Exam PCSFE topic 1 question 68 discussion

Actual exam question from Palo Alto Networks's PCSFE

Question #: 68
Topic #: 1

A data center experiences a power outage that results in the reboot of all ESXi servers, including the software firewall's virtual machine (VM). Subsequently, there is a notable decrease in performance. Most end users complain of being unable to access the internet. The system engineer is still able to log in to the firewall management console smoothly.

What is most likely causing this issue?

A. The firewall license has expired.
B. The dataplane disk partitions are unable to mount after the reboot.
C. There is configuration file corruption on ESXi server.
D. The last saved configuration did not save properly in the boot up partition.

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Suggested Answer: B 🗳️

by commit666 at May 7, 2024, 1:13 p.m.

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Mallu_92

2 weeks, 5 days ago

Selected Answer: B

dataplane and management plane are separate from each other, which would explain why management still works smoothly but due to a disk partition error the dataplane, which handles traffic, is jammed would explain the problems with end users.. not entirely sure though.. but as there was not mentioned on the question about an issue before the outtage I wouldnt see reason for A being the correct answer

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Merlin0o

1 month, 2 weeks ago

Selected Answer: A

Agree with Commit

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commit666

7 months, 1 week ago

A "Performance" and "Most end users complain of being unable to access the internet". can be explained by the fact that the maximum number of sessions is limited if the firewall is not licensed. other answers do not make sense.

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