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Palo Alto Networks Network Security Analyst

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Questions 1

An administrator is using Strata Cloud Manager (SCM) and notices that several firewalls are reporting a low health score due to "Untrusted Certificates" being used for management. Which specific SCM dashboard provides the fastest way to identify which certificates are nearing expiration across the entire estate?

Options:

A.  

Command Center

B.  

Activity Insights

C.  

Policy Optimizer

D.  

Device Health Dashboard

Discussion 0
Questions 2

An analyst determines that several sanctioned, predefined applications are being intermittently blocked, even though there is an existing policy permitting them. An investigation reveals that the applications are using non-standard ports, which is causing them to be blocked. The applications are critical for business operations, and the analyst has approval to allow them.

Which configuration adjustment should be implemented to ensure secure access to the applications?

Options:

A.  

Apply Disable Server Response Inspection (DSRI) to the existing Security policy to allow the non-standard ports.

B.  

Disable App-ID and port filtering and rely solely on IP addresses of the applications to allow the non-standard ports.

C.  

Clone the existing Security policy rule and include the non-standard ports under services.

D.  

Clone the existing Security policy rule and include unknown-tcp and unknown-udp applications with service set to “any”

Discussion 0
Questions 3

A firewall administrator implementing Palo Alto Networks best practices on the company firewall reviews NGFW alerts in Strata Cloud Manager (SCM) and determines that one alert does not apply to this environment. If the administrator has no intention to resolve the underlying issue, what is the appropriate next step?

Options:

A.  

Click “Copilot” in the top right, and ask the Copilot to make an exception for the NGFW alert.

B.  

Assign the NGFW alert to the “Dismiss” user.

C.  

Change the NGFW alert priority to “Not Set.”

D.  

Open the NGFW alert and click “Suppress” under “Actions.”

Discussion 0
Questions 4

An organization wants to decrypt outbound traffic to ensure no malware is hidden in HTTPS sessions. Which type of decryption policy must be configured on the firewall to act as a "Man-in-the-Middle"?

Options:

A.  

SSL Inbound Inspection

B.  

SSH Proxy

C.  

SSL Forward Proxy

D.  

Decryption Broker

Discussion 0
Questions 5

An analyst needs to create a rule that allows a specific group of users to access a cloud application. The application's IP addresses change frequently, but the application is associated with a specific FQDN. What is the most efficient object type to use in this scenario?

Options:

A.  

Static Address Object

B.  

FQDN Address Object

C.  

Range Address Object

D.  

IP Multicast Object

Discussion 0
Questions 6

When performing a "Push to Devices" from Panorama, an analyst wants to ensure that the push only affects a specific firewall in a shared Device Group. Which option in the push window allows this granular selection?

Options:

A.  

Include Device and Network Templates

B.  

Force Template Values

C.  

Edit Selections

D.  

Merge with Device Candidate Config

Discussion 0
Questions 7

How often should external dynamic lists be updated to ensure effective Security policy enforcement?

Options:

A.  

Once a week

B.  

As new threats are identified

C.  

Once a month

D.  

As frequently as the external source updates

Discussion 0
Questions 8

A company wants to ensure that its internal web server is only accessible from the internet on port 443, but the server is actually listening on port 8443. Which NAT configuration should be used?

Options:

A.  

Source NAT with Static IP translation.

B.  

Destination NAT with Port Translation.

C.  

Bi-directional NAT with Dynamic IP and Port.

D.  

Hide NAT with Overload.

Discussion 0
Questions 9

Which action ensures that sensitive information such as medical records, financial transactions, and legal communications are not decrypted and that they maintain strong security?

Options:

A.  

Create a log forwarding filter to exclude sensitive information.

B.  

Disable decryption globally to avoid exposing sensitive data.

C.  

Create an SSL Inbound Inspection policy to identify users sending sensitive information.

D.  

Create a no-decrypt policy for traffic matching specific URL categories.

Discussion 0
Questions 10

An analyst is configuring an Anti-Spyware profile to identify infected internal hosts that are attempting to contact known malicious Command and Control (C2) servers. Which feature should be enabled to redirect these malicious DNS queries to a controlled internal IP address for forensic analysis?

Options:

A.  

DNS Security

B.  

DNS Sinkhole

C.  

DNS Proxy

D.  

Domain Generation Algorithm (DGA) Protection

Discussion 0
Questions 11

An analyst notices latency on the firewall and wants to improve performance. Which steps can be taken to reduce management plane CPU while working to determine the underlying problem?

Options:

A.  

Enable log forwarding from the firewall to an external destination.

B.  

Disable log at session end and only log at session start.

C.  

Enable logging for intrazone-default and interzone-default security rules.

D.  

Disable log at session start and only log at session end.

Discussion 0
Questions 12

What is the purpose of the "Config Audit" feature in Panorama?

Options:

A.  

To check if a firewall is running the latest software version.

B.  

To compare the current running configuration with a previously saved version.

C.  

To automatically resolve IP address conflicts.

D.  

To monitor the real-time CPU usage of the firewalls.

Discussion 0
Questions 13

Which log type is the most useful for identifying if a user is repeatedly attempting to visit an "Unauthorized" website category that is being blocked by a security profile?

Options:

A.  

Traffic Log

B.  

URL Filtering Log

C.  

System Log

D.  

Authentication Log

Discussion 0
Questions 14

An analyst needs to prevent users from downloading executable files from "High-Risk" URL categories while allowing them from "Business-and-Economy." Which profile should be configured to achieve this specific file-type restriction?

Options:

A.  

URL Filtering Profile

B.  

Data Filtering Profile

C.  

File Blocking Profile

D.  

Vulnerability Protection Profile

Discussion 0
Questions 15

In Panorama, which feature allows an analyst to group multiple Template Stacks together to push a common set of network configurations to a large number of firewalls simultaneously?

Options:

A.  

Device Groups

B.  

Variables

C.  

Template Groups

D.  

Managed Collectors

Discussion 0
Questions 16

A Palo Alto Networks NGFW for a high-security environment is being configured and requires a security profile group that includes vulnerability protection. When configuring the action based on the severity of the threat types, what does Palo Alto Networks recommend? (Choose one answer)

Options:

A.  

Use action “reset-both” for critical, high, and medium vulnerabilities.

B.  

Use action “alert” for critical, high, and medium vulnerabilities.

C.  

Use action “allow” for critical, high, and medium vulnerabilities.

D.  

Use action “default” for critical, high, and medium vulnerabilities.

Discussion 0
Questions 17

Which action ensures that a Panorama push will not fail due to pending local firewall changes?

Options:

A.  

Commit configurations locally on the device and then repeat the same configuration from Panorama.

B.  

Disable "Merge with Device Candidate Config."

C.  

Enable "Force Template Values."

D.  

Enable both options "Include Device and Network Templates" and "Include Firewall Clusters."

Discussion 0
Questions 18

A user reports that they can reach a website, but the page elements are not loading correctly. The analyst suspects that a security profile is silently dropping some of the web content. Which log, when filtered by the user's IP, will show the specific Content-ID match that is causing the partial page failure?

Options:

A.  

Traffic Log

B.  

Threat Log

C.  

URL Filtering Log

D.  

Data Filtering Log

Discussion 0
Questions 19

A user reports that they are being blocked from a website with a "Certificate Error." Which log will help the analyst determine if the firewall is blocking the session because the web server is using an expired certificate?

Options:

A.  

Traffic Log

B.  

Threat Log

C.  

Decryption Log

D.  

System Log

Discussion 0
Questions 20

Which aspect of a network’s current health does the Strata Cloud Manager (SCM) Device Health dashboard provide?

Options:

A.  

Health trends based on which CVEs are not remediated.

B.  

Health score based on current physical hardware issues detected.

C.  

Health score based on security profile feature adoption.

D.  

Health trends for firewalls filtered by how long the issue has been experienced.

Discussion 0
Questions 21

A security administrator wants to determine which action a URL Filtering profile will take on the URL “www.chatgpt.com ”. The firewall has a custom URL object with “www.chatgpt.com ” as a member called “Permitted-AI.” The URL “www.chatgpt.com ” is also categorized as “Artificial-Intelligence,” “Computer-and-Internet-Info,” and “Low-Risk.” The URL Filtering profile has the following in descending order:

Artificial-Intelligence set to continue

Computer-and-Internet-Info set to block

Low-Risk set to alert

Permitted-AI set to allow

Which action will the URL Filtering profile take when traffic matches the “www.chatgpt.com ” URL on a rule with this profile attached? (Choose one answer)

Options:

A.  

Allow

B.  

Continue

C.  

Block

D.  

Alert

Discussion 0
Questions 22

An analyst is creating a "Data Pattern" for DLP that needs to match a specific 10-digit customer account number that always starts with the letters "ACC". Which pattern type should be used?

Options:

A.  

File Properties

B.  

Regular Expression (Regex)

C.  

Predefined Pattern

D.  

Custom Dictionary

Discussion 0