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Which type of administrator account cannot be used to authenticate user traffic flowing through the 
firewall's data plane? - SAML user 
Starting with PAN-OS version 9.1 which new type of object is supported for use within the User field of a 
Security policy rule? - Dynamic user group 
Which link in the web interface enables a security administrator to view the Security policy rules that 
match new application signatures? - Review Apps 
Which type of firewall configuration contains in-progress...
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The Palo Alto Networks Security Operating Platform is designed for which three 
purposes? (Choose three.) 
A. consume innovations quickly 
B. ensure compliance 
C. focus on what matters 
D. prevent successful cyberattacks - A. consume innovations quickly 
D. prevent successful cyberattacks 
Which item is not one of the six primary components of the Palo Alto Networks 
Security Operating Platform? 
A. Applications (Palo Alto Networks apps, third‐party apps, customer apps) 
B. Cloud‐Delivered ...
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Q1. Which two statements are true about a Role Based Admin Role Profile role? (Choose two.) - It 
can be used for CLI commands. 
It can be used for XML API. 
Q2. The management console supports which two authentication types? (Choose two.) - RADIUS 
TACACS+ 
Q3. Which two Dynamic Admin Role types are available on the PAN-OS software? (Choose two.) - 
superuser 
device administrator (read-only) 
Q4. Which type of profile does an authentication sequence include? - Authentication 
Q5. An Authentic...
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A client downloads a malicious file from the internet. The Palo Alto firewall has a valid WildFire 
subscription. The Security policy rule shown above matches the client HTTP session: Which three actions 
take place when the firewall's Content-ID engine detects a virus in the file and the decoder action is set 
to "block"? (Choose three.) - A threat log entry is generated. 
The file download is terminated. 
The client receives a block page. 
A company has a pair of PA-3050s running PAN-OS 6.0...
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What is Palo Alto's 3 data processing feature on its Data Plane? - Signature matching, Security 
Processing and Network Processing 
What are the 2 planes of PAN-FW? - Control (Management) Plane and Data plane 
What is the principle of Zero Trust model? - Never trust, always verify 
What visibility does a Zero Trust network provides? - Both North-South and East-West traffic 
(Lateral and Horizontal) 
What is Zero Trust 3 main components - All resources are accessed in a secure manner regardless ...
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What is the Palo Alto Networks Certified Network Security Administrator (PCNSA)? - The Palo Alto 
Networks Certified Network Security Administrator (PCNSA) is a new customer targeted certification, 
created to help customers on their learning journey and the ultimate road to Palo Alto Networks 
Certified Network Security Engineer (PCNSE). The target audience for the PCNSA is customers who have 
taken the Firewall 8.1 Essentials: Configuration and Management (EDU-210 or EDU-110) courses. A 
certi...
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Which two actions are available for antivirus security profiles? (Choose two.) 
A. continue 
B. allow 
C. block IP 
D. alert - B. allow 
D. alert 
Which two HTTP Header Logging options are within a URL filtering profile? (Choose two.) 
A. User‐Agent 
B. Safe Search 
C. URL redirection 
D. X‐Forward‐For - A. User‐Agent 
D. X‐Forward‐For 
What are the two components of Denial‐of‐Service Protection? (Choose two.) 
A. zone protection profile 
B. DoS protection profile and poli...
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security zone - group networks that contain particular types of traffic that are contained within 
defined security classifications 
Intrazone traffic - allows traffic to flow between interfaces that exist in the same zone 
Interzone traffic - denies traffic from flowing between interfaces that exist in different zones 
Security policy rules - are applied to zones (not interfaces) to allow or deny traffic, apply QoS, 
perform NAT, apply security profiles, or set logging parameters. 
primary zone...
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Which Palo Alto Networks firewall security platform provides network security for mobile endpoints by 
inspecting traffic deployment as internet gateways? - Global Protect 
Which statement is true regarding a Prevention Posture Assessment? - It provides a set of 
questionnaires that help uncover security risk prevention gaps across all areas of network and security 
architecture. 
Which fiver Zero Trust concepts does a Palo Alto Networks firewall apply to achieve an integrated 
approach to preve...
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Palo Alto Networks Security Operating Platform Components - Network Security 
Advanced Endpoint Protection 
Cloud Security 
Cloud-Delivered Security Services 
Application Framework and Logging Service 
Palo Alto Networks Apps, Third-Party Apps and Customer Apps 
Next Gen Firewall Availability - Physical appliances 
Virtualized appliances 
Cloud-delivered services/GlobalProtect 
Detection - Detect known and unknown attacks 
Attacks in encrypted traffic 
Use intelligence from customer deployments ...
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The Palo Alto Networks Security Operating Platform is designed for which three purposes? (Choose 
three.) 
A. consume innovations quickly 
B. ensure compliance 
C. focus on what matters 
D. prevent successful cyberattacks - A. consume innovations quickly 
C. focus on what matters 
D. prevent successful cyberattacks 
Which item is not one of the six primary components of the Palo Alto Networks Security Operating 
Platform 
A. Applications (Palo Alto Networks apps, third-party apps, customer apps)...
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What will be the result of one or more occurrences of shadowing? - A warning 
Which column in the Applications and Threats screen includes the options Review Apps and Review 
Policies? - Action 
Which link can you select in the web interface to minimize the risk of installing new App-ID updates? - 
Disable new apps in content update. 
Which two protocols are implicitly allowed when you select the facebook-base application? (Choose 
two.) - Web-browsing 
SSL 
What are the two default (predefined...
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Recently changes were made to the firewall to optimize the policies and the security team wants to see 
if those changes are helping. What is the quickest way to reset the hit counter to zero in all the security 
policy rules? 
A. At the CLI enter the command reset rules and press Enter 
B. Highlight a rule and use the Reset Rule Hit Counter > Selected Rules for each rule 
C. Reboot the firewall 
D. Use the Reset Rule Hit Counter>All Rules option - D. Use the Reset Rule Hit Counter > Al...
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Default Antivirus Profile protocols - -smtp 
-smb 
-ftp 
-imap 
-pop3 
-http/2 
Antivirus profile actions - -allow 
-allert (Default) 
-drop 
-reset client 
-reset server 
-reset both 
Rule Usage tab in Security Policy Rule displays the rule's usage, what four important information you will 
find in Rule Usage tab? - -Basics 
-Applications 
-Activity 
-Traffic 
A Virtual Wire object is capable of blocking or allowing traffic based on? - 802.1Q VLAN tag values 
When new applications are added to...
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Default Antivirus Profile protocols - -smtp 
-smb 
-ftp 
-imap 
-pop3 
-http/2 
Antivirus profile actions - -allow 
-allert (Default) 
-drop 
-reset client 
-reset server 
-reset both 
Rule Usage tab in Security Policy Rule displays the rule's usage, what four important information you will 
find in Rule Usage tab? - -Basics 
-Applications 
-Activity 
-Traffic 
A Virtual Wire object is capable of blocking or allowing traffic based on? - 802.1Q VLAN tag values
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VM-Series firewalls starting with PAN-OS version 8.0, the MGT port is configured with? - IP address 
DHCP 
What configuration is the actual configuration which controls the firewall operation? 
Service 
XML 
Candidate 
Running - Running 
A network engineer clicks "Save candidate configuration" to save the configuration to memory to finish 
the configuration later. 
After the engineer continues editing and click "Save candidate configuration" again, the 
configuration that is saved in memory ...
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1. The Palo Alto Networks Cybersecurity Portfolio focuses on which three principle technologies? 
(Choose three.) 
A. securing operations response 
B. securing the enterprise 
C. securing third-party application access 
D. securing the cloud 
E. securing the internet of things - ABD 
2. What are four components of the Palo Alto Networks Cybersecurity Portfolio? (Choose four.) 
A. Cortex DynamicDNS 
B. Wildfire 
C. Cortex XDR 
D. OpenConnect 
E. Prisma Access 
F. Autofocus - BCEF 
3. Which cloud-...
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What is an "application shift?" 
1. an application change during the lifetime of a session 
2. a session change during the lifetime of an application 
3. a packet change during the lifetime of a session 
4. application dependency - an application change during the lifetime of a session 
What is the default metric value of static routes? 
+1 
1 
2 
10 
20 - 10 
How often are new antivirus signatures published? 
hourly 
weekly 
daily 
monthly - Daily 
Which interface type can be used to switch t...
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Palo Alto NGFWs enable you to adopt security best practices to minimize opportunities for attack by 
using the following *three* policy types... - Application, User, and Content based policies. 
T/F: 
Palo Alto NGFWs allow you to automate workflows via integration with administrative tools such as 
ticketing services, or any system with a RESTful API. - True 
What are the *three* families of Palo Alto NGFWs? - 1) VM Series 
2) Prisma Access (Cloud Firewall SaaS) 
3) Physical Firewalls 
Name at l...
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The control plane provides which two managment feature of the firewall? - reporting 
firewall configuration 
A virtual wire interface that receives a frame or packet ignores any Layer 2 or layer 3 addresses for 
switching or routing purposes? - True 
how often are new anti-virus signatures published? - daily 
what does palo alto networks use to regularly post updates for application detection, threat protection, 
and GlobalProtect data files? - dynamic updates 
which layer 2 interfaces used to s...
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