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CNSE Anyone?

brownn — Mon, 03 Oct 2011 14:54:19 GMT

Just wondering if anyone out there has done the CNSE and can offer any advice regarding recommended reading etc?

Thanks

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u8908 — Mon, 03 Oct 2011 16:37:17 GMT

I'm interested in know in well.

Re: CNSE Anyone?

ldormond — Tue, 04 Oct 2011 10:02:28 GMT

Hi,

I'm ACE (Accredited Configuration Engineer), which is PanOS 4 oriented certification.

Unfortunatly, there is no recommanded readings as far as I know, neither for CNSE nor ACE certifications.

The best way is to practice the most as you can, as written in the FAQ.

CNSE covers all the PAN features when ACE covers specific PanOS 4 features (Global Protect, Active/Active HA, ssl/ssh decryption, User ID and so on.

The certifications exams are pretty hard, since each questions has a timeout and you cannot review your answers.

Good luck.

Regards,

Laurent

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jleung — Sun, 09 Oct 2011 11:24:43 GMT

Hi,

CNSE is more about configuration and scenario based questions, so practicing and getting more familiar with the GUI is the only way to get a pass.

Good Luck

Regards,

Jones

CNSE #1025

Re: CNSE Anyone?

UKRB — Mon, 10 Oct 2011 19:06:51 GMT

I'm definately interested in the CNSE but as there is so little written about it, it's hard to guage when one would be ready to attempt the exam.

Any thoughts?

Re: CNSE Anyone?

tarkawa — Fri, 11 Nov 2011 19:14:25 GMT

I'm in the process of writing a guide, just for my own benefit, but maybe once complete, I can share with the community. Right now, I'm studing for the CNSE. I've passed both the ACE 3.0 and 4.0 and have a study guide for these but not ready for publishing.

I'll keep everyone posted.

Anyone have a method to purchase a PA-200 for personal use/studying?

Re: CNSE Anyone?

tarkawa — Fri, 17 Feb 2012 18:34:17 GMT

Just the ACE exam questions are timed and you cannot review, however, the CNSE is timed for the exam in total and you can go back to review your answers.

Re: CNSE Anyone?

tarkawa — Fri, 17 Feb 2012 18:35:44 GMT

If anyone has taken the CNSE and/or have their own notes, please contact me and we can combine our research to develope a study guide and help each other pass the exam.

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jdessoliers — Fri, 17 Feb 2012 18:51:33 GMT

Hi,

I have found this interview of Michael Pawloski, who is in charge of the training material. Apparently, there is an available official training document to pass CNSE 3.1. However, I never found any reference on the Palo Alto Website. He also explains that the updated version of the training material related to CNSE 4.1 should be available on February 2012.

Hope this helps,

Cya.

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friento — Mon, 20 Feb 2012 19:14:23 GMT

If anyone has any review guide for this I'm also interested.

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tarkawa — Mon, 20 Feb 2012 21:10:34 GMT

No, it doesn't, but thanks for replying. I have a copy of his interview as well. I'm fairly confident, that if there's something published or on the net with CNSE in it, I have it... except the official training doc's, which leads me to believe they are not published/on the net

Re: CNSE Anyone?

tarkawa — Mon, 20 Feb 2012 21:12:08 GMT

Contact me if you would like to help create one.

Re: CNSE Anyone?

mbehlok — Tue, 13 Mar 2012 05:41:37 GMT

I took the CNSE 4.1 beta exam today. It was brutal because it was a Beta exam. 216 questions in 4 hours. These are the areas that were concentrated on:

1) Panorama - Know everything Panorama. How to push policies, read logs, HA and Panorama ettc..

2) A ton on NTLM , Captive Portal and authentication methods.

3) Know how to create Security policies and NAT policies

4) Logging was a big item on the exam.

5) Know how to pull a support dump file. Log forwarding, start / end of log and what that means.

Basically, you need alot of hands on with a Palo device. and if you can get your hands on panorama, that will definitely help as well.

Know about HA and how to manage HA devices in Panorama..

Hope this helps, if I think of any extras I will make sure to add..

Mark

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migration — Wed, 28 Mar 2012 19:19:44 GMT

Hi Mark,

Have you received any results/feedback from your exam?

I am still waiting for feedback on my exam.

Thanks,

Ersatz

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rmonvon — Wed, 28 Mar 2012 19:24:28 GMT

I would add IPSec VPN & its troubleshooting, and Global Protect SSL VPN.

Re: CNSE Anyone?

mbehlok — Wed, 28 Mar 2012 19:25:03 GMT

I contacted Paloalto Education / Certification and they told me that it will be a few weeks before we get any results.

Basically they have to tally up the scores and then come out with the results.

Test was pretty brutal, right? 216 questions and 4 hours..

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mbehlok — Wed, 28 Mar 2012 19:26:31 GMT

"I would add IPSec VPN & its troubleshooting, and Global Protect SSL VPN."

Totally agree.. Global Protect was huge on the exam.

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tarkawa — Wed, 28 Mar 2012 19:32:42 GMT

Hi Ersatz, Mark,

How does one sign up to take beta exams, if interested?

Regards,

Walter

Re: CNSE Anyone?

migration — Wed, 28 Mar 2012 19:33:30 GMT

Very challenging. I took it 3wks ago, so thought I'd check up.

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tarkawa — Wed, 28 Mar 2012 19:35:31 GMT

The beta seems brutal with 216 q's in 4 hrs when the actual exam is 60 q's in 2 hrs. I would think PA allowed ample time, maybe a little extra, for 216 questions.