Palo Alto Firewall PCNSA Exam Questions with Correct Answers
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Palo Alto Firewall PCNSA Exam Questions with Correct Answers
What are the 3 source NAT types? - Answer-1. DIPP
2. Dynamic IP
3. Static IP
What is DIPP NAT Oversubscription? - Answer-DIPP NAT Oversubscription enables reuse of port numbers as an alternative NAT session identifier by using the...
Palo Alto Firewall PCNSA
Exam Questions with
Correct Answers
What are the 3 source NAT types? - Answer-1. DIPP
2. Dynamic IP
3. Static IP
What is DIPP NAT Oversubscription? - Answer-DIPP NAT Oversubscription enables
reuse of port numbers as an alternative NAT session identifier by using the destination
IP address
In a TCP exchange how many packets does it take to identify the application? - Answer-
Four or Five. App-ID cannot identify the traffic from only a TCP handshake. After 3-way
TCP handshake comes the application communication. Hence after 3 packets (TCP
handshake) come identification of App-ID
TRUE OR FALSE? Telemetry is an opt-out feature - Answer-FALSE. Telemetry is an
opt-in feature; nothing is selected by default
TRUE OR FALSE? NGFW, device administrator cannot manage other administrator -
Answer-TRUE. Device administrator cannot manage administrator accounts or create
new virtual systems, and a virtual system administrator can manage only virtual
systems assigned to them.
What does DoS Protection Policy and DoS protection Profile protects? - Answer-
Destination zone and Destination host
What is Ingress in Firewall? - Answer-Ingress is the incoming traffic
What is Egress in Firewall? - Answer-Egress is outgoing traffic
Where is Zone Protection profile applied to? - Answer-Zone protection always is applied
to the ingress interfaces in the protected zone, regardless of the zone where the
destination hosts are located.
,Is DoS Protection packet or signature based? - Answer-Packet based. DoS protection
uses packet header information to detect threats.
TRUE or FALSE: DoS protection is linked to Security Policy - Answer-FALSE
What six protocols are in default Antivirus Profile? - Answer-pop3, imap, smtp, http/2,
smb, ftp
When configuring a File Blocking Profile, what actions you can set? - Answer-1.
Continue (Allows download with warning)
2. Alert (allows download)
3. Block (deny download)
In which FW plane is the CPU, SSD and RAM located? - Answer-Control Plane
A Virtual Wire object is capable of blocking or allowing traffic based on? - Answer-
802.1Q VLAN tag values
What are the 4 information you will find in the Security Policy Rule - Usage tab -
Answer-Basics, Activity, Applications and Traffic
What are 2 approaches to mitigate DoS attacks? - Answer-1. Zone-based protection
2. End host protection
YES OR NO: Do Layer 2 Interfaces participate in Spanning Tree? - Answer-NO.
However, they do forward BPDU messages.
Which interface types can have Interface Management Profiles assigned to them? -
Answer-Layer 3 interface permits for management traffic.
TRUE OR FALSE: Layer 3 interface can have one or more STATIC IPv4 addresses -
Answer-TRUE. However these IP address must be on different subnets.
TRUE OR FALSE: Layer 3 sub-interface must be assigned to 802.1Q VLAN - Answer-
TRUE. A virtual router object is required to route traffic between each VLAN
What are the benefits of implementing an aggregate interface group? - Answer-1.
Increases Bandwidth
2. Provides redundancy
What FW models does not support aggregate interface groups? - Answer-VM-series
Firewall
Which FW series support up to 16 Aggregate Interface Groups - Answer-PA-3200
Series
PA-5200 Series
, and most PA-7000 Series
What is Palo Alto's 3 data processing feature on its Data Plane? - Answer-Signature
matching, Security Processing and Network Processing
What are the 2 planes of PAN-FW? - Answer-Control (Management) Plane and Data
plane
What is the principle of Zero Trust model? - Answer-Never trust, always verify
What visibility does a Zero Trust network provides? - Answer-Both North-South and
East-West traffic (Lateral and Horizontal)
What is Zero Trust 3 main components - Answer-All resources are accessed in a secure
manner regardless of location, Access control is on a "need to know" basis and strictly
enforced, and All traffic is logged and inspected.
What is the default IP address on the MGT interface of PAN-FW - Answer-192.168.1.1
Ways to connect to PAN-FW - Answer-in-band MGT (IP address) and out-of-band MGT
(cable)
What are the 4 methods to manage PAN-FW - Answer-Web interface, CLI, Panorama
and XML API
What firewall action blocks traffic and does not notify the sender? - Answer-When the
firewall DROP the traffic it does not notify the sender.
What is the default metric for static route? - Answer-10
When is the shortest time can you configure the FW to check for Wildfire updates? -
Answer-1 minute
What intervals does the firewall dashboard Refresh Rate have? - Answer-1 min, 2 mins,
5 mins or Manual
What are the 4 tabs of Application Command Center (ACC)? - Answer-Network Activity,
Threat Activity, Blocked Activity and Tunnel Activity.
What is Application Command Center (ACC) for? - Answer-Application Command
Center provides a visual summary of the applications traversing the network,
categorized by sessions, bytes, ports, threats and time.
What port number is available for setting up a Syslog Server Profile? - Answer-
UDP/TCP port 514 or SSL 6514
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