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Palo Alto Networks PCCSE Exam Syllabus

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Before starting your PCCSE exam preparation, it is recommended to review the complete Palo Alto Networks Prisma Certified Cloud Security Engineer exam syllabus and carefully go through the exam objectives listed below. Once you understand the exam structure and objectives, you should practice using our free PCCSE questions. We also provide premium PCCSE practice test, fully updated according to the latest exam objectives, to help you accurately assess your preparedness for the actual exam.

Palo Alto Networks PCCSE Exam Objectives

Section Weight Objectives
Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM) 21% This section covers determining assets in the cloud, setting up policies, compliance rules, alerts, notifications, and doing ad-hoc examinations. 
Cloud Workload Protection (CWP) 21% This section covers tracking image vulberabilities, safeguarding against host vulnerabilities, and improving the implementation of container compliance. 
Install, Upgrade, and Backup / Prisma Cloud Administration 19% This section deals with implementing and overseeing the console, overseeing defenders, taking backups, administering authentication, providing access control, and managing settings related to enterprises such as automating the policies and licensing. 
Cloud Network Security and Identity-Based Microsegmentation Enterprise Edition 11% This section covers setting up cloud network analyzer, implementing and managing enforcers, and managing local changes in dev-prod.
Prisma Cloud Code Security (PCCS) 12% This section covers adopting scanning related to IAC templates and setting up the console for IAC scanning rules. It also covers how to set up CI rules related to computing scanning and overseeing settings related to configuration. 
6 Identity and Access Management (IAM)/Prisma Cloud Data Security (PCDS) 16% This section covers determining the access management IAM/Prisma cloud data security and building IAM policies. It also require combining IAM with IdP and monitoring scan results. 
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