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PCNSE Palo Alto Networks Certified Security Engineer (PCNSE) PAN-OS 11.0 Questions and Answers

Questions 4

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

PCNSE Question 4

Options:

A.

Incomplete

B.

unknown-tcp

C.

Insufficient-data

D.

not-applicable

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Questions 5

A company is deploying User-ID in their network. The firewall team needs to have the ability to see and choose from a list of usernames and user groups directly inside the Panorama policies when creating new security rules.

How can this be achieved?

Options:

A.

By configuring Data Redistribution Client in Panorama > Data Redistribution

B.

By configuring User-ID group mapping in Panorama > User Identification

C.

By configuring User-ID source device in Panorama > Managed Devices

D.

By configuring Master Device in Panorama > Device Groups

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Questions 6

Which two profiles should be configured when sharing tags from threat logs with a remote User-ID agent? (Choose two.)

Options:

A.

Log Ingestion

B.

HTTP

C.

Log Forwarding

D.

LDAP

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Questions 7

A network security engineer needs to enable Zone Protection in an environment that makes use of Cisco TrustSec Layer 2 protections

What should the engineer configure within a Zone Protection profile to ensure that the TrustSec packets are identified and actions are taken upon them?

Options:

A.

TCP Fast Open in the Strip TCP options

B.

Ethernet SGT Protection

C.

Stream ID in the IP Option Drop options

D.

Record Route in IP Option Drop options

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Questions 8

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

Options:

A.

Add the policy to the target device group and apply a master device to the device group.

B.

Reference the targeted device's templates in the target device group.

C.

Clone the security policy and add it to the other device groups.

D.

Add the policy in the shared device group as a pre-rule

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Questions 9

A system administrator runs a port scan using the company tool as part of vulnerability check. The administrator finds that the scan is identified as a threat and is dropped by the firewall. After further investigating the logs, the administrator finds that the scan is dropped in the Threat Logs.

Options:

A.

Add the tool IP address to the reconnaissance protection source address exclusion in the DoS Protection profile.

B.

Add the tool IP address to the reconnaissance protection source address exclusion in the Zone protection profile.

C.

Change the TCP port scan action from Block to Alert in the Zone Protection profile.

D.

Remove the Zone protection profile from the zone setting.

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Questions 10

An organization wants to begin decrypting guest and BYOD traffic.

Which NGFW feature can be used to identify guests and BYOD users, instruct them how to download and install the CA certificate, and clearly notify them that their traffic will be decrypted?

Options:

A.

Authentication Portal

B.

SSL Decryption profile

C.

SSL decryption policy

D.

comfort pages

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Questions 11

An engineer is tasked with decrypting web traffic in an environment without an established PKI When using a self-signed certificate generated on the firewall which type of certificate should be in? approved web traffic?

Options:

A.

An Enterprise Root CA certificate

B.

The same certificate as the Forward Trust certificate

C.

A Public Root CA certificate

D.

The same certificate as the Forward Untrust certificate

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Questions 12

Which statement applies to HA timer settings?

Options:

A.

Use the Critical profile for faster failover timer settings

B.

Use the Moderate profile for typical failover timer settings

C.

Use the Aggressive profile for slower failover timer settings

D.

Use the Recommended profile for typical failover timer settings

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Questions 13

A network security administrator wants to begin inspecting bulk user HTTPS traffic flows egressing out of the internet edge firewall. Which certificate is the best choice to configure as an SSL Forward Trust certificate?

Options:

A.

A self-signed Certificate Authority certificate generated by the firewall

B.

A Machine Certificate for the firewall signed by the organization's PKI

C.

A web server certificate signed by the organization's PKI

D.

A subordinate Certificate Authority certificate signed by the organization's PKI

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Questions 14

Phase two of a VPN will not establish a connection. The peer is using a policy-based VPN configuration.

What part of the configuration should the engineer verify?

Options:

A.

IKE Crypto Profile

B.

Security policy

C.

Proxy-IDs

D.

PAN-OS versions

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Questions 15

Review the information below. A firewall engineer creates a U-NAT rule to allow users in the trust zone access to a server in the same zone by using an external,

public NAT IP for that server.

Given the rule below, what change should be made to make sure the NAT works as expected?

PCNSE Question 15

PCNSE Question 15

Options:

A.

Change destination NAT zone to Trust_L3.

B.

Change destination translation to Dynamic IP (with session distribution) using firewall ethI/2 address.

C.

Change Source NAT zone to Untrust_L3.

D.

Add source Translation to translate original source IP to the firewall eth1/2 interface translation.

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Questions 16

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

PCNSE Question 16

Options:

A.

The User-ID agent is connected to a domain controller labeled lab-client

B.

The host lab-client has been found by a domain controller

C.

The host lab-client has been found by the User-ID agent.

D.

The User-ID aaent is connected to the firewall labeled lab-client

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Questions 17

Which Panorama mode should be used so that all logs are sent to. and only stored in. Cortex Data Lake?

Options:

A.

Log Collector

B.

Panorama

C.

Legacy

D.

Management Only

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Questions 18

An administrator has configured a pair of firewalls using high availability in Active/Passive mode. Link and Path Monitoring is enabled with the Failure Condition set to "any." There is one link group configured containing member interfaces ethernet1/1 and ethernet1/2 with a Group Failure Condition set to "all."

Which HA state will the Active firewall go into if ethernet1/1 link goes down due to a failure?'

Options:

A.

Active-Secondary

B.

Non-functional

C.

Passive

D.

Active

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Questions 19

An administrator wants to use LDAP, TACACS+, and Kerberos as external authentication services for authenticating users. What should the administrator be aware of regarding the authentication sequence, based on the Authentication profile in the order Kerberos LDAP, and TACACS+?

Options:

A.

The firewall evaluates the profiles in the alphabetical order the Authentication profiles have been named until one profile successfully authenticates the user.

B.

The firewall evaluates the profiles in top-to-bottom order until one Authentication profile successfully authenticates the user.

C.

The priority assigned to the Authentication profile defines the order of the sequence.

D.

If the authentication times cut for the firs: Authentication profile in the authentication sequence, no further authentication attempts will be made.

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Questions 20

An engineer creates a set of rules in a Device Group (Panorama) to permit traffic to various services for a specific LDAP user group.

What needs to be configured to ensure Panorama can retrieve user and group information for use in these rules?

Options:

A.

A service route to the LDAP server

B.

A Master Device

C.

Authentication Portal

D.

A User-ID agent on the LDAP server

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Questions 21

An administrator receives the following error message:

"IKE phase-2 negotiation failed when processing Proxy ID. Received local id 192.168 33 33/24 type IPv4 address protocol 0 port 0, received remote id 172.16 33.33/24 type IPv4 address protocol 0 port 0."

How should the administrator identify the root cause of this error message?

Options:

A.

In the IKE Gateway configuration, verify that the IP address for each VPN peer is accurate

B.

Verify that the IP addresses can be pinged and that routing issues are not causing the connection failure

C.

Check whether the VPN peer on one end is set up correctly using policy-based VPN

D.

In the IPSec Crypto profile configuration, verify that PFS is either enabled on both VPN peers or disabled on both VPN peers.

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Questions 22

A decryption policy has been created with an action of "No Decryption." The decryption profile is configured in alignment to best practices.

What protections does this policy provide to the enterprise?

Options:

A.

It allows for complete visibility into certificate data, ensuring secure connections to all websites.

B.

It ensures that the firewall checks its certificate store, enabling sessions with trusted self-signed certificates even when an alternative trust anchor exists.

C.

It encrypts all certificate information to maintain privacy and compliance with local regulations.

D.

It enhances security by actively blocking access to potentially insecure sites with expired certificates or untrusted issuers.

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Questions 23

Which operation will impact the performance of the management plane?

Options:

A.

Decrypting SSL sessions

B.

Generating a SaaS Application report

C.

Enabling DoS protection

D.

Enabling packet buffer protection

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Questions 24

Which two factors should be considered when sizing a decryption firewall deployment? (Choose two.)

Options:

A.

Encryption algorithm

B.

Number of security zones in decryption policies

C.

TLS protocol version

D.

Number of blocked sessions

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Questions 25

What must be configured to apply tags automatically based on User-ID logs?

Options:

A.

Device ID

B.

Log Forwarding profile

C.

Group mapping

D.

Log settings

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Questions 26

A security engineer is informed that the vulnerability protection profile of their on-premises Palo Alto Networks firewall is triggering on a common Threat ID, and which has been determined to be a false positive. The engineer is asked to resolve the issue as soon as possible because it is causing an outage for a critical service The engineer opens the vulnerability protection profile to add the exception, but the Threat ID is missing.

Which action is the most operationally efficient for the security engineer to find and implement the exception?

Options:

A.

Review high severity system logs to identify why the threat is missing in Vulnerability Profile Exceptions.

B.

Open a support case.

C.

Review traffic logs to add the exception from there.

D.

Select 'Show all signatures' within the Vulnerability Protection Profile under 'Exceptions'.

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Questions 27

A network security administrator wants to enable Packet-Based Attack Protection in a Zone Protection profile. What are two valid ways to enable Packet-Based Attack Protection? (Choose two.)

Options:

A.

ICMP Drop

B.

TCP Drop

C.

SYN Random Early Drop

D.

TCP Port Scan Block

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Questions 28

A firewall engineer needs to update a company's Panorama-managed firewalls to the latest version of PAN-OS. Strict security requirements are blocking internet access to Panorama and to the firewalls. The PAN-OS images have previously been downloaded to a secure host on the network.

Which path should the engineer follow to deploy the PAN-OS images to the firewalls?

Options:

A.

Upload the image to Panorama > Software menu, and deploy it to the firewalls. *

B.

Upload the image to Panorama > Device Deployment > Dynamic Updates menu, and deploy it to the firewalls.

C.

Upload the image to Panorama > Dynamic Updates menu, and deploy it to the firewalls.

D.

Upload the image to Panorama > Device Deployment > Software menu, and deploy it to the firewalls.

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Questions 29

An administrator would like to determine which action the firewall will take for a specific CVE. Given the screenshot below, where should the administrator navigate to view this information?

Options:

A.

The profile rule action

B.

CVE column

C.

Exceptions lab

D.

The profile rule threat name

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Questions 30

An engineer configures a new template stack for a firewall that needs to be deployed. The template stack should consist of four templates arranged according to the diagram

PCNSE Question 30

Which template values will be configured on the firewall If each template has an SSL/TLS Service profile configured named Management?

Options:

A.

Values in Chicago

B.

Values in efw01lab.chi

C.

Values in Datacenter

D.

Values in Global Settings

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Questions 31

What are three prerequisites for credential phishing prevention to function? (Choose three.)

Options:

A.

In the URL filtering profile, use the drop-down list to enable user credential detection.

B.

Enable Device-ID in the zone.

C.

Select the action for Site Access for each category.

D.

Add the URL filtering profile to one or more Security policy rules.

E.

Set phishing category to block in the URL Filtering profile.

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Questions 32

Forwarding of which two log types is configured in Objects -> Log Forwarding? (Choose two)

Options:

A.

GlobalProtect

B.

Authentication

C.

User-ID

D.

WildFire

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Questions 33

View the screenshots

PCNSE Question 33

PCNSE Question 33

A QoS profile and policy rules are configured as shown. Based on this information which two statements are correct?

Options:

A.

SMTP 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.

Facetime has a higher priority but lower bandwidth than Zoom.

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Questions 34

A firewall administrator has confirm reports of a website is not displaying as expected, and wants to ensure that decryption is not causing the issue. Which three methods can the administrator use to determine if decryption is causing the website to fail? (Choose three.)

Options:

A.

Move the policy with action decrypt to the top of the decryption policy rulebase.

B.

Temporarily disable SSL decryption for all websites to troubleshoot the issue.

C.

Create a policy-based “No Decrypt” rule in the decryption policy to exclude specific traffic from decryption.

D.

Investigate decryption logs of the specific traffic to determine reasons for failure.

E.

Disable SSL handshake logging.

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Questions 35

A customer would like to support Apple Bonjour in their environment for ease of configuration.

Which type of interface in needed on their PA-3200 Series firewall to enable Bonjour Reflector in a segmented network?

Options:

A.

Virtual Wire interface

B.

Loopback interface

C.

Layer 3 interface

D.

Layer 2 interface

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Questions 36

A firewall administrator wants to be able at to see all NAT sessions that are going ‘through a firewall with source NAT. Which CLI command can the administrator use?

Options:

A.

show session all filter nat-rule-source

B.

show running nat-rule-ippool rule "rule_name

C.

show running nat-policy

D.

show session all filter nat source

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Questions 37

During the process of developing a decryption strategy and evaluating which websites are required for corporate users to access, several sites have been identified that cannot be decrypted due to technical reasons. In this case, the technical reason is unsupported ciphers Traffic to these sites will therefore be blocked if decrypted.

How should the engineer proceed?

Options:

A.

Install the unsupported cipher into the firewall to allow the sites to be decrypted

B.

Allow the firewall to block the sites to improve the security posture.

C.

Add the sites to the SSL Decryption Exclusion list to exempt them from decryption.

D.

Create a Security policy to allow access to those sites.

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Questions 38

A customer wants to deploy User-ID on a Palo Alto Network NGFW with multiple vsys. One of the vsys will support a GlobalProtect portal and gateway. the customer uses Windows

Options:

A.

Deploy the GlobalProtect as a lee data hub.

B.

Deploy Window User 0 agents on each domain controller.

C.

Deploys AILS integrated Use 10 agent on each vsys.

D.

Deploy a M.200 as a Users-ID collector.

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Questions 39

An administrator pushes a new configuration from Panorama to a par of firewalls that are configured as an active/passive HA pair. Which NGFW receives the from Panorama?

Options:

A.

The active firewall which then synchronizes to the passive firewall

B.

The passive firewall, which then synchronizes to the active firewall

C.

Both the active and passive firewalls which then synchronize with each other

D.

Both the active and passive firewalls independently, with no synchronization afterward

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Questions 40

Users are intermittently being cut off from local resources whenever they connect to GlobalProtect. After researching, it is determined that this is caused by an incorrect setting on one of the NGFWs. Which action will resolve this issue?

Options:

A.

Change the "GlobalProtect Gateway -> Agent -> Network Services -> Split Tunnel -> No direct access to local network" setting to "off"

B.

Change the "GlobalProtect Portal -> Satellite -> Gateways -> No direct access to local network" setting to "off"

C.

Change the "GlobalProtect Gateway -> Agent -> Client Settings -> Split Tunnel -> No direct access to local network" setting to "off"

D.

Change the "GlobalProtect Portal -> Agent -> App -> Split Tunnel -> No direct access to local network" setting to "off"

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Questions 41

Which three options does Panorama offer for deploying dynamic updates to its managed devices? (Choose three.)

Options:

A.

Check dependencies

B.

Schedules

C.

Verify

D.

Revert content

E.

Install

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Questions 42

A network engineer has discovered that asymmetric routing is causing a Palo Alto Networks firewall to drop traffic. The network architecture cannot be changed to correct this.

Which two actions can be taken on the firewall to allow the dropped traffic permanently? (Choose two.)

Options:

A.

Navigate to Network > Zone Protection Click AddSelect Packet Based Attack Protection > TCP/IP Drop Set "Reject Non-syn-TCP" to No Set "Asymmetric Path" to Bypass

B.

> set session tcp-reject-non-syn no

C.

Navigate to Network > Zone Protection Click AddSelect Packet Based Attack Protection > TCP/IP Drop Set "Reject Non-syn-TCP" to Global Set "Asymmetric Path" to Global

D.

# set deviceconfig setting session tcp-reject-non-syn no

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Questions 43

An administrator Just enabled HA Heartbeat Backup on two devices However, the status on tie firewall's dashboard is showing as down High Availability.

PCNSE Question 43

What could an administrator do to troubleshoot the issue?

Options:

A.

Go to Device > High Availability> General > HA Pair Settings > Setup and configuring the peer IP for heartbeat backup

B.

Check peer IP address In the permit list In Device > Setup > Management > Interfaces > Management Interface Settings

C.

Go to Device > High Availability > HA Communications> General> and check the Heartbeat Backup under Election Settings

D.

Check peer IP address for heartbeat backup to Device > High Availability > HA Communications > Packet Forwarding settings.

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Questions 44

‘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 the "security certificate is no: trusted” warning, Without SSL decryption, the web browser shows chat the website certificate is trusted and signet by well-known certificate chain Well-Known-intermediate and Wako Hebe CA 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-import-website.com/ website.

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

Which approach meets the two customer requirements?

Options:

A.

Install the Well-Known-intermediate-CA and Well:Known Root-CA certificates on all end-user systems in the user and local computer stores:

B.

Clear the Forward Untrust-CA Certificate check box on the Untrusted-CA certificate= and commit the configuration

C.

Navigate to Device > Certificate Management > Certificates > Default Trusted Certificate Authorities, import Well-Known-Intermediate-CA 2nd Well-Known-Root-CA select the Trusted Root CA check box, aid commit the configuration.

D.

Navigate to Device > Certificate Management > Certificates > Device Certificates, import Well-known-Intermediate-CA and Well-Know5-Root-CA, Select the Trusted Root CA check box, and commit the configuration.

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Questions 45

Which sessions does Packet Buffer Protection apply to when used on ingress zones to protect against single-session DoS attacks?

Options:

A.

New sessions and is global

B.

New sessions and is not global

C.

Existing sessions and is not global

D.

Existing sessions and is global

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Questions 46

A company has configured GlobalProtect to allow their users to work from home. A decrease in performance for remote workers has been reported during peak-use hours.

Which two steps are likely to mitigate the issue? (Choose TWO)

Options:

A.

Exclude video traffic

B.

Enable decryption

C.

Block traffic that is not work-related

D.

Create a Tunnel Inspection policy

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Questions 47

An administrator configures a site-to-site IPsec VPN tunnel between a PA-850 and an external customer on their policy-based VPN devices.

What should an administrator configure to route interesting traffic through the VPN tunnel?

Options:

A.

Proxy IDs

B.

GRE Encapsulation

C.

Tunnel Monitor

D.

ToS Header

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Questions 48

An administrator needs to identify which NAT policy is being used for internet traffic.

From the Monitor tab of the firewall GUI, how can the administrator identify which NAT policy is in use for a traffic flow?

Options:

A.

Click Session Browser and review the session details.

B.

Click Traffic view and review the information in the detailed log view.

C.

Click Traffic view; ensure that the Source or Destination NAT columns are included and review the information in the detailed log view.

D.

Click App Scope > Network Monitor and filter the report for NAT rules.

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Questions 49

The decision to upgrade PAN-OS has been approved. The engineer begins the process by upgrading the Panorama servers, but gets an error when attempting the install.

When performing an upgrade on Panorama to PAN-OS. what is the potential cause of a failed install?

Options:

A.

Outdated plugins

B.

Global Protect agent version

C.

Expired certificates

D.

Management only mode

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Questions 50

Forwarding of which two log types is configured in Device > Log Settings? (Choose two.)

Options:

A.

Threat

B.

HIP Match

C.

Traffic

D.

Configuration

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Questions 51

As a best practice, logging at session start should be used in which case?

Options:

A.

While troubleshooting

B.

Only on Deny rules

C.

On all Allow rules

D.

Only when log at session end is enabled

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Questions 52

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.)

Options:

A.

collector groups

B.

template stacks

C.

virtual systems

D.

variables

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Questions 53

ln a security-first network, what is the recommended threshold value for apps and threats to be dynamically updated?

Options:

A.

1 to 4 hours

B.

6 to 12 hours

C.

24 hours

D.

36 hours

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Questions 54

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

Options:

A.

The PanGPS process failed to connect to the PanGPA process 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 GlobalProtect app failed to connect to the GlobalProtect Gateway on port 4767

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Questions 55

Refer to Exhibit:

PCNSE Question 55

An administrator can not 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?

A)

PCNSE Question 55

B)

PCNSE Question 55

C)

PCNSE Question 55

D)

PCNSE Question 55

Options:

A.

Option A

B.

Option B

C.

Option C

D.

Option D

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Questions 56

An engineer troubleshoots a Panorama-managed firewall that is unable to reach the DNS servers configured via a global template. As a troubleshooting step, the engineer needs to configure a local DNS server in place of the template value.

Which two actions can be taken to ensure that only the specific firewall is affected during this process? (Choose two )

Options:

A.

Configure the DNS server locally on the firewall.

B.

Change the DNS server on the global template.

C.

Override the DNS server on the template stack.

D.

Configure a service route for DNS on a different interface.

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Questions 57

A firewall engineer supports a mission-critical network that has zero tolerance for application downtime. A best-practice action taken by the engineer is configure an applications and Threats update schedule with a new App-ID threshold of 48 hours. Which two additional best-practice guideline actions should be taken with regard to dynamic updates? (Choose two.)

Options:

A.

Create a Security policy rule with an application filter to always allow certain categories of new App-IDs.

B.

Click "Review Apps" after application updates are installed in order to assess how the changes might impact Security policy.

C.

Select the action "download-only" when configuring an Applications and Threats update schedule.

D.

Configure an Applications and Threats update schedule with a threshold of 24 to 48 hours

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Questions 58

An engineer is tasked with deploying SSL Forward Proxy decryption for their organization.

What should they review with their leadership before implementation?

Options:

A.

Browser-supported cipher documentation

B.

Cipher documentation supported by the endpoint operating system

C.

URL risk-based category distinctions

D.

Legal compliance regulations and acceptable usage policies

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Questions 59

An engineer needs to configure a standardized template for all Panorama-managed firewalls. These settings will be configured on a template named "Global" and will be included in all template stacks.

Which three settings can be configured in this template? (Choose three.)

Options:

A.

Log Forwarding profile

B.

SSL decryption exclusion

C.

Email scheduler

D.

Login banner

E.

Dynamic updates

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Questions 60

Which log type is supported in the Log Forwarding profile?

Options:

A.

Configuration

B.

GlobalProtect

C.

Tunnel

D.

User-ID

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Questions 61

How should an administrator enable the Advance Routing Engine on a Palo Alto Networks firewall?

Options:

A.

Enable Advanced Routing Engine in Device > Setup > Session > Session Settings, then commit and reboot.

B.

Enable Advanced Routing in Network > Virtual Routers > Router Settings > General, then commit and reboot.

C.

Enable Advanced Routing in General Settings of Device > Setup > Management, then commit and reboot.

D.

Enable Advanced Routing in Network > Virtual Routers > Redistribution Profiles and then commit.

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Questions 62

A network administrator is troubleshooting an issue with Phase 2 of an IPSec VPN tunnel The administrator determines that the lifetime needs to be changed to match the peer. Where should this change be made?

Options:

A.

IPSec Tunnel settings

B.

IKE Crypto profile

C.

IPSec Crypto profile

D.

IKE Gateway profile

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Questions 63

An administrator has a Palo Alto Networks NGFW. All security subscriptions and decryption are enabled and the system is running close to its resource limits.

Knowing that using decryption can be resource-intensive, how can the administrator reduce the load on the firewall?

Options:

A.

Use RSA instead of ECDSA for traffic that isn't sensitive or high-priority.

B.

Use the highest TLS protocol version to maximize security.

C.

Use ECDSA instead of RSA for traffic that isn't sensitive or high-priority.

D.

Use SSL Forward Proxy instead of SSL Inbound Inspection for decryption.

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Questions 64

What are two requirements of IPSec in transport mode? (Choose two.)

Options:

A.

IKEv1

B.

NAT traversal

C.

DH-group 20 (ECP-384 bits)

D.

Auto-generated key

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Questions 65

How can a firewall engineer bypass App-ID and content inspection features on a Palo Alto Networks firewall when troubleshooting?

Options:

A.

Create a custom application, define its properties and signatures, and ensure all scanning options in the "Advanced" tab are unchecked

B.

Create a custom application, define its properties, then create an application override and reference the custom application

C.

Create a new security rule specifically for the affected traffic, but do not reference any Security Profiles inside the rule

D.

Create a new security rule specifically for the affected traffic, and select "Disable Server Response Inspection"

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Questions 66

A company configures its WildFire analysis profile to forward any file type to the WildFire public cloud. A company employee receives an email containing an unknown link that downloads a malicious Portable Executable (PE) file.

What does Advanced WildFire do when the link is clicked?

Options:

A.

Performs malicious content analysis on the linked page, but not the corresponding PE file.

B.

Performs malicious content analysis on the linked page and the corresponding PE file.

C.

Does not perform malicious content analysis on either the linked page or the corresponding PE file.

D.

Does not perform malicious content analysis on the linked page, but performs it on the corresponding PE file.

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Questions 67

The vulnerability protection profile of an on-premises Palo Alto Networks firewall is triggering on a common Threat ID, and it has been determined to be a false positive. The issue causes an outage of a critical service. When the vulnerability protection profile is opened to add the exception, the Threat ID is missing. Which action will most efficiently find and implement the exception?

Options:

A.

Review high-severity system logs to identify why the threat is missing in "Vulnerability Profile Exceptions"

B.

Select "Show all signatures" within the vulnerability protection profile under "Exceptions"

C.

Review traffic logs to add the exception from there

D.

Open a support case

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Questions 68

An administrator plans to install the Windows-Based User-ID Agent.

What type of Active Directory (AD) service account should the administrator use?

Options:

A.

Dedicated Service Account

B.

System Account

C.

Domain Administrator

D.

Enterprise Administrator

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Questions 69

An engineer is pushing configuration from Panorama to a managed firewall What happens when the pushed Panorama configuration has Address Object names that duplicate the Address Objects already configured on the firewall?

Options:

A.

The firewall ignores only the pushed objects that have the same name as the locally configured objects, and it will commit the rest of the pushed configuration.

B.

The firewall fully commits all of the pushed configuration and overwrites its locally configured objects

C.

The firewall rejects the pushed configuration, and the commit fails.

D.

The firewall renames the duplicate local objects with "-1" at the end signifying they are clones; it will update the references to the objects accordingly and fully commit the pushed configuration.

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Questions 70

After implementing a new NGFW, a firewall engineer sees a VoIP traffic issue going through the firewall After troubleshooting the engineer finds that the firewall performs NAT on the voice packets payload and opens dynamic pinholes for media ports

What can the engineer do to solve the VoIP traffic issue?

Options:

A.

Disable ALG under H.323 application

B.

Increase the TCP timeout under H.323 application

C.

Increase the TCP timeout under SIP application

D.

Disable ALG under SIP application

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Questions 71

A destination NAT policy is configured as follows to allow inbound access to an internal server in the DMZ:

    Source zone: Outside and source IP address 1.2.2.2

    Destination zone: Outside and destination IP address 2.2.2.1

The destination NAT policy translates IP address 2.2.2.1 to the real IP address 10.10.10.1 in the DMZ zone.

Which destination IP address and zone should be used to configure the Security policy?

Options:

A.

Destination Zone Outside, Destination IP address 10.10.10.1

B.

Destination Zone DMZ, Destination IP address 2.2.2.1

C.

Destination Zone Outside, Destination IP address 2.2.2.1

D.

Destination Zone DMZ, Destination IP address 10.10.10.1

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Questions 72

Panorama is being used to upgrade the PAN-OS version on a pair of firewalls in an active/passive high availability (HA) configuration. The Palo Alto Networks best practice upgrade steps have been completed in Panorama (Panorama upgraded, backups made, content updates, and disabling "Preemptive" pushed), and the firewalls are ready for upgrade. What is the next best step to minimize downtime and ensure a smooth transition?

Options:

A.

Upgrade both HA peers at the same time using Panorama’s "Group HA Peers" option to ensure version consistency

B.

Suspend the active firewall, upgrade it first, and reboot to verify it comes back online before upgrading the passive peer

C.

Perform the upgrade on the active firewall first while keeping the passive peer online to maintain failover capability

D.

Upgrade only the passive peer first, reboot it, restore HA functionality, and then upgrade the active peer

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Questions 73

Which protocol is supported by GlobalProtect Clientless VPN?

Options:

A.

FTP

B.

RDP

C.

SSH

D.

HTTPS

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Questions 74

How can Panorama help with troubleshooting problems such as high CPU or resource exhaustion on a managed firewall?

Options:

A.

Panorama provides information about system resources of the managed devices in the Managed Device > Health menu.

B.

Firewalls send SNMP traps to Panorama wen resource exhaustion is detected Panorama generates a system log and can send email alerts.

C.

Panorama monitors all firewalls using SNMP. It generates a system log and can send email alerts when resource exhaustion is detected on a managed firewall.

D.

Panorama provides visibility all the system and traffic logs received from firewalls it does not offer any ability to see or monitor resource utilization on managed firewalls

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Questions 75

Which source is the most reliable for collecting User-ID user mapping?

Options:

A.

Syslog Listener

B.

Microsoft Exchange

C.

Microsoft Active Directory

D.

GlobalProtect

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Questions 76

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?

Options:

A.

Create a Dynamic Read only superuser.

B.

Create a Dynamic Admin with the Panorama Administrator role

C.

Create a Device Group and Template Admin

D.

Create a Custom Panorama Admin

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Questions 77

What happens when an A/P firewall pair synchronizes IPsec tunnel security associations (SAs)?

Options:

A.

Phase 1 and Phase 2 SAs are synchronized over HA3 links.

B.

Phase 2 SAs are synchronized over HA2 links.

C.

Phase 1 and Phase 2 SAs are synchronized over HA2 links.

D.

Phase 1 SAs are synchronized over HA1 links.

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Questions 78

Which three actions can Panorama perform when deploying PAN-OS images to its managed devices? (Choose three.)

Options:

A.

upload-onlys

B.

install and reboot

C.

upload and install

D.

upload and install and reboot

E.

verify and install

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Questions 79

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?

Options:

A.

Support > Resources

B.

Application Command and Control Center

C.

Resources Widget on the Dashboard

D.

Monitor > Utilization

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Questions 80

A security team has enabled real-time WildFire signature lookup on all its firewalls. Which additional action will further reduce the likelihood of newly discovered malware being allowed through the firewalls?

Options:

A.

increase the frequency of the applications and threats dynamic updates.

B.

Increase the frequency of the antivirus dynamic updates

C.

Enable the "Hold Mode" option in Objects > Security Profiles > Antivirus.

D.

Enable the "Report Grayware Files" option in Device > Setup > WildFire.

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Questions 81

Which three methods are supported for split tunneling in the GlobalProtect Gateway? (Choose three.)

Options:

A.

Destination user/group

B.

URL Category

C.

Destination Domain

D.

video streaming application

E.

Source Domain

F.

Client Application Process

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Questions 82

Which server platforms can be monitored when a company is deploying User-ID through server monitoring in an environment with diverse directory services?

Options:

A.

Red Hat Linux, Microsoft Exchange, and Microsoft Terminal Server

B.

Novell eDirectory, Microsoft Terminal Server, and Microsoft Active Directory

C.

Red Hat Linux, Microsoft Active Directory, and Microsoft Exchange

D.

Novell eDirectory, Microsoft Exchange, and Microsoft Active Directory

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Questions 83

Refer to the exhibit.

PCNSE Question 83

Which will be the egress interface if the traffic's ingress interface is ethernet1/7 sourcing from 192.168.111.3 and to the destination 10.46.41.113?

Options:

A.

ethernet1/6

B.

ethernet1/3

C.

ethernet1/7

D.

ethernet1/5

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Questions 84

An engineer is troubleshooting a traffic-routing issue.

What is the correct packet-flow sequence?

Options:

A.

PBF > Zone Protection Profiles > Packet Buffer Protection

B.

BGP > PBF > NAT

C.

PBF > Static route > Security policy enforcement

D.

NAT > Security policy enforcement > OSPF

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Questions 85

Which statement accurately describes how web proxy is run on a firewall with multiple virtual systems?

Options:

A.

It can run on a single virtual system and multiple virtual systems.

B.

It can run on multiple virtual systems without issue.

C.

It can run only on a single virtual system.

D.

It can run only on a virtual system with an alias named "web proxy.

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Questions 86

What are three prerequisites to enable Credential Phishing Prevention over SSL? (Choose three

Options:

A.

Configure a URL profile to block the phishing category.

B.

Create a URL filtering profile

C.

Enable User-ID.

D.

Create an anti-virus profile.

E.

Create a decryption policy rule.

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Questions 87

Which action can be taken to immediately remediate the issue of application traffic with a valid use case triggering the decryption log message, "Received fatal alert UnknownCA from client"?

Options:

A.

Enable certificate revocation checking to deny access to sites with revoked certificates

B.

Add the certificate CN to the SSL Decryption Exclusion List to allow traffic without decryption

C.

Check for expired certificates and take appropriate actions to block or allow access based on business needs

D.

Contact the site administrator with the expired certificate to request updates or renewal

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Questions 88

Which three external authentication services can the firewall use to authenticate admins into the Palo Alto Networks NGFW without creating administrator account on the firewall? (Choose three.)

Options:

A.

RADIUS

B.

TACACS+

C.

Kerberos

D.

LDAP

E.

SAML

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Questions 89

An administrator has been tasked with configuring decryption policies,

Which decryption best practice should they consider?

Options:

A.

Consider the local, legal, and regulatory implications and how they affect which traffic can be decrypted.

B.

Decrypt all traffic that traverses the firewall so that it can be scanned for threats.

C.

Place firewalls where administrators can opt to bypass the firewall when needed.

D.

Create forward proxy decryption rules without Decryption profiles for unsanctioned applications.

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Questions 90

After switching to a different WAN connection, users have reported that various websites will not load, and timeouts are occurring. The web servers work fine from other locations.

The firewall engineer discovers that some return traffic from these web servers is not reaching the users behind the firewall. The engineer later concludes that the maximum transmission unit (MTU) on an upstream router interface is set to 1400 bytes.

The engineer reviews the following CLI output for ethernet1/1.

Which setting should be modified on ethernet1/1 to remedy this problem?

Options:

A.

Lower the interface MTU value below 1500.

B.

Enable the Ignore IPv4 Don't Fragment (DF) setting.

C.

Change the subnet mask from /23 to /24.

D.

Adjust the TCP maximum segment size (MSS) value.

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Questions 91

Four configuration choices are listed, and each could be used to block access to a specific URL.

If you configured each choice to block the same URL, then which choice would be evaluated last in the processing order to block access to the URL?

Options:

A.

Custom URL category in URL Filtering profile

B.

EDL in URL Filtering profile

C.

PAN-DB URL category in URL Filtering profile

D.

Custom URL category in Security policy rule

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Questions 92

Why would a traffic log list an application as "not-applicable”?

Options:

A.

The firewall denied the traffic before the application match could be performed.

B.

The TCP connection terminated without identifying any application data

C.

There was not enough application data after the TCP connection was established

D.

The application is not a known Palo Alto Networks App-ID.

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Questions 93

A firewall administrator is configuring an IPSec tunnel between Site A and Site B. The Site A firewall uses a DHCP assigned address on the outside interface of the firewall, and the Site B firewall uses a static IP address assigned to the outside interface of the firewall. However, the use of dynamic peering is not working.

Refer to the two sets of configuration settings provided. Which two changes will allow the configurations to work? (Choose two.)

Site A configuration:

PCNSE Question 93

Options:

A.

Enable NAT Traversal on Site B firewall

B.

Configure Local Identification on Site firewall

C.

Disable passive mode on Site A firewall

D.

Match IKE version on both firewalls.

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Questions 94

An enterprise Information Security team has deployed policies based on AD groups to restrict user access to critical infrastructure systems. However, a recent phishing 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 MFA?

Options:

A.

Configure a Captive Portal authentication policy that uses an authentication sequence.

B.

Configure a Captive Portal authentication policy that uses an authentication profile that references a RADIUS profile.

C.

Create an authentication profile and assign another authentication factor to be used by a Captive Portal authentication policy.

D.

Use a Credential Phishing agent to detect, prevent, and mitigate credential phishing campaigns.

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Questions 95

Where is Palo Alto Networks Device Telemetry data stored on a firewall with a device certificate installed?

Options:

A.

On Palo Alto Networks Update Servers

B.

M600 Log Collectors

C.

Cortex Data Lake

D.

Panorama

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Questions 96

An engineer reviews high availability (HA) settings to understand a recent HA failover event Review the screenshot below.

PCNSE Question 96

Which tuner determines how long the passive firewall will wart before taking over as the active firewall after losing communications with the HA peer?

Options:

A.

Additional Master Hold Up Time

B.

Promotion Hold Time

C.

Monitor Fail Hold Up Time

D.

Heartbeat Interval

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Questions 97

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 the "security certificate is not trusted" warning. Without SSL decryption, the web browser shows that the website certificate is trusted and signed by a well-known certificate chain Well-Known-Intermediate and Well-Known-Root-CA. The network security administrator who represents the customer requires the following two behaviors when SSL Forward Proxy is enabled:

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

    End-users should get the warning for any other untrusted websiteWhich approach meets the two customer requirements?

Options:

A.

Install the Well-Known-Intermediate-CA and Well-Known-Root-CA certificates on all end-user systems in the user and local computer stores

B.

Clear the Forward Untrust Certificate check box on the Untrusted-CA certificate and commit the configuration

C.

Navigate to Device > Certificate Management > Certificates > Default Trusted Certificate Authorities, import Well-Known-Intermediate-CA and Well-Known-Root-CA, select the Trusted Root CA check box, and commit the configuration

D.

Navigate to Device > Certificate Management > Certificates > Device Certificates, import Well-Known-Intermediate-CA and Well-Known-Root-CA, select the Trusted Root CA check box, and commit the configuration

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Questions 98

A network security engineer is attempting to peer a virtual router on a PAN-OS firewall with an external router using the BGP protocol. The peer relationship is not establishing. What command could the engineer run to see the current state of the BGP state between the two devices?

Options:

A.

show routing protocol bgp summary

B.

show routing protocol bgp rib-out

C.

show routing protocol bgp state

D.

show routing protocol bgp peer

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Questions 99

For company compliance purposes, three new 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?

Options:

A.

Create a Device Group and Template Admin

B.

Create a Dynamic Admin with the Panorama Administrator role

C.

Create a Dynamic Read-only Superuser

D.

Create a Custom Panorama Admin

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Questions 100

The firewall team has been asked to deploy a new Panorama server and to forward all firewall logs to this server By default, which component of the Palo Alto Networks firewall architect is responsible for log forwarding and should be checked for early signs of overutilization?

Options:

A.

Management plane CPU

B.

Dataplane CPU

C.

Packet buffers

D.

On-chip packet descriptors

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Questions 101

An administrator is configuring a Panorama device group. Which two objects are configurable? (Choose two.)

Options:

A.

DNS Proxy

B.

SSL/TLS profiles

C.

address groups

D.

URL Filtering profiles

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Questions 102

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

Options:

A.

Decryption Mirror requires a tap interface on the firewall

B.

Use of Decryption Mirror might enable malicious users with administrative access to the firewall to harvest sensitive information that is submitted via an encrypted channel

C.

Only management consent is required to use the Decryption Mirror feature.

D.

Decryption, storage, inspection, and use of SSL traffic are regulated in certain countries.

E.

You should consult with your corporate counsel before activating and using Decryption Mirror in a production environment.

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Questions 103

A company wants to add threat prevention to the network without redesigning the network routing.

What are two best practice deployment modes for the firewall? (Choose two.)

Options:

A.

VirtualWire

B.

Layer3

C.

TAP

D.

Layer2

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Exam Code: PCNSE
Exam Name: Palo Alto Networks Certified Security Engineer (PCNSE) PAN-OS 11.0
Last Update: Jun 15, 2025
Questions: 346

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