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Palo Alto Networks PSE-Cortex Exam Syllabus Topics:
| Section | Objectives |
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| Cortex XSOAR | - Security orchestration and automation
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| Cortex XDR | - Threat detection and analysis
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| Third-party Logs and Feeds | - Log management
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| Cortex Platform Deployment and Installation | - Platform deployment
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| Threat Hunting Services | - Threat hunting operations
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| Incident Response | - Security operations
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The PSE-Cortex syllabus is divided into 6 domains, including Third-party Logs and Feeds, Threat Hunting Services, and Cortex XDR. The complete breakdown, with every domain and its subtopics, is listed in the Exam Topics section above — review it line by line and flag the areas where you feel weakest.
Palo Alto Networks System Engineer - Cortex Professional Sample Questions:
Where is the output of the task visible when a playbook task errors out?
- A. War Room of the incident
- B. XSOAR audit log
- C. playbook editor
- D. /var/log/messages
Correct Answer: A 🗳️
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How do sub-playbooks affect the Incident Context Data?
- A. When set to private, task outputs automatically get written to the root context
- B. When set to global, allows parallel task execution.
- C. When set to global, sub-playbook tasks do not have access to the root context
- D. When set to private, task outputs do not automatically get written to the root context
Correct Answer: D 🗳️
A Cortex XSOAR customer wants to ingest emails from a single mailbox. The mailbox brings in reported phishing emails and email requests from human resources (HR) to onboard new users. The customer wants to run two separate workflows from this mailbox, one for phishing and one for onboarding.
What will allow Cortex XSOAR to accomplish this in the most efficient way?
- A. Use an incident classifier based on a field in each type of email to classify those containing "Phish Alert" in the subject as phishing and those containing "Onboard Request" as onboarding.
- B. Create two instances of the email integration and classify one instance as ingesting incidents of type phishing and the other as ingesting incidents of type onboarding.
- C. Create a playbook to process and determine incident type based on content of the email.
- D. Use machine learning (ML) to determine incident type.
Correct Answer: A 🗳️
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Which method is used for third-party network data consumption?
- A. Common Event Format (CEF) via broker Syslog module
- B. Open Database Connectivity (ODBC) connection to network device database
- C. file reader to the /var/log/messages file on the device
- D. scripts library from the action center
Correct Answer: A 🗳️
Which two types of indicators of compromise (IOCs) are available for creation in Cortex XDR? (Choose two.)
- A. hostname
- B. hash
- C. registry
- D. file path
Correct Answer: B,D 🗳️
