What is the purpose of state synchronization in an HA pair?

To ensure that the passive firewall has the same session table as the active firewall for seamless failover.

To monitor the health of the peer firewall.

To load balance sessions between the two firewalls in real time.

To synchronize the configuration files between the two firewalls.

A large enterprise runs an active/active HA pair with state synchronization enabled. During a failover, the network team observes that some sessions are lost. The team suspects that the issue is related to asymmetric traffic. What is the most likely cause of session loss in this scenario?

The flow rules are not configured to direct traffic to the session owner.

The link monitoring is not configured on all interfaces.

State synchronization is not working correctly.

The HA pair is not configured with a preemption option.

A network engineer is configuring a new HA pair. The engineer wants to ensure that when a failover occurs, the new active firewall has the most up-to-date session information. Which configuration is required?

Enable link monitoring on all interfaces.

Configure the HA pair to use active/active mode.

Set the preemption option to 'yes'.

Enable state synchronization on the HA pair.

When configuring active/active HA on a PAN-OS firewall, what is the purpose of assigning HA interface addresses?

To assign public IP addresses to the data-plane interfaces for internet traffic.

To enable the firewalls to communicate with each other for HA heartbeats and state synchronization.

To allow the firewall to route traffic between virtual wire interfaces.

To provide management access to the HA pair from a separate network.

A small business has two firewalls in an active/passive HA pair. The business wants to ensure that if the active firewall fails, the passive firewall takes over with minimal disruption. What is a key characteristic of active/passive HA that supports this?

The passive firewall must be manually activated after a failure.

The passive firewall is ready to take over immediately on failure.

The passive firewall does not need to be configured with the same settings.

Both firewalls process traffic simultaneously to balance load.

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What is the purpose of state synchronization in an HA pair?
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A large enterprise runs an active/active HA pair with state synchronization enabled. During a failover, the network team observes that some sessions are lost. The team suspects that the issue is related to asymmetric traffic. What is the most likely cause of session loss in this scenario?
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A network engineer is configuring a new HA pair. The engineer wants to ensure that when a failover occurs, the new active firewall has the most up-to-date session information. Which configuration is required?
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When configuring active/active HA on a PAN-OS firewall, what is the purpose of assigning HA interface addresses?
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A small business has two firewalls in an active/passive HA pair. The business wants to ensure that if the active firewall fails, the passive firewall takes over with minimal disruption. What is a key characteristic of active/passive HA that supports this?
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