Achieve PCNSE Certification Successfully Using Updated Palo Alto Networks PCNSE Dumps V26.02

1. A bootstrap USB flash drive has been prepared using a Windows workstation to load the initial configuration of a Palo Alto Networks firewall that was previously being used in a lab. The USB flash drive was formatted using file system FAT32 and the initial configuration is stored in a file named init-cfg txt. The firewall is currently running PAN-OS 10.0 and using a lab config.

The contents of init-cfg txt in the USB flash drive are as follows:

The USB flash drive has been inserted in the firewalls' USB port, and the firewall has been restarted using command:> request resort system Upon restart, the firewall fails to begin the bootstrapping process. The failure is caused because

2. Where is information about packet buffer protection logged?

3. An engineer troubleshooting a VPN issue needs to manually initiate a VPN tunnel from the CLI.

Which CLI command can the engineer use?

4. An administrator wants multiple web servers In the DMZ to receive connections initiated from the internet. Traffic destined for 206.15.22.9 port 80/TCP needs to be forwarded to the server at 10.1.1.22.

Based on the image, which NAT rule will forward web-browsing traffic correctly?

A)

B)

C)

D)

5. A company is using wireless controllers to authenticate users.

Which source should be used for User-ID mappings?

6. An engineer wants to configure aggregate interfaces to increase bandwidth and redundancy between the firewall and switch.

Which statement is correct about the configuration of the interfaces assigned to an aggregate interface group?

7. The administrator for a small company has recently enabled decryption on their Palo Alto Networks firewall using a self-signed root certificate. They have also created a Forward Trust and Forward Untrust certificate and set them as such

The admin has not yet installed the root certificate onto client systems

What effect would this have on decryption functionality?

8. 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?

9. A company with already deployed Palo Alto firewalls has purchased their first Panorama server. The security team has already configured all firewalls with the Panorama IP address and added all the firewall serial numbers in Panorama.

What are the next steps to migrate configuration from the firewalls to Panorama?

10. After configuring HA in Active/Passive mode on a pair of firewalls the administrator gets a failed commit with the following details.

What are two explanations for this type of issue? (Choose two)

11. An administrator has two pairs of firewalls within the same subnet. Both pairs of firewalls have been configured to use High Availability mode with Active/Passive. The ARP tables for upstream routes display the same MAC address being shared for some of these firewalls.

What can be configured on one pair of firewalls to modify the MAC addresses so they are no longer in conflict?

12. A network administrator configured a site-to-site VPN tunnel where the peer device will act as initiator None of the peer addresses are known

What can the administrator configure to establish the VPN connection?

13. An administrator needs to optimize traffic to prefer business-critical applications over non-critical applications QoS natively integrates with which feature to provide service quality?

14. Which data flow describes redistribution of user mappings?

15. A firewall administrator wants to avoid overflowing the company syslog server with traffic logs.

What should the administrator do to prevent the forwarding of DNS traffic logs to syslog?

16. Which CLI command displays the physical media that are connected to ethernet1/8?

17. 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.)

18. A remote administrator needs firewall access on an untrusted interface.

Which two components are required on the firewall to configure certificate-based administrator authentication to the web Ul? (Choose two)

19. DRAG DROP

An engineer is troubleshooting traffic routing through the virtual router. The firewall uses multiple routing protocols, and the engineer is trying to determine routing priority Match the default Administrative Distances for each routing protocol.

20. When configuring forward error correction (FEC) for PAN-OS SD-WAN, an administrator would turn on the feature inside which type of SD-WAN profile?

21. How can an administrator use the Panorama device-deployment option to update the apps and threat version of an HA pair of managed firewalls?

22. An administrator has configured OSPF with Advanced Routing enabled on a Palo Alto Networks firewall running PAN-OS 10.2. After OSPF was configured, the administrator noticed that OSPF routes were not being learned.

Which two actions could an administrator take to troubleshoot this issue? (Choose two.)

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

24. Which time determines how long the passive firewall will wait before taking over as the active firewall alter losing communications with the HA peer?

25. How would an administrator monitor/capture traffic on the management interface of the Palo Alto Networks NGFW?

26. An engineer is pushing configuration from Panorama lo a managed firewall.

What happens when the pushed Panorama configuration has Address Object names that duplicate the Address Objects already configured on the firewall?

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

28. A network administrator wants to deploy SSL Forward Proxy decryption.

What two attributes should a forward trust certificate have? (Choose two.)

29. An engineer is creating a template and wants to use variables to standardize the configuration across a large number of devices Which Mo variable types can be defined? (Choose two.)

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

31. Which statement best describes the Automated Commit Recovery feature?

32. An administrator creates an application-based security policy rule and commits the change to the firewall.

Which two methods should be used to identify the dependent applications for the respective rule? (Choose two.)

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

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

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

36. Information Security is enforcing group-based policies by using security-event monitoring on Windows User-ID agents for IP-to-User mapping in the network. During the rollout, Information Security identified a gap for users authenticating to their VPN and wireless networks.

Root cause analysis showed that users were authenticating via RADIUS and that authentication events were not captured on the domain controllers that were being monitored Information Security found that authentication events existed on the Identity Management solution (IDM). There did not appear to be direct integration between PAN-OS and the IDM solution

How can Information Security extract and learn iP-to-user mapping information from authentication events for VPN and wireless users?

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

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

38. 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.)

39. An engineer must configure the Decryption Broker feature

Which Decryption Broker security chain supports bi-directional traffic flow?

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

41. 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?

42. Which type of policy in Palo Alto Networks firewalls can use Device-ID as a match condition?

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

44. An administrator is using Panorama to manage multiple firewalls. After upgrading all devices to the latest PAN-OS software, the administrator enables log forwarding from the firewalls to Panorama.

However, pre-existing logs from the firewalls are not appearing in Panorama.

Which action should be taken to enable the firewalls to send their pre-existing logs to Panorama?

45. 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?

46. A company has recently migrated their branch office's PA-220S to a centralized Panorama. This Panorama manages a number of PA-7000 Series and PA-5200 Series devices All device group and template configuration is managed solely within Panorama

They notice that commit times have drastically increased for the PA-220S after the migration

What can they do to reduce commit times?

47. An engineer has been given approval to upgrade their environment 10 PAN-OS 10 2. The environment consists of both physical and virtual firewalls a virtual Panorama HA pair, and virtual log collectors

What is the recommended order when upgrading to PAN-OS 10.2?

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

49. Which three items are import considerations during SD-WAN configuration planning? (Choose three.)

50. 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?

51. An administrator accidentally closed the commit window/screen before the commit was finished.

Which two options could the administrator use to verify the progress or success of that commit task? (Choose two.)

A. System Logs

B. Task Manager

C. Traffic Logs

D. Configuration Logs

52. Based on the screenshots above, and with no configuration inside the Template Stack itself, what access will the device permit on its Management port?

53. An engineer receives reports from users that applications are not working and that websites are only partially loading in an asymmetric environment. After investigating, the engineer observes the flow_tcp_non_syn_drop counter increasing in the show counters global output.

Which troubleshooting command should the engineer use to work around this issue?

54. An administrator wants to grant read-only access to all firewall settings, except administrator accounts, to a new-hire colleague in the IT department.

Which dynamic role does the administrator assign to the new-hire colleague?

55. Which feature of Panorama allows an administrator to create a single network configuration that can be reused repeatedly for large-scale deployments even if values of configured objects, such as routes and interface addresses, change?

56. An administrator connected a new fiber cable and transceiver to interface Ethernetl/l on a Palo Alto Networks firewall. However, the link does not seem to be coming up.

If an administrator were to troubleshoot, how would they confirm the transceiver type, tx-power, rx-power, vendor name, and part number via the CLI?

57. 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?

58. You have upgraded Panorama to 10.2 and need to upgrade six Log Collectors.

When upgrading Log Collectors to 10.2, you must do what?

59. Which DoS Protection Profile detects and prevents session exhaustion attacks against specific destinations?

60. 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?

61. 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?

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

63. An engineer configures SSL decryption in order to have more visibility to the internal users' traffic when it is regressing the firewall.

Which three types of interfaces support SSL Forward Proxy? (Choose three.)

64. An ISP manages a Palo Alto Networks firewall with multiple virtual systems for its tenants.

Where on this firewall can the ISP configure unique service routes for different tenants?

65. When using SSH keys for CLI authentication for firewall administration, which method is used for authorization?

66. 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?

67. Which profile generates a packet threat type found in threat logs?

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

Which timer determines the frequency at which the HA peers exchange messages in the form of an ICMP (ping)

69. Where can an administrator see both the management-plane and data-plane CPU utilization in the WebUI?

70. 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)

B)

C)

D)

71. 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?

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

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

74. An engineer is tasked with configuring SSL forward proxy for traffic going to external sites.

Which of the following statements is consistent with SSL decryption best practices?

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

A. Address Objects

-Shared Address1

-Shared Address2

-Branch Address1

Policies

-Shared Policy1

-Branch Policy1

B. Address Objects

-Shared Address1

-Shared Address2

-Branch Address1

-DC Address1

Policies

-Shared Policy1

-Shared Policy2

-Branch Policy1

C.

Address Objects

-Shared Address 1

-Branch Address2

Policies -Shared Polic1

-Branch Policy 1

D)

Address Objects

-Shared Address 1

-Shared Address 2

-Branch Address 1

Policies

-Shared Policy 1

-Shared Policy 2

-Branch Policy 1

A. Option A

B. Option B

C. Option C

D. Option D

76. DRAG DROP

Match each GlobalProtect component to the purpose of that component

77. A company is looking to increase redundancy in their network.

Which interface type could help accomplish this?

78. A firewall administrator notices that many Host Sweep scan attacks are being allowed through the firewall sourced from the outside zone.

What should the firewall administrator do to mitigate this type of attack?

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

80. The firewall identifies a popular application as an unKnown-tcp.

Which two options are available to identify the application? (Choose two.)

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

82. A customer wants to set up a VLAN interface for a Layer 2 Ethernet port.

Which two mandatory options are used to configure a VLAN interface? (Choose two.)

83. Which three items are import considerations during SD-WAN configuration planning? (Choose three.)

84. An administrator needs to assign a specific DNS server to one firewall within a device group.

Where would the administrator go to edit a template variable at the device level?

85. An engineer manages a high availability network and requires fast failover of the routing protocols. The engineer decides to implement BFD.

Which three dynamic routing protocols support BFD? (Choose three.)

86. An engineer is deploying multiple firewalls with common configuration in Panorama.

What are two benefits of using nested device groups? (Choose two.)

87. A company requires that a specific set of ciphers be used when remotely managing their

Palo Alto Networks appliances.

Which profile should be configured in order to achieve this?

88. Refer to the exhibit.

An organization has Palo Alto Networks NGFWs that send logs to remote monitoring and security management platforms. The network team has reported excessive traffic on the corporate WAN.

How could the Palo Alto Networks NGFW administrator reduce WAN traffic while maintaining support for all the existing monitoring/security platforms?

89. An administrator is troubleshooting why video traffic is not being properly classified.

If this traffic does not match any QoS classes, what default class is assigned?

90. A network security administrator has an environment with multiple forms of authentication. There is a network access control system in place that authenticates and restricts access for wireless users, multiple Windows domain controllers, and an MDM solution for company-provided smartphones. All of these devices have their authentication events logged.

Given the information, what is the best choice for deploying User-ID to ensure maximum coverage?

91. An engineer is designing a deployment of multi-vsys firewalls.

What must be taken into consideration when designing the device group structure?

92. Which log type would provide information about traffic blocked by a Zone Protection profile?

93. A company wants to install a PA-3060 firewall between two core switches on a VLAN trunk link. They need to assign each VLAN to its own zone and to assign untagged (native) traffic to its own zone which options differentiates multiple VLAN into separate zones?

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

What is one way the administrator can meet this requirement?

95. What can you use with Global Protect to assign user-specific client certificates to each GlobalProtect user?

96. A firewall engineer reviews the PAN-OS GlobalProtect application and sees that it implicitly uses web-browsing and depends on SSL.

When creating a new rule, what is needed to allow the application to resolve dependencies?

97. What can be used to create dynamic address groups?

98. An administrator is configuring SSL decryption and needs 10 ensure that all certificates for both SSL Inbound inspection and SSL Forward Proxy are installed properly on the firewall.

When certificates are being imported to the firewall for these purposes, which three certificates require a private key? (Choose three.)

99. An administrator has configured a pair of firewalls using high availability in Active/Passive mode. Path Monitoring has been enabled with a Failure Condition of "any." A path group is configured with Failure Condition of "all" and contains a destination IP of 8.8.8.8 and 4.2.2.2 with a Ping Interval of 500ms and a Ping count of 3.

Which scenario will cause the Active firewall to fail over?

100. Given the screenshot, how did the firewall handle the traffic?