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Paloalto Networks NGFW-Engineer - Palo Alto Networks Next-Generation Firewall Engineer

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Total 125 questions

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?

A.

Set the forward trust certificate as the SSL/TLS Service profile for the management interface.

B.

Create a Security policy rule that allows traffic from the certificate of the firewall to all the zones.

C.

Import the private key of the forward trust certificate onto the domain controller.

D.

Install the public portion of the forward trust certificate into the trust store of all client machines.

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?

A.

Cloud NGFW

B.

PA-5400 Series

C.

VM-Series

D.

CN-Series

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?

A.

0 hours

B.

12 hours

C.

24 hours

D.

48 hours

An administrator is troubleshooting a newly configured site-to-site VPN between a PAN-OS firewall and a third-party policy-based VPN gateway. The tunnel allows traffic between the first pair of configured subnets, but traffic to a newly added remote subnet is failing. The administrator has confirmed that routing and Security policies are correct.

What is the most likely cause of this issue?

A.

A static route for the new subnet pointing to the tunnel interface is missing.

B.

The Security policy for the new subnet must be placed above the existing VPN policy.

C.

The new local and remote subnets are missing from the Proxy ID configuration.

D.

The tunnel's maximum transmission unit (MTU) size must be increased to accommodate the new traffic.

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.)

A.

User-ID agent redistribution

B.

RADIUS server authentication

C.

Authentication portal

D.

GlobalProtect gateway

What is the primary use case for the CN-Series NGFW?

A.

Protecting mobile users and remote branch offices (east-west)

B.

Providing security for physical data center perimeters (north-south)

C.

Securing traffic in and out of a public cloud VPC or VNet (north-south)

D.

Enforcing Security policies between pods in a Kubernetes environment (east-west)

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?

A.

Suspend the active firewall to trigger a failover to the passive firewall. With traffic now running on the former passive unit, upgrade the suspended (now passive) firewall and confirm proper operation. Then fail traffic back and upgrade the remaining firewall.

B.

Shut down the currently active firewall and upgrade it offline, allowing the passive firewall to handle all traffic. Once the active firewall finishes upgrading, bring it back online and rejoin the HA cluster. Finally, upgrade the passive firewall while the newly upgraded unit remains active.

C.

Isolate both firewalls from the production environment and upgrade them in a separate, offline setup. Reconnect them only after validating the new software version, resuming HA functionality once both units are fully upgraded and tested.

D.

Push the new PAN-OS version simultaneously to both firewalls, having them upgrade and reboot in parallel. Rely on automated HA reconvergence to restore normal operations without manually failing over traffic.

Which statement applies to the relationship between Panorama-pushed Security policy and local firewall Security policy?

A.

When a policy match is found in a local firewall policy, if any Panorama shared post-rule is configured, it will still be evaluated.

B.

Local firewall rules are evaluated after Panorama pre-rules and before Panorama post-rules.

C.

Panorama post-rules can be configured to be evaluated before local firewall policy for the purpose of troubleshooting.

D.

The order of policy evaluation can be configured differently in different device groups.

When configuring a physical interface on a Palo Alto Networks firewall, which IP-based service is only available if the interface is set to Layer 3 mode?

A.

DDNS client

B.

NetFlow export

C.

QoS

D.

Link monitoring

When an engineer creates a new VSYS on a supported firewall platform, which resource can be explicitly limited in the VSYS configuration to control its capacity?

A.

Dedicated data plane memory

B.

Maximum number of admin accounts

C.

Maximum number of log entries

D.

Maximum number of NAT rules