Free Certification Practice Questions

Validates expertise in creating and implementing security solutions in the AWS Cloud.

Validates the ability to design, develop, and manage secure solutions on Google Cloud by using Google security technologies to configure access, secure communications, protect data, manage operations, and support compliance requirements.

Validates the ability to detect, monitor, analyze, investigate, and respond to security threats against workloads, endpoints, and infrastructure on Google Cloud, including detection rules, log ingestion and prioritization, orchestration, response automation, posture management, and threat intelligence.

Validates foundational knowledge of security, compliance, and identity concepts and related cloud-based Microsoft solutions, including Microsoft Entra, Microsoft security solutions, and Microsoft compliance solutions.

Validates the skills needed to implement security controls, maintain security posture, and identify and remediate vulnerabilities across Azure, hybrid, and multi-cloud environments, including identity, networking, compute, storage, databases, governance, threat protection, and security operations.

Validates the ability to design, implement, and operate identity and access management solutions by using Microsoft Entra, including user and external identities, authentication and access management, workload identities, and identity governance across hybrid and cloud environments.

Validates the ability to manage a security operations environment, respond to incidents, and perform threat hunting by using Microsoft Defender XDR, Microsoft Sentinel, Microsoft Defender for Cloud, Microsoft Purview, Microsoft Entra ID, Kusto Query Language, and automation across multi-cloud and on-premises environments.

Validates the ability to translate cybersecurity strategy into capabilities that protect an organization's assets, business, and operations by designing, guiding implementation of, and maintaining security solutions that follow Zero Trust principles across identity, devices, data, AI, applications, network, infrastructure, DevOps, governance, risk and compliance, security operations, and security posture management.

Validates expertise in GitHub Advanced Security, including security features and functionality, secret scanning, dependency management and review, code scanning with CodeQL, and security best practices and remediation.

Validates knowledge and understanding of all products and services in the Palo Alto Networks network security solution and entry-level maintenance, configuration, installation, and deployment of these products.

Validates the knowledge and skills of experienced network security analysts and firewall administrators in object configuration creation and application, policy creation and application, centralized management, and operations using Strata Cloud Manager (SCM) and Strata Logging Service. The certification also validates the ability to improve security posture and perform troubleshooting.

This certification validates experienced security service edge (SSE) engineers on their knowledge and skills in deployment configuration, post-deployment management and configuration, and their ability to participate in troubleshooting deployed Prisma Access environments. The certification also validates pre-deployment planning of Palo Alto Networks SSE component solutions and an understanding of their architecture to achieve network transformation outcomes.

This certification validates experienced network security architects on their skills and abilities in understanding technical and business requirements and architecting secure, highly available, and scalable systems with network security portfolio solutions and relevant third-party integrations. This certification goes beyond technical knowledge to confirm a candidate's ability to design, develop, and oversee complex security blueprints using industry frameworks that align to compliance requirements and business objectives.

Validates the knowledge, understanding, and job-ready skills required for basic application of the Palo Alto Networks Cortex portfolio of solutions and related technologies in a security operations center (SOC), including threats, alerts, incidents, vulnerability, and compliance.

Validates the job-ready skills required to demonstrate understanding of the basic architecture, components, and operation of Cortex XDR. This certification validates incident investigation and response, alert handling, threat hunting, vulnerability assessment, reporting, and compliance by using the Cortex XDR platform within a SOC.

Validates the knowledge and skills required to use the Palo Alto Networks XSIAM platform for installation, deployment configuration, post-deployment management and configuration, data source onboarding and integration configuration, playbook creation, and detection engineering.

Validates the knowledge and skills of experienced engineers in installation, deployment configuration, post-deployment management and configuration, data source onboarding, integration configuration, and detection engineering using Cortex XDR. The certification also validates the application of Cortex XDR architecture.

Validates the knowledge and skills required for skilled engineers to deploy, configure, manage, integrate, and troubleshoot Cortex XSOAR solutions in security operations environments.

Validates experienced security operations architects on their skills and abilities in understanding technical and business requirements and architecting secure, highly available, and scalable AI-driven security operations center systems with security operations portfolio solutions and relevant third-party integrations.