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Question 1
What is the order of processing when both Policy-Based Forwarding (PBF) policies and routing table entries are involved?
Question 2
An organization splits its data center network per policy change mandates. The NGFWs must support both sides of the network on a single high availability (HA) pair. The NGFWs have SD-WAN running for 32 branches, which will be divided into 8 and 24 for the split. The NGFWs also run OSPF and BGP, which prevents the completion of the project to comply with the policy change. Which action must be taken to resolve this issue?
Question 3
An organization hosts a customer portal and wants to use a Palo Alto Networks NGFW to inspect inbound traffic for threats. The portal uses a certificate issued by a public certificate authority (CA). What is a mandatory requirement for the firewall?
Question 4
An organization uses a load balancer with a single public IP address to distribute inbound traffic to multiple internal servers running a custom application on the non-standard port 8443. For example, traffic destined to the load balancer IP address 203.0.113.50:8443 needs to be forwarded to 10.20.30.40:9443. The load balancer directs traffic to internal hosts based on the destination port. The company requires the NAT policy to support precise port translation to ensure proper server load balancing and application availability. Which Destination NAT configuration should be implemented?
Question 5
A security team experiencing alert fatigue from its NGFWs needs to set parameters to receive notifications for the highest risk alerts only. The team must maintain the same level of security efficacy after this change. Which configuration of the Strata Cloud Manager (SCM) "Incidents and Alerts" tab will meet the requirements?
Question 6
In an environment with SSL Forward Proxy decryption policies and applications that use certificate pinning, which configuration step is essential to prevent application failures due to strict certificate validation?

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