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An engineer is attempting to resolve an issue with slow traffic. Which PAN-OS feature can be used to prioritize certain network traffic?

The correct answer is D. Quality of Service (QoS). To resolve slow traffic issues by prioritizing specific network traffic, the Palo Alto Networks firewall utilizes its Quality of Service (QoS) feature.

Submitted by zhang_li· Apr 18, 2026Configuration Troubleshooting

Question

An engineer is attempting to resolve an issue with slow traffic. Which PAN-OS feature can be used to prioritize certain network traffic?

Options

  • APrisma Access for Mobile Users
  • BForward Error Correction (FEC)
  • CSaaS Quality Profile
  • DQuality of Service (QoS)

How the community answered

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  • A
    3% (1)
  • B
    3% (1)
  • D
    94% (29)

Why each option

To resolve slow traffic issues by prioritizing specific network traffic, the Palo Alto Networks firewall utilizes its Quality of Service (QoS) feature.

APrisma Access for Mobile Users

Prisma Access for Mobile Users is a cloud-based security platform that extends enterprise security to mobile users, and it does not directly provide a feature to prioritize traffic on a PAN-OS firewall.

BForward Error Correction (FEC)

Forward Error Correction (FEC) is a data transmission technique used to detect and correct errors in data without retransmission, typically employed in SD-WAN for link resilience, not for traffic prioritization.

CSaaS Quality Profile

A SaaS Quality Profile in PAN-OS is used to monitor the performance and health of SaaS applications, which might inform QoS decisions but is not the mechanism for traffic prioritization itself.

DQuality of Service (QoS)Correct

Quality of Service (QoS) is a PAN-OS feature that allows administrators to prioritize critical applications or services, allocate bandwidth, and manage latency and jitter for different types of network traffic, thereby mitigating slow traffic issues. By classifying, marking, and policing traffic, QoS ensures that high-priority applications receive preferential treatment during network congestion.

Concept tested: Traffic prioritization (QoS)

Source: https://docs.paloaltonetworks.com/pan-os/10-2/pan-os-admin/quality-of-service.html

Topics

#Quality of Service#Traffic Prioritization#PAN-OS Features

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