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A network engineer observes a pattern of anomalous traffic hitting an external-facing zone, including a high volume of TCP packets that are not part of a new session handshake (non-SYN), and a large number of ICMP fragments. The engineer decides to apply a Zone Protection profile to mitigate these potential threats.
Which protection type within the profile must be configured?
A network security engineer needs to permit traffic between two distinct VSYS that reside on one Palo Alto Networks firewall. This traffic will not egress the firewall to an external device.
Which zone type must be configured to act as the logical source and destination for this traffic flow?
An administrator configures a GlobalProtect gateway with split tunneling for network traffic based on an access route. Users report that public web browsing works, but they cannot resolve the names of internal servers. The administrator determines that all DNS queries are being sent to the public DNS servers configured on the users' endpoints.
Which GlobalProtect portal setting should be configured to resolve this issue?
An enterprise uses GlobalProtect with both user- and machine-based certificate authentication and requires pre-logon, OCSP checks, and minimal user disruption. They manage multiple firewalls via Panorama and deploy domain-issued machine certificates via Group Policy.
Which approach ensures continuous, secure connectivity and consistent policy enforcement?
Which configuration step is required when implementing a new self-signed root certificate authority (CA) certificate for SSL decryption on a Palo Alto Networks firewall?
A network administrator needs to replace the default self-signed certificate on a firewall with one signed by the company's internal certificate authority (CA).
Which two firewall features would require this new certificate to be assigned via an SSL/TLS service profile? (Choose two.)
An engineer configures a PA-440 firewall to act as a switch by creating several Layer 2 interfaces and assigning them all to VLAN 20. A file server is connected to interface ethernet1/1, and client workstations are connected to interfaces ethernet1/2 and ethemet1/3. All devices are in VLAN 20. The clients are unable to access the file server.
Which configuration step to allow this communication by default is missing?
An automation engineer is developing a Python script to standardize SD-WAN deployments across multiple customer tenants in Panorama. A key requirement is to programmatically create path quality profiles to monitor link performance based on latency, jitter, and packet loss.
Which API call is required for this task?
A security administrator is creating a new custom report to get a consolidated view of network events and needs to select a database to query for the report data.
Which valid set of databases is available for the task?
A cloud security team wants to extend its existing Palo Alto Networks Security policies into the organization's Kubernetes environments. The team requires an NGFW solution that can be deployed natively as a container and managed by Panorama.
Which firewall form factor meets these requirements?
An administrator plans to upgrade a pair of active/passive firewalls to a new PAN-OS release. The environment is highly sensitive, and downtime must be minimized.
What is the recommended upgrade process for minimal disruption in this high availability (HA) scenario?
Which set of options is available for detailed logs when building a custom report on a Palo Alto Networks NGFW?
An administrator is configuring a site-to-site IPSec VPN and assigns an IP address to the tunnel interface.
Which two abilities are enabled by this specific configuration step? (Choose two.)
After a recent security audit, a company is required to enforce more strict validation for all certificate-based authentication, including for GlobalProtect clients. An engineer observes the firewall accepting certificates from a recently compromised intermediate certificate authority (CA). The engineer needs to update the firewall configuration to use an Online Certificate Status Protocol (OCSP) responder to check for revoked certificates in real time.
In which configuration object would the engineer enable OCSP verification for the CAs used in the authentication process?
An organization is adopting an Infrastructure as Code (IaC) approach to manage its entire network environment, including its Palo Alto Networks firewalls. The organization has chosen Ansible as its primary tool for this initiative.
How does Ansible enable an IaC model for managing this organization's firewalls?
An engineer is configuring a site-to-site IPSec VPN to a partner network. The IKE Gateway and IPSec tunnel configurations are complete, and the tunnel interface has been assigned to a security zone. However, the tunnel fails to establish, and no application traffic passes through it once it is up.
Which two Security policy configurations are required to allow tunnel establishment and data traffic flow in this scenario? (Choose two.)
How does a Palo Alto Networks NGFW respond when the preemptive hold time is set to 0 minutes during configuration of route monitoring?
What are the phases of the Palo Alto Networks AI Runtime Security: Network Intercept solution?
An administrator is configuring dynamic updates on a Palo Alto Networks firewall that protects a hospital's patient record system. The primary concern is ensuring maximum stability and avoiding any service disruption from a potentially problematic content update.
To align with Palo Alto Networks best practices for such environments, which threshold should the administrator set for content updates?
An organization runs multiple Kubernetes clusters both on-premises and in public clouds (AWS, Azure, GCP). They want to deploy the Palo Alto Networks CN-Series NGFW to secure east-west traffic within each cluster, maintain consistent Security policies across all environments, and dynamically scale as containerized workloads spin up or down. They also plan to use a centralized Panorama instance for policy management and visibility.
Which approach meets these requirements?
Which configuration in the LACP tab will enable pre-negotiation for an Aggregate Ethernet (AE) interface on a Palo Alto Networks high availability (HA) active/passive pair?
An engineer is implementing a new rollout of SAML for administrator authentication across a company’s Palo Alto Networks NGFWs. User authentication on company firewalls is currently performed with RADIUS, which will remain available for six months, until it is decommissioned. The company wants both authentication types to be running in parallel during the transition to SAML.
Which two actions meet the criteria? (Choose two.)
Without performing a context switch, which set of operations can be performed that will affect the operation of a connected firewall on the Panorama GUI?
An administrator needs to perform several maintenance tasks on a managed firewall directly from the Panorama console, without using the Context Switch feature.
Which set of tasks can the administrator fully execute from the Panorama UI? (Choose one answer)
What is the requirement for interface link speeds when configuring a virtual wire on a Palo Alto Networks firewall?
An network engineer is configuring SSL Forward Proxy decryption on a Palo Alto Networks firewall. The company's internal clients trust a corporate root certificate authority (CA). To ensure the firewall can properly validate the certificates of external web servers, the engineer must configure a specific component.
Which component defines the mechanism for Online Certificate Status Protocol (OCSP) / certificate revocation list (CRL) status?
What is a result of enabling split tunneling in the GlobalProtect portal configuration with the “Both Network Traffic and DNS” option?
A network security engineer is designing a resilient architecture for inspecting traffic in Google Cloud Platform (GCP). The design must ensure that firewall service is maintained even if a single GCP zone becomes unavailable.
Which architecture should be used for the VM-Series firewalls in this use case?
In a Palo Alto Networks environment, GlobalProtect has been enabled using certificate-based authentication for both users and devices. To ensure proper validation of certificates, one or more certificate profiles are configured.
What function do certificate profiles serve in this context?
A company is enabling SSL Forward Proxy to inspect encrypted traffic. A security engineer generates a new certificate on the firewall and flags it with the "Forward Trust" certificate property.
What is the critical next step that must be performed for decryption to function correctly without causing security warnings for end users?
An administrator needs to ensure that a firewall can download threat prevention and software updates, but the management port is on an isolated network without internet access.
Which service must be rerouted through a data plane interface using a service route to allow the firewall to download these updates?
A government agency needs to ensure that all user web access is explicitly mediated and authenticated.
The agency has the following requirements:
• Client browsers must be manually configured to send traffic to the firewall's IP address and a specific port.
• The firewall must support seamless single sign-on (SSO) with the users' existing Active Directory credentials.
Which feature set should the engineer configure to meet the agency's requirements?
TESTED 17 Jun 2026