PCNSE 2025/2026 Exam Questions and
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AutoFocus - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔The AutoFocus threat intelligence service
enables security teams to prioritize their response to unique, targeted
attacks and gain the intelligence, analytics and context needed to protect
your organization. It provides context around an attack spotted in your
traffic and threat logs, such as the malware family, campaign, or malicious
actor targeting your organization. AutoFocus correlates and gains
intelligence from:
o WildFire® service - the industry's largest threat analysis environment
o PAN-DB URL filtering service
o MineMeld application for AutoFocus, enabling aggregation and
correlation of any third-party threat intelligence source directly in AutoFocus
o Traps advanced endpoint protection
o Aperture SaaS-protection service
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,o Unit 42 threat intelligence and research team
o Intelligence from technology partners
o Palo Alto Networks global passive DNS network
GlobalProtect Secure Mobile Workforce - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔GlobalProtect
cloud service reduces the operational burden associated with securing your
remote networks and mobile users by leveraging a cloud-based security
infrastructure managed by Palo Alto Networks.Uses client software to build
secure personal VPN tunnels to the firewall.
URL Filtering Web Security - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔A firewall subscription/license.
Most attacks and exposure to malicious content occurs during the normal
course of web browsing activities, which requires the ability to allow safe,
secure web access for all users. URL Filtering with PAN-DB automatically
prevents attacks that leverage the web as an attack vector, including
phishing links in emails, phishing sites, HTTP-based command and control,
malicious sites and pages that carry exploit kits. Focuses on preventing
access to PHISHING WEBSITES!!!
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,Active/Active HA - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Both Active, used in specific
circumstances, such as asynchronous routing setups. Both individually
maintain routing and session tables, sync'd to the other. HIGHER RISK!
Active/Passive HA - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔One active, one standby firewall.
Easiest to manage. Network, Objects, Policies Certificates and Session
Table changes are synced.
Single Pass Architecture (SP3) - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔How a Palo Alto FW
processes a packet with different variables which include: SRC/DST Zones,
SRC/DST IPs, App-ID, User-ID, Content ID.
User-ID - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Matching of a user to an IP address (or multiple
IP addresses) allowing your Security policy to be based on who is behind
the traffic, not the device. Can utilize Active Directory, a Captive Portal, etc.
Content-ID - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Scanning of traffic for security threats (e.g.,
data leak prevention and URL filtering. virus, spyware, unwanted file
transfers, specific data patterns, vulnerability attacks, and appropriate
browsing access
App-ID - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Scanning of traffic to identify the application that is
involved, regardless of the protocol or port number used. Port number is
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, used as secondary enforcement. ALWAYS ON and will show up in Traffic
logs regardless of Security Policy settings.
Security Policies - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔ACLs that determine the firewall's ability
to enable or block sessions. Security zones, source and destination IP
address, application (App-ID), source user (User-ID), service (port), HIP
match, and URL categories in the case of web traffic all can serve as traffic
matching criteria for allow/block decision-making.
Security Zones - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Zones designate a network segment that
has similar security classification (i.e., Users, Data Center, DMZ Servers,
Remote Users). All traffic must have a SRC/DST Zone.
Panorama - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Panorama is the Palo Alto Networks enterprise
management solution. Once Panorama and firewalls are linked, Panorama
is the single interface to manage the entire enterprise. Should be
implemented as a high availability cluster consisting of 2 identical
platforms.
HA Monitoring - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔• During Boot, a FW looks for an HA Peer;
after 60 seconds, if a peer hasn't been discovered, the FW will boot as
Active.
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AutoFocus - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔The AutoFocus threat intelligence service
enables security teams to prioritize their response to unique, targeted
attacks and gain the intelligence, analytics and context needed to protect
your organization. It provides context around an attack spotted in your
traffic and threat logs, such as the malware family, campaign, or malicious
actor targeting your organization. AutoFocus correlates and gains
intelligence from:
o WildFire® service - the industry's largest threat analysis environment
o PAN-DB URL filtering service
o MineMeld application for AutoFocus, enabling aggregation and
correlation of any third-party threat intelligence source directly in AutoFocus
o Traps advanced endpoint protection
o Aperture SaaS-protection service
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,o Unit 42 threat intelligence and research team
o Intelligence from technology partners
o Palo Alto Networks global passive DNS network
GlobalProtect Secure Mobile Workforce - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔GlobalProtect
cloud service reduces the operational burden associated with securing your
remote networks and mobile users by leveraging a cloud-based security
infrastructure managed by Palo Alto Networks.Uses client software to build
secure personal VPN tunnels to the firewall.
URL Filtering Web Security - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔A firewall subscription/license.
Most attacks and exposure to malicious content occurs during the normal
course of web browsing activities, which requires the ability to allow safe,
secure web access for all users. URL Filtering with PAN-DB automatically
prevents attacks that leverage the web as an attack vector, including
phishing links in emails, phishing sites, HTTP-based command and control,
malicious sites and pages that carry exploit kits. Focuses on preventing
access to PHISHING WEBSITES!!!
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,Active/Active HA - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Both Active, used in specific
circumstances, such as asynchronous routing setups. Both individually
maintain routing and session tables, sync'd to the other. HIGHER RISK!
Active/Passive HA - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔One active, one standby firewall.
Easiest to manage. Network, Objects, Policies Certificates and Session
Table changes are synced.
Single Pass Architecture (SP3) - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔How a Palo Alto FW
processes a packet with different variables which include: SRC/DST Zones,
SRC/DST IPs, App-ID, User-ID, Content ID.
User-ID - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Matching of a user to an IP address (or multiple
IP addresses) allowing your Security policy to be based on who is behind
the traffic, not the device. Can utilize Active Directory, a Captive Portal, etc.
Content-ID - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Scanning of traffic for security threats (e.g.,
data leak prevention and URL filtering. virus, spyware, unwanted file
transfers, specific data patterns, vulnerability attacks, and appropriate
browsing access
App-ID - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Scanning of traffic to identify the application that is
involved, regardless of the protocol or port number used. Port number is
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, used as secondary enforcement. ALWAYS ON and will show up in Traffic
logs regardless of Security Policy settings.
Security Policies - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔ACLs that determine the firewall's ability
to enable or block sessions. Security zones, source and destination IP
address, application (App-ID), source user (User-ID), service (port), HIP
match, and URL categories in the case of web traffic all can serve as traffic
matching criteria for allow/block decision-making.
Security Zones - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Zones designate a network segment that
has similar security classification (i.e., Users, Data Center, DMZ Servers,
Remote Users). All traffic must have a SRC/DST Zone.
Panorama - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Panorama is the Palo Alto Networks enterprise
management solution. Once Panorama and firewalls are linked, Panorama
is the single interface to manage the entire enterprise. Should be
implemented as a high availability cluster consisting of 2 identical
platforms.
HA Monitoring - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔• During Boot, a FW looks for an HA Peer;
after 60 seconds, if a peer hasn't been discovered, the FW will boot as
Active.
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