Palo Alto Networks Certified Network Security Engineer Free Sample Questions

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PCNSE Sample Questions

  1. Question 3

    An administrator sees several inbound sessions identified as unknown-tcp in the Traffic logs. The administrator determines that these sessions are from external users accessing the company’s proprietary accounting application. The administrator wants to reliably identify this traffic as their accounting application and to scan this traffic for threats.

    Which option would achieve this result?

    Answer and explanation

    Correct answer: D

    D

  2. Question 4

    If an administrator does not possess a website’s certificate,

    Which SSL decryption mode will allow the Palo Alto Networks NGFW to inspect traffic when users browse to HTTP(S) websites?

    Answer and explanation

    Correct answer: D

    D

  3. Question 7

    A company needs to preconfigure firewalls to be sent to remote sites with the least amount of preconfiguration. Once deployed, each firewall must establish secure tunnels back to multiple regional data centers to include the future regional data centers.

    Which VPN configuration would adapt to changes when deployed to the future site?

    Answer and explanation

    Correct answer: C

    C

  4. Question 9

    An administrator has a requirement to export decrypted traffic from the Palo Alto Networks NGFW to a third-party, deep-level packet inspection appliance.

    Which interface type and license feature are necessary to meet the requirement?

    Answer and explanation

    Correct answer: A

  5. Question 10

    Multiple answers

    Which two features does PAN-OS® software use to identify applications? (Choose two.)

    Answer and explanation

    Correct answers: B, D

    B,D

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