Palo Alto Networks Network Security Architect Sample Questions:

1. An organization has a directive to adopt a Zero Trust framework focused on using identity and role-based access groups, device security and content inspection across all Security policies. To achieve this goal, an Enterprise License Agreement (ELA) was purchased, including Advanced Threat Prevention, IoT Security, and GlobalProtect.
The current security architecture uses Panorama to manage 60 NGFWs - a mix of PA-3240, PA-1410, and PA-440. Sites with PA-3240s host private application resources in the trust data center zone All sites have an untrust zone for internet access and a users zone for managed and unmanaged endpoint devices. A transit mesh zone exists to establish site-to-site connectivity through PAN-OS SD-WAN.
Privately hosted applications include web servers, SMB and NFS file servers and hosted Active Directory. The organization is in the process of adopting group mapping restrictions to these private applications, with daily additions of groups. It is also planning to build AI applications to assist the data teams with complex queries that will be hosted in the large offices containing data centers and is exploring hosting in the public cloud.
The organization uses on-premises Exchange, Dropbox, Zoom, and ChatGPT. There are a number of shadow SaaS applications that require further investigation. Users have been using Google Drive to upload confidential files within the organization by using their personal logins.
IoT devices on the network are associated on their own VLAN on the users zone. Using Device Security, all IoT devices have been categorized by asset profiles with medium or high confidence, policy sets imported into Panorama, and a default deny applied to the IoT networks.
The organization has rolled out SSL decryption and is using URL categorization for the majority of content filtering. Malicious categories, unknown and high-risk websites are blocked, with the remainder of sites set to alert.
Which action should the architect recommend to restrict the confidential file exfiltration present in the organization's environment using existing technology?

A) Using SaaS Security, enable tenant restrictions, preventing personal logins from using unsanctioned applications
B) Using Enterprise DLP, create custom data patterns notifying confidential data, and block the custom data pattern from being uploaded
C) In Prisma Browser create an access security rule and a data security rule preventing file-upload unsanctioned file-sharing applications
D) Using App-ID, create a policy denying google- drive-web-upload

2. An organization uses Microsoft Entra ID and wants to strictly enforce a requirement that remote users accessing highly sensitive SaaS applications can only do so when originating from Prisma Browser. Which unique identifier must be configured within the Entra ID Conditional Access policy to effectively confirm and enforce that the access request is specifically originating from Prisma Browser and preventing standard web browsers from circumventing the Zero Trust Network Access (ZTNA) control?

A) Unique device token or Device-ID issued by Prisma Browser and validated by Entra ID
B) GlobalProtect mobile application installed on the user's endpoint
C) List of known egress IP addresses associated with Prisma Browser's cloud proxy infrastructure
D) Certificate thumbprint of Prisma Browser's secure workspace key used for session encryption

3. A company needs to securely enable SaaS application usage while preventing data exfiltration.
The solution must provide visibility into application traffic and enforce granular controls. What should be used?

A) URL filtering only
B) App-ID with Data Filtering
C) Static routing
D) NAT policies

4. An organization has a directive to adopt a Zero Trust framework focused on using identity and role-based access groups, device security and content inspection across all Security policies. To achieve this goal, an Enterprise License Agreement (ELA) was purchased, including Advanced Threat Prevention, IoT Security, and GlobalProtect.
The current security architecture uses Panorama to manage 60 NGFWs - a mix of PA-3240, PA-1410, and PA-440. Sites with PA-3240s host private application resources in the trust data center zone All sites have an untrust zone for internet access and a users zone for managed and unmanaged endpoint devices. A transit mesh zone exists to establish site-to-site connectivity through PAN-OS SD-WAN.
Privately hosted applications include web servers, SMB and NFS file servers and hosted Active Directory. The organization is in the process of adopting group mapping restrictions to these private applications, with daily additions of groups. It is also planning to build AI applications to assist the data teams with complex queries that will be hosted in the large offices containing data centers and is exploring hosting in the public cloud.
The organization uses on-premises Exchange, Dropbox, Zoom, and ChatGPT. There are a number of shadow SaaS applications that require further investigation. Users have been using Google Drive to upload confidential files within the organization by using their personal logins.
IoT devices on the network are associated on their own VLAN on the users zone. Using Device Security, all IoT devices have been categorized by asset profiles with medium or high confidence, policy sets imported into Panorama, and a default deny applied to the IoT networks.
The organization has rolled out SSL decryption and is using URL categorization for the majority of content filtering. Malicious categories, unknown and high-risk websites are blocked, with the remainder of sites set to alert.
Which deployment method should the architect suggest for enabling User-ID based rules, restricting or allowing access as close to the source as possible, while minimizing operational overhead?

A) Panorama device template with a group mapping profile with group allow list to reduce group update time on the firewalls
B) Panorama device template for data redistribution, referencing primary and secondary Panoramas as the User-ID agent
C) Cloud Directory via SCIM to sync user groups to the Cloud Identity Engine and the firewalls
D) Cloud Identity agent to sync user groups to the Cloud Identity Engine and the firewalls

5. An organization with offices throughout the world has an SD-WAN solution in which all traffic is backhauled to a central set of data centers. Many of the offices have IoT / OT devices. Which IoT Security requirement must be taken into consideration by the security architect when determining which Zero Trust network solution will help this organization evolve its security architecture?

A) Either a Prisma SD-WAN ION or an NGFW device must be present for accurate IoT / OT detection.
B) All DHCP requests must traverse the Prisma SD-WAN fabric for IoT / OT detection.
C) A local sensor must be deployed as either an agent on the DHCP server or as a container on the virtual infrastructure.
D) The organization must have local NGFW for enforcement.

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