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 segmentation within the branch LAN allowing for isolation of user groups or devices locally
• B. Improved resilience by allowing path diversity with DIA, LTE, or broadband
• C. Reduced attack surface on the MPLS / DC edge by removing unnecessary SaaS flows
• D. Better visibility and granular control at the branch firewall

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 and Prisma Access for mobile users configured with SAML authentication
• 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 connected to LDAP servers and Prisma Access connected to the Cloud Identity Engine with connections to the LDAP servers for directory services

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. Using App-ID, create a policy denying google- drive-web-upload
• D. In Prisma Browser create an access security rule and a data security rule preventing file-upload unsanctioned file-sharing applications

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. Provision a new, parallel VMSS with the new PAN-OS version, validate it, and redirect traffic from the old VMSS to the new one
• C. Use Azure Update Manager to push the PAN-OS upgrade package directly to all firewall instances simultaneously during a scheduled maintenance window
• D. Update the image in an Azure VMSS and then initiate an upgrade of the instances