New 2026 Guaranteed Success with PrepAwayTest NetSec-Architect Dumps Palo Alto Networks PDF Questions [Q15-Q35]

QUESTION 15
A company needs DNS-based threat protection to block malicious domains. Which solution is appropriate?

QUESTION 16
A company needs to securely enable SaaS application usage while preventing data exfiltration.
The solution must provide visibility into application traffic and enforce granular controls. What should be used?

QUESTION 17
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?

QUESTION 18
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?

QUESTION 19
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.)

QUESTION 20
You need to ensure compliance reporting and audit visibility for firewall activities. What should you use?

QUESTION 21
A company experiences lateral movement attacks within the internal network. Which feature helps mitigate this risk?

QUESTION 22
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?

QUESTION 23
You need to ensure consistent threat prevention across all applications. Which approach should you use?

QUESTION 24
A multinational organization has a large worldwide remote user base. This user base consists of several persona types with distinct requirements and concerns regarding the adoption of a Zero Trust Network Access (ZTNA) solution.
– Developers have a requirement to temporarily bypass security controls for business purposes, but the security team sees this as a potential risk. The developers commonly access development servers onsite in private data centers and public cloud. These development applications use web (HTTP/HTTPS), API, RPC, and SMB-based applications.
– Sales staff travel regularly and connect to the network via many different types of connections, but they are generally limited to SaaS-based web applications. They often complain about performance when any agent is installed and want the ability to temporarily disable these agents.
Data exfiltration and insider risk have been identified as the primary threats for this class of user.
– Executives have concerns about being high-value targets. Security must be consistent across the multiple endpoint types, including mobile and desktop devices. The executive team members have indicated that their primary objective is to ensure that the solution is responsive and easy to troubleshoot.
Which statement applies in the context of securing the developers’ applications?

QUESTION 25
A global manufacturing organization with 50,000 employees spanning 35 countries designs advanced industrial equipment and owns significant intellectual property. The organization operates in a highly competitive market where protecting trade secrets is critical to maintaining market advantage.
Over the past 18 months, the CISO discovered that employees across the organization have adopted hundreds of GenAI applications to improve productivity. Engineers use AI coding assistants to accelerate product development sales teams use AI tools to generate proposals, and customer service representatives use chatbots to draft responses. While this adoption has driven innovation, it has also created significant security risks.
A security audit reveals sensitive CAD files uploaded to image-generation services, proprietary source code shared with public coding assistants, and confidential customer information used in prompts. The audit identifies over 300 different GenAI applications in use, most of which had not been formally reviewed or approved.
The customer service department has also been developing internal AI applications, including a customer service copilot built on a cloud large language model (LLM) platform, an internal knowledge management assistant, and a code review tool. These internal applications access sensitive databases, customer records and internal APIs – creating additional security concerns about exploitation or misuse.
The organization has a distributed workforce in which 60% of employees work remotely or in hybrid arrangements, accessing corporate resources and AI applications from various locations using managed and unmanaged devices. Existing network security infrastructure lacks AI-specific security capabilities.
Organization leadership wants to enable AI-driven innovation while implementing comprehensive security controls. The CISO has been tasked with developing an organization-wide GenAI governance program that protects sensitive assets without hindering productivity. The program must address both external AI applications employees are using and internal AI applications being developed by IT.
Which enforcement solution can the CISO recommend to control GenAI data exfiltration?

QUESTION 26
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?

QUESTION 27
An organization wants to reduce attack surface by allowing only sanctioned applications while blocking unknown traffic. What is the BEST approach?

QUESTION 28
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?

QUESTION 29
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.
The organization requires a proposal for a new WAN architecture for branch connectivity with the goal of improving security posture and SaaS application access as well as supporting local internet breakout for all branch devices, including IoT.
Which two implementations will achieve the goal of modernizing the branch architecture?
(Choose two.)

QUESTION 30
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?

QUESTION 31
A multinational organization has a large worldwide remote user base. This user base consists of several persona types with distinct requirements and concerns regarding the adoption of a Zero Trust Network Access (ZTNA) solution.
– Developers have a requirement to temporarily bypass security controls for business purposes, but the security team sees this as a potential risk. The developers commonly access development servers onsite in private data centers and public cloud. These development applications use web (HTTP/HTTPS), API, RPC, and SMB-based applications.
– Sales staff travel regularly and connect to the network via many different types of connections, but they are generally limited to SaaS-based web applications. They often complain about performance when any agent is installed and want the ability to temporarily disable these agents.
Data exfiltration and insider risk have been identified as the primary threats for this class of user.
– Executives have concerns about being high-value targets. Security must be consistent across the multiple endpoint types, including mobile and desktop devices. The executive team members have indicated that their primary objective is to ensure that the solution is responsive and easy to troubleshoot.
Which solution should be suggested to mitigate the security risk and meet the concerns of the sales team?

QUESTION 32
An architect must design secure remote access for users. Which solution is MOST appropriate?

QUESTION 33
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?

QUESTION 34
A network experiences encrypted threats bypassing inspection. What is the BEST mitigation?

QUESTION 35
A global organization is modernizing its data center and private cloud infrastructure. The environment consists of:
– A Nutanix AHV cluster hosting critical east-west application workloads
– A VMware ESXi cluster with multi-socket hosts, supporting high-throughput workloads (>10 Gbps)
– A new pair of PA-5450 firewalls to secure the perimeter and handle encrypted traffic inspection at scale
– Strict performance service-level agreements (SLAs) for both north-south and east-west flows, with heavy reliance on TLS 1.3 and IPSec
– A Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) environment on KVM to provide high-performance security services to maximize packet throughput and minimize latency The chief architect is tasked with ensuring that the firewall design avoids hypervisor contention optimizes non-uniform memory access (NUMA) and uses hardware features for encrypted traffic.
VM-Series on Nutanix AHV – Resource Allocation
– Because the Nutanix cluster is already heavily used, the architect’s main concern is preventing performance degradation of the virtual firewall. Thin provisioning or ballooning could introduce latency and unpredictability which is unacceptable for a security-sensitive workload.
VM-Series on VMware ESXi – NUMA and vCPU Placement
– In the VMware ESXi environment, the architect is deploying VM-Series for workloads pushing >10 Gbps. Assigning vCPUs across NUMA nodes or oversubscribing cores would create latency due to cross-socket memory access and scheduling delays. Similarly, dedicating logical hypethreads does not provide the deterministic data plane performance required.
Operational Integration and High Availability
– With performance guaranteed by correct hypervisor and hardware provisioning, the architect also considers high availability (HA). VM-Series pairs are deployed in active/passive HA across Nutanix and VMware clusters, while PA-5450s form the data center’s north-south secure perimeter deployment. This ensures resilience without introducing unnecessary east-west inspection bottlenecks.
– The recommendation must be a scalable, high-performance firewall deployment aligned with enterprise SLAs and the CISO’s encrypted traffic concerns.
While using the VM-Series to build the NFV environment, which configuration should the architect use?