● Palo Alto Networks Network Security Analyst (NetSec-Analyst) Exam Materials
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New comment: The dump is currently about 80-85% accurate. Most of the real exam questions are covered here except for approximately 8–10 new questions.
Question #1
Question #2
How often should external dynamic lists be updated to ensure effective Security policy enforcement? (Choose one answer)
- A. Once a week
- B. As new threats are identified
- C. Once a month
- D. As frequently as the external source updates
Question #3
What is the benefit of the Command Center’s centralized dashboard in Strata Cloud Manager (SCM)? (Choose one answer)
- A. Monitoring encryption for network performance optimization
- B. Using AI to predict and prevent potential security incidents
- C. Automatically patching security vulnerabilities
- D. Monitoring and managing threats and operational health
Question #4
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?
(Choose one answer)
- 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”
Question #5
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?
(Choose one answer)
- 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.”
Question #6
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?
(Choose one answer)
- 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.
Question #7
Beyond being a SaaS-based delivery platform, what is an advantage of Strata Cloud Manager (SCM) over Panorama? (Choose one answer)
- A. Live, inline best practice checks
- B. Real-time alerting
- C. Customizable dashboards
- D. NGFW and Prisma Access management
Question #8
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)
- A. Allow
- B. Continue
- C. Block
- D. Alert
Question #9
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)
- 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.
Question #10
What is an important consideration when defining custom data patterns for data loss prevention (DLP) on Palo Alto Networks platforms? (Choose one answer)
- A. They do not require regular updates once deployed.
- B. They are less effective than predefined patterns and should be avoided.
- C. They should be specific and tested to minimize false positives and false negatives.
- D. They should be as broad as possible to cover all potential data types.
Which log type should be checked first using Log Viewer when a user reports being unable to access a specific website? (Choose one answer)