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. How can you verify that new security policy is correctly blocking traffic without disrupting network? Implement the policy in lab environment first Use the test security-policy-match CLI command Disable all other rules temp Enable logging on the rule and monitor logs None 2. 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? 65,535 32,768 100 1 None 3. What are the three predefined external dynamic lists in PAN-OS that customers receive with their content and threat updates? (Choose three.) high-risk IP addresses known-malicious IP addresses command-and-control IP addresses bulletproof IP addresses embargoed-country IP addresses 4. Match the APP-ID Adoption Task with it's order in the process. None 5. 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 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 Security Administrator -> 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 6. 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? 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. Remove ping service from all the policies which reference it. Ignore the invalid flag in Expedition for the firewall to accept ping service. None 7. Which interface deployments support the Aggregate Ethernet Active configuration? (Choose three.) LACP in Layer 2 LACP in Layer 3 LACP in TAP LLDP in Layer 3 LACP in Virtual Wire 8. In preparation for a cutover event, what two process or procedure should be verified? (choose two) Auditing Logging and reporting Change management Process Roles and responsibility 9. What happens when a packet from an existing session is received by a firewall that is not the session owner? The firewall forwards the packet to the peer firewall over hA3 ink The firewall takes the ownership of the session from the peer firewall The firewall drops the packet to prevent anu l3 loops The firewall requests the sender to resend the packet None 10. 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) use load config partial command use device config import in panorama enter config mode from CLI Load config in web interface and commit import names config snapshot through web interface 11. 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 a Cortex Data Lake license an IoT Security license for the perimeter firewall an IoT Security license for each deployed firewall None 12. 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? tcp dump snap-en 0 filter "app dns" tcp dump snaplen 53 filter "tcp 53" tcpdump snaplen 53 filter "port 53" tcpdump snaplen 0 filter "port 53" None 13. 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) Add and IP address to each tunnel interface Enable tunnel monitoring on each IPsec tunnel Restart each IPSEC tunnel Restart each IKE gateway Create a monitoring profile 14. In Expedition, which objects are classified as “Ghost objects”? Address objects that are not part of an Address Group Addresses imported from Security and NAT policies without corresponding address objects. Unused address objects Address objects that are not applied in Security or NAT policies None 15. 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 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 16. 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-receiver statistics debug log-sender statistics show logging status show log traffic None 17. 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 Inbound Internal Outbound None 18. What command can you use to check the status of GlobalProtect clients connected to the firewall? show globalprotect status show globalprotect statistics show globalprotect current-user show globalprotect gateway None 19. 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. Create a Decryption Profile with the “Block sessions with expired certificates” option enabled. Remove the Forward Untrust option from the Forward Trust certificate. Create a self-signed Forward Untrust enabled certificate. 20. Which category of Vulnerability Signature is mostly like to trigger false positive alerts? Code-execution info-leak phishing brute-force None 21. 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? Go to Address Objects under the Objects tab and click on Remove unused objects Search each address object with Global Find and delete if it shows that the address object is not referenced Import the configuration in Expedition, remove unused address objects, and reimport the configuration. Using CLI execute requestconfiguration address-objectsremove-unused-objects. None 22. 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.) Distributed log collector Single log collector in the main data center Cortex Data Lake Mixed mode Panorama 23. Which CLI command should you use to verify whether all SFP, SFP+, or QSFP modules are installed in a firewall? show interface detail show system state filter sys.s*.p*.phy show system info show system state filter sys.p*.phy None 24. In preparation for a cutover event, what two processes or procedures should be verified? (Choose 2) auditing logging and reporting roles and responsibilites change management requirements 25. What configuration is necessary for Active/Active HA to synchronize sessions between peers? Enable session synchronization under the HA settings Use the same virtual IP address on both peers Configure a floating IP address Enable session Preemption on both peers None 26. 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.) block log allow continue 27. 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 virtual wire mode redistribution of user mappings application override None 28. 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.) show system setting url-database show device setting pan-db request license info request url-database license info 29. Which routing configuration should you recommend to a customer who wishes to actively use multiple pathways to the same destination? OSPF RIPv2 BGP ECMP None 30. What is the preferred method for gathering User-ID mappings from Citrix VDI servers? GlobalProtect with an internal gateway Agentless Server Monitoring The Terminal Services agent The Windows User-ID agent None 31. 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 a Cortex Data Lake license an Enterprise Data Loss Prevention (DLP) license an loT Security license for each deployed firewall None 32. Which command is used to install Expedition tool for migration? (Choose 2) sudo apt-get install expedition-beta sudo apt-get install expedition sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get upgrade 33. In an HA (High Availability) setup, what is the purpose of the HA3 link? Exchange heartbeats between the devices Transmit HA control traffic Synchronize configuration changes Synchronize session state information None 34. When creating a custom application signature, which field allows you to specify the layer 7 protocol details to match? Signature ID Pattern Match Protocol Decoder Application None 35. What is exchanged through the HA2 link? hello heartbeats HA state information session synchronization User-ID in information None 36. 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 you want to immediately benefit from the latest threat prevention when planning to enable the App-IDs immediately when an organization operates a mission-critical network and has zero tolerance for downtime 37. Which are two commands required to upgrade Expedition? (Choose two.) sudo apt-get update expedition sudo apt-get upgrade all sudo apt-get install expedition-beta sudo apt-get update 38. Which Palo Alto Network feature allows you to create dynamic security policies based on the behavior of the device in your network? APP-ID Cortex XDR Behavioral Threat Detection Dynamic Address Group None 39. 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 40. With its improved reliability and automation, Expedition 2 will install by using which of the following? Ubuntu 16.04 and higher Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 9 Ubuntu 20.04 Windows Server 2016 None 41. 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 Virtual router, zones, and interface configuration of the dataplane interface ESXi Server location and routing to the Panorama appliance Panorama Mode, number of managed devices, CPU, and memory allocation in the hypervisor None 42. Match the task for servr setting in group mapping with its order in the process. None 43. In an HA active/active configuration, what is the purpose of APR load sharing? share all IP addresses and provide Layer 4 through Layer 7 services when failure is detected sync the ARP table between the two firewalls protect internal networks from an ARP flooding attack share an IP address and provide gateway services None 44. 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? 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 Ensure that “Graceful Restart” has been enabled on all peers None 45. Which two options describe the behavior of the “Direction” property in a WildFire Analysis Profile rule? (Choose two.) The download direction option matches files that the connection initiator received from the service it connected to. 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 both direction option matches all files, but only if the transfer is started by the connection initiator. 46. 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 the gateway firewall DNS Security on the perimeter firewall GlobalProtect license for each firewall that will use HIP data to enforce policy WildFire license None 47. After you run command "sudo apt-get update", which command will you run to install? sudo apt-get expedition install sudo apt-get upgrade sudo apt-get install expedition-beta sudo apt-get install expedition None 48. 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. 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. Expedition cannot parse log files and therefore cannot be used for this purpose. None 49. 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 firewall do not use floating IPs in active/active 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 None 50. 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.) Panorama operational mode needs to be Dedicated Log Collector. Panorama configured in HA provides log redundancy. Log redundancy must be enabled per Collector Group. A Collector Group must contain at least two Log Collectors. Time's up
