SD-WAN Engineer Practice Exam: Test Your Knowledge 2025

An enterprise is planning to deploy Palo Alto Networks SD-WAN across 50 branch locations. They want to ensure secure connectivity between branches and centralized management. Which component is essential for orchestrating SD-WAN policies and managing the entire SD-WAN deployment?

A network architect is designing an SD-WAN solution for a retail organization with 100 stores. Each store has two Internet connections (primary fiber and backup cable). What is the recommended approach to ensure application-aware path selection?

Which traffic steering method in Palo Alto Networks SD-WAN allows for automatic failover based on real-time link quality measurements without requiring a full link failure?

A company wants to extend their SD-WAN fabric to cloud environments including AWS and Azure. What is the primary benefit of integrating cloud-based virtual firewalls into the SD-WAN architecture?

In a hub-and-spoke SD-WAN topology, what is the primary disadvantage compared to a full mesh topology?

An administrator is configuring SD-WAN on a branch firewall with two ISP connections. To enable SD-WAN functionality, which configuration steps are required on the firewall? (Choose the MOST complete answer)

When configuring SD-WAN policy rules, what is the recommended order of evaluation that should be considered to ensure critical applications receive priority treatment?

A branch office has three WAN links: MPLS (10 Mbps), Cable (100 Mbps), and LTE (25 Mbps). The administrator wants to configure SD-WAN to use Cable as primary for all traffic, MPLS for business-critical applications when Cable SLA is violated, and LTE only as last resort. How should the path quality profiles be configured?

An organization is deploying SD-WAN using AutoVPN for automatic tunnel establishment between sites. What is a prerequisite for AutoVPN functionality in Palo Alto Networks SD-WAN?

When configuring traffic distribution in SD-WAN policies, what does the 'Top Down' traffic distribution method do?

A company has deployed SD-WAN across 30 branch offices. What metric in Panorama provides visibility into the real-time quality of SD-WAN links including latency, jitter, and packet loss?

An administrator notices that certain applications are not being steered correctly by SD-WAN policies. What is the FIRST troubleshooting step to verify that applications are being identified correctly?

In an SD-WAN deployment, an administrator wants to ensure that Voice over IP (VoIP) traffic is always monitored for quality and automatically moved to a better link if latency exceeds 150ms or jitter exceeds 30ms. Which configuration object should be created and associated with the VoIP SD-WAN policy?

An organization wants to monitor SD-WAN performance and generate reports on link utilization, application performance, and failover events. Where in Panorama can comprehensive SD-WAN reports be generated?

A retail company has noticed that SD-WAN is not failing over from their primary Cable internet to backup LTE when the Cable connection experiences high packet loss. The administrator verifies that both links show as 'Up' in the interface status. What is the MOST likely cause?

A branch office is experiencing intermittent connectivity issues with cloud applications. The administrator checks the SD-WAN Health dashboard and sees that one of two Internet links is showing high latency spikes. What CLI command can be used on the branch firewall to verify real-time path quality measurements?

An enterprise wants to integrate their SD-WAN deployment with Prisma Access to provide secure access to cloud applications and internet resources. What is the recommended design approach for this integration?

After deploying SD-WAN, an administrator notices that traffic for a specific application is not following the intended path despite having a matching SD-WAN policy rule. What could be preventing the SD-WAN policy from taking effect?

When integrating SD-WAN with cloud security services like Prisma Access, what benefit does this SASE architecture provide compared to traditional hub-and-spoke models with data center-based security?

A distributed organization with 75 branch offices wants to implement SD-WAN with centralized management and zero-touch provisioning for new sites. Which combination of components is necessary to achieve this goal?