3.3 Manage Third-Party Services to Deploy NGFWs (e.g., Kubernetes, Hypervisors, CSPs, Terraform, Ansible) NEXT-GENERATION-FIREWALL-ENGINEER Practice Questions (Page 1)

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1. 1foundation · medium

   Which component in a Kubernetes environment is responsible for managing the deployment and scaling of containerized NGFW instances?

   • AA Kubernetes Service
   • BA Kubernetes ConfigMap
   • CA Kubernetes Deployment
   • DA Kubernetes Namespace
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2. 2foundation · medium

   Which third-party service is commonly integrated with NGFWs to provide centralized authentication for administrative users?

   • ASyslog
   • BSNMP
   • CNetFlow
   • DRADIUS
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4. 3application · medium

   A network team uses Ansible to manage the lifecycle of their VM-Series firewalls, including configuration changes and software updates. They need to ensure that the playbooks are idempotent and can be run against a large number of firewalls without causing downtime. What is the best practice to achieve this?

   • AWrite custom shell scripts that use the PAN-OS CLI and run them via Ansible's command module.
   • BRun the playbook against all firewalls simultaneously to complete the update as quickly as possible.
   • CUse Ansible to push the configuration directly to the firewall's dataplane, bypassing the management plane.
   • DUse the PAN-OS Ansible modules, which are designed to be idempotent, and run the playbook in batches to avoid overwhelming the management plane.
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5. 4application · medium

   A security team manages a multi-account AWS environment and needs to deploy identical VM-Series firewalls in three separate VPCs. They want to use Infrastructure as Code to ensure consistent configuration and to track changes in version control. The team is already using Terraform for other AWS resources. What is the most appropriate approach?

   • AWrite a single Terraform configuration that hardcodes the settings for all three VPCs and run it once.
   • BDeploy the VM-Series firewalls using AWS CloudFormation instead, since it is the native AWS IaC service.
   • CUse the AWS CLI to launch the VM-Series instances and then manually configure each firewall through the management UI.
   • DCreate a Terraform module for the VM-Series deployment and reference it from each VPC's Terraform configuration, passing VPC-specific variables.
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6. 5foundation · medium

   Which Ansible component is a collection of related playbooks, variables, and handlers that can be reused across different automation tasks?

   • AInventory
   • BModule
   • CPlaybook
   • DRole
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