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 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

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

request license info

show system setting url-database

show device setting pan-db

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 self-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.

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

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

Windows Server 2016

Ubuntu 16.04 and higher

Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 9

Ubuntu 20.04

None

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

Mixed mode Panorama

Cortex Data Lake

Distributed log collector

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

NAT

decryption

Traffic log generation

threat scanning

None

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

RIPv2

ECMP

BGP

OSPF

None

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

embargoed-country IP addresses

known-malicious IP addresses

bulletproof IP addresses

command-and-control IP addresses

10.

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)

Create a monitoring profile

Restart each IPSEC tunnel

Enable tunnel monitoring on each IPsec tunnel

Restart each IKE gateway

Add and IP address to each tunnel interface

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 disabling facebook-base to disable all other Facebook App-IDs

when you want to immediately benefit from the latest threat prevention

when an organization operates a mission-critical network and has zero tolerance for downtime

when planning to enable the App-IDs immediately

12.

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

None

13.

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

14.

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

15.

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

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

None

16.

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

LACP in TAP

LLDP in Layer 3

LACP in Virtual Wire

LACP in Layer 2

LACP in Layer 3

17.

Which two options describe the behavior of the “Direction” property in a WildFire Analysis Profile rule? (Choose two.)

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 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.

18.

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

The firewall forwards the packet lo the peer firewall over the HA3 link

The firewall drops the packet to prevent any L3 loops

The firewall takes ownership of the session from the peer firewall

The firewall requests the sender to resend the packet

None

19.

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?

100

32,768

65,535

None

20.

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

The Terminal Services agent

GlobalProtect with an internal gateway

The Windows User-ID agent

Agentless Server Monitoring

None

21.

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

22.

What is exchanged through the HA2 link?

User-ID in information

HA state information

session synchronization

hello heartbeats

None

23.

Identify the Stakeholder with their Role when planning a Firewall, Panorama, and Cortex XDR Deployment. (Select correct 4)

Network Engineer -> manages the routing, switching, and general device interconnectivity

Security Engineer-> Manages the software distribution method for Cortex XDR Client

Security Engineer -> Determines the security, logging, reporting requirement and manages the security policy

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

24.

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.

Log redundancy must be enabled per Collector Group.

A Collector Group must contain at least two Log Collectors.

Panorama configured in HA provides log redundancy.

25.

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 “Advanced” with “Preemption Hold Time” of one minute

Enable Path Monitoring to the ISP

Change the HA Timer to “Aggressive”

Ensure that “Graceful Restart” has been enabled on all peers

None

26.

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

27.

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

636

5009

5007

443

None

28.

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

Behavioral Threat Detection

Cortex XDR

APP-ID

None

29.

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

WildFire license

DNS Security on the perimeter firewall

GlobalProtect license for each firewall that will use HIP data to enforce policy

None

30.

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

31.

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

Application

Protocol Decoder

Signature ID

Pattern Match

None

32.

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?

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.

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.

None

33.

Which of the following is a primary use case for the Decryption Broker feature?

Decrypting outbound SSL traffic

Managing multiple decryption rules

Sharing decrypted traffic with multiple security appliances

Aggregating traffic logs from different sources

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.

What configuration is necessary for Active/Active HA to synchronize sessions between peers?

Configure a floating IP address

Enable session Preemption on both peers

Use the same virtual IP address on both peers

Enable session synchronization under the HA settings

None

36.

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 ->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 -> 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

None

37.

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

Outbound

Inbound

Default

None

38.

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 loT Security license (or the perimeter firewall

an Enterprise Data Loss Prevention (DLP) license

an loT Security license for each deployed firewall

None

39.

Which category of Vulnerability Signature is mostly like to trigger false positive alerts?

Code-execution

info-leak

brute-force

phishing

None

40.

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.)

log

continue

allow

block

41.

In Expedition, which objects are classified as “Ghost objects”?

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

Address objects that are not part of an Address Group

None

42.

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

when disabling facebook-base to disable all other Facebook App-IDs

43.

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

import names config snapshot through web interface

enter config mode from CLI

use device config import in panorama

Load config in web interface and commit

44.

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

45.

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

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

The firewalls will share the same interface IP address, and device 1 will use the floating IP if device 0 fails.

None

46.

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

HA1A, HA1B, and HA2 interfaces

Session selection algorithm – First Packet

HA1A, HA1B, HA2, and HA3 interfaces

Active/Active HA Binding in the NAT policies

47.

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

48.

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

Application

Protocol Decoder

Pattern Match

Signature ID

None

49.

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

50.

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

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