PCNSE Paloalto Networks Palo Alto Networks Certified Security Engineer (PCNSE) PAN-OS 11.0 Free Practice Exam Questions (2025 Updated)
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A firewall administrator needs to check which egress interface the firewall will use to route the IP 10.2.5.3.
Which command should they use?
A firewall administrator manages sets of firewalls which have two unique idle timeout values. Datacenter firewalls needs to be set to 20 minutes and BranchOffice firewalls need to be set to 30 minutes. How can the administrator assign these settings through the use of template stacks?
What should an engineer consider when setting up the DNS proxy for web proxy?
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?'
All firewall at a company are currently forwarding logs to Palo Alto Networks log collectors. The company also wants to deploy a sylog server and forward all firewall logs to the syslog server and to the log collectors. There is known logging peak time during the day, and the security team has asked the firewall engineer to determined how many logs per second the current Palo Alto Networking log processing at that particular time. Which method is the most time-efficient to complete this task?
Which GloDalProtecI gateway setting is required to enable split-tunneting by access route, destination domain and application?
An administrator needs to build Security rules in a Device Group that allow traffic to specific users and groups defined in Active Directory.
What must be configured in order to select users and groups for those rules from Panorama?
After importing a pre-configured firewall configuration to Panorama, what step is required to ensure a commit/push is successful without duplicating local configurations?
Certain services in a customer implementation are not working, including Palo Alto Networks Dynamic version updates. Which CLI command can the firewall administrator use to verify if the service routes were correctly installed and that they are active in the Management Plane?
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?
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.)
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?
Given the following configuration, which route is used for destination 10 10 0 4?
A company wants to implement threat prevention to take action without redesigning the network routing.
What are two best practice deployment modes for the firewall? (Choose two.)
To ensure that a Security policy has the highest priority, how should an administrator configure a Security policy in the device group hierarchy?
What are three tasks that cannot be configured from Panorama by using a template stack? (Choose three.)
A firewall administrator is configuring an IPSec tunnel between a company's HQ and a remote location. On the HQ firewall, the interface used to terminate the IPSec tunnel has a static IP. At the remote location, the interface used to terminate the IPSec tunnel has a DHCP assigned IP address.
Which two actions are required for this scenario to work? (Choose two.)
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?
‘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?
Which sessions does Packet Buffer Protection apply to when used on ingress zones to protect against single-session DoS attacks?