210-060 · Question #61
Two departments have their own call-park slot to park calls. Which feature on Cisco Unified CME allows one department to answer a call for another department?
The correct answer is D. Pickup-group. The pickup-group feature in Cisco CME enables phones assigned to one group to answer calls ringing at phones assigned to a different group, supporting cross-department call answering.
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Two departments have their own call-park slot to park calls. Which feature on Cisco Unified CME allows one department to answer a call for another department?
Options
- ACall park
- BCall forward
- CCall transfer
- DPickup-group
- EBarge-in
How the community answered
(25 responses)- B4% (1)
- D88% (22)
- E8% (2)
Why each option
The pickup-group feature in Cisco CME enables phones assigned to one group to answer calls ringing at phones assigned to a different group, supporting cross-department call answering.
Call park places an already-answered active call into a shared slot for later retrieval and cannot be used to answer a call that is still ringing at another department's phone.
Call forward redirects incoming calls to a different destination before they are answered and does not give another department the ability to pick up a ringing call.
Call transfer moves an already-answered call to another extension and has no mechanism for allowing a different department to answer a ringing call.
Pickup-group assigns phones to named or numbered groups via the pickup-group command under ephone-dn configuration. A user in one department can answer a ringing call from another department by dialing the designated pickup group code or pressing a configured softkey. This is specifically designed for cross-group call answering, unlike call park which only retrieves already-held calls.
Barge-in allows a third party to join an already-active two-party call and cannot be used to answer a call that is ringing but not yet connected.
Concept tested: Cisco CME call pickup group cross-department answering
Source: https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/voice_ip_comm/cucme/admin/configuration/guide/cmeadm.html
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