Palo Alto Networks Network Security Analyst (NetSec-Analyst) Free Practice Test

Question 1

An analyst wants to create a custom application for an internal tool that uses a specific proprietary protocol. Which information is required to ensure the firewall correctly identifies this application using App-ID?

A. The MAC address of the server.

B. The URL category of the server.

C. Signature patterns found in the packet payload.

D. Source and Destination IP addresses.

Correct Answer: C

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Question 2

A security administrator is building out Decryption policies and wants to decrypt according to Palo Alto Networks best practices. Which URL categories should the administrator add to the policies?

A. Online storage and backup web-based email web hosting, personal sites and blogs, content delivery networks, and high-risk URL.

B. AI website generator, Command and Control, compromised website, encrypted DNS, and dynamic DNS.

C. Newly registered domains, internet communications and telephony, high-risk URL, insufficient content, hacking, and grayware.

D. Proxy avoidance and anonymizers, ransomware unknown, web-based email, web advertisements, and not resolved.

Correct Answer: C

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Question 3

A custom spyware signature that includes implementing a pattern match for the HTTP header content and HTTP message body is being created.
Which type of context should be used for the standards within the signature?

A. Integer

B. String

C. Parameter

D. Body

Correct Answer: D

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Question 4

A financial company is deploying NGFWs with the Advanced SD-WAN subscription to improve uptime and bandwidth across thousands of ATMs. The company requires that traffic flows to the internal application needed by the ATMs always use the path with the lowest latency and packet loss. Which unique SD-WAN rule parameters meet this criteria?

A. Application/Service: "Internal Application for ATMs" & "Management" in Path Quality Profile → Path Selection "Any."

B. Application/Service: "Internal Application for ATMs" & "ATM Path(Custom)" in Path Quality Profile
→ Path Selection "Any."

C. Application/Service: "Internal Application for ATMs" → Path Selection: "Best Available Path" in Traffic Distribution Profile.

D. Application/Service: "Internal Application for ATMs" → Path Selection "Weighted Distribution" in Traffic Distribution Profile.

Correct Answer: C

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Question 5

An organization splits its data center network per policy change mandates. The NGFWs must support both sides of the network on a single high availability (HA) pair. The NGFWs have SD- WAN running for 32 branches, which will be divided into 8 and 24 for the split. The NGFWs also run OSPF and BGP, which prevents the completion of the project to comply with the policy change.
Which action must be taken to resolve this issue'?

A. Select "Enable Multi-VR Support" in the Panorama -> SD-WAN -> Device section for the HA pair then create two virtual routers with appropriate routing policy.

B. Select "Enable Multi-LR Support" in the Strata Cloud Manager -> SD-WAN -> Device section for the HA pair then create two virtual routers with appropriate routing policy.

C. Select "Enable Multi-LR Support" in the Panorama -> SD-WAN > Device section for the HA pair, then create two virtual routers with appropriate routing policy.

D. Select "Enable Multi-VR Support" in the Strata Cloud Manager -> SD-WAN -> Device section for the HA pair, then create two virtual routers with appropriate routing policy.

Correct Answer: A

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Question 6

A network security analyst is evaluating the impact of quantum computing and post-quantum encryption algorithms. While researching the NGFWs, the analyst finds logs in the decryption view that read, "Client only supports Post-Quantum Algorithms." Upon discussing this finding with the team, a decision is made to accept the sessions.
Which action must the analyst perform on the NGFWs to support this decision?

A. Create a decryption profile that supports the algorithms found in the logs.

B. Enable hybrid post-quantum cryptography support for web traffic.

C. Create "no decrypt" policies or decryption exclusions for the applications in scope.

D. Remove the applications from the predefined decryption exclusions global list.

Correct Answer: C

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Question 7

A security analyst is using the Strata Cloud Manager (SCM) Policy Optimizer to create specific and focused rules. The analyst accepts the new rules from Policy Optimizer and updates the rule base, but the traffic does not hit these new rules. Which action needs to be taken to resolve this issue?

A. Enable the newly created Security policy rules

B. Remove the original Security policy rule

C. Perform a commit

D. Execute a push configuration

Correct Answer: D

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Question 8

An analyst is configuring a "WildFire Analysis Profile." Which file types can be sent to the WildFire cloud for sandbox analysis?

A. Only .exe and .msi files.

B. Only Microsoft Office documents.

C. Only encrypted files that cannot be decrypted locally.

D. All file types supported by the Content-ID engine, including PDFs and APKs.

Correct Answer: D

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