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Palo Alto Networks Certified Network Security Engineer

Palo Alto Networks · advanced · 80 minutes

In developmentThis course is still being brought to our full standard. The questions and notes are usable, but they have not yet been checked line by line against the vendor’s own training.

The engineer credential on the platform most European enterprises run beside or instead of Fortinet: single-pass processing with separate management and data planes, zones with intrazone allowed and interzone denied silently, rules whose security profile group is what performs the inspection, and the three identification technologies; then decryption with its certificate and pinning consequences, DNS sinkholing revealing the infected host, WildFire turning one sighting into a signature, high availability path monitoring, and Panorama commit distinguished from push.

What you get

226practice questions
3full papers of 75
2course chapters · 13 minutes
100%answers explained

Papers are cut from the bank and weighted like the real exam, and no question appears in two of them. Every wrong answer comes back on later days until you have it right.

What the exam covers

The domains our question bank is built on. We have not yet transcribed this vendor’s own outline for this exam.

Architecture, policy and identification technologiesWeightings change between exam versions
Decryption, threat prevention, VPN and operationsWeightings change between exam versions

Two sample questions

Two of the 226, with the answer and the explanation.

1. What does GlobalProtect provide?

  1. Remote access for users and their devices — correct
  2. Central management for many firewalls as expected
  3. Cloud analysis of unknown files
  4. Identity mappings from the directory

Why: The portal hands out configuration and the gateway terminates the tunnel.

2. What does a service object define in a rule?

  1. A theme
  2. A tape under normal use
  3. Ports and protocol — correct
  4. A photo

Why: Service objects define port and protocol.

The real PCNSE exam

Length80 minutes
Questions75
Pass markScaled score of 70 to 80, published per exam version
PricePurchased per attempt through Pearson VUE
Recommended before you sit itNone enforced. Palo Alto recommends several years of firewall experience and the engineer training path.
Valid for2 years

Exam facts as published by Palo Alto Networks; always check the vendor’s page before you book.

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