A mid-sized company is experiencing higher network bandwidth utilization due to a recent acquisition. The network operations team is asked to scale up their one Cisco FTD appliance deployment to…

Question

Options

• ADeploy multiple Cisco FTD appliances in firewall clustering mode to increase performance.
• BDeploy multiple Cisco FTD appliances using VPN load-balancing to scale performance.
• CDeploy multiple Cisco FTD HA pairs to increase performance
• DDeploy multiple Cisco FTD HA pairs in clustering mode to increase performance

• A
  85% (17)
• C
  10% (2)
• D
  5% (1)

Explanation

When the goal is to increase throughput and performance (scale up capacity), Cisco FTD clustering is the correct solution. Clustering combines multiple FTD units into a single logical device, allowing traffic load to be distributed across all cluster members, effectively multiplying throughput capacity. Option B (VPN load balancing) only distributes VPN session load and does not scale general firewall throughput. Option C (multiple HA pairs) provides redundancy and failover but does not increase performance - in an HA pair, only the active unit processes traffic. Option D is not a valid Cisco FTD design; HA pairs cannot themselves be clustered together as described.

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