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An architect is reviewing a use case with the following requirements:
Visibility on the health of an end user's path for the five most critical applications
Metrics on the impact of endpoint health for application
Centralized call quality analytics from Zoom video conferencing solution
Insights into the supporting protocols, such as DNS
Support 600 users on Windows desktops in a single sales office
Which solution should be recommended to meet these requirements?

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 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?

An organization wants to migrate to an SSE model using Prisma Access for hybrid workforce connectivity. Following bandwidth analysis, network engineers have identified high-bandwidth requirements (>2 Gbps) sustained throughput to the data center for privately hosted applications (e.g., three tier applications active FTP and SMB file servers, EDR toolsets).
Business continuity for the organization requires the ability to use multiple cloud providers for private-application connectivity, ensuring no single cloud provider outage can disrupt operations. The network operations team has expressed concerns about migrating to SSE with legacy routing technical debt noting multiple redistribution protocols in place across the environment.
Which two network connectivity methods will meet the business requirements to access private applications from Prisma Access? (Choose two.)

A global organization plans to implement a full Zero Trust network solution to evolve its security architecture and is deciding between SASE and traditional firewall edge solutions. The organization currently has a WAN solution with all traffic backhauled to a central set of data centers and requires that branch-to-branch traffic be permitted for all 721 branch locations.
What is a crucial consideration as the solutions architect plans the end architecture for this organization?

An organization plans to deploy a full SASE architecture consisting of Prisma SD-WAN IONs at branches and data centers alongside Prisma Access remote networks, service connections, and mobile users. The business office team requires that traffic from global remote offices to public cloud is of highest criticality, and this traffic should have the greatest service-level agreement (SLA) and QoS priority while still maintaining a balance of threat inspection.
Which recommendation should the architect make to provide the lowest latency, highest throughput, and greatest resilience for the applications?

A cloud engineer has implemented a security solution with a VM-Series firewall in a GCP centralized VPC to secure traffic between two spoke VPCs, but there is no communication between the spokes.
Which missed implementation step may cause this behavior?

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?

An IoT sensor should be deployed in the path between the IoT device and which infrastructure component for comprehensive profiling coverage?

The network security architect leading a Zero Trust migration has successfully completed identifying and classifying all mission-critical Data, Applications, Assets, and Services (DAAS). The architect must now gather the necessary data to inform the technical design of the micro-perimeters and the placement of the VM-Series virtual firewalls in Azure.
According to the Palo Alto Networks Zero Trust implementation methodology, what is the mandatory next step to gather the necessary data for designing the segmentation and the placement of security controls?

Which custom component can mitigate the risk associated with an organization’s sales staff filling out a customer intake PDF form that contains corporate confidential information?

A large organization is building a hybrid AI environment. The plan is to develop proprietary machine learning (ML) models on-premises in a VMware NSX environment and create separate, cloud-native AI applications in a Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) cluster environment. The CISO has requested a single solution that can offer runtime protection and visibility for the two environments.
Which Prisma AIRS component or form factor should a security architect recommend to this customer?

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 retail organization wants to sanction the use of a particular third-party SaaS-based AI application for inventory management. This application will need network layer data access to the organization’s internal supply chain database with confidential information highly secured in its own DMZ. The implementation is delayed because the CISO is concerned that the sanctioned third-party AI application could get compromised and then used to exfiltrate customer PH from the internal database.
Which solution will address the CISO's concern?

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?

An organization has selected Prisma SD-WAN ION devices for use at branch offices and is working to build a low-level design for its sites. A typical branch site has a 10 Mbps MPLS with fiber LC-SR, and an RJ-45 Ethernet 50 Mbps DIA internet circuit.
There are 75 workstations and a stacked core switch that supports LACP, M-LAG, BGP, and OSPF will be used. The core switch is the default gateway for all local VLANs. The final design will determine the selection of the appropriate model and accessories for the site.
Which statement applies to the Prisma SD-WAN architecture in this use case?

An architect is designing a security solution for a large AWS environment with numerous application virtual private clouds (VPCs). These applications have diverse and sometimes conflicting inbound security requirements, making a single, unified ruleset challenging to create and maintain. The solution must secure inbound traffic for different application groups while also centrally securing all outbound and east-west traffic via an AWS Transit Gateway.
Which design model recommendation will simplify rule complexity for inbound traffic while meeting all security requirements?