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The PCNSE certification exam covers a wide range of topics, including network security concepts, firewall technologies, VPNs, threat prevention, and management. PCNSE exam is designed to evaluate the candidate's hands-on experience with Palo Alto Networks products and their ability to troubleshoot complex security issues. Palo Alto Networks Certified Network Security Engineer Exam certification exam is based on the latest version of PAN-OS (PAN-OS 10.0), which is the operating system that powers Palo Alto Networks' next-generation firewalls.
NEW QUESTION # 55
To ensure that a Security policy has the highest priority, how should an administrator configure a Security policy in the device group hierarchy?
- A. Add the policy to the target device group and apply a master device to the device group.
- B. Add the policy in the shared device group as a pre-rule
- C. Clone the security policy and add it to the other device groups.
- D. Reference the targeted device's templates in the target device group.
Answer: B
Explanation:
Explanation
According to the Palo Alto Networks documentation1, the shared device group is a special device group that contains policies and objects that apply to all firewalls managed by Panorama. The policies in the shared device group can be configured as pre-rules or post-rules, which determine their priority relative to the policies in other device groups. Pre-rules have higher priority than the policies in other device groups, while post-rules have lower priority. Therefore, to ensure that a Security policy has the highest priority, the administrator should configure it in the shared device group as a pre-rule. Therefore, the correct answer is D.
The other options are not relevant or effective for ensuring that a Security policy has the highest priority:
Add the policy to the target device group and apply a master device to the device group: This option would add the policy to a specific device group, which is a subset of firewalls managed by Panorama.
The policy would only apply to the firewalls in that device group, not to all firewalls. Moreover, applying a master device to the device group does not affect the priority of the policy, but only allows synchronizing configuration changes across devices in the same device group2.
Reference the targeted device's templates in the target device group: This option would reference the templates that contain network and device settings for the targeted devices in the target device group. It does not affect the Security policy or its priority, but only allows applying consistent configuration settings across devices in the same device group Clone the security policy and add it to the other device groups: This option would create copies of the security policy and add them to different device groups. However, this would not ensure that the policy has the highest priority, because it would still depend on whether it is configured as a pre-rule or a post-rule within each device group. Moreover,this option would create redundant and potentially conflicting policies across different device groups.
References: 1:
https://docs.paloaltonetworks.com/panorama/9-1/panorama-admin/panorama-overview/centralized-firewall-conf
2:
https://docs.paloaltonetworks.com/panorama/9-1/panorama-admin/panorama-overview/centralized-firewall-conf
3:
https://docs.paloaltonetworks.com/panorama/9-1/panorama-admin/panorama-overview/centralized-firewall-conf
NEW QUESTION # 56
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 )
- A. The bootstrap package is stored on an AFS share or a discrete container file bucket
- B. The init-cfg txt and bootstrap.xml files are both optional configuration items for the /config folder
- C. The directory structure must include a /config /content, /software and /license folders
- D. The /config /content and /software folders are mandatory while the /license and /plugin folders are optional
- E. The bootstrap xml file allows for automated deployment of VM-Senes firewalls with full network and policy configurations.
Answer: B,E
NEW QUESTION # 57
A client is concerned about resource exhaustion because of denial-of-service attacks against their DNS servers. Which option will protect the individual servers?
- A. Apply a classified DoS Protection Profile.
- B. Enable packet buffer protection on the Zone Protection Profile.
- C. Use the DNS App-ID with application-default.
- D. Apply an Anti-Spyware Profile with DNS sinkholing.
Answer: B
NEW QUESTION # 58
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?
- A. Virtual Wire mode
- B. Redistribution of user mappings
- C. Application override
- D. Content inspection
Answer: B
Explanation:
A large-scale network can also have numerous firewalls that use the mapping information to enforce policies.
You can reduce the resources that the firewalls and information sources use in the querying process by configuring some firewalls to acquire mapping information through redistribution instead of direct querying.
Redistribution also enables the firewalls to enforce user-based policies when users rely on local sources for authentication (such as regional directory services) but need access to remote services and applications (such as global data center applications).
https://docs.paloaltonetworks.com/pan-os/10-0/pan-os-admin/user-id/deploy-user-id-in-a-large- scale-network.html#id73908ad1-63ee-440b-bb58-859ace1ce34d
NEW QUESTION # 59
Refer to the exhibit.
Which certificates can be used as a Forward Trust certificate?
- A. Domain Sub-CA
- B. Certificate from Default Trust Certificate Authorities
- C. Domain-Root-Cert
- D. Forward_Trust
Answer: B
NEW QUESTION # 60
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
- A. The GlobalProtect app failed to connect to the GlobalProtect Gateway on port 4767
- B. The GlobalProtect app failed to connect to the GlobalProtect Portal on port 4767
- C. The PanGPA process failed to connect to the PanGPS process on port 4767
- D. The PanGPS process failed to connect to the PanGPA process on port 4767
Answer: C
Explanation:
Explanation
https://knowledgebase.paloaltonetworks.com/kCSArticleDetail?id=kA10g000000PMiD The PanGPA log on the GlobalProtect app records the events related to the user interface of the app, such as user actions, messages, and notifications . The PanGPS log records the events related to the service or daemon process of the app, such as connection attempts, authentication, and tunnel establishment2. The PanGPA process communicates with the PanGPS process on port 4767 . Therefore, the message "Failed to connect to server at port:4767" indicates that the PanGPA process failed to connect to the PanGPS process on port
4767. This could be caused by various factors, such as firewall blocking, antivirus interference, corrupted files, or incorrect permissions4. References:
https://knowledgebase.paloaltonetworks.com/KCSArticleDetail?id=kA10g000000ClUkCAK 2:
https://knowledgebase.paloaltonetworks.com/KCSArticleDetail?id=kA10g000000ClcCCAS 3:
https://live.paloaltonetworks.com/t5/general-topics/pangps-vs-pangpa-logs-on-globalprotect/td-p/298259 4:
https://live.paloaltonetworks.com/t5/globalprotect-discussions/pangpa-and-pangps-logs/td-p/459846
NEW QUESTION # 61
A standalone firewall with local objects and policies needs to be migrated into Panoram a. What procedure should you use so Panorama is fully managing the firewall?
- A. Use the "import Panorama configuration snapshot" operation, commit to Panorama, then perform a device-group commit push with "include device and network templates".
- B. Use the "import device configuration to Panorama" operation, commit to Panorama, then "export or push device config bundle" to push the configuration.
- C. Use the "import device configuration to Panorama" operation, commit to Panorama, then perform a device-group commit push with "include device and network templates".
- D. Use the "import Panorama configuration snapshot" operation, commit to Panorama, then "export or push device config bundle" to push the configuration.
Answer: C
NEW QUESTION # 62 
View the screenshots. A QoS profile and policy rules are configured as shown. Based on this information, which two statements are correct? (Choose two.)
- A. Facetime has a higher priority but lower bandwidth than Zoom.
- B. DNS has a higher priority and more bandwidth than SSH.
- C. Google-video has a higher priority and more bandwidth than WebEx.
- D. SMTP has a higher priority but lower bandwidth than Zoom.
Answer: A,B
NEW QUESTION # 63
When is the content inspection performed in the packet flow process?
- A. after the application has been identified
- B. before session lookup
- C. before the packet forwarding process
- D. after the SSL Proxy re-encrypts the packet
Answer: A
NEW QUESTION # 64
Which two profiles should be configured when sharing tags from threat logs with a remote User-ID agent? (Choose two.)
- A. HTTP
- B. Log Ingestion
- C. LDAP
- D. Log Forwarding
Answer: A,D
Explanation:
>Threat logs, create a log forwarding profile to define how you want the firewall or Panorama to handle logs. >Configure an HTTP server profile to forward logs to a remote User-ID agent. > Select the log forwarding profile you created then select this server profile as the HTTP server profile https://docs.paloaltonetworks.com/pan-os/11-0/pan-os-admin/policy/use-auto-tagging-to-automate-security-actions
NEW QUESTION # 65
When setting up a security profile, which three items can you use? (Choose three.)
- A. URL filtering
- B. decryption profile
- C. antivirus
- D. Wildfire analysis
- E. anti-ransomware
Answer: A,C,D
Explanation:
Explanation
https://docs.paloaltonetworks.com/pan-os/10-1/pan-os-admin/policy/security-profiles.html
NEW QUESTION # 66
in an HA failover scenario what occurs when sessions match an SSL Forward Proxy Decryption policy?
- A. HA Sync does not occur the existing session is transferred to the active firewall.
- B. HA Sync does not occur the firewall drops the session.
- C. HA Sync occurs the session is sent to testpath
- D. HA Sync occurs the firewall allows the session Put does not decrypt the session.
Answer: D
NEW QUESTION # 67
Which two features does PAN-OS® software use to identify applications? (Choose two)
- A. application layer payload
- B. session number
- C. transaction characteristics
- D. port number
Answer: A,D
Explanation:
https://docs.paloaltonetworks.com/pan-os/8-1/pan-os-admin/app-id/application-level-gateways#
NEW QUESTION # 68
A firewall administrator has configured User-ID and deployed GlobalProtect, but there is no User- ID showing in the traffic logs.
How can the administrator ensure that User-IDs are populated in the traffic logs?
- A. Add the users to the proper Dynamic User Group.
- B. Enable User-ID on the expected trusted zones.
- C. Create a Group Mapping for the GlobalProtect Group.
- D. Enable Captive Portal on the expected source interfaces.
Answer: B
Explanation:
For User-ID information to show up in the traffic logs, it needs to be properly configured and enabled in the trusted zones where users are authenticated. The firewall needs to gather User- ID information from the sources within these zones (such as the domain controllers, etc.). By enabling User-ID on the expected zones, the firewall can map users to their respective IP addresses and populate the User-ID in the traffic logs.
NEW QUESTION # 69
Which three user authentication services can be modified to provide the Palo Alto Networks NGFW with both usernames and role names? (Choose three.)
- A. RADIUS
- B. TACACS+
- C. SAML
- D. PAP
- E. Kerberos
- F. LDAP
Answer: A,B,C
Explanation:
Explanation/Reference:
https://docs.paloaltonetworks.com/pan-os/8-1/pan-os-admin/firewall-administration/manage-firewall- administrators/administrative-authentication
NEW QUESTION # 70
An administrator configures a preemptive active-passive high availability (HA) pair of firewalls and configures the HA election settings on firewall-02 with a device priority value of 100, and firewall-01 with a device priority value of 90.
When firewall-01 is rebooted, is there any action taken by the firewalls?
- A. No - Neither firewall takes any action because firewall-02 is already the active-primary member.
- B. Yes - Firewall-02 takes over as the active-primary firewall; firewall-01 takes over as the active-primary member after it becomes functional.
- C. Yes - Firewall-02 takes over as the active-primary firewall; firewall-02 remains the active-primary member after firewall-01 becomes functional.
- D. No - Neither firewall takes any action because firewall-01 cannot be rebooted when configured with device priority of 90.
Answer: B
NEW QUESTION # 71
A firewall engineer is tasked with defining signatures for a custom application. Which two sources can the engineer use to gather information about the application patterns'? (Choose two.)
- A. Data filtering logs
- B. Traffic logs
- C. Wireshark
- D. Policy Optimizer
Answer: C
NEW QUESTION # 72
Match each GlobalProtect component to the purpose of that component
Answer:
Explanation:
NEW QUESTION # 73
Which three use cases are valid reasons for requiring an Active/Active high availability deployment? (Choose three )
- A. The environment requires real full-time redundancy from both firewalls at all times
- B. The environment requires that all configuration must be fully synchronized between both members of the HA pair
- C. The environment requires that both firewalls maintain their own routing tables for faster dynamic routing protocol convergence
- D. The environment requires Layer 2 interfaces in the deployment
- E. The environment requires that traffic be load-balanced across both firewalls to handle peak traffic spikes
Answer: A,B,C
Explanation:
https://docs.paloaltonetworks.com/pan-os/10-2/pan-os-admin/high-availability/ha-concepts/ha- modes
NEW QUESTION # 74
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.)
- A. no install on the route
- B. path monitoring on the static route
- C. disabling of the static route
- D. duplicate static route
Answer: A,B
NEW QUESTION # 75
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)
- A. Configure a log forwarding profile and select the Panorama/Cortex Data Lake checkbox Apply the Log Forwarding profile to all of the security policy rules in Mobile_User_Device_Group
- B. Configure a Log Forwarding profile, select the syslog checkbox and add the Splunk syslog server Apply the Log Forwarding profile to all of the security policy rules in the Mobiie_User_Device_Group
- C. Configure Panorama Collector group device log forwarding to send logs to the Splunk syslog server
- D. Configure Cortex Data Lake log forwarding and add the Splunk syslog server
Answer: B,D
NEW QUESTION # 76
Drag and Drop Question
Match each SD-WAN configuration element to the description of that element.
Answer:
Explanation:
Explanation:
https://docs.paloaltonetworks.com/sd-wan/1-0/sd-wan-admin/sd-wan-overview/sd-wan- configuration-elements
NEW QUESTION # 77
Which two statements correctly describe Session 380280? (Choose two.)
- A. The session went through SSL decryption processing.
- B. The application has been identified as web-browsing.
- C. The session has ended with the end-reason unknown.
- D. The session did not go through SSL decryption processing.
Answer: A,B
NEW QUESTION # 78
An administrator needs to upgrade an NGFW to the most current version of PAN-OS® software. The
following is occurring:
Firewall has internet connectivity through e 1/1.
Default security rules and security rules allowing all SSL and web-browsing traffic to and from any
zone.
Service route is configured, sourcing update traffic from e1/1.
A communication error appears in the System logs when updates are performed.
Download does not complete.
What must be configured to enable the firewall to download the current version of PAN-OS software?
- A. Static route pointing application PaloAlto-updates to the update servers
- B. DNS settings for the firewall to use for resolution
- C. Security policy rule allowing PaloAlto-updates as the application
- D. Scheduler for timed downloads of PAN-OS software
Answer: B
NEW QUESTION # 79
Which CLI command can be used to export the tcpdump capture?
- A. scp export tcpdump from mgmt.pcap to <username@host:path>
- B. download mgmt-pcap
- C. scp export mgmt-pcap from mgmt.pcap to <username@host:path>
- D. scp extract mgmt-pcap from mgmt.pcap to <username@host:path>
Answer: C
Explanation:
Explanation/Reference:
Reference: https://live.paloaltonetworks.com/t5/Management-Articles/How-To-Packet-Capture-tcpdump-
On-Management-Interface/ta-p/55415
NEW QUESTION # 80
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