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Start Specialized Security Domains PracticeA network architect is designing a branch office deployment using Prisma SD-WAN. The branch requires high availability and intelligent path selection over dual broadband links. Which Prisma SD-WAN construct is primarily responsible for combining these physical links into a single logical path with dynamic path selection?
Explanation: Prisma SD-WAN uses Path Quality Profiles and WAN Interface groups / VPN clusters to aggregate and manage paths. Specifically, Path Quality Profiles define performance criteria.
A security architect is configuring Prisma Access for mobile users to ensure that traffic destined for internal corporate applications is routed securely via a specific Remote Networks connection without exposing it to the public internet. Which configuration object must be used to achieve this?
Explanation: Explicit Proxy and Service Connections or Remote Networks routing tables via Prisma Access Panorama plugin handle routing of internal corporate traffic. Specifically, defining Traffic Steering rules ensures internal app traffic goes through Service Connections.
An architect is deploying Prisma Access for users who require explicit proxy settings due to strict corporate network egress policies. How should the architect configure Prisma Access to support explicit proxy connections for mobile users?
Explanation: Prisma Access supports explicit proxy for mobile users by configuring the GlobalProtect app to use an explicit proxy. The GlobalProtect app configuration in Panorama includes settings for explicit proxy, where you specify the Prisma Access explicit proxy IP address and port. This allows the GlobalProtect app to forward traffic to the explicit proxy, which then applies security policies.
When designing AI application security using Palo Alto Networks capabilities, an architect wants to protect internal Large Language Models (LLMs) from prompt injection attacks and data exfiltration. Which product suite provides native LLM security posture management and runtime defense?
Explanation: Prisma Cloud Application Security, which includes AI Security Posture Management (AI-SPM), provides native LLM security posture management and runtime defense for internal AI applications. It discovers AI models and pipelines, assesses misconfigurations, and monitors runtime behavior to detect prompt injection and data exfiltration attempts. This is the Palo Alto product suite purpose-built for securing AI workloads across the application lifecycle.
A security architect is configuring branch networking using Prisma SD-WAN. Which THREE capabilities are core features of the Prisma SD-WAN architecture? (Choose three)
Explanation: Option A is correct because Prisma SD-WAN's application-defined fabric continuously measures real-time SLA metrics such as latency, jitter, and packet loss per path and steers each application flow over the best-performing link, which is a foundational capability of the architecture. Option C is correct because Prisma SD-WAN is managed through a cloud-delivered portal (Strata Cloud Manager) and ION devices at branches are onboarded via automated zero-touch provisioning, eliminating manual CLI configuration. Option E is correct because Prisma SD-WAN integrates Next-Generation Firewall security natively into the SD-WAN fabric, applying App-ID and URL filtering at the branch without requiring a separate appliance. Option B does not belong because Prisma SD-WAN uses its own controller-based architecture and does not rely on traditional PAN-OS active-passive HA control-plane cable synchronization. Option D does not belong because GlobalProtect mobile user gateways are not a native BGP peering target of the Prisma SD-WAN fabric; remote-user connectivity is handled separately from branch SD-WAN routing.
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