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1. DRAG DROP

Match the Palo Alto Networks Security Operating Platform architecture to its description.

2. Which firewall plane provides configuration, logging, and reporting functions on a separate processor?

control

network processing

data

security processing

3. A security administrator has configured App-ID updates to be automatically downloaded and installed. The company is currently using an application identified by App-ID as SuperApp_base.

On a content update notice, Palo Alto Networks is adding new app signatures labeled SuperApp_chat and SuperApp_download, which will be deployed in 30 days.

Based on the information, how is the SuperApp traffic affected after the 30 days have passed?

All traffic matching the SuperApp_chat, and SuperApp_download is denied because it no longer matches the SuperApp-base application

No impact because the apps were automatically downloaded and installed

No impact because the firewall automatically adds the rules to the App-ID interface

All traffic matching the SuperApp_base, SuperApp_chat, and SuperApp_download is denied until the security administrator approves the applications

4. How many zones can an interface be assigned with a Palo Alto Networks firewall?

two

three

four

one

5. Which two configuration settings shown are not the default? (Choose two.)

Enable Security Log

Server Log Monitor Frequency (sec)

Enable Session

Enable Probing

6. Which data-plane processor layer of the graphic shown provides uniform matching for spyware and vulnerability exploits on a Palo Alto Networks Firewall?

Signature Matching

Network Processing

Security Processing

Security Matching

7. Which option lists the attributes that are selectable when setting up an Application filters?

Category, Subcategory, Technology, and Characteristic

Category, Subcategory, Technology, Risk, and Characteristic

Name, Category, Technology, Risk, and Characteristic

Category, Subcategory, Risk, Standard Ports, and Technology

8. Actions can be set for which two items in a URL filtering security profile? (Choose two.)

Block List

Custom URL Categories

PAN-DB URL Categories

Allow List

9. DRAG DROP

Match the Cyber-Attack Lifecycle stage to its correct description.

10. Which two statements are correct about App-ID content updates? (Choose two.)

Updated application content may change how security policy rules are enforced

After an application content update, new applications must be manually classified prior to use

Existing security policy rules are not affected by application content updates

After an application content update, new applications are automatically identified and classified

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11. Which User-ID mapping method should be used for an environment with clients that do not authenticate to Windows Active Directory?

Windows session monitoring via a domain controller

passive server monitoring using the Windows-based agent

Captive Portal

passive server monitoring using a PAN-OS integrated User-ID agent

12. An administrator needs to allow users to use their own office applications.

How should the administrator configure the firewall to allow multiple applications in a dynamic environment?

Create an Application Filter and name it Office Programs, the filter it on the business-systems category, office-programs subcategory

Create an Application Group and add business-systems to it

Create an Application Filter and name it Office Programs, then filter it on the business-systems category

Create an Application Group and add Office 365, Evernote, Google Docs, and Libre Office

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

The BPA tool can be run only on firewalls

It provides a percentage of adoption for each assessment data

The assessment, guided by an experienced sales engineer, helps determine the areas of greatest risk where you should focus prevention activities

It provides a set of questionnaires that help uncover security risk prevention gaps across all areas of network and security architecture

14. The firewall sends employees an application block page when they try to access Youtube.

Which Security policy rule is blocking the youtube application?

intrazone-default

Deny Google

allowed-security services

interzone-default

15. Complete the statement. A security profile can block or allow traffic____________

on unknown-tcp or unknown-udp traffic

after it is matched by a security policy that allows traffic

before it is matched by a security policy

after it is matched by a security policy that allows or blocks traffic

16. When creating a Source NAT policy, which entry in the Translated Packet tab will display the options Dynamic IP and Port, Dynamic, Static IP, and None?

Translation Type

Interface

Address Type

IP Address

17. Which interface does not require a MAC or IP address?

Virtual Wire

Layer3

Layer2

Loopback

18. A company moved its old port-based firewall to a new Palo Alto Networks NGFW 60 days ago.

Which utility should the company use to identify out-of-date or unused rules on the firewall?

Rule Usage Filter > No App Specified

Rule Usage Filter >Hit Count > Unused in 30 days

Rule Usage Filter > Unused Apps

Rule Usage Filter > Hit Count > Unused in 90 days

19. DRAG DROP

Order the steps needed to create a new security zone with a Palo Alto Networks firewall.

20. What are two differences between an implicit dependency and an explicit dependency in App-ID? (Choose two.)

An implicit dependency does not require the dependent application to be added in the security policy

An implicit dependency requires the dependent application to be added in the security policy

An explicit dependency does not require the dependent application to be added in the security policy

An explicit dependency requires the dependent application to be added in the security policy

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21. Recently changes were made to the firewall to optimize the policies and the security team wants to see if those changes are helping.

What is the quickest way to reset the hit counter to zero in all the security policy rules?

At the CLI enter the command reset rules and press Enter

Highlight a rule and use the Reset Rule Hit Counter > Selected Rules for each rule

Reboot the firewall

Use the Reset Rule Hit Counter > All Rules option

22. Which two App-ID applications will need to be allowed to use Facebook-chat? (Choose two.)

facebook

facebook-chat

facebook-base

facebook-email

23. Which User-ID agent would be appropriate in a network with multiple WAN links, limited network bandwidth, and limited firewall management plane resources?

Windows-based agent deployed on the internal network

PAN-OS integrated agent deployed on the internal network

Citrix terminal server deployed on the internal network

Windows-based agent deployed on each of the WAN Links

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

Given the scenario, choose the option for sending IP-to-user mappings to the NGFW.

syslog

RADIUS

UID redistribution

XFF headers

25. An administrator receives a global notification for a new malware that infects hosts. The infection will result in the infected host attempting to contact a command-and-control (C2) server.

Which two security profile components will detect and prevent this threat after the firewall’s signature database has been updated? (Choose two.)

vulnerability protection profile applied to outbound security policies

anti-spyware profile applied to outbound security policies

antivirus profile applied to outbound security policies

URL filtering profile applied to outbound security policies

26. In which stage of the Cyber-Attack Lifecycle would the attacker inject a PDF file within an email?

Weaponization

Reconnaissance

Installation

Command and Control

Exploitation

27. create a service account on the Domain Controller with sufficient permissions to execute the User- ID agent

2-3-4-1

1-4-3-2

3-1-2-4

1-3-2-4

28. Users from the internal zone need to be allowed to Telnet into a server in the DMZ zone.

Complete the security policy to ensure only Telnet is allowed.

Security Policy: Source Zone: Internal to DMZ Zone __________services “Application defaults”, and action = Allow

Destination IP: 192.168.1.123/24

Application = ‘Telnet’

Log Forwarding

USER-ID = ‘Allow users in Trusted’

29. Based on the security policy rules shown, ssh will be allowed on which port?

30. Which license must an Administrator acquire prior to downloading Antivirus Updates for use with the firewall?

Threat Prevention License

Threat Implementation License

Threat Environment License

Threat Protection License

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31. An administrator notices that protection is needed for traffic within the network due to malicious lateral movement activity.

Based on the image shown, which traffic would the administrator need to monitor and block to mitigate the malicious activity?

branch office traffic

north-south traffic

perimeter traffic

east-west traffic

32. Given the topology, which zone type should zone A and zone B to be configured with?

Layer3

Tap

Layer2

Virtual Wire

33. To use Active Directory to authenticate administrators, which server profile is required in the authentication profile?

domain controller

TACACS+

LDAP

RADIUS

34. Which interface type is used to monitor traffic and cannot be used to perform traffic shaping?

Layer 2

Tap

Layer 3

Virtual Wire

35. Which administrator type provides more granular options to determine what the administrator can view and modify when creating an administrator account?

Root

Dynamic

Role-based

Superuser

36. Which administrator type utilizes predefined roles for a local administrator account?

Superuser

Role-based

Dynamic

Device administrator

37. Which two security profile types can be attached to a security policy? (Choose two.)

antivirus

DDoS protection

threat

vulnerability

38. The CFO found a USB drive in the parking lot and decide to plug it into their corporate laptop. The USB drive had malware on it that loaded onto their computer and then contacted a known command and control (CnC) server, which ordered the infected machine to begin Exfiltrating data from the laptop.

Which security profile feature could have been used to prevent the communication with the CnC server?

Create an anti-spyware profile and enable DNS Sinkhole

Create an antivirus profile and enable DNS Sinkhole

Create a URL filtering profile and block the DNS Sinkhole category

Create a security policy and enable DNS Sinkhole

39. Which user mapping method could be used to discover user IDs in an environment with multiple Windows domain controllers?

Active Directory monitoring

Windows session monitoring

Windows client probing

domain controller monitoring

40. What are three differences between security policies and security profiles? (Choose three.)

Security policies are attached to security profiles

Security profiles are attached to security policies

Security profiles should only be used on allowed traffic

Security profiles are used to block traffic by themselves

Security policies can block or allow traffic

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41. Given the image, which two options are true about the Security policy rules. (Choose two.)

The Allow Office Programs rule is using an Application Filter

In the Allow FTP to web server rule, FTP is allowed using App-ID

The Allow Office Programs rule is using an Application Group

In the Allow Social Networking rule, allows all of Facebook’s functions

42. Which type of security rule will match traffic between the Inside zone and Outside zone, within the Inside zone, and within the Outside zone?

global

intrazone

interzone

universal

43. Which Palo Alto Networks firewall security platform provides network security for mobile endpoints by inspecting traffic deployed as internet gateways?

GlobalProtect

AutoFocus

Aperture

Panorama

44. Given the scenario, which two statements are correct regarding multiple static default routes? (Choose two.)

Path monitoring does not determine if route is useable

Route with highest metric is actively used

Path monitoring determines if route is useable

Route with lowest metric is actively used

45. Given the Cyber-Attack Lifecycle diagram, identify the stage in which the attacker can initiate malicious code against a targeted machine.

Exploitation

Installation

Reconnaissance

Act on Objective

46. Which file is used to save the running configuration with a Palo Alto Networks firewall?

running-config.xml

run-config.xml

running-configuration.xml

run-configuratin.xml

47. In the example security policy shown, which two websites fcked? (Choose two.)

Facebook

YouTube

Amazon

48. Which two Palo Alto Networks security management tools provide a consolidated creation of policies, centralized management and centralized threat intelligence. (Choose two.)

GlobalProtect

Panorama

Aperture

AutoFocus

49. Which statement is true regarding a Prevention Posture Assessment?

The Security Policy Adoption Heatmap component filters the information by device groups, serial numbers, zones, areas of architecture, and other categories

It provides a set of questionnaires that help uncover security risk prevention gaps across all areas of network and security architecture

It provides a percentage of adoption for each assessment area

It performs over 200 security checks on Panorama/firewall for the assessment

50. Which five Zero Trust concepts does a Palo Alto Networks firewall apply to achieve an integrated approach to prevent threats? (Choose five.)

User identification

Filtration protection

Vulnerability protection

Antivirus

Application identification

Anti-spyware

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51. The PowerBall Lottery has reached a high payout amount and a company has decided to help employee morale by allowing employees to check the number, but doesn’t want to unblock the gambling URL category.

Which two methods will allow the employees to get to the PowerBall Lottery site without the company unlocking the gambling URL category? (Choose two.)

Add all the URLs from the gambling category except powerball.com to the block list and then set the action for the gambling category to allow.

Manually remove powerball.com from the gambling URL category.

Add *.powerball.com to the allow list

Create a custom URL category called PowerBall and add *.powerball.com to the category and set the action to allow.

52. Which service protects cloud-based applications such as Dropbox and Salesforce by administering permissions and scanning files for sensitive information?

Aperture

AutoFocus

Parisma SaaS

GlobalProtect

53. Which administrator receives a global notification for a new malware that infects hosts. The infection will result in the infected host attempting to contact and command-and-control (C2) server.

Which security profile components will detect and prevent this threat after the firewall`s signature database has been updated?

antivirus profile applied to outbound security policies

data filtering profile applied to inbound security policies

data filtering profile applied to outbound security policies

vulnerability profile applied to inbound security policies

54. Which update option is not available to administrators?

New Spyware Notifications

New URLs

New Application Signatures

New Malicious Domains

New Antivirus Signatures

55. A server-admin in the USERS-zone requires SSH-access to all possible servers in all current and future Public Cloud environments. All other required connections have already been enabled between the USERS- and the OUTSIDE-zone.

What configuration-changes should the Firewall-admin make?

Create a custom-service-object called SERVICE-SSH for destination-port-TCP-22. Create a security-rule between zone USERS and OUTSIDE to allow traffic from any source IP-address to any destination IP-address for SERVICE-SSH

Create a security-rule that allows traffic from zone USERS to OUTSIDE to allow traffic from any source IP-address to any destination IP-address for application SSH

In addition to option a, a custom-service-object called SERVICE-SSH-RETURN that contains source-port-TCP-22 should be created. A second security-rule is required that allows traffic from zone OUTSIDE to USERS for SERVICE-SSH-RETURN for any source-IP-address to any destination-Ip-address

In addition to option c, an additional rule from zone OUTSIDE to USERS for application SSH from any source-IP-address to any destination-IP-address is required to allow the return-traffic from the SSH-servers to reach the server-admin

56. How often does WildFire release dynamic updates?

every 5 minutes

every 15 minutes

every 60 minutes

every 30 minutes

57. What is the minimum timeframe that can be set on the firewall to check for new WildFire signatures?

every 30 minutes

every 5 minutes

once every 24 hours

every 1 minute

58. A network has 10 domain controllers, multiple WAN links, and a network infrastructure with bandwidth needed to support mission-critical applications.

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

Windows-based agent on a domain controller

Captive Portal

Citrix terminal server with adequate data-plane resources

PAN-OS integrated agent

59. DRAG DROP

Arrange the correct order that the URL classifications are processed within the system.

60. What must be configured for the firewall to access multiple authentication profiles for external services to authenticate a non-local account?

authentication sequence

LDAP server profile

authentication server list

authentication list profile

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61. Which prevention technique will prevent attacks based on packet count?

zone protection profile

URL filtering profile

antivirus profile

vulnerability profile

62. Which interface type can use virtual routers and routing protocols?

Tap

Layer3

Virtual Wire

Layer2

63. Which URL profiling action does not generate a log entry when a user attempts to access that URL?

Override

Allow

Block

Continue

64. An internal host wants to connect to servers of the internet through using source NAT.

Which policy is required to enable source NAT on the firewall?

NAT policy with source zone and destination zone specified

post-NAT policy with external source and any destination address

NAT policy with no source of destination zone selected

pre-NAT policy with external source and any destination address

[Updated Version] PCNSA Palo Alto Networks Exam Study Guides

[Updated Version] PCNSA Palo Alto Networks Exam Study Guides

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