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. In a HA active/active configuration, which task does the session setup firewall perform? NAT Traffic log generation decryption threat scanning None 2. In preparation for a cutover event, what two processes or procedures should be verified? (Choose 2) logging and reporting auditing change management requirements roles and responsibilites 3. 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 4. 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 show device setting pan-db show system setting url-database request url-database license info 5. Which routing configuration should you recommend to a customer who wishes to actively use multiple pathways to the same destination? OSPF BGP RIPv2 ECMP None 6. 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 PKI signed Forward Untrust enabled certificate. Remove the Forward Untrust option from the Forward Trust certificate. Create a Decryption Profile with the “Block sessions with expired certificates” option enabled. Create a self-signed Forward Untrust enabled certificate. 7. What is the preferred method for gathering User-ID mappings from Citrix VDI servers? The Windows User-ID agent The Terminal Services agent Agentless Server Monitoring GlobalProtect with an internal gateway None 8. 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? a Cortex Data Lake license an IoT Security license for each deployed firewall an IoT Security license for the perimeter firewall an Enterprise Data Loss Prevention (DLP) license None 9. What command can you use to check the status of GlobalProtect clients connected to the firewall? show globalprotect current-user show globalprotect status show globalprotect gateway show globalprotect statistics None 10. 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 11. 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 12. 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) Load config in web interface and commit use device config import in panorama import names config snapshot through web interface use load config partial command enter config mode from CLI 13. What is exchanged through the HA2 link? User-ID in information HA state information session synchronization hello heartbeats None 14. Which Panorama operational mode is necessary to manage a large number of firewalls and also act as a log collector? Dedicated Log Collector Management Only Management and Log Collector Log Collector Only None 15. 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 a Cortex Data Lake license an Enterprise Data Loss Prevention (DLP) license None 16. 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 download direction option matches files that the connection initiator received from the service it connected to. 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 both direction option matches all files, but only if the transfer is started by the connection initiator. 17. 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? 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. Expedition cannot parse log files and therefore cannot be used for this purpose Live firewall traffic can be viewed on Expedition when connected to a firewall, and Expedition can automatically create and push policies to the firewall By using the Machine Learning feature Expedition can parse the traffic log files related to the policy and extract security rules for matching traffic None 18. In preparation for a cutover event, what two process or procedure should be verified? (choose two) Change management Process Logging and reporting Roles and responsibility Auditing 19. Match the APP-ID Adoption Task with it's order in the process. None 20. Your customer believes that the Panorama appliance is being overwhelmed by the logs from deployed Palo Alto Networks Next-Generation Firewalls. What CLI command can you run to determine the number of logs per second sent by each firewall? debug log-sender statistics debug log-receiver statistics show logging status show log traffic None 21. 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 22. What happens when a packet from an existing session is received by a firewall that The firewall takes ownership of the session from the peer firewall The firewall requests the sender to resend the packet The firewall forwards the packet lo the peer firewall over the HA3 link The firewall drops the packet to prevent any L3 loops None 23. 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 Implement the policy in lab environment first Use the test security-policy-match CLI command None 24. 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? content inspection redistribution of user mappings application override virtual wire mode None 25. When creating a custom application signature, which field allows you to specify the layer 7 protocol details to match? Signature ID Application Pattern Match Protocol Decoder None 26. 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? GlobalProtect license for each firewall that will use HIP data to enforce policy WildFire license DNS Security on the perimeter firewall GlobalProtect license for the gateway firewall None 27. 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 -> Shared post-rules -> Device group pre-rules -> Local firewall-rules ->Device group post-rules Shared pre-rules ->Local firewall-rules -> Device group pre-rules ->Device group post-rules -> Shared post-rules Shared pre-rules -> Device group pre-rules ->Device group post-rules -> Shared post-rules -> Local firewall-rules Shared pre-rules -> Device group pre-rules -> Local firewall-rules ->Device group post-rules -> Shared post-rules None 28. What configuration is necessary for Active/Active HA to synchronize sessions between peers? Configure a floating IP address Enable session Preemption on both peers Enable session synchronization under the HA settings Use the same virtual IP address on both peers None 29. Which interface deployments support the Aggregate Ethernet Active configuration? (Choose three.) LACP in TAP LLDP in Layer 3 LACP in Layer 2 LACP in Virtual Wire LACP in Layer 3 30. 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) Restart each IPSEC tunnel Enable tunnel monitoring on each IPsec tunnel Restart each IKE gateway Create a monitoring profile Add and IP address to each tunnel interface 31. A URL is categorized as both health-and-medicine and abused-drugs. ... Which two actions will be taken when this URL is visited? (Choose two.) allow block continue log 32. Which command is used to install Expedition tool for migration? (Choose 2) sudo apt-get install expedition sudo apt-get upgrade sudo apt-get install expedition-beta sudo apt-get update 33. 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. HA1A, HA1B, HA2, and HA3 interfaces Session selection algorithm – First Packet Active/Active HA Binding in the NAT policies Session selection algorithm – Primary Device HA1A, HA1B, and HA2 interfaces 34. What are the three predefined external dynamic lists in PAN-OS that customers receive with their content and threat updates? (Choose three.) bulletproof IP addresses known-malicious IP addresses high-risk IP addresses command-and-control IP addresses embargoed-country IP addresses 35. In Expedition, which objects are classified as “Ghost objects”? Address objects that are not part of an Address Group Address objects that are not applied in Security or NAT policies Addresses imported from Security and NAT policies without corresponding address objects. Unused address objects None 36. 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? Search each address object with Global Find and delete if it shows that the address object is not referenced Go to Address Objects under the Objects tab and click on Remove unused objects Import the configuration in Expedition, remove unused address objects, and reimport the configuration. Using CLI execute requestconfiguration address-objectsremove-unused-objects. None 37. A customer has a pair of Panorama HA appliances running local log collectors and wants to have log redundancy on logs forwarded from firewalls. Which two configuration options fulfill the customer’s requirement for log redundancy? (Choose two.) Log redundancy must be enabled per Collector Group. Panorama configured in HA provides log redundancy. A Collector Group must contain at least two Log Collectors. Panorama operational mode needs to be Dedicated Log Collector. 38. Identify the Stakeholder with their Role when planning a Firewall, Panorama, and Cortex XDR Deployment. (Select correct 4) Security Engineer-> Manages the software distribution method for Cortex XDR Client Security Administrator-> Determines the security, logging, reporting requirement and manages the security policy Network Engineer -> manages the routing, switching, and general device interconnectivity Security Operation Analyst -> Manages the alerts and responds to threats identified to the network or endpoints. Security Engineer -> Determines the security, logging, reporting requirement and manages the security policy Security Administrator -> Manages the software distribution method for Cortex XDR Client 39. 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? Ensure that “Graceful Restart” has been enabled on all peers Change the HA Timer to “Aggressive” Change the HA Timer to “Advanced” with “Preemption Hold Time” of one minute Enable Path Monitoring to the ISP None 40. 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 disabling facebook-base to disable all other Facebook App-IDs when you want to immediately benefit from the latest threat prevention when planning to enable the App-IDs immediately 41. 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 you want to immediately benefit from the latest threat prevention when planning to enable the App-IDs immediately 42. With its improved reliability and automation, Expedition 2 will install by using which of the following? Windows Server 2016 Ubuntu 20.04 Ubuntu 16.04 and higher Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 9 None 43. 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? Inbound Default Internal Outbound None 44. 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? The firewalls will share the same interface IP address, and device 1 will use the floating IP if device 0 fails. The firewall do not use floating IPs in active/active The two firewalls will share a single floating IP and will use gratuitous ARP to share the floating IP Each firewall will have a separate floating IP. and priority will determine which firewall has the primary IP None 45. 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? both active and passive firewalls which then sync with each other the passive firewall, which then synchronize to active firewall both active and passive firewalls independently and with no sync afterward the active firewall, which then synchronize to passive firewall None 46. 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 47. A company’s network operations engineer is documenting a solution and wants to know the default priority setting for an LACP connection. If no changes are made to the default configuration settings for the LACP, which priority setting should you share with the engineer? 32,768 1 65,535 100 None 48. What is the default port used by the Terminal Services agent to communicate with a firewall? 5009 5007 443 636 None 49. 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. 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. Use the search & replace in Expedition to replace the ping service classification with ping application. None 50. Which category of Vulnerability Signature is mostly like to trigger false positive alerts? info-leak phishing brute-force Code-execution None Time's up
