Palo Alto Networks Intermediate Training
Configure decryption, GlobalProtect and site-to-site VPNs and HA pairs, and troubleshoot traffic with CLI and packet captures. Learn Palo Alto Networks through a clear Foundation to Advanced path, with hands-on labs, live cohort options, certification support and full LMS access.
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Self-paced video subscription
Billed yearly at ₹9,996. This includes all four levels, complete LMS access for one year, plus 20+ additional courses and 50+ tools access.
- All four Palo Alto Networks levels in one price.
- 20+ additional courses and 50+ tools included, even when subscribing to one course.
- Best fit for learners who want full-library access and flexible progress.
Live & Interactive session
Instructor-led cohort, max 8 to 10 hours, with demos, labs, Q&A, assignments and practical review.
- Live small-batch cohort from soon.
- Interactive discussion and lab troubleshooting.
- Recommended for teams that need guided implementation.
1:1 Live training
The same agenda, taught one-to-one by the trainer. Start immediately, without waiting for the next batch. Max 8 to 10 hours, one-to-one.
About Palo Alto Networks Intermediate Training.
Understand where Palo Alto Networks fits in modern software delivery, what this level covers, and how the program builds practical confidence step by step.
Program overview
Palo Alto Networks is taught as a practical technical skill for modern engineering, operations and platform teams. The course explains where the tool fits, how it is used in real delivery environments, and how learners can apply it through guided practice.
This DevOpsSchool Palo Alto Networks program is built for working professionals who want usable skills instead of only conceptual exposure. The training emphasizes live examples, workflow clarity, operational controls and progressive skill depth from Foundation to Intermediate.
Private Palo Alto Networks training for delivery teams, platform groups and engineering organizations.
DevOpsSchool provides corporate Palo Alto Networks training for teams that need faster adoption, workflow standardization, administrative control, integration guidance and governance-ready rollout. Private batches can be aligned to development practice, release workflow, access model, maturity level and internal tooling.
- Private online or classroom delivery for engineering teams
- Aligned to Palo Alto Networks usage maturity, admin depth and collaboration patterns
- Useful for rollout, migration, governance and workflow consistency goals
- Can be tailored for developers, administrators, DevOps teams and leadership stakeholders
Why teams use DevOpsSchool
DevOpsSchool combines live demonstration, practical workflow discussion, implementation-oriented examples, and strong post-session learning support. That makes the training more usable for real teams than generic slide-led courses.
Choose any level. The page still shows the full progression.
Foundation, Essential, Intermediate and Advanced are presented as one linked training flow. Self-paced buyers get all levels by default, even if they start from only one course page.
Instructor-led, self-paced and corporate delivery options.
Compare delivery format, duration, level access and batch style. Fees are shown only in the top decision panel and once again after the agenda.
| Duration | Mode | Level access | Batch |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8 to 10 Hrs. max | Live & Interactive | Intermediate | Public batch |
| 8 to 10 Hrs. max | 1:1 Live training | Intermediate | Starts immediately |
| 1 year LMS access | Self-paced video | All 4 levels | Anytime access |
| 3 Days | Corporate | Palo Alto Networks Intermediate Training | Private team batch |
What learners should be able to do after Palo Alto Networks training.
The outcomes are written for practical delivery teams: developers, DevOps engineers, release engineers, administrators and technical leads.
Configure Palo Alto firewalls
Set up interfaces, zones, NAT and application-based security policies on PAN-OS.
Prevent threats and secure access
Apply threat prevention, decryption, User-ID and VPNs to protect users and data.
Operate firewalls at scale
Manage, automate and troubleshoot firewall estates with Panorama and APIs.
Why this skill, what you will achieve, and who should attend.
Use this section to decide whether the course matches your role, current experience and expected Palo Alto Networks responsibilities before reviewing the detailed agenda.
Why Palo Alto Networks matters
- Palo Alto Networks helps teams standardize a critical part of their software delivery, infrastructure, automation or operations workflow.
- It gives learners a repeatable way to move from basic usage to confident execution in team and enterprise environments.
- For DevOps and platform teams, Palo Alto Networks becomes more valuable when connected with automation, governance, monitoring and delivery practices.
- Teams using Palo Alto Networks effectively reduce ad-hoc execution and move toward consistent engineering standards.
Objectives
- Understand Palo Alto Networks concepts, architecture, terminology and operational usage patterns.
- Learn practical configuration, workflow design, access controls, team usage and quality practices.
- Apply Palo Alto Networks in real delivery workflows using automation, integrations, traceability and governance patterns.
- Build practical confidence to use Palo Alto Networks for individual, team and organizational use cases.
Pre-requisites
- Basic computer literacy and familiarity with software development workflows.
- Helpful but not mandatory: introductory DevOps, cloud, automation or software delivery awareness.
- No deep programming background is required for the Foundation and Essential levels.
Who this course is for
- Developers, administrators and engineers who need practical Palo Alto Networks usage skills.
- DevOps engineers, release engineers, SREs and platform teams managing delivery standards.
- Engineering leads and technical managers responsible for workflow quality, access controls and governance.
- Corporate teams migrating to or standardizing on Palo Alto Networks.
Small-batch live training starts every month.
Weekday batches start on the 1st and weekend batches on the first Saturday of every month. One-to-one (1:1) training can start immediately; corporate sessions are scheduled on demand.
Weekend live batch
Starts on the first Saturday of every month. Weekend sessions with demos, labs and Q&A; max 10 learners.
Weekday live batch
Starts on the 1st of every month. Weekday sessions for working professionals and distributed teams; max 10 learners.
Ask advisorAgenda depth up to the selected level.
This page shows the learning flow from Foundation through Intermediate. Each level adds to the previous one, and the agenda stops at the current page level. Day counts are for corporate (day-wise) delivery; live online batches cover the same agenda in max 8 to 10 hours.
Foundation Level: NGFW concepts, initial setup and first policiesDay 1
- Next-generation firewall concepts: App-ID, User-ID, Content-ID and single-pass architecture
- Palo Alto Networks portfolio: hardware NGFWs, VM-Series, CN-Series, Cloud NGFW, Panorama and Prisma Access
- PAN-OS architecture: management plane versus data plane and the packet flow sequence
- Initial configuration: management interface, admin accounts, DNS, NTP and licences
- Web interface and CLI: navigation, configure mode and operational commands
- Candidate and running configuration: commit, revert, configuration snapshots and backups
- Security zones and interfaces: Layer 3, Layer 2, virtual wire and tap modes
- Routing basics: virtual routers or logical routers, static routes and default gateways
- Security policies: rule matching order, intrazone and interzone defaults and rule fields
- Source NAT: dynamic IP and port for outbound internet access
- Dynamic updates: applications and threats content, antivirus and WildFire update schedules
Essential Level = Foundation + App-ID policy, threat prevention and user identityDay 2 · 2 days cumulative
- App-ID in depth: application signatures, dependencies, application groups and filters
- Policy Optimizer: moving from port-based rules to application-based rules
- Destination NAT: publishing internal servers, U-turn NAT and NAT rule ordering
- Security profiles: Antivirus, Anti-Spyware, Vulnerability Protection and File Blocking
- URL Filtering: categories, custom URL categories, safe search and credential phishing prevention
- WildFire: file submission, verdicts and updating protections
- DNS Security: malicious domain blocking and sinkholing
- User-ID: agent and agentless integration with Active Directory, group mapping and user-based rules
- Monitoring: Traffic, Threat, URL and System logs and log filters
- Application Command Center (ACC): widgets, drill-down and identifying risky applications
- Reports: predefined, custom and scheduled reports
- Change workflow: rule naming, tags, descriptions and peer-reviewed commits
Intermediate Level = Essential + decryption, VPNs, high availability and troubleshootingDay 3 · 3 days cumulative
- SSL/TLS decryption: forward proxy, inbound inspection, certificates and decryption exclusions
- Decryption policy design: privacy categories, decryption profiles and troubleshooting broken sites
- Site-to-site IPsec VPN: IKE gateways, IPsec tunnels, crypto profiles and proxy IDs
- GlobalProtect: portal, gateway, agent configuration, authentication and split tunnelling
- Authentication: authentication profiles with LDAP, RADIUS and SAML, MFA and admin roles
- High availability: active/passive and active/active, HA links, path and link monitoring
- Dynamic routing: OSPF and BGP on the firewall with route redistribution
- Zone protection and DoS protection profiles: flood, reconnaissance and packet-based attack protection
- Troubleshooting with the CLI: show session all, test security-policy-match and global counters
- Packet captures: capture stages, filters and reading captures in Wireshark
- Log forwarding: syslog, email and HTTP forwarding to a SIEM
- Upgrades: PAN-OS upgrade paths, content compatibility and HA upgrade sequence
Choose live training or a full year of self-paced access.
If someone buys Foundation, Essential, Intermediate or Advanced as self-paced video, the price stays the same and access is granted to all four levels by default.
Self-paced video subscription
Billed yearly at ₹9,996. This includes all four levels, complete LMS access for one year, plus 20+ additional courses and 50+ tools access.
- All four Palo Alto Networks levels in one price.
- 20+ additional courses and 50+ tools included, even when subscribing to one course.
- Best fit for learners who want full-library access and flexible progress.
Live & Interactive session
Instructor-led cohort, max 8 to 10 hours, with demos, labs, Q&A, assignments and practical review.
- Live small-batch cohort from soon.
- Interactive discussion and lab troubleshooting.
- Recommended for teams that need guided implementation.
1:1 Live training
The same agenda, taught one-to-one by the trainer. Start immediately, without waiting for the next batch. Max 8 to 10 hours, one-to-one.
- Start immediately: no waiting for the monthly batch.
- One learner, one trainer: full attention on your questions.
- Sessions planned around your working hours.
- Your pace, with examples from your own projects and tools.
Method of training and assessment.
The course emphasizes practical demonstration, hands-on labs and assignment-based validation instead of passive lecture-only learning.
| SL | Method of training and assessment | Weightage |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Understanding the problem space | 5% |
| 2 | Concept discussion | 10% |
| 3 | Live demo and walkthrough | 25% |
| 4 | Lab and hands-on exercises | 50% |
| 5 | Assignments and evaluation | 10% |
Labs, exercises and real workflow practice.
Every level moves from explanation to hands-on practice, review and troubleshooting.
Set up a firewall from scratch
Configure a VM-Series firewall with management settings, zones, interfaces, a default route, outbound NAT and an internet access policy.
Build application-aware threat prevention
Replace port-based rules with App-ID rules, apply security profile groups and URL filtering per AD group, and verify blocks in the logs and ACC.
Connect and protect remote users
Deploy an HA pair with decryption, a site-to-site IPsec VPN and GlobalProtect with SAML login, then trace a failing session with captures.
Palo Alto Networks is taught as part of a working delivery ecosystem.
You learn where the tool sits in the wider engineering workflow, not in isolation.
Core foundations
Terminology, concepts, architecture and the operating model behind the tool.
Workflow traceability
Map practical work to tasks, approvals, documentation and delivery visibility.
Automation and integration
Use Palo Alto Networks with validation checks, automation hooks and delivery workflows.
Governance controls
Operate with permissions, approvals, policy checks and production-safe workflows.
How your practical work is assessed.
Your certificate is backed by labs, assignments, capstone thinking and completion evidence.
Assignments
Level-specific assignments verify setup, configuration, workflow quality and operating discipline.
Hands-on validation
Learners are expected to complete practical usage, automation and troubleshooting exercises.
Completion record
Certificate issuance is tied to demonstrated participation, practical completion and course-level coverage.
Led by Rajesh Kumar and the DevOpsSchool practitioner network.
Training is grounded in practical DevOps, SRE, security, release and platform engineering experience with real enterprise delivery context.
Earn a DevOpsSchool Palo Alto Networks certificate.
Completion includes a digital certificate with credential details, practical assignments and a learning record aligned to the selected Palo Alto Networks level.
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Palo Alto Networks Intermediate Training
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Used by developers, DevOps engineers, release leads and engineering managers.
Private batches are available for teams that want the same agenda aligned to their own tools and workflows.
Why this Palo Alto Networks path is different.
The value is not only one course. The subscription unlocks the full learning ecosystem for one year.
| Feature | DevOpsSchool Palo Alto Networks Training | Typical short course |
|---|---|---|
| Levels | Foundation, Essential, Intermediate, Advanced | Single generic syllabus |
| Self-paced access | All four levels plus 20+ courses and 50+ tools | Usually one course only |
| Live training | Demos, labs, Q&A and assignment review | Often lecture-heavy |
| Certificate | DevOpsSchool completion certificate | Varies by provider |
Questions learners ask before joining.
Does Foundation cost less than Advanced?
No. Self-paced pricing is intentionally the same because access includes all four levels by default.
What is included in the yearly subscription?
One year of complete LMS access, all four levels for the selected course, plus 20+ additional courses and 50+ tools access.
Can corporate teams request customization?
Yes. The live format can be aligned to team tools, governance requirements, workflows and internal delivery standards.
What is the recommended sequence?
Foundation → Essential → Intermediate → Advanced. The agenda is designed so each level builds on the previous one.
Talk to DevOpsSchool before choosing the batch.
Use this support section for batch questions, corporate planning, LMS access clarifications, or guidance on which Palo Alto Networks level fits your team.
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