PCNSC – Paloalto Certified Network Security Consultant

Certification Provider: Paloalto

Exam: Paloalto Certified Network Security Consultant

Exam Code: PCNSC

Total Question: 60

Question per Quiz: 50

Updated On: 12 April 2025

Note: 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.

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

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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 two firewalls will share a single floating IP and will use gratuitous ARP to share the floating IP

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 firewall do not use floating IPs in active/active

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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

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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

debug log-sender statistics

debug log-receiver statistics

show logging status

None

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

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

redistribution of user mappings

content inspection

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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 independently and with no sync afterward

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

None

When creating a custom application signature, which field allows you to specify the layer 7 protocol details to match?

Pattern Match

Protocol Decoder

Application

Signature ID

None

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

DNS Security on the perimeter firewall

GlobalProtect license for the gateway firewall

WildFire license

None

10.

What is the preferred method for gathering User-ID mappings from Citrix VDI servers?

The Terminal Services agent

GlobalProtect with an internal gateway

Agentless Server Monitoring

The Windows User-ID agent

None

11.

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 – First Packet

HA1A, HA1B, and HA2 interfaces

Active/Active HA Binding in the NAT policies

Session selection algorithm – Primary Device

HA1A, HA1B, HA2, and HA3 interfaces

12.

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.

Log redundancy must be enabled per Collector Group.

Panorama operational mode needs to be Dedicated Log Collector.

Panorama configured in HA provides log redundancy.

13.

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 system setting url-database

request url-database license info

show device setting pan-db

14.

What is the default port used by the Terminal Services agent to communicate with a firewall?

5007

5009

636

443

None

15.

In a HA active/active configuration, which task does the session setup firewall perform?

NAT

decryption

Traffic log generation

threat scanning

None

16.

Which interface deployments support the Aggregate Ethernet Active configuration? (Choose three.)

LACP in Layer 3

LACP in Virtual Wire

LACP in TAP

LLDP in Layer 3

LACP in Layer 2

17.

Match the task for servr setting in group mapping with its order in the process.

None

18.

With its improved reliability and automation, Expedition 2 will install by using which of the following?

Ubuntu 20.04

Ubuntu 16.04 and higher

Windows Server 2016

Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 9

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19.

How can you verify that new security policy is correctly blocking traffic without disrupting network?

Enable logging on the rule and monitor logs

Implement the policy in lab environment first

Use the test security-policy-match CLI command

Disable all other rules temp

None

20.

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.

21.

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)

Enable tunnel monitoring on each IPsec tunnel

Add and IP address to each tunnel interface

Restart each IKE gateway

Restart each IPSEC tunnel

Create a monitoring profile

22.

Which of the following must be enabled to use Threat Prevention features such as Anti-Virus and Anti-spyware on firewall?

URL Filtering

Security Profiles

Wildfire Subscription

Global Protect

None

23.

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?

Using CLI execute requestconfiguration address-objectsremove-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.

Go to Address Objects under the Objects tab and click on Remove unused objects

None

24.

Which Panorama operational mode is necessary to manage a large number of firewalls and also act as a log collector?

Management Only

Management and Log Collector

Dedicated Log Collector

Log Collector Only

None

25.

Which command is used to install Expedition tool for migration? (Choose 2)

sudo apt-get upgrade

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get install expedition-beta

sudo apt-get install expedition

26.

What is exchanged through the HA2 link?

session synchronization

HA state information

hello heartbeats

User-ID in information

None

27.

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 PKI signed Forward Untrust enabled certificate.

Remove the Forward Untrust option from the Forward Trust certificate.

Create a self-signed Forward Untrust enabled certificate.

28.

Which are two commands required to upgrade Expedition? (Choose two.)

sudo apt-get upgrade all

sudo apt-get install expedition-beta

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get update expedition

29.

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 planning to enable the App-IDs immediately

when you want to immediately benefit from the latest threat prevention

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

30.

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.

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.

Expedition cannot parse log files and therefore cannot be used for this purpose.

None

31.

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

import names config snapshot through web interface

use load config partial command

enter config mode from CLI

use device config import in panorama

32.

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

None

33.

What happens when a packet from an existing session is received by a firewall that

The firewall requests the sender to resend the packet

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 drops the packet to prevent any L3 loops

None

34.

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"

tcpdump snaplen 0 filter "port 53"

tcp dump snaplen 53 filter "tcp 53"

None

35.

In preparation for a cutover event, what two processes or procedures should be verified? (Choose 2)

auditing

change management requirements

roles and responsibilites

logging and reporting

36.

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

Enable Path Monitoring to the ISP

Change the HA Timer to “Aggressive”

Change the HA Timer to “Advanced” with “Preemption Hold Time” of one minute

None

37.

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

38.

Match the APP-ID Adoption Task with it's order in the process.

None

39.

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

40.

What are the three predefined external dynamic lists in PAN-OS that customers receive with their content and threat updates? (Choose three.)

command-and-control IP addresses

known-malicious IP addresses

bulletproof IP addresses

high-risk IP addresses

embargoed-country IP addresses

41.

Which routing configuration should you recommend to a customer who wishes to actively use multiple pathways to the same destination?

RIPv2

BGP

OSPF

ECMP

None

42.

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

43.

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.

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.

None

44.

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 -> 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 ->Local firewall-rules -> Device group pre-rules ->Device group post-rules -> Shared post-rules

None

45.

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?

Internal

Default

Outbound

Inbound

None

46.

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.p*.phy

show system info

show system state filter sys.s*.p*.phy

None

47.

In an HA (High Availability) setup, what is the purpose of the HA3 link?

Synchronize session state information

Synchronize configuration changes

Transmit HA control traffic

Exchange heartbeats between the devices

None

48.

Which Palo Alto Network feature allows you to create dynamic security policies based on the behavior of the device in your network?

Dynamic Address Group

APP-ID

Cortex XDR

Behavioral Threat Detection

None

49.

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

log

allow

block

50.

In preparation for a cutover event, what two process or procedure should be verified? (choose two)

Auditing

Logging and reporting

Roles and responsibility

Change management Process

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