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A user at a branch office is experiencing poor quality during a video conference call via Zoom. The Prisma SD-WAN ION device at the branch has multiple WAN links. The administrator wants to troubleshoot this specific issue by examining how the Zoom traffic is being treated by the SD-WAN. Which of the following log types or monitoring views within the Prisma SD-WAN Cloud Management Console would provide the MOST relevant information for diagnosing the path and quality issues for this specific call? (Select all that apply)

• A. Application Performance Monitoring (APM) data for the 'zoom' application, showing its end-to-end performance metrics over the SD-WAN paths.
• B. Threat logs to see if any security events were detected on the Zoom traffic.
• C. SD-WAN Flow logs filtered for the user's IP and the destination IP/port of the Zoom call, showing which specific WAN link(s) the traffic traversed and the quality metrics on those links at the time.
• D. Traffic logs filtered for the user's IP and the Zoom application, showing the policy rule matched and the action (allow).
• E. Path Quality monitoring data showing the real-time and historical latency, jitter, and packet loss for all WAN links at the branch.

A large organization is deploying SSL Forward Proxy decryption across its SASE infrastructure (Palo Alto Networks Prisma Access) for global users accessing the internet. After initial rollout, they encounter several challenges, including users reporting certificate errors on specific websites and internal applications, and some applications failing to function correctly when decryption is enabled. Which of the following are common reasons for these issues and crucial considerations when implementing SSL Forward Proxy?

• A. Some applications utilize security mechanisms like certificate pinning, where the client application is hardcoded to trust only the original server certificate, causing it to reject the certificate re-signed by the firewall.
• B. The Decryption policy is placed after security policies that allow encrypted traffic, preventing the decryption engine from processing the traffic before it's allowed to pass.
• C. The decryption policy is configured to decrypt traffic to categories or specific URLs that use client-side certificates for authentication, which the firewall's proxy function cannot handle transparently.
• D. The firewall's Forward Trust Certificate (the root CA used to re-sign certificates) has not been deployed and trusted by all client devices' operating systems or browser trust stores.
• E. The firewall is configured to block sessions that encounter decryption errors (e.g., unsupported cipher suites, protocol errors), rather than bypassing decryption for such sessions.

In a hybrid cloud deployment leveraging Palo Alto Networks VM-Series firewalls for internal segmentation within a public cloud VPC and PA-Series firewalls for on-premises data center segmentation, how do Security Zones contribute to maintaining a consistent security posture and policy enforcement across these different environments?

• A. Zones are configured identically on both VM-Series and PA-Series, providing a unified logical representation of network segments regardless of the underlying infrastructure.
• B. Zones map directly to physical interfaces on PA-Series and to virtual interfaces on VM-Series, allowing policy to be written based on abstract location rather than specific interfaces.
• C. Zones define the source and destination for security policy rules, enabling the same zone-based policy structure to be applied to traffic flows whether they occur in the data center or the cloud.
• D. Zones simplify routing configuration by automatically creating routes between interfaces assigned to the same zone.
• E. While zones are used, policy consistency is primarily achieved by using App-ID alone, making zone configuration less critical in a hybrid environment.

A security administrator is troubleshooting a remote user's connectivity issue to internal resources via GlobalProtect on a self-managed NGFW. The user can connect to the GlobalProtect gateway but cannot reach the internal servers. The administrator wants to confirm if the user's traffic is hitting the expected Security Policy rule and being allowed, and also verify the user's identity mapping. Which log type is the most relevant to investigate for session details and policy matches for this user?

• A. HIP Match logs
• B. User-ID logs
• C. Traffic logs
• D. System logs
• E. GlobalProtect logs

An administrator is using Panorama to manage multiple PA-Series firewalls. They have created a shared address object named 'Sensitive-Servers' that contains the IP addresses of critical internal servers. They want to use this shared object in security policy rules for different Device Groups. What is the primary benefit of using a shared address object in Panorama compared to creating the same address object locally on each managed firewall?

• A. It ensures consistency of the 'Sensitive-Servers' definition across all firewalls that use the shared object in their policies.
• B. It automatically updates the address object on the firewalls whenever the IP addresses of the sensitive servers change dynamically.
• C. It reduces the load on individual firewalls by offloading address resolution to Panorama.
• D. It enables High Availability synchronization for the address object between managed firewall pairs.
• E. It allows the 'Sensitive-Servers' object to be used in NAT policies, which is not possible with local address objects.