Next-Generation Firewall Engineer Practice Exam 2025: Latest Questions

An administrator wants users on the trust zone to access the internet. Which interface configuration is required to allow traffic to route off the firewall?

A new Security policy rule is configured to allow outbound web-browsing, but user traffic is still being denied. The administrator confirms the rule is correct. What is the MOST likely reason the rule is not matching?

A firewall is connected to an upstream router using OSPF. The administrator wants the firewall to learn internal routes dynamically and advertise connected networks. Which component is configured to enable this dynamic routing on the firewall?

An administrator needs to allow inbound access to an internal web server from the internet using the public IP address 203.0.113.10. Which NAT approach is required?

A company uses Panorama to manage 50 firewalls. They want to ensure specific corporate Security policy rules are consistent on every firewall, while allowing each site to add its own local rules. What is the BEST practice approach?

An administrator commits a change in Panorama but does not see it take effect on managed firewalls. Which action is required to push the configuration to the devices?

An administrator configures a template in Panorama with interface settings. After a push, the firewall’s interface configuration does not change. Which is the MOST likely cause?

A firewall is blocking a business application because App-ID identifies it as an unknown TCP application. The app uses TLS and negotiates quickly after the TCP handshake. What change is MOST likely to help App-ID properly classify the application?

Two firewalls are deployed in an active/passive HA pair. After a failover, existing sessions drop and users must reconnect. Which HA setting is MOST relevant to preserving sessions during failover?

A company uses an external automation system to add IPs to a block list when incidents are detected. They want the firewall to enforce blocks immediately without committing policy changes each time. Which integration method BEST fits this requirement?

An engineer wants to ensure that decryption policies apply only to outbound internet traffic and not to internal east-west traffic. Which rule-matching criteria most directly controls where a Decryption policy is applied?

A firewall is configured with two virtual routers: one for untrust and one for a partner network. Users on the trust zone cannot reach the partner subnet, but the partner subnet is reachable from the firewall CLI. Which configuration is most likely missing?

A company uses Panorama to manage 50 firewalls. They want to ensure a standard baseline of Security profiles is applied everywhere, while allowing each region to add extra profiles and policy rules. Which Panorama design best supports this requirement?

A GlobalProtect deployment requires that only managed corporate devices can connect. The team already uses certificate-based authentication and wants a second control that checks for a specific registry key or file. Which feature should be used?

A new administrator reports that they cannot commit changes on a firewall even though they can log in successfully. They are assigned an Admin Role Profile that is set to 'Read Only.' What should be changed to allow commits while still restricting configuration access to only policy objects?

An engineer integrates the firewall with an external ticketing system. When a high-severity threat log is generated, the ticketing system should automatically create an incident. Which approach best fits Palo Alto Networks integration capabilities without requiring a user to manually export logs?

A firewall uses an active/active HA pair. Users intermittently report dropped sessions when asymmetric routing occurs due to upstream load balancing. Which feature should be enabled to reduce session drops in this scenario?

A team needs to push identical interface, VLAN, and routing settings to multiple firewalls, but each firewall must retain its own management IP address and hostname. What is the recommended Panorama approach?

After enabling SSL Forward Proxy decryption, certain internal applications fail because they use certificate pinning. The business requires those applications to work, but still wants decryption for general web browsing. What is the best practice solution?

A security team wants to dynamically block IP addresses observed by an external threat intel system. The threat intel platform can call the firewall API to apply tags to IPs. Which firewall feature should be used to enforce policy based on those tags at scale?

A firewall has an interface in a Virtual Router. The interface is up/up, but traffic to a new remote subnet is dropped with “no route” in the traffic logs. The administrator has already added a static route to the new subnet. What is the most likely cause?

An administrator wants to ensure that only corporate laptops (validated by certificate) can access internal applications through the firewall, while still allowing all users to browse the internet. What is the recommended approach?

A company manages 20 firewalls with Panorama. They want to standardize a baseline set of security rules across all devices, but allow each site to add local rules that can be evaluated before the shared baseline. What should the administrator do?

A firewall has an outbound security policy allowing web-browsing from Trust to Untrust. Users report that some HTTPS sites fail intermittently after SSL decryption is enabled. The traffic logs show “decrypt-error” for the affected sessions. Which configuration issue most commonly causes this symptom?

An organization wants to automatically tag IP addresses as "suspect" on the firewall when their SIEM detects brute-force login behavior, and then block those IPs for 30 minutes. Which integration method best fits this requirement with minimal custom development?