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1. Refer to the exhibit for an HPE Aruba Networking CX 6300M VSF:





If Member ID 1 fails, what would be the state of Member ID 2?

Conductor

Standby

Not present

Member

2. You are in discussion with a customer on a replacing an existing L3 aggregation switch pair.

How would you describe the HPE Aruba Networking active-gateway as a benefit in the new solution?

It has a sub millisecond failover time for the virtual I

It is supported on stacked HPE Aruba Networking solutions.

It can be run in compatibility mode with industry standard first-hop-protocols.

It will distribute sessions equally over the switch pair.

3. Given the QoS queueing configuration below for a 1000Mbps interface, how much bandwidth will be available to Local Priority 4 traffic if no other traffic type is to be sent?

1000Mbps

500Mbps

200Mbps

100Mbps

4. You want to upgrade a re-provisioned Mobility Gateway that is currently using LACP.

What feature will allow you to do this without removing interfaces from LAG?

LACP fallback

LACP active

LACP passive

LACP static

5. You must enable HTTPS access to an HPE Aruba Networking CX 8100 for an SVI 100 created after default settings.

How do you meet this requirement?

Use the command https-server vrf mgmt to allow HTTPS access.

The HTTPS server is accessible by default.

The HTTPS server is accessible only from mgmt VR

Use the command https-server vrf default to allow HTTPS access.

6. What does it mean when an event such as the one below occurs on the HPE Aruba Networking CX switch?

VSX secondary switch is down.

The multichassis LAG 2 interface is down on both switches.

The physical interface of LAG 2 on the primary VSX member is down.

VSX keepalive has detected that the primary member is down.

7. Your customer has reported a performance issue on one of their access switches. You have decided to troubleshoot using the MultiEdit view config.

Which troubleshooting methodology does this exemplify?

Replace configuration

Top-down/Bottom-up

Follow the path

Spot the difference

8. Your customer’s CX switches are managed in HPE Aruba Networking Central. They have recently deployed new cabling to some desks and want to be notified of any physical cabling issues.

Which alerts should you enable? (Choose two.)

Switch Port Input Errors

Switch Port Rx Rate

Switch Hardware Failure

Switch Uplink Port Usage

Switch Port Duplex Mode

9. You are troubleshooting a complex intermittent BGP issue. You need to collect all relevant data and be made aware of the exact time the problem occurs and the moment it occurs.

Which monitoring tool is best suited for this task?

Debug destination syslog

HPE Aruba Networking Central

SNMP get

NAE

10. A small company with one CX-6300 switch, with hostname switch1, has implemented ARP inspection to prevent MITM attacks.

They are implementing a new hypervisor with host address 10.100.100.10 and MAC address F4-6D-3F-24-76-51, connected to switch1’s port 1/1/20. This new server will host many VMs.

What will help prevent false positives with ARP inspection?

Enable ARP inspection trust for interface 1/1/20.

Enable ARP inspection trust for MAC F4-6D-3F-24-76-51 at the VLAN interface context.

Enable ARP inspection trust 10.100.100.10 at VLAN interface level context.

Enable ARP inspection trust IP 10.100.100.10 MAC F4-6D-3F-24-76-51 in the global context.

11. Refer to the exhibits.





The interface is configured on an HPE Aruba Networking CX 8320 for a VMware server NIC. The server admin complains that the VMware vMotion traffic on VLAN 3903 fails, but the server can ping other peers with a large payload size.

What must be done to correct the issue based on the provided interface status and configuration?

The VLAN 3903 is configured with mtu 9198

The interface 1/1/35 is configured with mtu 9198

The VLAN 3903 is configured with jumbo

That interface 1/1/35 is configured with jumbo

12. A customer has connected a server to VLAN 100 on a 6300 switch which is streaming video using multicast group 224.0.0.100. This stream would need to be received by the clients in VLANs 200 and 300, routed on the same CX switch.

What needs to be done to enable the requirement?

The multicast group address needs to be changed to a routable subnet.

The multicast group address needs to be changed to other 224.0.0x non-overlapping address

The igmp-snooping needs to be enabled on SVIs 100, 200, and 300

The igmp needs to be enabled on the SVIs 100, 200, and 300

13. Refer to the partial exhibit from an HPE Aruba Networking CX 8325:





If a new CX 8325 is to be deployed, which switch profile should be used to provide gateway and routing services?

The L3-agg profile should be selected instead of the factory default.

Spine profile should be selected instead of the factory default.

L3-core profile should be used, which is the factory default.

Leaf profiled should be used, which is the factory default.

14. Refer to the exhibit:





Based on the output, which statement is true?

The switch is currently managed by local CLI overrides.

The switch has a configuration pushed that has changed the default settings.

The switch is set to auto checkpoint creation for auto-rollback, if configuration push fails.

The switch requires a commit configuration, once the change is pushed.

15. You have added a switch with existing configuration to an existing group in HPE Aruba Networking Central but the configuration is not synchronizing.

What could cause this?

The switch is configured in a VSX pair, which HPE Aruba Networking Central does not support.

Only switches with factory default config can be added to a group with existing config.

Configuration auto-commit has been disabled for the group in HPE Aruba Networking Central.

The switch is still pending authorization on the organization settings page.

16. You need to configure BGP on an HPE Aruba Networking switch using AS 65010.

What is required when establishing peering with neighboring devices using eBGP AS 65100?

Use of peer AS65001

Use of route-reflector

Use of directory connected peer

Use of address-family ipv4 internal

17. Refer to the partial exhibit from an HPE Aruba Networking CX 8325:





A new port on 1/1/25 must be reconfigured for an ISP router with the IP address of 10.10.10.2/30.

What is the correct configuration to achieve the layer-3 configuration without the risks of layer-2 loops?

A)





B)





C)





D)

Option A

Option B

Option C

Option D

18. Refer to the exhibit.





SW-A is the layer-3 gateway for:

- Server-A in VLAN 100, subnet 10.100.100.0/24

- Client-A in VLAN 20, subnet 10.100.20.0/24

- Client-B VLAN 30, subnet 10.100.30.0/24

What can be done to trust DHCP server 10.100.100.10 responses on SW-A for clients in VLAN 20?

Enable dhcpv4-snooping authorized-server 10.100.100.10 on VLAN 100

Enable dhcpv4-snooping and authorized-server 10.100.100.10 globally

Enable dhcpv4-snooping authorized-server 10.100.100.10 on VLAN 20

Enable dhcpv4-snooping trust 10.100.100.10 on VLAN 100

19. You have created a lag interface to a Gateway on a VSX pair using the following commands.





After checking the state of the link aggregation group (LAG) on the Gateway, you can see that only one of the member links is up.

What is causing this?

The ‘multi-chassis’ parameter is missing.

The ‘vsx-sync’ parameter is missing.

The gateway only supports LACP passive.

LACP fallback should be enabled.

20. For the aggregation layer, you must configure two new HPE Aruba Networking CX 8100 switches (VSX). LACP link aggregations to downstream access switches using redundant ports from both switches are required.

Which configuration example would create the required lag setup on both switches utilizing HPE Aruba Networking clustering or stacking technologies?

A)





B)





C)





D)

Option A

Option B

Option C

Option D

21. Which data format do CX switches support for the REST API?

SOAP

XML

YAML

JSON

22. Your customer’s CISO would like to deploy colorless ports across the network.

Which will you need to configure to meet this requirement?

802.1Q

802.1X

802.11X

802.1AD

23. You have applied the following OSPF configuration but are not seeing any output from the command below.









What is the reason for this?

A loopback interface hasn’t been configured on Agg-2.

A VRF wasn’t specified in the show command.

OSPF interfaces are passive by default.

A different OSPF process ID is used on each switch.

24. Your customer is concerned about users connecting unmanaged switches to the network and causing outages.

Which CX switch feature should you recommend?

Port security

BPDU Guard

Loop protection

MAC authentication

25. Refer to the output:





Which CLI command was used to produce this output?

Use checkpoint diff to compare running-config with stored checkpoints.

Use show checkpoint compare to compare running-config with stored saved-config revisions.

Use show checkpoint diff to compare running-config with stored checkpoints.

Use checkpoint compare to compare running-config with stored saved-config revisions.

26. A customer would like to use HPE Aruba Networking Central to monitor and configure switch backups, but does not want to be able to make configuration changes.

What can you tell them?

This can be done with the ‘read-only’ device attribute.

This is possible for AOS-S switches but not AOS-CX switches.

This is possible for AOS-CX switches but not AOS-S switches.

This can be done with the ‘Monitoring only’ group option.

27. You are remotely connected to an HPE Aruba Networking CX 6200M switch using SSH to change the Control Plane ACL, allowing only defined subnets to access the switch with the assistance of the checkpoint auto 10 command. Later in the day, you are testing if the control-plane ACL is working, and you notice that access is allowed from all networks.

What needs to be done with the checkpoint feature to have the remaining without rolling back?

Use the checkpoint commit command before you commit the change.

Use the checkpoint commit after you commit the change.

Use the checkpoint auto command after you commit the change.

Use the checkpoint auto command before you commit the change.

28. When combining Strict Priority (SP) with other queuing types, how can you avoid starvation of lower priority queues?

Apply multiple queuing profiles to the same interface.

Configure WFQ DWRR instead of queuing.

Apply shaping to queue 7.

Configure a higher weight for lower priority queues.

29. From which sources can you download NAE agent scripts directly from the CX switch UI?

HPE Networking Support Portal

Aruba Solutions Exchange

Airheads Community

GitHub Community

30. Which switch configuration is required to implement Dynamic User Roles (DUR)?

Install the CPPM HTTPS certificates root certificate.

Configure the http://.well-known/aruba/clearpass/https-root.pem UR

Install the CPPM internal CA self-signed certificate.

Install the TA cert of the CPPM RADIUS certificate.

31. Refer to the exhibit.





The NTP server is configured on the Primary VSX switch, however, the Secondary switch does not display the NTP configuration in the running configuration.

How can the VSX configuration be changed to have the same contig on the both nodes?

On the primary switch, add vsx-sync ntp under VSX configuration.

On the secondary switch, add vsx-sync ntp under VSX configuration

On the secondary switch, add vsx-sync time under VSX configuration.

On the primary switch, add vsx-sync time under VSX configuration.

32. While troubleshooting a scenario in which the customer has created a new VLAN on a primary HPE Aruba Networking CX 8100 VSX switch, only part of the traffic from the connected access switch over a LAG is working.

Which troubleshooting methodology should you use to isolate the problem?

Replace the configuration using the previous checkpoint on the primary VS

Divide and conquer by rebooting the secondary VSX switch.

Follow the path and check the connectivity from the access to the primary VS

Spot the difference by comparing the VSX switch configurations.

33. DRAG DROP -

Company A has an existing HPE Aruba Networking CX 8325 VSX. It has acquired Company B and must merge its networks onto the same VSX switch configuration as Company A. Both Company A and Company B share the same 10.100.100.1/24 subnet.

What is the correct order for creating a configuration allowing overlapping networks in the setup?

34. Refer to the exhibit.





Interfaces 1/1/53 and 1/1/54 were accidentally disconnected from Switch-A, the primary VSX member. Client A is experiencing network disruptions with network connections to Router-A.

What needs to be done to prevent user traffic disruption in this scenario?

Configure VSX shutdown on-split on SW-

Configure keepalive VLAN on upstream lag.

Configure VSX shutdown on-split on SW-

Configure keepalive using mgmt ports between SW-A and SW-

35. Which parameters can be configured in a Local User Role? (Choose two.)

VLAN

ClearPass server

Description

Authentication method

ACL

36. You are planning a 10 Gbps link between two CX switches.

Which type of SFP port will be required?

SFP28

SFP+

SFP

QSFP+

37. Two companies have merged, and BGP is used for routing . The customer has informed you that they currently have about 3800 routes in the routing table and would like to keep the total number of routes below 5000 .

A BGP routing table from the company to be merged is provided as an example below:





Based on the provided example of the BGP routing table from the merging company, what should the customer consider to achieve the routing table size requirement?

Set the route metrics equal for each prefix

Advertise routes only using a primary path

Enforce routing policies with aggregation

Import only 0.0.0.0/0 route

38. Refer to the exhibit from and HPE Aruba Networking CX6000:





Two CX 6000 switches are interconnected with LAG 1 .

Based on the output, which statement is true?

The local switch is configured with LACP mode passive.

The remote switch is configured with LACP mode static.

The remote switch is configured with LACP mode passive.

The local switch is configured with LACP mode active.

39. You have recommended that a customer adopt a modern management approach for their new CX switches.

Which of these would this include? (Choose two.)

REST API

YAML

SNMP

NAE

XML

40. You are implementing HPE Aruba Networking CX switches in a hotel environment.

Which feature would allow you to use a single subnet for the wired guests to utilize only default gateway services without interacting with each other?

By assigning the guest users to a primary VLAN and the gateway to an isolated VLA

By assigning the guest users to a community VLAN and the gateway to a primary VLA

By assigning the guest users to an isolated VLAN and the gateway to a primary VLA

By assigning the guest users to an isolated VLAN and the gateway to a community VLA

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