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NEW QUESTION # 11
A global manufacturing organization has a strategic plan for rapid growth through mergers and acquisitions Several components the organization has purchased are deemed large deployments with existing IP address schemas and allocations that conflict with the parent organization. The manufacturing organization needs access to the resources before a re-IP initiative can be completed.
All of the deployments include a variety of IoT devices Leadership requires protection of vulnerable assets and identification of any known CVEs associated with the IoT devices. The governance, risk and compliance (GRC) team requires comprehensive non-repudiable logs to identify all IoT devices reporting "Critical (9 0+) CVE scores" for mandatory remediation.
Throughput needs to exceed the current 1 Gbps trending rate, and with expected growth will soon scale to 5 Gbps.
Segmentation is a mandatory requirement with enclaves based on region, device type, and function.
In which two ways should the organization architect for isolation of IoT with groupings based on the device types? (Choose two.)
- A. CVE risk scoring-based policy
- B. Dynamic address groups
- C. Device-ID based policies
- D. Vendor OUI-based policy
Answer: B,C
NEW QUESTION # 12
An organization wants to modernize its legacy branch architecture. The existing architecture is rigid, complex, and ill-suited for a cloud-first strategy, creating high operational costs and latency.
- The four core data centers are strategically located in Dallas, Toronto, London and Tokyo, and they are interconnected by a dedicated MPLS backbone providing reliable connectivity but incurring significant costs and offering limited bandwidth scalability.
- Branches rely on MPLS or site-to-site VPN to connect to the nearest geographical data center.
- All internet-bound traffic from the branches is backhauled to the data center egress firewalls.
This creates latency for SaaS applications and increases bandwidth strain on the MPLS links.
What is the primary security posture enhancement that can be achieved in this use case by offloading data center backhaul to a PAN-OS SD-WAN model with local internet breakout for SaaS traffic?
- A. Better visibility and granular control at the branch firewall
- B. Reduced attack surface on the MPLS / DC edge by removing unnecessary SaaS flows
- C. Improved resilience by allowing path diversity with DIA, LTE, or broadband
- D. Better segmentation within the branch LAN allowing for isolation of user groups or devices locally
Answer: A
Explanation:
Offloading SaaS traffic from data center backhaul to PAN-OS SD-WAN with local internet breakout improves security posture primarily by enforcing visibility and granular policy control directly at the branch, where the traffic actually originates. PAN-OS SD-WAN is designed to secure direct internet access locally at branch sites instead of forcing SaaS traffic through centralized data center egress, which enables more precise application-aware inspection and control closer to users and devices.
NEW QUESTION # 13
An organization wants to detect and prevent unknown malware. Which Palo Alto feature should be implemented?
- A. Routing
- B. WildFire
- C. NAT
- D. Antivirus only
Answer: B
Explanation:
WildFire analyzes unknown files in a sandbox environment and generates signatures for newly discovered malware. This enables protection against zero-day threats that traditional antivirus solutions may not detect.
NEW QUESTION # 14
A technology company is deploying its own AI applications on a Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) cluster. The development team is concerned about protecting the complex, microservices- based AI stack from both internal and external threats: such as data poisoning and lateral movement between containerized components. Which solution should be proposed to address these concerns?
- A. AI Access Security with Advanced URL Filtering
- B. AI Access Security with App-ID Cloud Engine
- C. Prisma AIRS Network Intercept
- D. Prisma AIRS API Intercept
Answer: C
Explanation:
Network Intercept provides visibility and enforcement on east-west and north-south traffic within Kubernetes environments, allowing inspection of communications between microservices. This enables detection and prevention of threats such as lateral movement and data poisoning by analyzing runtime network behavior inside the AI application stack.
NEW QUESTION # 15
A firewall must block known vulnerabilities and exploits in real time. Which security profile is MOST relevant?
- A. Vulnerability Protection
- B. DNS Security
- C. WildFire
- D. URL Filtering
Answer: A
Explanation:
Vulnerability Protection detects and blocks exploit attempts targeting known vulnerabilities. It provides inline prevention, whereas WildFire focuses on unknown threats and URL filtering focuses on web access control.
NEW QUESTION # 16
A multinational organization has a large worldwide remote user base. This user base consists of several persona types with distinct requirements and concerns regarding the adoption of a Zero Trust Network Access (ZTNA) solution.
- Developers have a requirement to temporarily bypass security controls for business purposes, but the security team sees this as a potential risk. The developers commonly access development servers onsite in private data centers and public cloud. These development applications use web (HTTP/HTTPS), API, RPC, and SMB-based applications.
- Sales staff travel regularly and connect to the network via many different types of connections, but they are generally limited to SaaS-based web applications. They often complain about performance when any agent is installed and want the ability to temporarily disable these agents.
Data exfiltration and insider risk have been identified as the primary threats for this class of user.
- Executives have concerns about being high-value targets. Security must be consistent across the multiple endpoint types, including mobile and desktop devices. The executive team members have indicated that their primary objective is to ensure that the solution is responsive and easy to troubleshoot.
Which two parameters should the architect take into account regarding GlobalProtect gateway selection? (Choose two.)
- A. Gateway priority
- B. Proximity to destination resources
- C. Proximity to users
- D. Gateway geo IP mapping
Answer: A,C
NEW QUESTION # 17
A company needs DNS-based threat protection to block malicious domains. Which solution is appropriate?
- A. QoS
- B. App-ID
- C. URL Filtering
- D. DNS Security
Answer: D
Explanation:
DNS Security detects and blocks malicious domains at the DNS layer, preventing communication with command-and-control servers. URL filtering works at a different layer and does not provide the same level of DNS-based protection.
NEW QUESTION # 18
A network experiences encrypted threats bypassing inspection. What is the BEST mitigation?
- A. Enable SSL decryption
- B. Use static routes
- C. Disable logging
- D. Block all HTTPS
Answer: A
Explanation:
SSL decryption allows inspection of encrypted traffic, revealing hidden threats. Blocking HTTPS is impractical, and disabling logging or adjusting routing does not address encrypted threat visibility.
NEW QUESTION # 19
A global organization is modernizing its data center and private cloud infrastructure. The environment consists of:
- A Nutanix AHV cluster hosting critical east-west application workloads
- A VMware ESXi cluster with multi-socket hosts, supporting high-throughput workloads (>10 Gbps)
- A new pair of PA-5450 firewalls to secure the perimeter and handle encrypted traffic inspection at scale
- Strict performance service-level agreements (SLAs) for both north-south and east-west flows, with heavy reliance on TLS 1.3 and IPSec
- A Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) environment on KVM to provide high-performance security services to maximize packet throughput and minimize latency The chief architect is tasked with ensuring that the firewall design avoids hypervisor contention optimizes non-uniform memory access (NUMA) and uses hardware features for encrypted traffic.
VM-Series on Nutanix AHV - Resource Allocation
- Because the Nutanix cluster is already heavily used, the architect's main concern is preventing performance degradation of the virtual firewall. Thin provisioning or ballooning could introduce latency and unpredictability which is unacceptable for a security-sensitive workload.
VM-Series on VMware ESXi - NUMA and vCPU Placement
- In the VMware ESXi environment, the architect is deploying VM-Series for workloads pushing >10 Gbps. Assigning vCPUs across NUMA nodes or oversubscribing cores would create latency due to cross-socket memory access and scheduling delays. Similarly, dedicating logical hypethreads does not provide the deterministic data plane performance required.
Operational Integration and High Availability
- With performance guaranteed by correct hypervisor and hardware provisioning, the architect also considers high availability (HA). VM-Series pairs are deployed in active/passive HA across Nutanix and VMware clusters, while PA-5450s form the data center's north-south secure perimeter deployment. This ensures resilience without introducing unnecessary east-west inspection bottlenecks.
- The recommendation must be a scalable, high-performance firewall deployment aligned with enterprise SLAs and the CISO's encrypted traffic concerns.
Which PAN-OS feature will meet the CISO's need for north-south traffic inspection?
- A. Dual redundant, hot-swappable power supplies for HA
- B. High-density DAC/QSFP ports for flexible network connectivity
- C. Dedicated out-of-band management port for separating management and data traffic
- D. Dedicated hardware crypto engines for offloading SSL/TLS decryption and IPSec processing
Answer: D
Explanation:
Dedicated hardware crypto engines on the PA-5450 offload SSL/TLS decryption and IPSec processing from the main CPU, enabling high-performance inspection of encrypted north-south traffic. This ensures the firewall can meet strict SLAs while handling heavy TLS 1.3 and IPSec workloads efficiently.
NEW QUESTION # 20
A multinational organization has a large worldwide remote user base. This user base consists of several persona types with distinct requirements and concerns regarding the adoption of a Zero Trust Network Access (ZTNA) solution.
- Developers have a requirement to temporarily bypass security controls for business purposes, but the security team sees this as a potential risk. The developers commonly access development servers onsite in private data centers and public cloud. These development applications use web (HTTP/HTTPS), API, RPC, and SMB-based applications.
- Sales staff travel regularly and connect to the network via many different types of connections, but they are generally limited to SaaS-based web applications. They often complain about performance when any agent is installed and want the ability to temporarily disable these agents.
Data exfiltration and insider risk have been identified as the primary threats for this class of user.
- Executives have concerns about being high-value targets. Security must be consistent across the multiple endpoint types, including mobile and desktop devices. The executive team members have indicated that their primary objective is to ensure that the solution is responsive and easy to troubleshoot.
Which solution should be suggested to mitigate the security risk and meet the concerns of the sales team?
- A. Provide end users scoped access to Strata Cloud Manager (SCM) and require them to configure split tunneling for applications they need to bypass
- B. Use the standalone WildFire Agent on the endpoint to maintain security for large and unknown file downloads
- C. Automate uploads of files to the Enterprise DLP submissions portal so all files undergo data inspection regardless of connectivity method
- D. Migrate end users to Prisma Browser for all work applications and apply data protection rules to all enterprise applications
Answer: D
Explanation:
Prisma Browser provides agentless access with built-in data protection controls, allowing the organization to enforce DLP and prevent data exfiltration without requiring a traditional endpoint agent. This directly addresses the sales team's concern about performance and the ability to disable agents while still maintaining strong security controls for SaaS-based applications.
NEW QUESTION # 21
A security architect must design a Zero Trust architecture using Palo Alto solutions. Which principle is MOST critical?
- A. Disable encryption
- B. Allow all outbound traffic
- C. Trust internal network by default
- D. Verify and inspect all traffic
Answer: D
Explanation:
Zero Trust requires continuous verification of all users and traffic, regardless of location. Palo Alto NGFW supports this with App-ID, User-ID, and content inspection. Trusting internal networks or allowing unrestricted outbound traffic contradicts Zero Trust principles.
NEW QUESTION # 22
An organization plans to deploy a full SASE architecture consisting of Prisma SD-WAN IONs at branches and data centers alongside Prisma Access remote networks, service connections, and mobile users. The business office team requires that traffic from global remote offices to public cloud is of highest criticality, and this traffic should have the greatest service-level agreement (SLA) and QoS priority while still maintaining a balance of threat inspection. Which recommendation should the architect make to provide the lowest latency, highest throughput, and greatest resilience for the applications?
- A. Prisma Access remote networks with service connections directly to the cloud environment using IPSec and either static or dynamic routing
- B. Prisma SD-WAN IONs deployed within the cloud environment using BGP-to-peer to the internal route tables of the application
- C. Prisma SD-WAN ION deployed at both branch and private data center with a direct private link between the private data center and the public cloud provider
- D. Prisma Access Agent or a PAC file explicit proxy configuration connecting the end user devices directly to Prisma Access with a service connection to the public cloud provider
Answer: B
Explanation:
Deploying Prisma SD-WAN IONs in the public cloud gives remote offices the most direct path to cloud-hosted applications, which is the best fit for lowest latency and highest throughput. Prisma SD-WAN is built around application-aware path selection, QoS, and performance policy so traffic can be prioritized by business criticality and moved to a better path when SLA metrics such as latency, loss, or jitter are violated. Palo Alto Networks also supports BGP on branch and data center ION devices, including public-cloud deployments through its cloud integrations, which provides resilient routing to cloud application environments.
NEW QUESTION # 23
A global organization is in the process of securing critical applications during a cloud-based migration while migrating to a cloud-first design, and it is currently performing a brownfield migration of its most critical applications - such as CRM and product intellectual property / design systems - into Azure Cloud. The organization already has an active/passive high availability (HA) NGFW deployed at its data center with multiple zones and has replicated that design into its existing Azure HA deployment.
The organization recognizes the need to modernize its security posture as critical workloads move out of the data center and users connect from anywhere. Its security model is defined by a traditional "hard shell, soft center" approach:
Zero Trust Gaps
- Current network segmentation is perimeter-based. The organization wants to expand Zero Trust principles across cloud and on-premises environments.
- The network relies heavily on VLANs and IP address-based Access Control Lists (ACLs) segmented primarily by office location and broad departmental groups.
- Once employees are on the corporate network (i.e., inside the "perimeter"), they have relatively wide access.
- If attackers compromise a single endpoint (e.g., via a phishing email), they can easily move laterally and scan for high-value targets.
Cloud Blind Spots
- The organization uses Azure for its production environments and hosts applications that contain sensitive customer data.
- Security controls in the cloud are often managed independently of the on-premises network.
Access is frequently granted with overly permissive identity and access management (IAM) roles and keys based on the resource rather than the user's real-time context or application health.
Remote User Access
- Many remote users are still hairpinning into the corporate data center just to reach internet or SaaS resources, creating latency and inefficiency.
- Traditional VPN is used for remote employees.
- The VPN grants access to the entire internal network segment making the remote endpoint the new, weaker perimeter. There is no continuous check on the user's device health after the initial connection.
Visibility and Logging
- Logs are primarily stored on-premises, then forwarded to a local Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) solution. As applications move to Azure, visibility into cloud traffic and user behavior becomes fragmented.
Data Security Concern
- Sensitive data, including product design files, will now live in SaaS and cloud environments. The organization needs data security to prevent leakage and enforce compliance.
Ingress Security
- Third-party partners and suppliers require access into the data center and cloud applications, introducing risk at ingress points.
The organization needs to ensure data security and prevent the leakage of sensitive product design files since it is migrating to SaaS and cloud environments.
How would implementing a Next-Generation CASB (CASB-X) capability address the concerns in the scenario?
- A. By applying URL filtering and malware prevention to all traffic destined for unsanctioned or risky cloud applications, reducing the attack surface
- B. By providing data loss prevention (DLP) features to scan data-at-rest and data-in-transit in sanctioned SaaS and cloud applications
- C. By continuously monitoring user behavior and device health from a central control point to prevent lateral movement if an attacker compromises an endpoint
- D. By replacing the reliance on VLANs and IP address-based Access Control Lists (ACLs) by enforcing a user-to-application microsegmentation policy based on identity
Answer: B
Explanation:
Next-Generation CASB (CASB-X) provides integrated data protection by applying DLP controls to both data-at-rest and data-in-transit within sanctioned SaaS and cloud applications. This enables the organization to identify, monitor, and prevent leakage of sensitive product design files as they move to cloud and SaaS environments, directly addressing the data security concern.
NEW QUESTION # 24
An organization wants to migrate to an SSE model using Prisma Access for hybrid workforce connectivity. Following bandwidth analysis, network engineers have identified high-bandwidth requirements (>2 Gbps) sustained throughput to the data center for privately hosted applications (e.g., three tier applications active FTP and SMB file servers, EDR toolsets).
Business continuity for the organization requires the ability to use multiple cloud providers for private-application connectivity, ensuring no single cloud provider outage can disrupt operations.
The network operations team has expressed concerns about migrating to SSE with legacy routing technical debt noting multiple redistribution protocols in place across the environment.
Which two network connectivity methods will meet the business requirements to access private applications from Prisma Access? (Choose two.)
- A. Colo-Connect
- B. ZTNA Connectors
- C. Cloud gateways
- D. Service connections
Answer: A,D
Explanation:
Colo-Connect provides high-throughput, private connectivity from Prisma Access to on-premises data centers, supporting multi-gigabit bandwidth requirements and enabling connections across multiple cloud providers for resiliency. Service connections allow direct, private routing between Prisma Access and internal resources while maintaining control over routing without requiring complex redistribution changes, making them suitable for environments with existing routing technical debt.
NEW QUESTION # 25
A cloud engineer has implemented a security solution with a VM-Series firewall in a GCP centralized VPC to secure traffic between two spoke VPCs, but there is no communication between the spokes. Which missed implementation step may cause this behavior?
- A. Peering connection between the two spoke VPCs
- B. Security policy rule allowing inter-spoke traffic
- C. Source NAT policy for traffic initiated from one spoke to the other
- D. Specific no-NAT policy rule for traffic between the spoke CIDR ranges
Answer: B
Explanation:
In the GCP centralized hub-and-spoke design, traffic between spoke VPCs is steered to the internal load balancer in the hub VPC, then inspected and forwarded by the VM-Series firewall through its trust interface to the destination spoke. That means spoke-to-spoke communication depends on the firewall being configured to permit that inter-spoke traffic after inspection. Direct peering between the spokes is not required in this architecture.
NEW QUESTION # 26
An organization is in the process of building a network infrastructure that is cloud first. Part of the revised architecture includes Prisma Access as demonstrated in the diagram below. The organization has selected Strata Cloud Manager (SCM) as the management method for Prisma Access and NGFWs deployed at the data center and in public cloud environments. There are 150 NGFWs in place that are used to terminate service connections and segment networks as well as to secure the data center and public cloud resources.
One of the resilience requirements is to provide highly available directory services and authentication for the NGFW and Prisma Access deployment.
Which traffic flow is valid for administrators connecting network equipment over SSH hosted in the data center?
- A. Prisma Browser → Explicit Proxy → Service Connection → Data Center → Target Application
- B. Prisma Browser → Mobile User SPN → Service Connection → Data Center → Target Application
- C. Prisma Browser → Explicit Proxy → Mobile User SPN → Service Connection → Data Center → Target Application
- D. Prisma Browser → Service Connection → Data Center → Target Application
Answer: B
Explanation:
SSH is not an HTTP/HTTPS application, so it does not use the explicit proxy path. For administrators connecting from Prisma Browser to network equipment hosted in the data center, the valid flow is through the mobile user path into Prisma Access, then across the service connection to the data center, and finally to the target device. This matches the IPSec/SSL connectivity shown for Prisma Browser-based user access to private applications.
NEW QUESTION # 27
An organization is in the process of building a network infrastructure that is cloud first. Part of the revised architecture includes Prisma Access as demonstrated in the diagram below. The organization has selected Strata Cloud Manager (SCM) as the management method for Prisma Access and NGFWs deployed at the data center and in public cloud environments. There are 150 NGFWs in place that are used to terminate service connections and segment networks as well as to secure the data center and public cloud resources.
One of the resilience requirements is to provide highly available directory services and authentication for the NGFW and Prisma Access deployment.
Which two configurations meet the design and customer requirements in this scenario? (Choose two.)
- A. Firewalls connected to LDAP servers and Prisma Access connected to the Cloud Identity Engine with connections to the LDAP servers for directory services
- B. Firewalls and Prisma Access connected to the Cloud Identity Engine with connections to Entra ID for directory services
- C. Firewalls and Prisma Access for mobile users with RADIUS authentication
- D. Firewalls and Prisma Access for mobile users configured with SAML authentication
Answer: B,D
Explanation:
Cloud Identity Engine connected to Entra ID provides centralized, highly available directory services for both NGFWs and Prisma Access, which aligns with a cloud-first design and Strata Cloud Manager-based operations.
SAML authentication provides resilient, modern identity-based authentication for Prisma Access mobile users and integrates well with cloud identity providers, supporting the requirement for highly available authentication across the environment.
NEW QUESTION # 28
A large organization uses Palo Alto Networks VM-Series firewalls deployed across multiple availability zones in Microsoft Azure. These are managed by an Azure Virtual Machine Scale Set (VMSS) and integrated with an Azure Load Balancer for high availability (HA) traffic inspection within a Transit VNet.
The security team needs to perform a critical PAN-OS software upgrade across the entire fleet of firewalls with the requirement of minimal application downtime.
Following Palo Alto Networks best practices for highly available cloud deployments, what is the recommended approach for safely performing this software upgrade with the least downtime?
- A. Configure Azure Load Balancer probes to handle the health check failover during upgrades
- B. Update the image in an Azure VMSS and then initiate an upgrade of the instances
- C. Provision a new, parallel VMSS with the new PAN-OS version, validate it, and redirect traffic from the old VMSS to the new one
- D. Use Azure Update Manager to push the PAN-OS upgrade package directly to all firewall instances simultaneously during a scheduled maintenance window
Answer: C
Explanation:
The safest approach with the least downtime is a blue/green-style replacement: build a new parallel VMSS running the target PAN-OS version, validate it fully, and then redirect traffic from the old scale set to the new one. Palo Alto Networks documents creating custom Azure VM- Series images for the exact PAN-OS version you want to deploy, which supports standing up a separate validated fleet rather than in-place upgrading the active inspection path. Azure health probes help determine instance health during updates, but they do not remove the risk of service disruption from upgrading the live fleet in place.
NEW QUESTION # 29
A large organization is building a hybrid AI environment. The plan is to develop proprietary machine learning (ML) models on-premises in a VMware NSX environment and create separate, cloud-native AI applications in a Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) cluster environment. The CISO has requested a single solution that can offer runtime protection and visibility for the two environments. Which Prisma AIRS component or form factor should a security architect recommend to this customer?
- A. Prisma AIRS Network Intercept deployed as security virtual appliances in both environments
- B. AI Agent Security installed on each individual virtual machine (VM) and container across both environments to provide host-level protection
- C. AI Security Posture Management (AI-SPM) scanner to connect to both on-premises and cloud environments to scan for misconfigurations
- D. Prisma AIRS SaaS platform to ingest telemetry from both environments without requiring local enforcement points
Answer: A
Explanation:
Network Intercept provides runtime visibility and protection by inspecting live traffic flows within both virtualized environments like VMware NSX and containerized environments such as GKE.
This allows a single, consistent control point to monitor and secure AI workloads across hybrid environments, addressing both visibility and enforcement requirements at runtime.
NEW QUESTION # 30
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