PALO ALTO PCCET FINAL EXAM 2026/2027 QUESTIONS
AND SOLUTIONS RATED A+
✔✔What are scaled-own, lightweight virtual machines that run on hypervisor software
and contain only the Linux operating system kernel features necessary to run a
container?
A. serverless
B. micro-VMs
C. containers
D. Kubernetes - ✔✔B
✔✔Which item is not one of the four Cs of cloud native security?
A. clusters
B. code
C. containers
D. cache - ✔✔D
✔✔Which phrase best describes a DevOps software development model?
A. develops all the code in one big software package for delivery to the Ops team,
which then tests the code for deployment
B. unites the development and operations teams throughout the entire software delivery
process to speed up code deployment
C. employs DevOps engineers to deliver new features and do bug fixes
D. uses automation tools and is almost identical to the traditional software development
model - ✔✔B
✔✔Introducing security checks early in the software development process is part of
which development model?
A. DevCyberOps
B. DevSecOps
C. DevOps
D. DevSecTestOps - ✔✔B
✔✔Organizations are using which resource to expand their on-premises private cloud
compute capacity?
A. software defined data centers
B. public cloud
C. virtual storage
D. virtual networks - ✔✔B
✔✔Which statement about hybrid clouds is incorrect?
A. Hybrid clouds increase operational efficiencies.
B. Hybrid clouds optimize existing hardware resources.
C. Hybrid clouds increase data center costs.
,D. Hybrid clouds can handle "bursty" applications through autoscaling. - ✔✔C
✔✔Which statement about private clouds is incorrect?
A.You need to secure east-west traffic only in a private cloud.
B. Compute clusters allow virtual machines to move freely while preserving compute,
storage, networking, and security configurations.
C. North-south traffic refers to data packets moving in and out of a virtualized
environment.
D. You can combine multiple physical hosts into one computer cluster. - ✔✔A
✔✔Which cloud feature continuously monitors an app's behavior and the context of
behavior to immediately identify and prevent malicious activity?
A. software configuration management (SCM)
B. cloud access security broker (CASB)
C. integrated development environment (IDE)
D. runtime application self protection (RASP) - ✔✔D
✔✔Which one of the four Prisma Cloud pillars enforces machine learning-based runtime
protection to protect applications and workloads in real time?
A. network protection
B. visibility, governance, and compliance
C. compute security
D. identity security - ✔✔C
✔✔Prisma Access consistently protects all traffic, on all ports and from all applications.
(True or False) - ✔✔T
✔✔Prisma SaaS is deployed as a standalone inline service between the organization's
traditional perimeter-based firewalls and requires a software agent to be installed on
mobile devices. (True or False) - ✔✔F
✔✔Prisma SaaS protects data in hosted files and application entries. (True or False) -
✔✔T
✔✔Which SaaS application behavior is allowed and provided by information technology
(IT)?
A. tolerated
B. prohibited
C. sanctioned
D. unsanctioned - ✔✔C
✔✔Which element refers to technologies that enable organizations to collect inputs
monitored by the Security Operations team?
A. Case Management
,B. SIEM
C. SOAR
D. Knowledge Management - ✔✔C
✔✔Which team is responsible for identifying and escalating vulnerabilities in an
organization's assets, including hardware and software?
A. Operational Technology
B. Threat Intelligence
C. Vulnerability
D. Network Security - ✔✔C
✔✔Which element is a security technology that detects malicious activity by identifying
anomalous behavior indicative of attacks?
A. Behavioral Analysis
B. Malware Sandboxing
C. Endpoint Security
D. Intrusion Prevention and Detection Systems - ✔✔A
✔✔Which team would have work tickets to reimage machines, request system patching,
or reject assets joining the network?
A. DevOps
B. Operational Technology
C. Help Desk
D. IT Operations - ✔✔C
✔✔How is SOAR different from SIEM?
A. It monitors alerts generated by applications and network hardware
B. It monitors various sources for machine data
C. It provides real-time detection
D. It ingests alerts and drives them to response - ✔✔D
✔✔Which team identifies potential risks to the organization that have not yet been
observed in the network?
A. Forensics and Telemetry
B. Threat Hunting
C. Red and Purple
D. Threat Intelligence - ✔✔D
✔✔Which element can reduce the number of unauthorized, unpatched, or compromised
devices from connecting to the network?
A. DNS Sinkholing
B. Virtual Private Network (VPN)
C. Identity and Access Management
D. Network Access Control - ✔✔D
, ✔✔Which element protects HTTP applications from well-known HTTP exploits?
A. Intrusion Prevention and Detection
B. Web Application Firewall
C. Web Proxy
D. Malware Sandboxing - ✔✔B
✔✔Which element of the Processes pillar is rooted in revisiting prior incidents?
A. Process Improvement
B. Tuning
C. Capability Improvement
D. Quality Review - ✔✔C
✔✔Which element of the People pillar focuses on retaining staff members?
A. Training
B. Career Path Progression
C. Employee Utilization
D. Tabletop Exercises - ✔✔B
✔✔Which element defines how the Security Operations team and surrounding teams
will interact?
A. Change Control
B. Escalation Process
C. Quality Review
D. Interface Agreements - ✔✔D
✔✔Which pillar requires maintaining an SME specialist?
A. Interfaces
B. Technology
C. Business
D. Processes
E. People
F. Visibility - ✔✔B
✔✔Which business objective dictates how to measure "performance" against the
defined and socialized mission statement?
A. Budget
B. Mission
C. Governance
D. Planning - ✔✔C
✔✔How often should tabletop exercises be performed?
A. Once a month
B. Once every 6 months
AND SOLUTIONS RATED A+
✔✔What are scaled-own, lightweight virtual machines that run on hypervisor software
and contain only the Linux operating system kernel features necessary to run a
container?
A. serverless
B. micro-VMs
C. containers
D. Kubernetes - ✔✔B
✔✔Which item is not one of the four Cs of cloud native security?
A. clusters
B. code
C. containers
D. cache - ✔✔D
✔✔Which phrase best describes a DevOps software development model?
A. develops all the code in one big software package for delivery to the Ops team,
which then tests the code for deployment
B. unites the development and operations teams throughout the entire software delivery
process to speed up code deployment
C. employs DevOps engineers to deliver new features and do bug fixes
D. uses automation tools and is almost identical to the traditional software development
model - ✔✔B
✔✔Introducing security checks early in the software development process is part of
which development model?
A. DevCyberOps
B. DevSecOps
C. DevOps
D. DevSecTestOps - ✔✔B
✔✔Organizations are using which resource to expand their on-premises private cloud
compute capacity?
A. software defined data centers
B. public cloud
C. virtual storage
D. virtual networks - ✔✔B
✔✔Which statement about hybrid clouds is incorrect?
A. Hybrid clouds increase operational efficiencies.
B. Hybrid clouds optimize existing hardware resources.
C. Hybrid clouds increase data center costs.
,D. Hybrid clouds can handle "bursty" applications through autoscaling. - ✔✔C
✔✔Which statement about private clouds is incorrect?
A.You need to secure east-west traffic only in a private cloud.
B. Compute clusters allow virtual machines to move freely while preserving compute,
storage, networking, and security configurations.
C. North-south traffic refers to data packets moving in and out of a virtualized
environment.
D. You can combine multiple physical hosts into one computer cluster. - ✔✔A
✔✔Which cloud feature continuously monitors an app's behavior and the context of
behavior to immediately identify and prevent malicious activity?
A. software configuration management (SCM)
B. cloud access security broker (CASB)
C. integrated development environment (IDE)
D. runtime application self protection (RASP) - ✔✔D
✔✔Which one of the four Prisma Cloud pillars enforces machine learning-based runtime
protection to protect applications and workloads in real time?
A. network protection
B. visibility, governance, and compliance
C. compute security
D. identity security - ✔✔C
✔✔Prisma Access consistently protects all traffic, on all ports and from all applications.
(True or False) - ✔✔T
✔✔Prisma SaaS is deployed as a standalone inline service between the organization's
traditional perimeter-based firewalls and requires a software agent to be installed on
mobile devices. (True or False) - ✔✔F
✔✔Prisma SaaS protects data in hosted files and application entries. (True or False) -
✔✔T
✔✔Which SaaS application behavior is allowed and provided by information technology
(IT)?
A. tolerated
B. prohibited
C. sanctioned
D. unsanctioned - ✔✔C
✔✔Which element refers to technologies that enable organizations to collect inputs
monitored by the Security Operations team?
A. Case Management
,B. SIEM
C. SOAR
D. Knowledge Management - ✔✔C
✔✔Which team is responsible for identifying and escalating vulnerabilities in an
organization's assets, including hardware and software?
A. Operational Technology
B. Threat Intelligence
C. Vulnerability
D. Network Security - ✔✔C
✔✔Which element is a security technology that detects malicious activity by identifying
anomalous behavior indicative of attacks?
A. Behavioral Analysis
B. Malware Sandboxing
C. Endpoint Security
D. Intrusion Prevention and Detection Systems - ✔✔A
✔✔Which team would have work tickets to reimage machines, request system patching,
or reject assets joining the network?
A. DevOps
B. Operational Technology
C. Help Desk
D. IT Operations - ✔✔C
✔✔How is SOAR different from SIEM?
A. It monitors alerts generated by applications and network hardware
B. It monitors various sources for machine data
C. It provides real-time detection
D. It ingests alerts and drives them to response - ✔✔D
✔✔Which team identifies potential risks to the organization that have not yet been
observed in the network?
A. Forensics and Telemetry
B. Threat Hunting
C. Red and Purple
D. Threat Intelligence - ✔✔D
✔✔Which element can reduce the number of unauthorized, unpatched, or compromised
devices from connecting to the network?
A. DNS Sinkholing
B. Virtual Private Network (VPN)
C. Identity and Access Management
D. Network Access Control - ✔✔D
, ✔✔Which element protects HTTP applications from well-known HTTP exploits?
A. Intrusion Prevention and Detection
B. Web Application Firewall
C. Web Proxy
D. Malware Sandboxing - ✔✔B
✔✔Which element of the Processes pillar is rooted in revisiting prior incidents?
A. Process Improvement
B. Tuning
C. Capability Improvement
D. Quality Review - ✔✔C
✔✔Which element of the People pillar focuses on retaining staff members?
A. Training
B. Career Path Progression
C. Employee Utilization
D. Tabletop Exercises - ✔✔B
✔✔Which element defines how the Security Operations team and surrounding teams
will interact?
A. Change Control
B. Escalation Process
C. Quality Review
D. Interface Agreements - ✔✔D
✔✔Which pillar requires maintaining an SME specialist?
A. Interfaces
B. Technology
C. Business
D. Processes
E. People
F. Visibility - ✔✔B
✔✔Which business objective dictates how to measure "performance" against the
defined and socialized mission statement?
A. Budget
B. Mission
C. Governance
D. Planning - ✔✔C
✔✔How often should tabletop exercises be performed?
A. Once a month
B. Once every 6 months
