PCNSE Palo Alto Networks Exam Updated Guides

1. When planning to configure SSL Froward Proxy on a PA 5260, a user asks how SSL decryption can be implemented using phased approach in alignment with Palo Alto Networks best practices

What should you recommend?

2. An engineer is planning an SSL decryption implementation

Which of the following statements is a best practice for SSL decryption?

3. PBF can address which two scenarios? (Select Two)

4. in an HA failover scenario what occurs when sessions match an SSL Forward Proxy Decryption policy?

5. When deploying PAN-OS SD-WAN, which routing protocol can you use to build a routing overlay?

6. A company needs to preconfigure firewalls to be sent to remote sites with the least amount of preconfiguration Once deployed each firewall must establish secure tunnels back to multiple regional data centers to include the future regional data centers

Which VPN preconfigured configuration would adapt to changes when deployed to the future site?

7. Where is information about packet buffer protection logged?

8. An administrator cannot see any Traffic logs from the Palo Alto Networks NGFW in Panorama reports. The configuration problem seems to be on the firewall.

Which settings, if configured incorrectly, most likely would stop only Traffic logs from being sent from the NGFW to Panorama?

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9. When you navigate to Network: > GlobalProtect > Portals > Method section, which three options are available? (Choose three)

10. DRAG DROP

Match each type of DoS attack to an example of that type of attack

11. In a Panorama template which three types of objects are configurable? (Choose three)

12. Which GlobalProtect gateway setting is required to enable split-tunneling by access route, destination domain, and application?

13. What are two valid deployment options for Decryption Broker? (Choose two)

14. A prospect is eager to conduct a Security Lifecycle Review (SLR) with the aid of the Palo Alto Networks NGFW.

Which interface type is best suited to provide the raw data for an SLR from the network in a way that is minimally invasive?

15. When setting up a security profile which three items can you use? (Choose three)

16. An organization has recently migrated its infrastructure and configuration to NGFWs, for which Panorama manages the devices The organization is coming from a L2-L4 firewall vendor, but wants to use App-ID while identifying policies that are no longer needed

Which Panorama tool can help this organization?

17. DRAG DROP

Place the steps in the WildFire process workflow in their correct order.

18. Which CLI command displays the physical media that are connected to ethernetl/8?

19. An administrator analyzes the following portion of a VPN system log and notices the following issue "Received local id 10 10 1 4/24 type IPv4 address protocol 0 port 0, received remote id 10.1.10.4/24 type IPv4 address protocol 0 port 0."

What is the cause of the issue?

20. Which two statements correctly identify the number of Decryption Broker security chains that are supported on a pair of decryption-forwarding interfaces'? (Choose two)

21. Refer to the diagram.





An administrator needs to create an address object that will be useable by the NYC. MA, CA and WA device groups

Where will the object need to be created within the device-group hierarchy?

22. How can packet butter protection be configured?

23. A firewall is configured with SSL Forward Proxy decryption and has the following four enterprise certificate authorities (Cas)

i. Enterprise-Trusted-CA; which is verified as Forward Trust Certificate (The CA is also installed in the trusted store of the end-user browser and system)

ii. Enterpnse-Untrusted-CA, which is verified as Forward Untrust Certificate

iii. Enterprise-lntermediate-CA

iv. Enterprise-Root-CA which is verified only as Trusted Root CA

An end-user visits https //www example-website com/ with a server certificate Common Name (CN) www example-website com The firewall does the SSL Forward Proxy decryption for the website and the server certificate is not trusted by the firewall

The end-user's browser will show that the certificate for www.example-website.com was issued by which of the following?

24. The UDP-4501 protocol-port is used between which two GlobalProtect components?

25. Your company has to Active Directory domain controllers spread across multiple WAN links All users authenticate to Active Directory Each link has substantial network bandwidth to support all mission-critical applications. The firewalls management plane is highly utilized

Given this scenario which type of User-ID agent is considered a best practice by Palo Alto Networks?

26. An engineer is in the planning stages of deploying User-ID in a diverse directory services environment.

Which server OS platforms can be used for server monitoring with User-ID?

27. To ensure that a Security policy has the highest priority, how should an administrator configure a Security policy in the device group hierarchy?

28. While troubleshooting an SSL Forward Proxy decryption issue which PAN-OS CLI command would you use to check the details of the end-entity certificate that is signed by the Forward Trust Certificate or Forward Untrust Certificate?

29. An administrator has 750 firewalls. The administrator's central-management Panorama instance deploys dynamic updates to the firewalls. The administrator notices that the dynamic updates from Panorama do not appear on some of the firewalls.

If Panorama pushes the configuration of a dynamic update schedule to managed firewalls, but the configuration does not appear what is the root cause?

30. What happens to traffic traversing SD-WAN fabric that doesn't match any SD-WAN policies?

31. Based on the graphic, which statement accurately describes the output shown in the Server Monitoring panel?

32. During SSL decryption which three factors affect resource consumption1? (Choose three )

33. What is considered the best practice with regards to zone protection?

34. A customer is replacing their legacy remote access VPN solution The current solution is in place to secure internet egress and provide access to resources located in the main datacenter for the connected clients.

Prisma Access has been selected to replace the current remote access VPN solution. During onboarding the following options and licenses were selected and enabled





What must be configured on Prisma Access to provide connectivity to the resources in the datacenter?

35. When an in-band data port is set up to provide access to required services, what is required for an interface that is assigned to service routes?

36. Which value in the Application column indicates UDP traffic that did not match an App-ID signature?

37. Which benefit do policy rule UUIDs provide?

38. A network administrator wants to use a certificate for the SSL/TLS Service Profile.

Which type of certificate should the administrator use?

39. When overriding a template configuration locally on a firewall, what should you consider?

40. DRAG DROP

Below are the steps in the workflow for creating a Best Practice Assessment in a firewall and Panorama configuration Place the steps in order.

41. Which configuration task is best for reducing load on the management plane?

42. Which GlobalProtect component must be configured to enable Chentless VPN?

43. You need to allow users to access the office-suite applications of their choice.

How should you configure the firewall to allow access to any office-suite application?

44. Which statement is correct given the following message from the PanGPA log on the GlobalProtect app?

Failed to connect to server at port:47 67

45. An administrator needs to troubleshoot a User-ID deployment The administrator believes that there is an issue related to LDAP authentication The administrator wants to create a packet capture on the management plane

Which CLI command should the administrator use to obtain the packet capture for validating the configuration^

46. What are three reasons for excluding a site from SSL decryption? (Choose three.)

47. As a best practice, which URL category should you target first for SSL decryption*?

48. What happens, by default, when the GlobalProtect app fails to establish an IPSec tunnel to the GlobalProtect gateway?

49. A organizations administrator has the funds available to purchase more firewalls to increase the organization's security posture.

The partner SE recommends placing the firewalls as close as possible to the resources that they protect

Is the SE's advice correct and why or why not?

50. A network-security engineer attempted to configure a bootstrap package on Microsoft Azure, but the virtual machine provisioning process failed. In reviewing the bootstrap package, the engineer only had the following directories: /config, /license and /software

Why did the bootstrap process fail for the VM-Series firewall in Azure?

51. Before an administrator of a VM-500 can enable DoS and zone protection, what actions need to be taken?

52. When you configure an active/active high availability pair which two links can you use? (Choose two)

53. An administrator has purchased WildFire subscriptions for 90 firewalls globally.

What should the administrator consider with regards to the WildFire infrastructure?

54. An administrator needs to build Security rules in a Device Group that allow traffic to specific users and groups defined in Active Directory

What must be configured in order to select users and groups for those rules from Panorama?

55. A superuser is tasked with creating administrator accounts for three contractors For compliance purposes, all three contractors will be working with different device-groups in their hierarchy to deploy policies and objects.

Which type of role-based access is most appropriate for this project?

56. A remote administrator needs access to the firewall on an untrust interlace.

Which three options would you configure on an interface Management profile lo secure management access? (Choose three)

57. What would allow a network security administrator to authenticate and identify a user with a new BYOD-type device that is not joined to the corporate domain'?

58. When using certificate authentication for firewall administration, which method is used for authorization?

59. An enterprise information Security team has deployed policies based on AD groups to restrict user access to critical infrastructure systems However a recent phisning campaign against the organization has prompted Information Security to look for more controls that can secure access to critical assets For users that need to access these systems Information Security wants to use PAN-OS multi-factor authentication (MFA) integration to enforce MFA.

What should the enterprise do to use PAN-OS MFA1?

60. Which two statements are true about DoS Protection and Zone Protection Profiles? (Choose two).

61. What are three valid qualifiers for a Decryption Policy Rule match? (Choose three )

62. Which statement accurately describes service routes and virtual systems?

63. Which statement is true regarding a Best Practice Assessment?

64. An administrator with 84 firewalls and Panorama does not see any WildFire logs in Panorama.

All 84 firewalls have an active WildFire subscription On each firewall WildFire logs are available.

This issue is occurring because forwarding of which type of logs from the firewalls to Panorama is missing?

65. An internal system is not functioning. The firewall administrator has determined that the incorrect egress interface is being used. After looking at the configuration, the administrator believes that the firewall is not using a static route.

What are two reasons why the firewall might not use a static route? (Choose two.)

66. An engineer wants to implement the Palo Alto Networks firewall in VWire mode on the

internet gateway and wants to be sure of the functions that are supported on the vwire interface

What are three supported functions on the VWire interface? (Choose three )

67. What are three reasons why an installed session can be identified with the application incomplete" tag? (Choose three.)

68. In a security-first network what is the recommended threshold value for content updates to be dynamically updated?

69. A security engineer needs to mitigate packet floods that occur on a set of servers behind the internet facing interface of the firewall.

Which Security Profile should be applied to a policy to prevent these packet floods?

70. Using multiple templates in a stack to manage many firewalls provides which two advantages? (Choose two.)

71. Which action disables Zero Touch Provisioning (ZTP) functionality on a ZTP firewall during the onboarding process?

72. An administrator is considering upgrading the Palo Alto Networks NGFW and central management Panorama version

What is considered best practice for this scenario?

73. What are three types of Decryption Policy rules? (Choose three.)

74. A standalone firewall with local objects and policies needs to be migrated into Panorama.

What procedure should you use so Panorama is fully managing the firewall?

75. Refer to the exhibit.





Which certificate can be used as the Forward Trust certificate?

76. An administrator is building Security rules within a device group to block traffic to and from malicious locations

How should those rules be configured to ensure that they are evaluated with a high priority?

77. A customer wants to spin their session load equally across two SD-WAN-enabled interfaces.

Where would you configure this setting?

78. In a device group, which two configuration objects are defined? (Choose two )

79. What is a key step in implementing WildFire best practices?

80. Which two firewall components enable you to configure SYN flood protection thresholds? (Choose two)

81. An administrator wants to enable zone protection

Before doing so, what must the administrator consider?

82. An administrator needs to evaluate a recent policy change that was committed and pushed to a firewall device group.

How should the administrator identify the configuration changes?

83. What type of address object would be useful for internal devices where the addressing structure assigns meaning to certain bits in the address, as illustrated in the diagram?

84. Which two features require another license on the NGFW? (Choose two.)

85. An administrator plans to deploy 15 firewalls to act as GlobalProtect gateways around the world Panorama will manage the firewalls.

The firewalls will provide access to mobile users and act as edge locations to on-premises infrastructure. The administrator wants to scale the configuration out quickly and wants all of the firewalls to use the same template configuration

Which two solutions can the administrator use to scale this configuration? (Choose two.)

86. An administrator needs to gather information about the CPU utilization on both the management plane and the data plane

Where does the administrator view the desired data?

87. A firewall administrator requires an A/P HA pair to fail over more quickly due to critical business application uptime requirements.

What is the correct setting?

88. An existing NGFW customer requires direct interne! access offload locally at each site and iPSec connectivity to all branches over public internet. One requirement is mat no new SD-WAN hardware be introduced to the environment.

What is the best solution for the customer?

89. Users within an enterprise have been given laptops that are joined to the corporate domain.

In some cases, IT has also deployed Linux-based OS systems with a graphical desktop.

Information Security needs IP-to-user mapping, which it will use in group-based policies that will limit internet access for the Linux desktop users.

Which method can capture IP-to-user mapping information for users on the Linux machines?

90. An administrator needs to implement an NGFW between their DMZ and Core network EIGRP Routing between the two environments is required.

Which interface type would support this business requirement?

91. A traffic log might list an application as "not-applicable" for which two reasons'? (Choose two )

92. An administrator has a PA-820 firewall with an active Threat Prevention subscription The administrator is considering adding a WildFire subscription.

How does adding the WildFire subscription improve the security posture of the organization1?

93. Which three statements accurately describe Decryption Mirror? (Choose three.)

94. When you import the configuration of an HA pair into Panorama, how do you prevent the import from affecting ongoing traffic?

95. The manager of the network security team has asked you to help configure the company's Security Profiles according to Palo Alto Networks best practice As part of that effort, the manager has assigned you the Vulnerability Protection profile for the internet gateway firewall

Which action and packet-capture setting for items of high severity and critical severity best matches Palo Alto Networks best practice'?

96. An administrator is attempting to create policies tor deployment of a device group and template stack When creating the policies, the zone drop down list does not include the required zone.

What must the administrator do to correct this issue?

97. Given the following configuration, which route is used for destination 10.10.0.4?

98. When you configure a Layer 3 interface what is one mandatory step?

99. Use the image below.





If the firewall has the displayed link monitoring configuration what will cause a failover?

100. Which User-ID mapping method should be used in a high-security environment where all IP address-to-user mappings should always be explicitly known?

101. Given the following snippet of a WildFire submission log. did the end-user get access to the requested information and why or why not?

102. A customer is replacing their legacy remote access VPN solution The current solution is in place to secure only internet egress for the connected clients Prisma Access has been selected to replace the current remote access VPN solution During onboarding the following options and licenses were selected and enabled

- Prisma Access for Remote Networks 300Mbps

- Prisma Access for Mobile Users 1500 Users

- Cortex Data Lake 2TB

- Trusted Zones trust

- Untrusted Zones untrust

- Parent Device Group shared

How can you configure Prisma Access to provide the same level of access as the current VPN solution?

103. The SSL Forward Proxy decryption policy is configured. The following four certificate authority (CA) certificates are installed on the firewall.





An end-user visits the untrusted website https //www firewall-do-not-trust-website com

Which certificate authority (CA) certificate will be used to sign the untrusted webserver certificate?

104. An organization is building a Bootstrap Package to deploy Palo Alto Networks VM-Series firewalls into their AWS tenant.

Which two statements are correct regarding the bootstrap package contents? (Choose two)

105. An engineer must configure a new SSL decryption deployment

Which profile or certificate is required before any traffic that matches an SSL decryption rule is decrypted?

106. To support a new compliance requirement, your company requires positive username attribution of every IP address used by wireless devices You must collect IP address-to-username mappings as soon as possible with minimal downtime and minimal configuration changes to the wireless devices themselves The wireless devices are from various manufacturers

Given the scenario, choose the option for sending IP address-to-username mappings to the firewall

107. A customer is replacing its legacy remote-access VPN solution Prisma Access has been selected as the replacement During onboarding, the following options and licenses were selected and enabled:





The customer wants to forward to a Splunk SIEM the logs that are generated by users that are connected to Prisma Access for Mobile Users

Which two settings must the customer configure? (Choose two)

108. An administrator wants to upgrade a firewall HA pair to PAN-OS 10.1 The firewalls are currently running PAN-OS 8.1.17.

Which upgrade path maintains synchronization of the HA session (and prevents network outage)?

109. What is the function of a service route?

110. Which protocol is supported by GlobalProtect Clientless VPN?

111. Which statement regarding HA timer settings is true?

112. A network administrator wants to deploy GlobalProtect with pre-logon for Windows 10 endpoints and follow Palo Alto Networks best practices.

To install the certificate and key for an endpoint, which three components are required? (Choose three.)

113. DRAG DROP

Place the steps to onboard a ZTP firewall into Panorama/CSP/ZTP-Service in the correct order.

114. A security engineer needs firewall management access on a Inside interface When three settings are required on an SSI/TVS Service Profile to provide secure Wet) Ui authentication? (Choose three.)

115. An administrator has configured PAN-OS SD-WAN and has received a request to find out the reason for a session failover for a session that has already ended

Where would you find this in Panorama or firewall logs?

116. What are two common reasons to use a "No Decrypt" action to exclude traffic from SSL decryption? (Choose two.)

117. What happens when an A P firewall cluster synchronies IPsec tunnel security associations (SAs)?

118. What are three tasks that cannot be configured from Panorama by using a template stack? (Choose three)

119. DRAG DROP

Match each GlobalProtect component to the purpose of that component

120. An engines must configure the Decryption Broker feature.

To which router must the engineer assign the decryption forwarding interfaces that are used m the Decryption Broker security Chain?

121. A variable name must start with which symbol?

122. An enterprise has a large Palo Alto Networks footprint that includes onsite firewalls and Prisma Access for mobile users, which is managed by Panorama The enterprise already uses GlobalProtect with SAML authentication to obtain iP-to-user mapping information

However information Security wants to use this information in Prisma Access for policy enforcement based on group mapping Information Security uses on-prermses Active Directory (AD) but is uncertain about what is needed for Prisma Access to learn groups from AD

How can portaes based on group mapping be learned and enforced in Prisma Access?

123. What is the best description of the HA4 Keep-Alive Threshold (ms)?

124. Which rule type controls end user SSL traffic to external websites?

125. An administrator device-group commit push is tailing due to a new URL category

How should the administrator correct this issue?

126. DRAG DROP

Match each SD-WAN configuration element to the description of that element.

127. What are two best practices for incorporating new and modified App-IDs? (Choose two.)

128. SSL Forward Proxy decryption is configured but the firewall uses Untrusted-CA to sign the website https //www important-website com certificate End-users are receiving me "security certificate is not trusted is warning Without SSL decryption the web browser shows that the website certificate is trusted and signed by a well-known certificate chain Well-Known-lntermediate and Well-Known-Root-CA.

The network security administrator who represents the customer requires the following two behaviors when SSL Forward Proxy is enabled:

1 End-users must not get the warning for the https://www.very-important-website.com website.

2 End-users should get the warning for any other untrusted website

Which approach meets the two customer requirements?

129. Refer to the image.





An administrator is tasked with correcting an NTP service configuration for firewalls that cannot use the Global template NTP servers. The administrator needs to change the IP address to a preferable server for this template stack but cannot impact other template stacks.

How can the issue be corrected?

130. An administrator notices that an interlace configuration has been overridden locally on a firewall. They require an configuration to be managed from Panorama and overrides are not allowed.

What is one way the administrator can meet this requirement?

131. An administrator needs firewall access on a trusted interface.

Which two components are required to configure certificate based, secure authentication to the web Ul? (Choose two)

132. With the default TCP and UDP settings on the firewall what will be me identified application in the following session?

133. Which Panorama objects restrict administrative access to specific device-groups?

134. An administrator is using Panorama and multiple Palo Alto Networks NGFWs. After upgrading all devices to the latest PAN-OS® software, the administrator enables log forwarding from the firewalls to PanoramA. Pre-existing logs from the firewalls are not appearing in PanoramA.

Which action would enable the firewalls to send their pre-existing logs to Panorama?

135. An engineer is creating a security policy based on Dynamic User Groups (DUG) What benefit does this provide?

136. What does SSL decryption require to establish a firewall as a trusted third party and to establish trust between a client and server to secure an SSL/TLS connection?

137. The following objects and policies are defined in a device group hierarchy









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C)

Address Objects

-Shared Address 1

-Branch Address 2

Policies -Shared Polic1

l -Branch Policy 1

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Address Objects

-Shared Address 1

-Shared Address 2

-Branch Address 1 Policies

-Shared Policy 1

-Shared Policy 2

-Branch Policy 1

138. in a template you can configure which two objects? (Choose two.)