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. 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, but only if the transfer is started by the connection initiator. 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. 2. In an HA (High Availability) setup, what is the purpose of the HA3 link? Exchange heartbeats between the devices Synchronize session state information Transmit HA control traffic Synchronize configuration changes None 3. Which are two commands required to upgrade Expedition? (Choose two.) sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install expedition-beta sudo apt-get upgrade all sudo apt-get update expedition 4. 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 each firewall that will use HIP data to enforce policy WildFire license GlobalProtect license for the gateway firewall None 5. 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? 65,535 100 32,768 1 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.) Mixed mode Panorama Cortex Data Lake Single log collector in the main data center Distributed log collector 7. In an HA active/active configuration, what is the purpose of APR load sharing? share an IP address and provide gateway services protect internal networks from an ARP flooding attack sync the ARP table between the two firewalls share all IP addresses and provide Layer 4 through Layer 7 services when failure is detected None 8. 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. 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. Create an Application Override policy to override the ping service classification with ping application. None 9. 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 ->Device group post-rules -> Shared post-rules -> Local firewall-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 -> Local firewall-rules ->Device group post-rules -> Shared post-rules Shared pre-rules ->Local firewall-rules -> Device group pre-rules ->Device group post-rules -> Shared post-rules None 10. After you run command "sudo apt-get update", which command will you run to install? sudo apt-get install expedition-beta sudo apt-get install expedition sudo apt-get upgrade sudo apt-get expedition install None 11. In Expedition, which objects are classified as “Ghost objects”? Address objects that are not applied in Security or NAT policies Unused address objects Address objects that are not part of an Address Group Addresses imported from Security and NAT policies without corresponding address objects. None 12. 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. 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 None 13. 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 drops the packet to prevent anu l3 loops The firewall takes the ownership of the session from the peer firewall The firewall requests the sender to resend the packet None 14. 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 Enterprise Data Loss Prevention (DLP) license an loT Security license for each deployed firewall an loT Security license (or the perimeter firewall None 15. In preparation for a cutover event, what two process or procedure should be verified? (choose two) Roles and responsibility Change management Process Auditing Logging and reporting 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 show log traffic debug log-sender statistics show logging status None 17. What information is necessary to properly plan the deployment of a Panorama hardware appliance for firewall management? Panorama Mode, number of managed devices, CPU, and memory allocation in the hypervisor ESXi Server location and routing to the Panorama appliance Wiring, power, Console access, and management interface connectivity Virtual router, zones, and interface configuration of the dataplane interface None 18. 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 the active firewall, which then synchronize to passive firewall both active and passive firewalls independently and with no sync afterward None 19. Which interface deployments support the Aggregate Ethernet Active configuration? (Choose three.) LACP in Layer 2 LACP in TAP LLDP in Layer 3 LACP in Virtual Wire LACP in Layer 3 20. Which category of Vulnerability Signature is mostly like to trigger false positive alerts? phishing Code-execution info-leak brute-force None 21. With its improved reliability and automation, Expedition 2 will install by using which of the following? Ubuntu 20.04 Windows Server 2016 Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 9 Ubuntu 16.04 and higher None 22. In a HA active/active configuration, which task does the session setup firewall perform? decryption Traffic log generation threat scanning NAT 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. Which of the following must be enabled to use Threat Prevention features such as Anti-Virus and Anti-spyware on firewall? Wildfire Subscription Security Profiles Global Protect URL Filtering None 25. 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 26. What command can you use to check the status of GlobalProtect clients connected to the firewall? show globalprotect status show globalprotect statistics show globalprotect gateway show globalprotect current-user None 27. When creating a custom application signature, which field allows you to specify the layer 7 protocol details to match? Protocol Decoder Signature ID Pattern Match Application None 28. 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 info show system state filter sys.s*.p*.phy show system state filter sys.p*.phy None 29. 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. Network Engineer -> manages the routing, switching, and general device interconnectivity Security Administrator -> Manages the software distribution method for Cortex XDR Client Security Administrator-> Determines the security, logging, reporting requirement and manages the security policy Security Engineer -> Determines the security, logging, reporting requirement and manages the security policy 30. 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 url-database license info show device setting pan-db show system setting url-database request license info 31. 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 embargoed-country IP addresses known-malicious IP addresses high-risk IP addresses command-and-control IP addresses 32. When creating a custom application signature, which field allows you to specify the layer 7 protocol details to match? Signature ID Pattern Match Application Protocol Decoder None 33. 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” Enable Path Monitoring to the ISP Change the HA Timer to “Advanced” with “Preemption Hold Time” of one minute Ensure that “Graceful Restart” has been enabled on all peers None 34. 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 block allow log 35. 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. Each firewall will have a separate floating IP. and priority will determine which firewall has the primary IP 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 36. 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 the perimeter firewall an IoT Security license for each deployed firewall a Cortex Data Lake license an Enterprise Data Loss Prevention (DLP) license None 37. 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 38. 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 39. 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 40. 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 use device config import in panorama use load config partial command import names config snapshot through web interface Load config in web interface and commit 41. Which command is used to install Expedition tool for migration? (Choose 2) sudo apt-get install expedition sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install expedition-beta sudo apt-get upgrade 42. What is the default port used by the Terminal Services agent to communicate with a firewall? 636 5007 443 5009 None 43. 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 configured in HA provides log redundancy. Panorama operational mode needs to be Dedicated Log Collector. Log redundancy must be enabled per Collector Group. A Collector Group must contain at least two Log Collectors. 44. 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? By using the Machine Learning feature, Expedition can parse the traffic log files related to the policy and extract security rules for matching traffic. 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. Expedition cannot parse log files and therefore cannot be used for this purpose. None 45. 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 Log Collector Only Management and Log Collector None 46. What is exchanged through the HA2 link? User-ID in information HA state information hello heartbeats session synchronization None 47. 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 Session selection algorithm – First Packet HA1A, HA1B, HA2, and HA3 interfaces HA1A, HA1B, and HA2 interfaces Active/Active HA Binding in the NAT policies 48. 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 IKE gateway Restart each IPSEC tunnel Add and IP address to each tunnel interface Enable tunnel monitoring on each IPsec tunnel Create a monitoring profile 49. 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 redistribution of user mappings content inspection virtual wire mode None 50. Which of the following is a primary use case for the Decryption Broker feature? Sharing decrypted traffic with multiple security appliances Decrypting outbound SSL traffic Managing multiple decryption rules Aggregating traffic logs from different sources None Time's up
