Instead of disabling App-IDs regularly, a security policy rule is going to be configured to temporarily allow new App-IDs. In which two circumstances is it valid to disable App-IDs as part of content update? (Choose two.) when an organization operates a mission-critical network and has zero tolerance for downtime when planning to enable the App-IDs immediately when disabling facebook-base to disable all other Facebook App-IDs when you want to immediately benefit from the latest threat prevention 22. In Panorama, the web interface displays the security rules in evaluation order. Organize the security rules in the order in which they will be evaluated? Shared pre-rules -> Device group pre-rules -> Local firewall-rules ->Device group post-rules -> Shared post-rules Shared pre-rules -> Shared post-rules -> Device group pre-rules -> Local firewall-rules ->Device group post-rules Shared pre-rules -> Device group pre-rules ->Device group post-rules -> Shared post-rules -> Local firewall-rules Shared pre-rules ->Local firewall-rules -> Device group pre-rules ->Device group post-rules -> Shared post-rules None 23. Which Palo Alto Network feature allows you to create dynamic security policies based on the behavior of the device in your network? APP-ID Behavioral Threat Detection Cortex XDR Dynamic Address Group None 24. A customer has a five-year-old firewall in production in the time since the firewall was installed, the IT team deleted unused security policies on a regular basis but they did not remove the address objects and groups that were part ofthese security policies. What is the best way to delete all of the unused address objects on the firewall? Import the configuration in Expedition, remove unused address objects, and reimport the configuration. Search each address object with Global Find and delete if it shows that the address object is not referenced Using CLI execute requestconfiguration address-objectsremove-unused-objects. Go to Address Objects under the Objects tab and click on Remove unused objects None 25. What is the preferred method for gathering User-ID mappings from Citrix VDI servers? Agentless Server Monitoring GlobalProtect with an internal gateway The Windows User-ID agent The Terminal Services agent None 26. SSL Forward Proxy decryption is enabled on the firewall. When clients use Chrome to browse to HTTPS sites, the firewall returns the Forward Trust certificate, even when accessing websites with invalid certificates. The clients need to be presented with a browser warning error with the option to proceed to websites with invalid certificates. Which two options will satisfy this requirement? (Choose two.) Create a Decryption Profile with the “Block sessions with expired certificates” option enabled. Create a self-signed Forward Untrust enabled certificate. Remove the Forward Untrust option from the Forward Trust certificate. Create a PKI signed Forward Untrust enabled certificate. 27. Which are two commands required to upgrade Expedition? (Choose two.) sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install expedition-beta sudo apt-get update expedition sudo apt-get upgrade all 28. What happens when a packet from an existing session is received by a firewall that is not the session owner? The firewall drops the packet to prevent anu l3 loops The firewall requests the sender to resend the packet The firewall takes the ownership of the session from the peer firewall The firewall forwards the packet to the peer firewall over hA3 ink None 29. A customer’s Palo Alto Networks NGFW currently has only one security policy allowing all traffic. They have identified that this is a substantial security risk and have heard that the Expedition tool can help them extract security policies from an “allow any” rule. What should the consultant say about Expedition? The log flies can be viewed on Expedition, and right-clicking a log entry gives the option to create security policy from the log entry. Expedition cannot parse log files and therefore cannot be used for this purpose. By using the Machine Learning feature, Expedition can parse the traffic log files related to the policy and extract security rules for matching traffic. Live firewall traffic can be viewed on Expedition when connected to a firewall, and Expedition can automatically create and push policies to the firewall. None 30. Your customer wants to implement Active/Active High Availability for their PA-5260 pair. Which three of the following HA configurations should your customer ensure they use to meet these requirements? (Choose three.)The following conditions are true in their environment:-They are using multiple Layer 3 interfaces to process traffic.-Their routing topology requires the use of Network Address Translation policies to ensure that traffic can reach its destinations correctly.-They prefer to have the session workload distributed as evenly as possible to ensure both firewalls have lower resource utilization.-They make use of dynamic routing protocols on their virtual routers for route-based redundancy.-They chose to go with Active/Active for failover speed reasons. Session selection algorithm – Primary Device Active/Active HA Binding in the NAT policies Session selection algorithm – First Packet HA1A, HA1B, HA2, and HA3 interfaces HA1A, HA1B, and HA2 interfaces 31. What is exchanged through the HA2 link? User-ID in information session synchronization HA state information hello heartbeats None 32. Which Panorama operational mode is necessary to manage a large number of firewalls and also act as a log collector? Management Only Log Collector Only Management and Log Collector Dedicated Log Collector None 33. What happens when a packet from an existing session is received by a firewall that The firewall drops the packet to prevent any L3 loops The firewall requests the sender to resend the packet The firewall forwards the packet lo the peer firewall over the HA3 link The firewall takes ownership of the session from the peer firewall None 34. Identify the Stakeholder with their Role when planning a Firewall, Panorama, and Cortex XDR Deployment. (Select correct 4) Security Administrator -> Manages the software distribution method for Cortex XDR Client Security Engineer-> Manages the software distribution method for Cortex XDR Client Network Engineer -> manages the routing, switching, and general device interconnectivity Security Engineer -> Determines the security, logging, reporting requirement and manages the security policy Security Operation Analyst -> Manages the alerts and responds to threats identified to the network or endpoints. Security Administrator-> Determines the security, logging, reporting requirement and manages the security policy 35. Which category of Vulnerability Signature is mostly like to trigger false positive alerts? info-leak brute-force phishing Code-execution None 36. In an HA active/active configuration, what is the purpose of APR load sharing? share an IP address and provide gateway services sync the ARP table between the two firewalls share all IP addresses and provide Layer 4 through Layer 7 services when failure is detected protect internal networks from an ARP flooding attack None 37. Instead of disabling App-IDs regularly, a security policy rule is going to be configured to temporarily allow new App-IDs. In which two circumstances is it valid to disable App-IDs as part of content update? (Choose two.) when disabling facebook-base to disable all other Facebook App-IDs when an organization operates a mission-critical network and has zero tolerance for downtime when planning to enable the App-IDs immediately when you want to immediately benefit from the latest threat prevention 38. In an HA (High Availability) setup, what is the purpose of the HA3 link? Transmit HA control traffic Synchronize configuration changes Synchronize session state information Exchange heartbeats between the devices None 39. A global corporate office has a large-scale network with only one User-ID agent, which creates a bottleneck near the User-ID agent server. Which solution in PAN -OS software would help in this case? application override content inspection virtual wire mode redistribution of user mappings None 40. An existing customer who has deployed several Palo Alto Networks Next-Generation Firewalls would like to start using Device-ID to obtain policy rule recommendations. They have also purchased a Support license, a Threat license, a URL Filtering license, and a WildFire license for each firewall. What additional license do they need to purchase? an Enterprise Data Loss Prevention (DLP) license an IoT Security license for the perimeter firewall a Cortex Data Lake license an IoT Security license for each deployed firewall None 41. Which routing configuration should you recommend to a customer who wishes to actively use multiple pathways to the same destination? RIPv2 OSPF BGP ECMP None 42. An administrator pushes a new configuration from panorama to a pair of firewalls that are configured as active/passive HA pair. Which NGFW receives the configuration from panorama? the active firewall, which then synchronize to passive firewall both active and passive firewalls which then sync with each other both active and passive firewalls independently and with no sync afterward the passive firewall, which then synchronize to active firewall None 43. Which of the following must be enabled to use Threat Prevention features such as Anti-Virus and Anti-spyware on firewall? Wildfire Subscription Global Protect URL Filtering Security Profiles None 44. What is the default port used by the Terminal Services agent to communicate with a firewall? 636 443 5007 5009 None 45. A firewall configuration is being migrated by Expedition from a third-party vendor to a Palo Alto Networks Next-Generation Firewall (NGFW.). Expedition flags one service as invalid following the import of the original configuration file. An engineer investigates and finds the invalid service to be ping which is used by the security policies. Which action should the engineer take? Remove ping service from all the policies which reference it. Use the search & replace in Expedition to replace the ping service classification with ping application. Ignore the invalid flag in Expedition for the firewall to accept ping service. Create an Application Override policy to override the ping service classification with ping application. None 46. Match the APP-ID Adoption Task with it's order in the process. None 47. An existing customer who has deployed several Palo Alto Networks Next-Generation Firewalls would like to start using Device-ID to obtain policy rule recommendations They have also purchased a Support license, a Threat license a URL Filtering license, and a WildFire license for each firewall What additional license do they need to purchase? an loT Security license (or the perimeter firewall an loT Security license for each deployed firewall an Enterprise Data Loss Prevention (DLP) license a Cortex Data Lake license None 48. An administrator has been asked to configure active/active HA for a pair of Palo Alto Networks NGFWs. The firewalls use layer 3 interface to send traffic to a single gateway IP for the pair. Which configuration will enable this HA scenario? Each firewall will have a separate floating IP. and priority will determine which firewall has the primary IP The firewalls will share the same interface IP address, and device 1 will use the floating IP if device 0 fails. The two firewalls will share a single floating IP and will use gratuitous ARP to share the floating IP The firewall do not use floating IPs in active/active None 49. Which two options describe the behavior of the “Direction” property in a WildFire Analysis Profile rule? (Choose two.) The upload direction option matches only files that were uploaded to the internet by a user on the Inside network. The both direction option matches all files that are seen by the firewall, regardless of whether the transfer is started by the connection initiator or responder. The download direction option matches files that the connection initiator received from the service it connected to. The both direction option matches all files, but only if the transfer is started by the connection initiator. 50. Your customer has asked you to set up tunnel monitoring on an IPSEC VPN tunnel between two offices. What three steps are needed to setup tunnel monitoring? (Choose three) Create a monitoring profile Restart each IPSEC tunnel Restart each IKE gateway Add and IP address to each tunnel interface Enable tunnel monitoring on each IPsec tunnel Time's up
