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Start guided practiceDay-to-day firewall administration on PAN-OS: security and NAT policy, App-ID, User-ID and Content-ID, security profiles, and monitoring traffic through the device.
Palo Alto Networks does not publish numeric exam codes — PCNSA is the common abbreviation.
Palo Alto Networks Certified Network Security Administrator is Palo Alto Networks's associate-level cybersecurity certification, referred to across the industry by the shorthand PCNSA. The exam runs for 1 hour 20 minutes and presents up to 50 questions, with a pass mark of not published by Palo Alto Networks. It costs US$155 at the standard rate.
Palo Alto Networks publishes the syllabus as 4 weighted domains. Securing Traffic carries the most weight at 30%, and the three largest domains together account for roughly 80% of the scored content — worth knowing before you decide where study time goes.
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The published exam guide for PCNSA, in the vendor's own order.
01Device Management and Services
22%02Managing Objects
20%03Policy Evaluation and Management
28%04Securing Traffic
30%Networking fundamentals and hands-on PAN-OS exposure.
Associate level — Role-based credentials for practitioners with hands-on experience.
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Palo Alto Networks lists up to 50 questions, to be completed in 1 hour 20 minutes. Question counts can vary slightly between exam forms, and unscored trial questions are sometimes included.
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Networking fundamentals and hands-on PAN-OS exposure.
The exam guide covers Device Management and Services, Managing Objects, Policy Evaluation and Management and Securing Traffic. The full weighted breakdown is listed above.
Yes — this exam has 404 practice questions available here, each with the correct answer marked. They are community-contributed, compiled from exam discussions posted publicly by other people rather than written here, and most do not carry an explanation.