Which operation will impact performance of the management plane?

The correct answer is C. generating a SaaS Application report. The Palo Alto NGFW architecture separates processing into a data plane (handles packet forwarding, security policy enforcement, decryption, DoS protection) and a management plane (handles configuration, logging, reporting, and administrative tasks). Generating a SaaS Application

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ADoS protection
BWildFire submissions
Cgenerating a SaaS Application report
Ddecrypting SSL sessions

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Explanation

The Palo Alto NGFW architecture separates processing into a data plane (handles packet forwarding, security policy enforcement, decryption, DoS protection) and a management plane (handles configuration, logging, reporting, and administrative tasks). Generating a SaaS Application report is a reporting/analytics task executed on the management plane, so it directly consumes management plane CPU and memory. DoS protection and SSL decryption are data-plane operations. WildFire file submissions are forwarded by the data plane, with the management plane handling only the lightweight task of transmitting sample files to the cloud.

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#Management Plane#Performance Impact#Reporting#Plane Separation

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