PCNSA PCNSA Threat Prevention

Question 1

Which Palo Alto Networks security profile is used to detect and block known vulnerability exploits targeting applications?

Accepted Answer

Vulnerability Protection profile

Answer

Antivirus profile

Answer

Anti-Spyware profile

Answer

URL Filtering profile

Question 2

What is the purpose of the Antivirus security profile on a Palo Alto Networks firewall?

Accepted Answer

Detect and block malware in network traffic

Answer

Block access to malicious URLs

Answer

Prevent command-and-control communications

Answer

Identify and block known exploits

Question 3

Which action in a Threat Prevention profile causes the firewall to generate a log entry but still allow the traffic?

Accepted Answer

Alert

Answer

Block

Answer

Drop

Answer

Reset-client

Question 4

What does the Anti-Spyware profile protect against on a Palo Alto Networks firewall?

Accepted Answer

Command-and-control (C2) traffic and spyware phone-home activity

Answer

SQL injection attacks

Answer

Buffer overflow exploits

Answer

Brute force login attempts

Question 5

In Palo Alto Networks threat prevention, what is a 'signature exception' used for?

Accepted Answer

To exempt a specific threat ID from a profile's action

Answer

To create custom threat signatures

Answer

To schedule when threat signatures are updated

Answer

To share signatures across multiple firewalls

Question 6

Which Palo Alto Networks feature uses machine learning to identify and block unknown threats in real time?

Accepted Answer

WildFire

Answer

App-ID

Answer

Zone Protection

Answer

Security Zones