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400-007 · Question #222

Which two factors must be considered for high availability in campus LAN designs to mitigate concerns about unavailability of network resources? (Choose two.)

The correct answer is A. device resiliency D. network resiliency. High availability in campus LAN design requires both device-level resiliency and network-level resiliency to eliminate single points of failure at each layer.

Designing Network Infrastructure

Question

Which two factors must be considered for high availability in campus LAN designs to mitigate concerns about unavailability of network resources? (Choose two.)

Options

  • Adevice resiliency
  • Bdevice type
  • Cnetwork type
  • Dnetwork resiliency
  • Enetwork size

How the community answered

(20 responses)
  • A
    85% (17)
  • B
    5% (1)
  • C
    10% (2)

Why each option

High availability in campus LAN design requires both device-level resiliency and network-level resiliency to eliminate single points of failure at each layer.

Adevice resiliencyCorrect

Device resiliency encompasses hardware redundancy features such as dual power supplies, redundant supervisor engines, and protocols like Non-Stop Forwarding (NSF) and Stateful Switchover (SSO), ensuring that the failure of a single component does not take down a node.

Bdevice type

Device type (switch, router, firewall) categorizes equipment but does not itself determine availability - any device type can be deployed with or without redundancy mechanisms.

Cnetwork type

Network type (LAN, WAN, wireless) is a classification used for design scoping but is not a factor that directly mitigates resource unavailability in campus HA design.

Dnetwork resiliencyCorrect

Network resiliency involves redundant physical topologies, dual uplinks, and Layer 2/3 protocols such as Rapid PVST+ or VSS/StackWise Virtual so that any single link or node failure has an automatic failover path maintaining connectivity.

Enetwork size

Network size affects scalability and capacity planning but is not a primary factor for ensuring high availability against device or link failures.

Concept tested: Campus LAN high availability design factors

Source: https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/solutions/Enterprise/Campus/HA_campus_DG/hacampusdg.html

Topics

#high availability#campus LAN#device resiliency#network resiliency

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