PAC Architect Registration study materials

PAC Architect Registration case studies

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The PAC Architect Registration - also searched as PAC Architect or Prisma Access Consultant Architect - is a professional certification for network and security engineers who design, deploy, and operate Palo Alto Networks Prisma Access. This independent study page is not affiliated with Palo Alto Networks; it organizes preparation around four domains: Prisma Access Architecture and Design (25%), Deployment and Configuration (25%), Security Policy and Operations (25%), and Troubleshooting and Optimization (25%). The PAC Architect Registration case studies are 5 cases and about 5,503 words.

Northwind Capital: Compute Location Placement and a Fixed-Egress Trading Platform

Northwind Capital runs Prisma Access for 6,500 mobile users - roughly 3,000 in the Americas, 2,400 in EMEA and 1,100 in APAC - plus 55 branches onboarded as remote networks. Every mobile user is currently assigned to the New York compute location; from there a service connection reaches the London data centre, which hosts the trading platform and the permit-to-work system.

1,042 words, about 5 min 2

Harbor Logistics: Tunnel MTU, Rekey Flaps and False Redundancy

Harbor Logistics runs a Prisma Access service connection from a single compute location to two edge routers at its Rotterdam data centre, each router on its own 1 Gbps circuit from the same ISP. Both tunnels use IKEv2 with pre-shared keys, and BGP runs with customer AS 65100 and peer AS 65101, advertising 10.10.0.0/16 and 10.20.0.0/16 from both tunnels.

1,093 words, about 5 min 3

Solstice Retail: Decryption Rollout Versus Pinned Certificates and Unidentified Applications

Solstice Retail, with 4,000 mobile users and 60 branches, enabled SSL forward proxy decryption for all mobile users six weeks ago. The entire rollout is governed by one decryption policy with a single no-decrypt rule that matches URL category financial-services, placed above the decrypt rule; everything else is decrypted and inspected with vulnerability, anti-spyware and URL filtering profiles.

1,098 words, about 5 min 4

Vantage Media: Peak-Hour Degradation on a Branch Service Connection

Vantage Media's São Paulo office houses 900 staff on a 300 Mbps internet circuit shared with guest Wi-Fi. A single service connection over that circuit carries all office traffic to Prisma Access; there is no local breakout and no second circuit.

1,125 words, about 6 min 5

Ardent Group: Integrating an Acquisition with Colliding RFC1918 Space

Ardent Group runs Prisma Access with 8,000 mobile users and 30 remote-network sites. It has acquired Kestrel, which has 12 sites, 2,000 users and a data centre in 10.10.0.0/16.

1,145 words, about 6 min