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| Topic 1 | - Connectivity and Security: This part measures the skills of network engineers and security analysts in maintaining and configuring network security across on-premises, cloud, and hybrid environments. It covers network segmentation, security and network policies, monitoring, logging, and certificate management. It also includes maintaining connectivity and security for remote users through remote access solutions, network segmentation, security policy tuning, monitoring, logging, and certificate usage to ensure secure and reliable remote connections.
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| Topic 2 | - Platform Solutions, Services, and Tools: This section measures the expertise of security engineers and platform administrators in Palo Alto Networks NGFW and Prisma SASE products. It involves creating security and NAT policies, configuring Cloud-Delivered Security Services (CDSS) such as security profiles, User-ID and App-ID, decryption, and monitoring. It also covers the application of CDSS for IoT security, Enterprise Data Loss Prevention, SaaS Security, SD-WAN, GlobalProtect, Advanced WildFire, Threat Prevention, URL Filtering, and DNS security. Furthermore, it includes aligning AIOps with best practices through administration, dashboards, and Best Practice Assessments.
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| Topic 3 | - Infrastructure Management and CDSS: This section tests the abilities of security operations specialists and infrastructure managers in maintaining and configuring Cloud-Delivered Security Services (CDSS) including security policies, profiles, and updates. It includes managing IoT security with device IDs and monitoring, as well as Enterprise Data Loss Prevention and SaaS Security focusing on data encryption, access control, and logging. It also covers maintenance and configuration of Strata Cloud Manager and Panorama for network security environments including supported products, device addition, reporting, and configuration management.
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| Topic 4 | - GFW and SASE Solution Maintenance and Configuration: This domain evaluates the skills of network security administrators in maintaining and configuring Palo Alto Networks hardware firewalls, VM-Series, CN-Series, and Cloud NGFWs. It includes managing security policies, profiles, updates, and upgrades. It also covers adding, configuring, and maintaining Prisma SD-WAN including initial setup, pathing, monitoring, and logging. Maintaining and configuring Prisma Access with security policies, profiles, updates, upgrades, and monitoring is also assessed.
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