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? Traffic log generation decryption threat scanning NAT None 2. 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 53 filter "port 53" tcp dump snap-en 0 filter "app dns" tcp dump snaplen 53 filter "tcp 53" tcpdump snaplen 0 filter "port 53" None 3. 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.) A Collector Group must contain at least two Log Collectors. Panorama configured in HA provides log redundancy. Panorama operational mode needs to be Dedicated Log Collector. Log redundancy must be enabled per Collector Group. 4. What command can you use to check the status of GlobalProtect clients connected to the firewall? show globalprotect current-user show globalprotect statistics show globalprotect gateway show globalprotect status None 5. In preparation for a cutover event, what two processes or procedures should be verified? (Choose 2) auditing roles and responsibilites logging and reporting change management requirements 6. 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 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 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, but only if the transfer is started by the connection initiator. 7. 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 WildFire license GlobalProtect license for each firewall that will use HIP data to enforce policy GlobalProtect license for the gateway firewall None 8. 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.) continue allow block log 9. In Expedition, which objects are classified as “Ghost objects”? 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 Address objects that are not part of an Address Group None 10. Which routing configuration should you recommend to a customer who wishes to actively use multiple pathways to the same destination? ECMP BGP OSPF RIPv2 None 11. 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 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 when disabling facebook-base to disable all other Facebook App-IDs 12. 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 device setting pan-db request url-database license info show system setting url-database request license info 13. 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 ESXi Server location and routing to the Panorama appliance Virtual router, zones, and interface configuration of the dataplane interface Panorama Mode, number of managed devices, CPU, and memory allocation in the hypervisor None 14. Which of the following must be enabled to use Threat Prevention features such as Anti-Virus and Anti-spyware on firewall? Security Profiles Global Protect URL Filtering Wildfire Subscription None 15. 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 Using CLI execute requestconfiguration address-objectsremove-unused-objects. Import the configuration in Expedition, remove unused address objects, and reimport the configuration. None 16. Which command is used to install Expedition tool for migration? (Choose 2) sudo apt-get install expedition-beta sudo apt-get upgrade sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install expedition 17. After you run command "sudo apt-get update", which command will you run to install? sudo apt-get upgrade sudo apt-get install expedition-beta sudo apt-get expedition install sudo apt-get install expedition None 18. In an HA (High Availability) setup, what is the purpose of the HA3 link? Synchronize session state information Exchange heartbeats between the devices Transmit HA control traffic Synchronize configuration changes None 19. In preparation for a cutover event, what two process or procedure should be verified? (choose two) Change management Process Logging and reporting Auditing Roles and responsibility 20. 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 21. Which of the following is a primary use case for the Decryption Broker feature? Decrypting outbound SSL traffic Sharing decrypted traffic with multiple security appliances Managing multiple decryption rules Aggregating traffic logs from different sources None 22. How can you verify that new security policy is correctly blocking traffic without disrupting network? Disable all other rules temp Enable logging on the rule and monitor logs Implement the policy in lab environment first Use the test security-policy-match CLI command None 23. 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 the passive firewall, which then synchronize to active firewall both active and passive firewalls independently and with no sync afterward both active and passive firewalls which then sync with each other None 24. 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? Ignore the invalid flag in Expedition for the firewall to accept ping service. 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. Create an Application Override policy to override the ping service classification with ping application. None 25. 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 HA1A, HA1B, HA2, and HA3 interfaces HA1A, HA1B, and HA2 interfaces Session selection algorithm – First Packet 26. Which Palo Alto Network feature allows you to create dynamic security policies based on the behavior of the device in your network? Cortex XDR Dynamic Address Group APP-ID Behavioral Threat Detection None 27. 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 command-and-control IP addresses high-risk IP addresses known-malicious IP addresses 28. 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? virtual wire mode application override content inspection redistribution of user mappings None 29. What is the preferred method for gathering User-ID mappings from Citrix VDI servers? GlobalProtect with an internal gateway The Terminal Services agent Agentless Server Monitoring The Windows User-ID agent None 30. With its improved reliability and automation, Expedition 2 will install by using which of the following? Ubuntu 16.04 and higher Windows Server 2016 Ubuntu 20.04 Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 9 None 31. 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 32. 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 Enterprise Data Loss Prevention (DLP) license a Cortex Data Lake license an loT Security license for each deployed firewall None 33. 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. 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. 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 34. 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? show log traffic show logging status debug log-receiver statistics debug log-sender statistics None 35. 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 Outbound Internal None 36. In an HA active/active configuration, what is the purpose of APR load sharing? protect internal networks from an ARP flooding attack share all IP addresses and provide Layer 4 through Layer 7 services when failure is detected share an IP address and provide gateway services sync the ARP table between the two firewalls None 37. 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 IoT Security license for each deployed firewall an Enterprise Data Loss Prevention (DLP) license a Cortex Data Lake license an IoT Security license for the perimeter firewall None 38. Which category of Vulnerability Signature is mostly like to trigger false positive alerts? info-leak phishing Code-execution brute-force None 39. 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 device config import in panorama import names config snapshot through web interface use load config partial command 40. 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? 1 65,535 32,768 100 None 41. 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 ->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 None 42. 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 planning to enable the App-IDs immediately when you want to immediately benefit from the latest threat prevention 43. 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 IKE gateway Restart each IPSEC tunnel Create a monitoring profile 44. What is the default port used by the Terminal Services agent to communicate with a firewall? 443 636 5009 5007 None 45. Which interface deployments support the Aggregate Ethernet Active configuration? (Choose three.) LACP in Layer 3 LACP in Virtual Wire LLDP in Layer 3 LACP in Layer 2 LACP in TAP 46. What is exchanged through the HA2 link? session synchronization HA state information User-ID in information hello heartbeats None 47. When creating a custom application signature, which field allows you to specify the layer 7 protocol details to match? Protocol Decoder Pattern Match Signature ID Application None 48. Which Panorama operational mode is necessary to manage a large number of firewalls and also act as a log collector? Log Collector Only Management and Log Collector Dedicated Log Collector Management Only None 49. 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 takes ownership of the session from the peer firewall The firewall forwards the packet lo the peer firewall over the HA3 link The firewall requests the sender to resend the packet None 50. Which are two commands required to upgrade Expedition? (Choose two.) sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get upgrade all sudo apt-get update expedition sudo apt-get install expedition-beta Time's up
