Free Practice Questions for the Paloalto Networks Network Security Administrator NGFW-Engineer Exam (2026 Updated)
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An engineer is configuring a GlobalProtect portal and wants to enable split tunneling. The requirement is to route DNS queries for "https://www.google.com/search?q=corp.internal.com" to the DNS servers assigned by the VPN, while allowing all other DNS queries to be resolved by the client's locally configured DNS.
What is the effect of configuring this split DNS policy?
An automation engineer is developing a Python script to standardize SD-WAN deployments across multiple customer tenants in Panorama. A key requirement is to programmatically create path quality profiles to monitor link performance based on latency, jitter, and packet loss.
Which API call is required for this task?
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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?
What are two valid zone types that can be selected from the zone configuration menu, per Palo Alto Networks best practices? (Choose two.)
Which two statements describe an external zone in the context of virtual systems (VSYS) on a Palo Alto Networks firewall? (Choose two.)
Which networking technology can be configured on Layer 3 interfaces but not on Layer 2 interfaces?
A PA-Series firewall with all licensable features is being installed. The customer’s Security policy requires that users do not directly access websites. Instead, a security device must create the connection, and there must be authentication back to the Active Directory servers for all sessions.
Which action meets the requirements in this scenario?
In regard to the Advanced Routing Engine (ARE), what must be enabled first when configuring a logical router on a PAN-OS firewall?
An NGFW engineer is establishing bidirectional connectivity between the accounting virtual system (VSYS) and the marketing VSYS. The traffic needs to transition between zones without leaving the firewall (no external physical connections). The interfaces for each VSYS are assigned to separate virtual routers (VRs), and inter-VR static routes have been configured. An external zone has been created correctly for each VSYS. Security policies have been added to permit the desired traffic between each zone and its respective external zone. However, the desired traffic is still unable to successfully pass from one VSYS to the other in either direction.
Which additional configuration task is required to resolve this issue?
Which two services are configured by applying an SSL/TLS service profile? (Choose two.)
An administrator is configuring a site-to-site IPSec VPN and assigns an IP address to the tunnel interface.
Which two abilities are enabled by this specific configuration step? (Choose two.)
An administrator is designing a public key infrastructure (PKI) integration for a large-scale deployment with thousands of users authenticating via client certificates. A key design goal is to ensure that certificate revocation status is checked efficiently with minimal impact on firewall performance and minimal delay for the connecting user.
What is the primary advantage of using the Online Certificate Status Protocol (OCSP) instead of certificate revocation lists (CRLs) in this scenario?
A network administrator is hardening a new Palo Alto Networks firewall and wants to ensure that all firewall-generated management traffic, such as calls to Strata Logging Service, uses a dedicated in-band data port instead of the out-of-band management port.
Which configuration setting should the administrator modify to reroute this type of traffic?
Which two actions in the IKE Gateways will allow implementation of post-quantum cryptography when building VPNs between multiple Palo Alto Networks NGFWs? (Choose two.)
When considering the various methods for User-ID to learn user-to-IP address mappings, which source is considered the most accurate due to the mapping being explicitly created through an authentication event directly with the firewall?
An network engineer is configuring SSL Forward Proxy decryption on a Palo Alto Networks firewall. The company's internal clients trust a corporate root certificate authority (CA). To ensure the firewall can properly validate the certificates of external web servers, the engineer must configure a specific component.
Which component defines the mechanism for Online Certificate Status Protocol (OCSP) / certificate revocation list (CRL) status?
A holding company has recently acquired two new businesses, each with its own Okta identity provider. The holding company wants to use a single Cloud Identity Engine (CIE) instance to provide User-ID for all three organizations’ firewalls. However, for legal reasons, the firewalls of Company A must only receive identity data from Company A's Okta instance, and the firewalls of Company B must only receive data from Company B's Okta instance.
Which configuration in CIE supports this requirement with highest operational efficiency?
When an engineer creates a new VSYS on a supported firewall platform, which resource can be explicitly limited in the VSYS configuration to control its capacity?
Palo Alto Networks NGFWs use SSL/TLS profiles to secure which two types of connections? (Choose two.)
An administrator needs to perform several maintenance tasks on a managed firewall directly from the Panorama console without using the Context Switch feature.
Which set of tasks can the administrator fully execute from the Panorama UI?
A security administrator is hardening the ingress zone of an NGFW. The goal is to prevent attacks that rely on malformed IP address packets with incorrect header lengths or invalid TCP packets that have both the SYN and FIN flags set.
Within which section of a Zone Protection profile should these protections be configured?
An NGFW engineer is configuring multiple Layer 2 interfaces on a Palo Alto Networks firewall, and all interfaces must be assigned to the same VLAN. During initial testing, it is reported that clients located behind the various interfaces cannot communicate with each other.
Which action taken by the engineer will resolve this issue?
Which two Palo Alto Networks firewall services are secured by attaching an SSL/TLS service profile to their configuration? (Choose two.)
An organization is deploying VM-Series firewalls in Microsoft Azure to secure its VNets. A key requirement is that the security infrastructure must be resilient to the failure of an entire Azure Availability Zone.
What is the recommended method to achieve this goal?
By default, which type of traffic is configured by service route configuration to use the management interface?
What is a result of enabling split tunneling in the GlobalProtect portal configuration with the “Both Network Traffic and DNS” option?
What is the requirement for interface link speeds when configuring a virtual wire on a Palo Alto Networks firewall?
What is a valid configurable limit for setting resource quotas when defining a new VSYS on a Palo Alto Networks firewall?
When configuring a Zone Protection profile, in which section (protection type) would an NGFW engineer configure options to protect against activities such as spoofed IP addresses and split handshake session establishment attempts?
Which type of firewall resource can be assigned when configuring a new firewall virtual system (VSYS)?
An administrator enables SSL Forward Proxy decryption using a self-signed certificate on a Palo Alto Networks firewall as the forward trust certificate. Shortly after, users report receiving "Your connection is not private" browser errors for all external websites.
What is the most likely cause of these widespread certificate errors?
In an active/active high availability (HA) configuration with two PA-Series firewalls, how do the firewalls use the HA3 interface?
In a hybrid cloud deployment, what is the primary function of Ansible in managing Palo Alto Networks NGFWs?
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