A company plans to upgrade a hardware firewall from PAN-OS 10.1 to PAN-OS 10.2. The firewall is in a high-availability (HA) pair. The upgrade must be performed with minimal downtime and the ability to roll back if issues arise. What should the administrator do?

Upgrade both firewalls simultaneously to ensure they are on the same version.

Upgrade the active firewall first, then upgrade the passive firewall.

Upgrade the passive firewall first, then perform a failover and upgrade the active firewall.

Take a configuration backup and then upgrade both firewalls at the same time.

A network administrator manages a hardware firewall with a large number of security policies. They need to optimize the policies to reduce the number of rules while maintaining the same security posture. Which approach should the administrator take?

Use the 'optimize' feature in PAN-OS to automatically consolidate policies.

Move all policies to the top of the rulebase to ensure they are evaluated first.

Consolidate policies that have the same action and similar source/destination zones into a single policy with multiple address objects.

Delete all policies that are not explicitly required and rely on the default deny rule.

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Domain 4Objective 1

4.1 Explain the Configuration and Maintenance of Palo Alto Networks Hardware Firewalls, VM-Series Firewalls, CN-Series Firewalls, and Cloud NGFWs (e.g., Security Policies, Profiles, Updates, Upgrades) NETWORK-SECURITY-PROFESSIONAL Practice Questions (Page 2)

Part of the NGFW and SASE Solution Maintenance and Configuration domain, which accounts for 10% of the NETWORK-SECURITY-PROFESSIONAL exam.

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Network Security Fundamentals
NGFW and SASE Solution Functionality
Platform Solutions, Services, and Tools
NGFW and SASE Solution Maintenance and Configuration
- 4.1 Explain the configuration and maintenance of Palo Alto Networks hardware firewalls, VM-Series firewalls, CN-Series firewalls, and Cloud NGFWs (e.g., Security policies, profiles, updates, upgrades)
  ‹123 4 5 6 ›
- 4.2 Explain the configuration and maintenance of Prisma Access (e.g., Security policies, profiles, updates, upgrades, monitoring and logging)
Infrastructure Management and CDSS
1 more domain
- Connectivity and Security

9 Concepts in This Objective

Hardware Firewall Configuration
VM-Series Firewall Configuration
CN-Series Firewall Configuration
Cloud NGFW Configuration
Security Policy Management
Security Profile Management
Content and Software Updates
Firewall Upgrades
Maintenance Tasks

Questions 6–10

6foundation · easy
Which type of content update contains signatures for known malware and exploits?
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7foundation · easy
Which feature allows a Palo Alto Networks firewall to revert to the previous PAN-OS version after an upgrade?
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8foundation · easy
Which security profile is used to detect and block malware in files transferred over the network?
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9expert · hard
A company plans to upgrade a hardware firewall from PAN-OS 10.1 to PAN-OS 10.2. The firewall is in a high-availability (HA) pair. The upgrade must be performed with minimal downtime and the ability to roll back if issues arise. What should the administrator do?
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10expert · hard
A network administrator manages a hardware firewall with a large number of security policies. They need to optimize the policies to reduce the number of rules while maintaining the same security posture. Which approach should the administrator take?
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Questions 6–10

Which type of content update contains signatures for known malware and exploits?

Which feature allows a Palo Alto Networks firewall to revert to the previous PAN-OS version after an upgrade?

Which security profile is used to detect and block malware in files transferred over the network?

A company plans to upgrade a hardware firewall from PAN-OS 10.1 to PAN-OS 10.2. The firewall is in a high-availability (HA) pair. The upgrade must be performed with minimal downtime and the ability to roll back if issues arise. What should the administrator do?

A network administrator manages a hardware firewall with a large number of security policies. They need to optimize the policies to reduce the number of rules while maintaining the same security posture. Which approach should the administrator take?

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