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Exam Title: Palo Alto Networks Certified Network Security Engineer
Exam Code: PCNSE
Number of Questions: 75 Questions
Duration: 80 min.
Availability: Pearson VUE Testing Center
Test Format: Multiple choice
Passing score: 70% ( they didn't announce it anymore but it used to be 70% )
Language Exam: English

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Palo Alto PCNSE Exam Topics:

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#Plan [ 16% ]

- Identify how the Palo Alto Networks products work together to detect and prevent threats
- Given a scenario, identify how to design an implementation of the firewall to meet business requirements that leverage the Palo Alto Networks product portfolio
- Given a scenario, identify how to design an implementation of firewalls in High Availability to meet business requirements that leverage the Palo Alto Networks product portfolio
- Identify the appropriate interface type and configuration for a specified network deployment
- Identify strategies for retaining logs using Distributed Log Collection
- Given a scenario, identify the strategy that should be implemented for Distributed Log Collection
- Identify how to use template stacks for administering Palo Alto Networks firewalls as a scalable solution using Panorama
- Identify how to use device group hierarchy for administering Palo Alto Networks firewalls as a scalable solution using Panorama
- Identify planning considerations unique to deploying Palo Alto Networks firewalls in a public cloud
- Identify planning considerations unique to deploying Palo Alto Networks firewalls in a hybrid cloud
- Identify planning considerations unique to deploying Palo Alto Networks firewalls in a private cloud
- Identify methods for authorization, authentication, and device administration
- Identify the methods of certificate creation on the firewall
- Identify options available in the firewall to support dynamic routing
- Given a scenario, identify ways to mitigate resource exhaustion (because of denial-of-service) in application servers
- Identify decryption deployment strategies
- Identify the impact of application override to the overall functionality of the firewall
- Identify the methods of User-ID redistribution
- Identify VM-Series bootstrap components and their function

#Deploy and Configure [ 23% ]

- Identify the application meanings in the Traffic log (incomplete, insufficient data, non-syn TCP, not applicable, unknown TCP, unknown UDP, and unknown P2P)- Given a scenario, identify the set of Security Profiles that should be used
- Identify the relationship between URL filtering and credential theft prevention
- Implement and maintain the App-ID adoption
- Identify how to create security rules to implement App-ID without relying on port-based rules
- Identify configurations for distributed Log Collectors
- Identify the required settings and steps necessary to provision and deploy a next-generation firewall
- Identify which device of an HA pair is the active partner
- Identify various methods for authentication, authorization, and device administration within PAN-OS software for connecting to the firewall
- Identify how to configure and maintain certificates to support firewall features
- Identify the features that support IPv6
- Identify how to configure a virtual router
- Given a scenario, identify how to configure an interface as a DHCP relay agent
- Identify the configuration settings for site-to-site VPN
- Identify the configuration settings for GlobalProtect
- Identify how to configure features of NAT policy rules
- Given a configuration example including DNAT, identify how to configure security rules
- Identify how to configure decryption
- Given a scenario, identify an application override configuration and use case
- Identify how to configure VM-Series firewalls for deployment
- Identify how to configure firewalls to use tags and filtered log forwarding for integration with network automation

#Operate [ 20% ]

- Identify considerations for configuring external log forwarding
- Interpret log files, reports, and graphs to determine traffic and threat trends
- Identify scenarios in which there is a benefit from using custom signatures
- Given a scenario, identify the process to update a Palo Alto Networks system to the latest version of the software
- Identify how configuration management operations are used to ensure desired operational state of stability and continuity
- Identify the settings related to critical HA functions (link monitoring; path monitoring; HA1, HA2, HA3, and HA4 functionality; HA backup links; and differences between A/A and A/P HA pairs and HA clusters)
- Identify the sources of information that pertain to HA functionality
- Identify how to configure the firewall to integrate with AutoFocus and verify its functionality
- Identify the impact of deploying dynamic updates
- Identify the relationship between Panorama and devices as pertaining to dynamic updates versions and policy implementation and/or HA peers

#Configuration Troubleshooting [ 18% ]

- Identify system and traffic issues using the web interface and CLI tools
- Given a session output, identify the configuration requirements used to perform a packet capture
- Given a scenario, identify how to troubleshoot and configure interface components
- Identify how to troubleshoot SSL decryption failures
- Identify issues with the certificate chain of trust
- Given a scenario, identify how to troubleshoot traffic routing issues

#Core Concepts [ 23% ]

- Identify the correct order of the policy evaluation based on the packet flow architecture
- Given an attack scenario against firewall resources, identify the appropriate Palo Alto Networks threat prevention component to prevent or mitigate the attack
- Given an attack scenario against resources behind the firewall, identify the appropriate Palo Alto Networks threat prevention component to prevent or mitigate the attack
- Identify methods for identifying users
- Identify the fundamental functions residing on the management plane and data plane of a Palo Alto Networks firewall
- Given a scenario, determine how to control bandwidth use on a per-application basis
- Identify the fundamental functions and concepts of WildFire
- Identify the purpose of and use case for MFA and the Authentication policy
- Identify the dependencies for implementing MFA
- Given a scenario, identify how to forward traffic
- Given a scenario, identify how to configure policies and related objects
- Identify the methods for automating the configuration of a firewall