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Question 1

An NGFW engineer is configuring multiple Panorama-managed firewalls to start sending all logs to Strata Logging Service. The Strata Logging Service instance has been provisioned, the required device certificates have been installed, and Panorama and the firewalls have been successfully onboarded to Strata Logging Service.
Which configuration task must be performed to start sending the logs to Strata Logging Service and continue forwarding them to the Panorama log collectors as well?

A. Enable the "Panorama/Cloud Logging" option in the Logging and Reporting Settings section under Device -- > Setup -- > Management in the appropriate templates.
B. Select the "Enable Duplicate Logging" option in the Cloud Logging section under Device -- > Setup --
> Management in the appropriate templates.
C. Select the "Enable Cloud Logging" option in the Cloud Logging section under Device -- > Setup -- > Management in the appropriate templates.
D. Modify all active Log Forwarding profiles to select the "Cloud Logging" option in each profile match list in the appropriate device groups.

Question 2

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

A. Securing traffic in and out of a public cloud VPC or VNet (north-south)
B. Protecting mobile users and remote branch offices (east-west)
C. Providing security for physical data center perimeters (north-south)
D. Enforcing Security policies between pods in a Kubernetes environment (east-west)

Question 3

An organization runs multiple Kubernetes clusters both on-premises and in public clouds (AWS, Azure, GCP). They want to deploy the Palo Alto Networks CN-Series NGFW to secure east-west traffic within each cluster, maintain consistent Security policies across all environments, and dynamically scale as containerized workloads spin up or down. They also plan to use a centralized Panorama instance for policy management and visibility.
Which approach meets these requirements?

A. Use Kubernetes-native deployment tools (e.g., Helm) to deploy CN-Series in each cluster, ensuring local insertion into the service mesh or CNI. Manage all CN-Series firewalls centrally from Panorama, applying uniform Security policies across on-premises and cloud clusters.
B. Install standalone CN-Series instances in each cluster with local configuration only. Export daily policy configuration snapshots to Panorama for recordkeeping, but do not unify policy enforcement.
C. Configure the CN-Series only in public cloud clusters, and rely on Kubernetes Network Policies for on- premises cluster security. Synchronize partial policy information into Panorama manually as needed.
D. Deploy a single CN-Series firewall in the on-premises data center to process traffic for all clusters, connecting remote clusters via VPN or peering. Manage this single instance through Panorama.

Question 4

A network architect is planning the deployment of a new IPSec VPN tunnel to connect a local data center to a cloud environment.
The plan must include all necessary Security policy configurations for both tunnel negotiation and data transit.
Which two Security policy requirements must be included in the implementation plan? (Choose two.)

A. The default interzone-default security policy is sufficient to allow the tunnel negotiation traffic between the firewall and the remote peer.
B. A policy must explicitly permit the IPSec container application between the external-facing zone and local zone.
C. A policy must explicitly permit only the IKE application between the external-facing zone and local zone.
D. A pair of policies is required to control the flow of data traffic into and out of the security zone assigned to the tunnel interface.

Question 5

An organization uses Cloud Identity Engine (CIE) to gather user information from its on-premises Active Directory (AD) for employees and a separate Azure AD for external partners. Due to compliance regulations, the firewalls protecting the internal network must not have any identity information about external partners.
Conversely, firewalls in the partner-facing DMZ should only be aware of partner identities.
Which CIE feature is designed to solve this data partitioning requirement?

A. Multiple tenants, where a separate CIE tenant is required for each user directory to maintain isolation
B. Segments, which can be configured to create distinct, filter-based views of users and groups that are then redistributed only to the appropriate firewalls
C. Directory sync filtering, which is used at the source to prevent specific OUs from being imported into CIE
D. Panorama templates, which can be used to push different User-ID agent configurations to each firewall group

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