Palo Alto Networks NetSec-Architect Exam Syllabus Topics:

Palo Alto Networks Network Security Architect Sample Questions:

1. 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) Prisma AIRS API Intercept
B) Prisma AIRS Network Intercept
C) AI Access Security with Advanced URL Filtering
D) AI Access Security with App-ID Cloud Engine

2. 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) Vendor OUI-based policy
B) Dynamic address groups
C) Device-ID based policies
D) CVE risk scoring-based policy

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

4. Which factor must be taken into consideration when determining whether an NGFW edge architecture or a SASE architecture is appropriate to recommend to a customer planning to implement a Zero Trust Network Access (ZTNA) solution?

A) ZTNA requires User-ID and Group-ID information that is not available in Prisma SD-WAN
B) ZTNA can be implemented regardless of the whether an NGFW or SASE solution is selected
C) ZTNA revolves around an agent on the endpoint and does not influence the overall NGFW or SASE architecture
D) ZTNA is a component of SASE and can only be implemented with Prisma Access

5. A global organization has fully adopted Prisma Access to provide security for its mobile workforce and remote offices, and user identity is managed in Okta. The security team wants to create consistent Security policies that grant access to specific SaaS applications based on a users' departments, regardless of whether they work from home or a from branch office connected via an SD-WAN device. Which architecture ensures that consistent user-to-group mapping is available to Prisma Access for policy enforcement in this use case?

A) Configure SAML federation between Prisma Access and Okta to provide user identity for every web request
B) Install the Palo Alto Networks User-ID agent and configure it to sync user information from Okta to Prisma Access
C) Deploy Panorama to manage Prisma Access and configure it to pull user and group information from Okta via the Cloud Identity Engine
D) Configure each remote office SD-WAN device and each user's GlobalProtect client to query Okta directly for user information

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