Oct 11, 2026 PASS Palo Alto Networks NGFW-Engineer EXAM WITH UPDATED DUMPS [Q15-Q37]

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Oct 11, 2026 PASS Palo Alto Networks NGFW-Engineer EXAM WITH UPDATED DUMPS

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Palo Alto Networks NGFW-Engineer Exam Syllabus Topics:

Topic	Details
Topic 1	PAN-OS Networking Configuration: This section of the exam measures the skills of Network Engineers in configuring networking components within PAN-OS. It covers interface setup across Layer 2, Layer 3, virtual wire, tunnel interfaces, and aggregate Ethernet configurations. Additionally, it includes zone creation, high availability configurations (active active and active passive), routing protocols, and GlobalProtect setup for portals, gateways, authentication, and tunneling. The section also addresses IPSec, quantum-resistant cryptography, and GRE tunnels.
Topic 2	PAN-OS Device Setting Configuration: This section evaluates the expertise of System Administrators in configuring device settings on PAN-OS. It includes implementing authentication roles and profiles, and configuring virtual systems with interfaces, zones, routers, and inter-VSYS security. Logging mechanisms such as Strata Logging Service and log forwarding are covered alongside software updates and certificate management for PKI integration and decryption. The section also focuses on configuring Cloud Identity Engine User-ID features and web proxy settings.
Topic 3	Integration and Automation: This section measures the skills of Automation Engineers in deploying and managing Palo Alto Networks NGFWs across various environments. It includes the installation of PA-Series, VM-Series, CN-Series, and Cloud NGFWs. The use of APIs for automation, integration with third-party services like Kubernetes and Terraform, centralized management with Panorama templates and device groups, as well as building custom dashboards and reports in Application Command Center (ACC) are key topics.

NEW QUESTION 15
An administrator plans to upgrade a pair of active/passive firewalls to a new PAN-OS release. The environment is highly sensitive, and downtime must be minimized.
What is the recommended upgrade process for minimal disruption in this high availability (HA) scenario?

Suspend the active firewall to trigger a failover to the passive firewall. With traffic now running on the former passive unit, upgrade the suspended (now passive) firewall and confirm proper operation. Then fail traffic back and upgrade the remaining firewall.

Shut down the currently active firewall and upgrade it offline, allowing the passive firewall to handle all traffic. Once the active firewall finishes upgrading, bring it back online and rejoin the HA cluster.
Finally, upgrade the passive firewall while the newly upgraded unit remains active.

Isolate both firewalls from the production environment and upgrade them in a separate, offline setup.
Reconnect them only after validating the new software version, resuming HA functionality once both units are fully upgraded and tested.

Push the new PAN-OS version simultaneously to both firewalls, having them upgrade and reboot in parallel. Rely on automated HA reconvergence to restore normal operations without manually failing over traffic.

NEW QUESTION 16
An NGFW engineer is configuring multiple Layer 2 interfaces on a Palo Alto Networks firewall, and all interfaces must be assigned to the same VLAN. During initial testing, it is reported that clients located behind the various interfaces cannot communicate with each other.
Which action taken by the engineer will resolve this issue?

Configure each interface to belong to the same Layer 2 zone and enable IP routing between them.

Assign each interface to the appropriate Layer 2 zone and configure a policy that allows traffic within the VLAN.

Assign each interface to the appropriate Layer 2 zone and configure Security policies for interfaces not assigned to the same zone.

Enable IP routing between the interfaces and configure a Security policy to allow traffic between interfaces within the VLAN.

NEW QUESTION 17
A holding company has recently acquired two new businesses, each with its own Okta identity provider. The holding company wants to use a single Cloud Identity Engine (CIE) instance to provide User-ID for all three organizations’ firewalls. However, for legal reasons, the firewalls of Company A must only receive identity data from Company A’s Okta instance, and the firewalls of Company B must only receive data from Company B’s Okta instance.
Which configuration in CIE supports this requirement with highest operational efficiency?

Configure a CIE tenant, connect Okta, and create segments.

Configure the firewalls for each company to query their respective Okta IdPs directly, bypassing CIE for redistribution.

Push all identity data to Panorama and use Panorama’s group mapping include/exclude lists to control what each firewall learns.

Create a master CIE tenant for the holding company and peer it with two subordinate tenants, one for each acquired business.

NEW QUESTION 18
For which two purposes is an IP address configured on a tunnel interface? (Choose two.)

Use of dynamic routing protocols

Tunnel monitoring

Use of peer IP

Redistribution of User-ID

NEW QUESTION 19
What is the requirement for interface link speeds when configuring a virtual wire on a Palo Alto Networks firewall?

They must be configured with auto-negotiate settings regardless of the port type.

They must all be either copper or fiber optic, however they can be different.

They must have the same link speed and transmission mode.

They must be the same media type.

NEW QUESTION 20
A company deploys an NGFW and notices that several applications running over HTTPS (TCP
443) cannot be accurately identified.
What is the MOST likely reason for this behavior?

The firewall does not support application control

SSL/TLS decryption is not enabled

NAT is misconfigured

The routing table is incomplete

NEW QUESTION 21
An administrator is configuring firewalls via a Panorama template to forward logs to a newly provisioned Strata Logging Service instance. The operational requirement is to maintain existing logging to on-premises Panorama log collectors for immediate, low-latency queries while also forwarding logs to Strata Logging Service for long-term archival. The administrator has already configured and enabled cloud logging connectivity.
Which additional step is necessary to meet the operational requirement?

Enable duplicate logging (cloud and on-premises) under Device – > Setup – > Management in the appropriate templates.

Enable log syncing and commit the template changes to both the on-premises and cloud collectors.

In the collector group settings, add the Strata Logging Service as a secondary destination for the on- premises collector.

Add the Panorama log collector and Strata Logging Service IP addresses to the cloud logging service routes to ensure dual-path cloud and on-premises reachability.

NEW QUESTION 22
A network security engineer wants to create Security policy rules that allow or deny traffic based on a user’s department, which corresponds to groups in the company’s Active Directory. To achieve this, the firewall needs to retrieve group information from the directory server.
Which configuration object must be created first to establish the connection with the Active Directory server?

LDAP server profile

User-ID agent service account

Authentication sequence

Kerberos server profile

NEW QUESTION 23
A network architect is planning the deployment of a new IPSec VPN tunnel to connect a local data center to a cloud environment. The plan must include all necessary Security policy configurations for both tunnel negotiation and data transit. Which two Security policy requirements must be included in the implementation plan? (Choose two answers)

The default interzone-default security policy is sufficient to allow the tunnel negotiation traffic between the firewall and the remote peer.

A pair of policies is required to control the flow of data traffic into and out of the security zone assigned to the tunnel interface.

A policy must explicitly permit only the IKE application between the external-facing zone and local zone.

A policy must explicitly permit the IPSec container application between the external-facing zone and local zone.

NEW QUESTION 24
A network administrator needs to replace the default self-signed certificate on a firewall with one signed by the company’s internal certificate authority (CA).
Which two firewall features would require this new certificate to be assigned via an SSL/TLS service profile? (Choose two.)

User-ID agent redistribution

RADIUS server authentication

Authentication portal

GlobalProtect gateway

NEW QUESTION 25
A PA-Series firewall with all licensable features is being installed. The customer’s Security policy requires that users do not directly access websites. Instead, a security device must create the connection, and there must be authentication back to the Active Directory servers for all sessions.
Which action meets the requirements in this scenario?

Deploy the transparent proxy with Web Cache Communications Protocol (WCCP).

Deploy the Next-Generation Firewalls as normal and install the User-ID agent.

Deploy the Advanced URL Filtering license and captive portal.

Deploy the explicit proxy with Kerberos authentication scheme.

NEW QUESTION 26
Which two statements apply to configuring required security rules when setting up an IPSec tunnel between a Palo Alto Networks firewall and a third- party gateway? (Choose two.)

For incoming and outgoing traffic through the tunnel, creating separate rules for each direction is optional.

The IKE negotiation and IPSec/ESP packets are allowed by default via the intrazone default allow policy.

For incoming and outgoing traffic through the tunnel, separate rules must be created for each direction.

The IKE negotiation and IPSec/ESP packets are denied by default via the interzone default deny policy.

NEW QUESTION 27
By default, which type of traffic is configured by service route configuration to use the management interface?

Security zone

IPSec tunnel

Virtual system (VSYS)

Autonomous Digital Experience Manager (ADEM)

NEW QUESTION 28
In regard to the Advanced Routing Engine (ARE), what must be enabled first when configuring a logical router on a PAN-OS firewall?

License

Plugin

Content update

General setting

NEW QUESTION 29
Which two statements apply to configuring required security rules when setting up an IPSec tunnel between a Palo Alto Networks firewall and a third- party gateway? (Choose two.)

For incoming and outgoing traffic through the tunnel, creating separate rules for each direction is optional.

The IKE negotiation and IPSec/ESP packets are allowed by default via the intrazone default allow policy.

For incoming and outgoing traffic through the tunnel, separate rules must be created for each direction.

The IKE negotiation and IPSec/ESP packets are denied by default via the interzone default deny policy.

NEW QUESTION 30
What is a valid configurable limit for setting resource quotas when defining a new VSYS on a Palo Alto Networks firewall?

Percentage of total CPU utilization

Maximum number of SSL decryption rules

Maximum number of virtual routers

Disk space allocation for logs

NEW QUESTION 31
Which CLI command is used to configure the management interface as a DHCP client?

set network dhcp interface management

set network dhcp type management-interface

set deviceconfig system type dhcp-client

set deviceconfig management type dhcp-client

NEW QUESTION 32
An administrator must perform several actions on a fleet of firewalls from a central Panorama instance. To maintain efficiency, the administrator wants to only perform actions that do not require switching context into each firewall’s individual web interface.
Which set of actions is available to the administrator directly from the Panorama UI?

Creating a new VLAN
Assigning an interface to the new VLAN
Configuring a new DHCP server on the firewall

Modifying a pre-rule
Editing a shared service object
Creating a new certificate profile

Accessing the CLI
Restarting the device
Installing the latest content and software versions

Configuring a new IPSec tunnel
Modifying the IKE gateway
Changing the DNS server settings of the firewall

NEW QUESTION 33
How do Zone Protection Profiles enhance network security?

By providing protection against flood attacks, reconnaissance scans, and packet-based threats

By replacing security policies with predefined rule sets

By encrypting all traffic entering and leaving the zone

By dynamically assigning users to security groups

NEW QUESTION 34
An engineer is configuring a site-to-site IPSec VPN to a partner network. The IKE Gateway and IPSec tunnel configurations are complete, and the tunnel interface has been assigned to a security zone. However, the tunnel fails to establish, and no application traffic passes through it once it is up.
Which two Security policy configurations are required to allow tunnel establishment and data traffic flow in this scenario? (Choose two.)

A security rule is needed to allow IKE and IPSec traffic between the zone where the physical interface resides and the zone of the partner gateway.

A single bidirectional security rule must be configured to manage traffic flowing through the tunnel interface.

Security rules must be configured to permit application traffic from the local zone to the tunnel zone, and from the tunnel zone to the local zone.

An Application Override policy is needed to allow both the IKE negotiation and the encapsulated data traffic.

NEW QUESTION 35
An engineer is implementing a new rollout of SAML for administrator authentication across a company’s Palo Alto Networks NGFWs. User authentication on company firewalls is currently performed with RADIUS, which will remain available for six months, until it is decommissioned.
The company wants both authentication types to be running in parallel during the transition to SAML.
Which two actions meet the criteria? (Choose two.)

Create a testing and rollback plan for the transition from Radius to SAML, as the two authentication profiles cannot be run in tandem.

Create an authentication sequence that includes both the “RADIUS” Server Profile and “SAML Identity Provider” Server Profile to run the two services in tandem.

Create and apply an authentication profile with the “SAML Identity Provider” Server Profile.

Create and add the “SAML Identity Provider” Server Profile to the authentication profile for the “RADIUS” Server Profile.

NEW QUESTION 36
A network architect is planning the deployment of a new IPSec VPN tunnel to connect a local data center to a cloud environment. The plan must include all necessary Security policy configurations for both tunnel negotiation and data transit.
Which two Security policy requirements must be included in the implementation plan? (Choose two.)

A policy must explicitly permit the IPSec container application between the external-facing zone and local zone.

A policy must explicitly permit only the IKE application between the external-facing zone and local zone.

A pair of policies is required to control the flow of data traffic into and out of the security zone assigned to the tunnel interface.

The default interzone-default security policy is sufficient to allow the tunnel negotiation traffic between the firewall and the remote peer.

NEW QUESTION 37
During an upgrade to the routing infrastructure in a customer environment, the network administrator wants to implement Advanced Routing Engine (ARE) on a Palo Alto Networks firewall.
Which firewall models support this configuration?

PA-5280, PA-7080, PA-3250, VM-Series

PA-455, VM-Series, PA-1410, PA-5450

PA-3260, PA-5410, PA-850, PA-460

PA-7050, PA-1420, VM-Series, CN-Series