1.1.1 Security components
1.1.2 Firewall components
1.1.3 Panorama components
1.1.4 PAN-OS subscriptions and the features they enable
1.1.5 Plug-in components
1.1.6 Heatmap and BPA reports
1.1.7 Artificial intelligence operations (AIOps)/Telemetry
1.1.8 IPv6
1.1.9 Internet of things (IoT)
1.2.1 Layer 2 interfaces
1.2.2 Layer 3 interfaces
1.2.3 Virtual wire (vwire) interfaces
1.2.4 Tap interfaces
1.2.5 Subinterfaces
1.2.6 Tunnel interfaces
1.2.7 Aggregate interfaces
1.2.8 Loopback interfaces
1.2.9 Decrypt mirror interfaces
1.2.10 VLAN interfaces
1.3.1 Risks and implications of enabling decryption
1.3.2 Use cases
1.3.3 Decryption types
1.3.4 Decryption profiles and certificates
1.3.5 Create decryption policy in the firewall
1.3.6 Configure SSH Proxy
Task 1.4 Enforce User-ID
1.4.1 Methods of building user-to-IP mappings
1.4.2 Determine if User-ID agent or agentless should be used
1.4.3 Compare and contrast User-ID agents
1.4.4 Methods of User-ID redistribution
1.4.5 Methods of group mapping
1.4.6 Server profile & authentication profile
Task 1.5 Determine how and when to use the Authentication policy
1.5.1 Purpose of, and use case for, the Authentication policy
1.5.2 Dependencies
1.5.3 Captive portal versus GlobalProtect (GP) client
1.7.1 User-ID hub
1.7.2 Inter-vsys routing
1.7.3 Service routes
1.7.4 Administration
Domain 2 Deploy and Configure Core Components 20%
Task 2.1 Configure management profiles
2.1.1 Interface management profile
2.1.2 SSL/TLS service profile
Task 2.2 Deploy and configure Security profiles
2.2.1 Custom configuration of different Security profiles and Security profile
groups
2.2.2 Relationship between URL filtering and credential theft prevention
2.2.3 Use of username and domain name in HTTP header insertion
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2.2.4 DNS Security
2.2.5 How to tune or add exceptions to a Security profile
2.2.6 Compare and contrast threat prevention and advanced threat prevention
2.2.7 Compare and contrast URL Filtering and Advanced URL Filtering
2.3.1 Customized values versus default settings
2.3.2 Classified versus aggregate profile types
2.3.3 Layer 3 and Layer 4 header inspection
2.4.1 Advanced high availability (HA) deployments
2.4.2 HA pair
2.4.3 Zero Touch Provisioning (ZTP)
2.4.4 Bootstrapping
2.5.1 Role-based access control for authorization
2.5.2 Different methods used to authenticate
2.5.3 The authentication sequence
2.5.4 The device access method
Task 2.6 Configure and manage certificates
2.6.1 Usage
2.6.2 Profiles
2.6.3 Chains
2.7.1 Dynamic routing
2.7.2 Redistribution profiles
2.7.3 Static routes
2.7.4 Path monitoring
2.7.5 Policy-based forwarding
2.7.6 Virtual router versus logical router
Task 2.8 Configure NAT
2.8.1 NAT policy rules
2.8.2 Security rules
2.8.3 Source NAT
2.8.4 No NAT
2.8.5 Use session browser to find NAT rule name
2.8.6 U-Turn NAT
2.8.7 Check HIT counts
2.9.1 IPSec components
2.9.2 Static peers and dynamic peers for IPSec
2.9.3 IPSec tunnel monitor profiles
2.9.4 IPSec tunnel testing
2.9.5 Generic Routing Encapsulation (GRE)
2.9.6 One-to-one and one-to-many tunnels
2.9.7 Determine when to use proxy IDs
Task 2.10 Configure service routes
2.10.1 Default
2.10.2 Custom
2.10.3 Destination
2.10.4 Custom routes for different vsys versus destination routes
2.10.5 How to verify service routes
Task 2.11 Configure application-based QoS
2.11.1 Enablement requirements
2.11.2 QoS policy rule
2.11.3 Add DSCP/TOS component
2.11.4 QoS profile
2.11.5 Determine how to control bandwidth use on a per-application basis
2.11.6 Use QoS to monitor bandwidth utilization
Domain 3 Deploy and Configure Features and Subscriptions 17%
Task 3.1 Configure App-ID
3.1.1 Create security rules with App-ID
3.1.2 Convert port and protocol rules to App-ID rules
3.1.3 Identify the impact of application override to the overall functionality of the
firewall
3.1.4 Create custom apps and threats
3.1.5 Review App-ID dependencies
Task 3.2 Configure GlobalProtect
3.2.1 GlobalProtect licensing
3.2.2 Configure gateway and portal
3.2.3 GlobalProtect agent
3.2.4 Differentiate between login methods
3.2.5 Configure Clientless VPN
3.2.6 Host information profile (HIP)
3.2.7 Configure multiple gateway agent profiles
3.2.8 Split tunneling
Task 3.3 Configure decryption
3.3.1 Inbound decryption
3.3.2 SSL forward proxy
3.3.3 SSL decryption exclusions
3.3.4 SSH proxy
Task 3.4 Configure User-ID
3.4.1 User-ID agent and agentless
3.4.2 User-ID group mapping
3.4.3 Shared User-ID mapping across virtual systems
3.4.4 Data redistribution
3.4.5 User-ID methods
3.4.6 Benefits of using dynamic user groups in policy rules
3.4.7 Requirements to support dynamic user groups
3.4.8 How GlobalProtect internal and external gateways can be used
Task 3.5 Configure WildFire
3.5.1 Submission profile
3.5.2 Action profile
3.5.3 Submissions and verdicts
3.5.4 Signature actions
3.5.5 File types and file sizes
3.5.6 Update schedule
3.5.7 Forwarding of decrypted traffic
Task 3.6 Configure Web Proxy
3.6.1 Transparent proxy
3.6.2 Explicit proxy
4.1.1 Components configured in a template
4.1.2 How the order of templates in a stack affects the configuration push to a
firewall
4.1.3 Overriding a template value in a stack
4.1.4 Configure variables in templates
4.1.5 Relationship between Panorama and devices as pertaining to dynamic
updates versions, policy implementation, and/or HA peers
4.2.1 Device group hierarchies
4.2.2 Identify what device groups contain
4.2.3 Differentiate between different use cases for pre-rules, local rules, the
default rules, and post-rules
4.2.4 Identify the impact of configuring a primary device
4.2.5 Assign firewalls to device groups
Task 4.3 Manage firewall configurations within Panorama
4.3.1 Licensing
4.3.2 Commit recovery feature
4.3.3 Automatic commit recovery
4.3.4 Commit types and schedules
4.3.5 Config backups
4.3.6 Commit type options
4.3.7 Manage dynamic updates for Panorama and Panorama-managed devices
4.3.8 Software and dynamic updates
4.3.9 Import firewall configuration into Panorama
4.3.10 Configure log collectors
4.3.11 Check firewall health and status from Panorama
4.3.12 Configure role-based access on Panorama
5.1.1 Identify log types and criticalities
5.1.2 Manage external services
5.1.3 Create and manage tags
5.1.4 Identify system and traffic issues using the web interface and CLI tools
5.1.5 Configure Log Forwarding profile and device log settings
5.1.6 Log monitoring
5.1.7 Customize logging and reporting settings
Task 5.2 Plan and execute the process to upgrade a Palo Alto Networks system
5.2.1 Single firewall
5.2.2 HA pairs
5.2.3 Panorama push
5.2.4 Dynamic updates
Task 5.3 Manage HA functions
5.3.1 Link monitoring
5.3.2 Path monitoring
5.3.3 HA links
5.3.4 Failover
5.3.5 Active/active and active/passive
5.3.6 HA interfaces
5.3.7 Clustering
5.3.8 Election setting
6.1.1 IPSec
6.1.2 GRE
6.1.3 One-to-one and one-to-many tunnels
6.1.4 Route-based versus policy-based remote hosts
6.1.5 Tunnel monitoring
Task 6.2 Troubleshoot interfaces
6.2.1 Transceivers
6.2.2 Settings
6.2.3 Aggregate interfaces, LACP
6.2.4 Counters
6.2.5 Tagging
Task 6.3 Troubleshoot decryption
6.3.1 Inbound decryption
6.3.2 SSL forward proxy
6.3.3 SSH proxy
6.3.4 Identify what cannot be decrypted and configure exclusions and bypasses
6.3.5 Certificates
6.4.1 Dynamic routing
6.4.2 Redistribution profiles
6.4.3 Static routes
6.4.4 Route monitoring
6.4.5 Policy-based forwarding
6.4.6 Multicast routing
6.4.7 Service routes
Task 6.5 General Troubleshooting
6.4.1 Logs
6.4.2 Packet capture (pcap)
6.4.3 Reports
Task 6.6 Troubleshoot resource protections
6.6.1 Zone protection profiles
6.6.2 DoS protections
6.6.3 Packet buffer protections
6.7.1 Portal and Gateway
6.7.2 Access to resources
6.7.3 GlobalProtect client
Task 6.8 Troubleshoot policies
6.8.1 NAT
6.8.2 Security
6.8.3 Decryption
6.8.4 Authentication
6.9.1 Monitor
6.9.2 Failover triggers