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The questions for PCNSA were last updated at Nov 23,2024.
- Exam Code: PCNSA
- Exam Name: Palo Alto Networks Certified Network Security Administrator
- Certification Provider: Palo Alto Networks
- Latest update: Nov 23,2024
What is a recommended consideration when deploying content updates to the firewall from Panorama?
- A . Before deploying content updates, always check content release version compatibility.
- B . Content updates for firewall A/P HA pairs can only be pushed to the active firewall.
- C . Content updates for firewall A/A HA pairs need a defined master device.
- D . After deploying content updates, perform a commit and push to Panorama.
A
Explanation:
The content release version on the Panorama management server must be the same (or earlier) version as the content release version on any Dedicated Log Collectors or managed firewalls. https://docs.paloaltonetworks.com/panorama/9-1/panorama-admin/set-up-panorama/install-content-and-software-updates-for-panorama/panorama-log-collector-firewall-and-wildfire-version-compatibility#id09d0b616-1197-4f80-be05-fdd7e75f8652
Which administrator type provides more granular options to determine what the administrator can view and modify when creating an administrator account?
- A . Root
- B . Dynamic
- C . Role-based
- D . Superuser
C
Explanation:
Role Based profile roles: These are custom roles you can configure for more granular access control over the functional areas of the web interface, CLI, and XML API. For example, you can create an Admin Role profile role for your operations staff that provides access to the firewall and network configuration areas of the web interface and a separate profile for your security administrators that provides access to security policy definitions, logs, and reports. On a firewall with multiple virtual systems, you can select whether the role defines access for all virtual systems or specific virtual systems. After new features are added to the product, you must update the roles with corresponding access privileges; the firewall does not automatically add new features to custom role definitions.
Which Palo Alto Networks component provides consolidated policy creation and centralized management?
- A . GlobalProtect
- B . Panorama
- C . Aperture
- D . AutoFocus
B
Explanation:
https://www.paloaltonetworks.com/resources/datasheets/panorama-centralized-management-datasheet
Which two statements are true for the DNS Security service introduced in PAN-OS version 10.0?
(Choose two.)
- A . It is automatically enabled and configured.
- B . It eliminates the need for dynamic DNS updates.
- C . It functions like PAN-DB and requires activation through the app portal.
- D . It removes the 100K limit for DNS entries for the downloaded DNS updates.
BD
Explanation:
https://docs.paloaltonetworks.com/pan-os/10-2/pan-os-admin/threat-prevention/dns-security/cloud-delivered-dns-signatures
1) Locally available, downloadable DNS signature sets (packaged with the antivirus and WildFire updates) come with a hard-coded capacity limitation of 100k signatures and do not include signatures generated through advanced analysis.
2) To better accommodate the influx of new DNS signatures being produced on a daily basis, the cloud-based signature database provides users with instant access to newly added DNS signatures without the need to download updates.
Which two settings allow you to restrict access to the management interface? (Choose two )
- A . enabling the Content-ID filter
- B . administrative management services
- C . restricting HTTP and telnet using App-ID
- D . permitted IP addresses
An internal host wants to connect to servers of the internet through using source NAT.
Which policy is required to enable source NAT on the firewall?
- A . NAT policy with source zone and destination zone specified
- B . post-NAT policy with external source and any destination address
- C . NAT policy with no source of destination zone selected
- D . pre-NAT policy with external source and any destination address
Which Security policy set should be used to ensure that a policy is applied first?
- A . Local firewall policy
- B . Shared pre-rulebase
- C . Parent device-group pre-rulebase
- D . Child device-group pre-rulebase
Where does a user assign a tag group to a policy rule in the policy creation window?
- A . General tab
- B . Usage tab
- C . Application tab
- D . Actions tab
A
Explanation:
https://docs.paloaltonetworks.com/pan-os/11-0/pan-os-admin/policy/use-tags-to-group-and-visually-distinguish-objects/view-rules-by-tag-group
Which interface type is part of a Layer 3 zone with a Palo Alto Networks firewall?
- A . Management
- B . High Availability
- C . Aggregate
- D . Aggregation
C
Explanation:
Only AGGREGATE interface can belong to a zone.
Which statement is true regarding a Best Practice Assessment?
- A . It runs only on firewalls.
- B . It shows how current configuration compares to Palo Alto Networks recommendations.
- C . When guided by an authorized sales engineer, it helps determine the areas of greatest risk where you should focus prevention activities.
- D . It provides a set of questionnaires that help uncover security risk prevention gaps across all areas of network and security architecture.
B
Explanation:
Best Practice Assessment (BPA) Tool -The BPA for next-generation firewalls and Panorama evaluates a device’s configuration by measuring the adoption of capabilities, validating whether the policies adhere to best practices, and providing recommendations and instructions for how to remediate failed best practice checks.
The Security Policy Adoption Heatmap component filters the information by device groups, serial numbers, zones, areas of architecture, and other categories. The results include trending data, which shows the rate of security improvement as you adopt new capabilities, fix gaps, and progress toward a Zero-Trust network.
The BPA component performs more than 200 security checks on a firewall or Panorama configuration and provides a pass/fail score for each check. Each check is a best practice identified by Palo Alto Networks security experts. If a check returns a failing score, the tool provides the justification for the
failing score and how to fix the issue.
https://docs.paloaltonetworks.com/best-practices/8-1/data-center-best-practices/data-center-best-practice-security-policy/use-palo-alto-networks-assessment-and-review-tools