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Palo Alto Networks Certified Network Security Engineer (PCNSE7) - PaloAlto Networks Exam Questions

Last updated on June 20, 2026

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Panorama is being used to upgrade the PAN-OS version on a pair of firewalls in an active/passive high availability (HA) configuration. The Palo Alto Networks best practice upgrade steps have been completed in Panorama (Panorama upgraded, backups made, content updates, and disabling "Preemptive" pushed), and the firewalls are ready for upgrade. What is the next best step to minimize downtime and ensure a smooth transition?
Options
A Suspend the active firewall, upgrade it first, and reboot to verify it comes back online before upgrading the passive peer
B Upgrade both HA peers at the same time using Panorama’s "Group HA Peers" option to ensure version consistency
C Upgrade only the passive peer first, reboot it, restore HA functionality, and then upgrade the active peer
D Perform the upgrade on the active firewall first while keeping the passive peer online to maintain failover capability
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Which three authentication types can be used to authenticate users? (Choose three.)
Select 3
Options
A Local database authentication
B PingID
C Cloud authentication service
D GlobalProtect client
E Kerberos single sign-on
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A firewall engineer is investigating high dataplane CPU utilization. To decrease the load on this CPU,

what should be reduced?
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A The timeout value for admin sessions
B The amount of decrypted traffic
C The number of permitted IP addresses on the management interface
D The number of mapped User-ID groups
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Which CLI command is used to simulate traffic going through the firewall and determine which Security policy rule, NAT translation, static route, or PBF rule will be triggered by the traffic?
Options
A find
B check
C sim
D test
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Which two actions must an engineer take to configure SSL Forward Proxy decryption? (Choose two.)
Select 2
Options
A Define a Forward Trust Certificate.
B Configure the decryption profile.
C Configure a SSL/TLS service profile.
D Configure SSL decryption rules.
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