Cloud-Security-Engineer Cloud Workload Protection Practice Question
A security team wants to block high-severity Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVEs) from being deployed into production clusters via CI/CD pipelines. Where should this policy be enforced using Prisma Cloud?
Answer choices
Why each option matters
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Correct answer & explanation
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Configure a Vulnerability policy in Prisma Cloud and integrate twistcli scan into the build pipeline to fail the build on high-severity CVEs.
CI/CD scanning is integrated early in the pipeline using twistcli or plugins to scan images before they reach registries or production clusters.
Answer analysis
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Configure a Vulnerability policy in Prisma Cloud and integrate twistcli scan into the build pipeline to fail the build on high-severity CVEs.
Why this is correct
Enforcing vulnerability policies via twistcli in the CI/CD pipeline stops vulnerable images from being built and pushed.
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Apply an AWS IAM Service Control Policy to restrict pushing container images to Amazon ECR.
Why it's wrong here
IAM SCPs manage AWS resource permissions, not container image vulnerability contents.
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Set up a Kubernetes Admission Controller webhook to block pods with vulnerable base images.
Why it's wrong here
While Admission Controllers block at deployment time, CI/CD scanning stops the build earlier in the lifecycle.
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Enable runtime audit mode on the Host Defender to terminate processes matching high-severity CVEs.
Why it's wrong here
Host Defenders protect runtime hosts and containers, but vulnerability checks are static image properties.
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Last reviewed August 2026 · checked against the official Palo Alto Networks exam blueprint
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