NGFW-Engineer Paloalto Networks Palo Alto Networks Next-Generation Firewall Engineer Free Practice Exam Questions (2026 Updated)
Prepare effectively for your Paloalto Networks NGFW-Engineer Palo Alto Networks Next-Generation Firewall Engineer certification with our extensive collection of free, high-quality practice questions. Each question is designed to mirror the actual exam format and objectives, complete with comprehensive answers and detailed explanations. Our materials are regularly updated for 2026, ensuring you have the most current resources to build confidence and succeed on your first attempt.
A network engineer observes a pattern of anomalous traffic hitting an external-facing zone, including a high volume of TCP packets that are not part of a new session handshake (non-SYN), and a large number of ICMP fragments. The engineer decides to apply a Zone Protection profile to mitigate these potential threats.
Which protection type within the profile must be configured?
An administrator is configuring a GlobalProtect pre-logon VPN. The administrator has already imported the necessary internal certificate authority (CA) certificates for issuing machine certificates onto the firewall.
Which configuration is required on the GlobalProtect Gateway to enable pre-logon using these machine certificates?
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.)
Which networking technology can be configured on Layer 3 interfaces but not on Layer 2 interfaces?
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?
An administrator needs to perform several maintenance tasks on a managed firewall directly from the Panorama console without using the Context Switch feature.
Which set of tasks can the administrator fully execute from the Panorama UI?
An engineer is required to configure a site-to-site VPN that will automatically fail over to a backup link if the primary tunnel goes down. The engineer also needs to exchange routes dynamically between the sites.
Which two features necessitate assigning an IP address to the tunnel interface? (Choose two.)
Which two zone types are valid when configuring a new security zone? (Choose two.)
In a hybrid cloud deployment, what is the primary function of Ansible in managing Palo Alto Networks NGFWs?
An engineer is configuring a GlobalProtect portal and wants to enable split tunneling. The requirement is to route DNS queries for "https://www.google.com/search?q=corp.internal.com" to the DNS servers assigned by the VPN, while allowing all other DNS queries to be resolved by the client's locally configured DNS.
What is the effect of configuring this split DNS policy?
When integrating Kubernetes with Palo Alto Networks NGFWs, what is used to secure traffic between microservices?
In an active/active high availability (HA) configuration with two PA-Series firewalls, how do the firewalls use the HA3 interface?
In a Palo Alto Networks environment, GlobalProtect has been enabled using certificate-based authentication for both users and devices. To ensure proper validation of certificates, one or more certificate profiles are configured.
What function do certificate profiles serve in this context?
An administrator is configuring a site-to-site IPSec VPN and assigns an IP address to the tunnel interface.
Which two abilities are enabled by this specific configuration step? (Choose two.)
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?
Which configuration step is required when implementing a new self-signed root certificate authority (CA) certificate for SSL decryption on a Palo Alto Networks firewall?
A firewall administrator needs to configure a new Palo Alto Networks firewall so that its management interface automatically obtains an IP address, netmask, and default gateway from the network.
Which command should be executed in the CLI to accomplish this goal?
An engineer at a managed services provider is updating an application that allows its customers to request firewall changes to also manage SD-WAN. The application will be able to make any approved changes directly to devices via API.
What is a requirement for the application to create SD-WAN interfaces?
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.)
A network engineer observes that after a primary link recovers, the firewall immediately switches traffic back from the backup static route to the primary static route. The engineer checks the path monitoring configuration for the primary route.
Which value is configured for the preemptive hold time to cause this behavior?
