ZSCALLER ARCHITECT EXAM
QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWERS
LATEST GUIDE 2026/2027 GRADED A+ .
,1. Core Principles of the Zero Trust Model: - Terminate every connection
- Protect data using granular context-based policies
- Reduce risk by eliminating the attack surface
2. Three categories of zero trust: - Verify identity and context
- Control content and access
- Enforce policy
3. Zero trust is a framework for securing organizations in the cloud and mobile world that asserts that?: - no user or application should be
trusted by default
- trust is established based on context with policy checks at each step
- least-privileged access
4. Establishing a zero trust architecture requires?: - visibility and control over the environment's users and traflc
- monitoring and verification of traflc between parts of the environment
- strong multifactor authentication (MFA) methods
5. In modern zero trust network architecture, instead of rigid network segmen- tation, your data, workflows, services, and such are
protected by?: software-defined micro-segmentation
6. Removing network location as a position of advantage eliminates trust, replacing it with trust.: Removing network location as a
position of advantage eliminates excessive implicit trust, replacing it with explicit identity-based trust.
7. connections eliminate the risk of lateral movement and prevent com- promised devices from infecting other
resources.: Direct user-to-app and app-to-app
8. Legacy vs Zero-Trust Network Architecture - Attack surface: Legacy: Firewalls/VPNs
published on the internetCan be exploited, susceptible to DDoSed
ZeroTrust: Apps not exposed to the internet You can't attack what you can't see
9. Legacy vs Zero-Trust Network Architecture - Connection: Legacy:App access requires corporate network access, allows lateral movement of users
, and threats
ZeroTrust: Connects a specific authorized user to a specific, authorized resource
10. Legacy vs Zero-Trust Network Architecture - Pass through: Legacy: Fire- wall/Passthrough Inspects a limited data butter
Unknown files pass through Alerts after infection
ZeroTrust: Full content inspection, including TLS/SSL Hold and inspect unknown files before reaching the endpoinTLegacy vs Zero-Trust Network Architecture -
Tenancy: Legacy: VMs of single-tenant appliances in a public cloud
ZeroTrust: Cloud-native, multitenant design like Salesforce/Workday
11. Ways to connect to the Zscaler Zero Trust Exchange: - Client-based forwarding
- Network forwarding
- Cloud-edge forwarding
12. Client-based forwarding - Client Connector: - Provides persistent control plane and dynamic, micro-segmented data plane to ZTE.
- Traflcs to app are delivered via outbound-only data plane
13. Client-based forwarding - Browser Access: DNS redirects using CNAME
14. Network forwarding options: Branch Connector
Edge forwarding protocol (with SD-WAN) Cloud node forwarding
protocol (GRE, IP-sec)
15. The 3 main areas of focus for verifying identity are?: Who is the initiator
What are the attributes of the connection Where is the initiator trying
to go
16. controls to identity can start being applied based on?: Dynamic Risk Assessment
Compromise Prevention Data Loss
Prevention
17. To fully leverage all features of the control elements, it is important to have?: SSL/TLS encryption enabled
18. With zero trust, it is never , regardless of the situation. Rather zero trust ensures that each and every
approved access is enabled through .: With zero
QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWERS
LATEST GUIDE 2026/2027 GRADED A+ .
,1. Core Principles of the Zero Trust Model: - Terminate every connection
- Protect data using granular context-based policies
- Reduce risk by eliminating the attack surface
2. Three categories of zero trust: - Verify identity and context
- Control content and access
- Enforce policy
3. Zero trust is a framework for securing organizations in the cloud and mobile world that asserts that?: - no user or application should be
trusted by default
- trust is established based on context with policy checks at each step
- least-privileged access
4. Establishing a zero trust architecture requires?: - visibility and control over the environment's users and traflc
- monitoring and verification of traflc between parts of the environment
- strong multifactor authentication (MFA) methods
5. In modern zero trust network architecture, instead of rigid network segmen- tation, your data, workflows, services, and such are
protected by?: software-defined micro-segmentation
6. Removing network location as a position of advantage eliminates trust, replacing it with trust.: Removing network location as a
position of advantage eliminates excessive implicit trust, replacing it with explicit identity-based trust.
7. connections eliminate the risk of lateral movement and prevent com- promised devices from infecting other
resources.: Direct user-to-app and app-to-app
8. Legacy vs Zero-Trust Network Architecture - Attack surface: Legacy: Firewalls/VPNs
published on the internetCan be exploited, susceptible to DDoSed
ZeroTrust: Apps not exposed to the internet You can't attack what you can't see
9. Legacy vs Zero-Trust Network Architecture - Connection: Legacy:App access requires corporate network access, allows lateral movement of users
, and threats
ZeroTrust: Connects a specific authorized user to a specific, authorized resource
10. Legacy vs Zero-Trust Network Architecture - Pass through: Legacy: Fire- wall/Passthrough Inspects a limited data butter
Unknown files pass through Alerts after infection
ZeroTrust: Full content inspection, including TLS/SSL Hold and inspect unknown files before reaching the endpoinTLegacy vs Zero-Trust Network Architecture -
Tenancy: Legacy: VMs of single-tenant appliances in a public cloud
ZeroTrust: Cloud-native, multitenant design like Salesforce/Workday
11. Ways to connect to the Zscaler Zero Trust Exchange: - Client-based forwarding
- Network forwarding
- Cloud-edge forwarding
12. Client-based forwarding - Client Connector: - Provides persistent control plane and dynamic, micro-segmented data plane to ZTE.
- Traflcs to app are delivered via outbound-only data plane
13. Client-based forwarding - Browser Access: DNS redirects using CNAME
14. Network forwarding options: Branch Connector
Edge forwarding protocol (with SD-WAN) Cloud node forwarding
protocol (GRE, IP-sec)
15. The 3 main areas of focus for verifying identity are?: Who is the initiator
What are the attributes of the connection Where is the initiator trying
to go
16. controls to identity can start being applied based on?: Dynamic Risk Assessment
Compromise Prevention Data Loss
Prevention
17. To fully leverage all features of the control elements, it is important to have?: SSL/TLS encryption enabled
18. With zero trust, it is never , regardless of the situation. Rather zero trust ensures that each and every
approved access is enabled through .: With zero
