Palo Alto Networks (PANW) Certified Network Security Administrator (PCNSA) Practice Exam

What feature allows configurations to be pushed from Panorama to firewalls?

1. Policies

2. Templates

3. Profiles

4. Devices

The correct answer is: Templates

The feature that allows configurations to be pushed from Panorama to firewalls is templates. In the context of Palo Alto Networks, templates are used to define and manage device configuration settings consistently across multiple firewalls. When you create a template, you can specify settings such as network interfaces, zones, and security profiles that you want to apply to the managed firewalls. This centralized management capability helps ensure consistency and streamlined administration because you can make changes in one location (Panorama) and push those changes out to one or many firewalls simultaneously. By using templates, an organization can maintain control over the configuration of its firewalls, ensuring that all devices have the appropriate settings for security, compliance, and operational standards. Other options serve different purposes: policies are mainly used for traffic management and security enforcement, profiles refer to the various security settings for things like antivirus or URL filtering, and devices refers to individual firewalls but does not denote any specific configuration or management function.