Which recommendation should be made to increase scalability, performance, and resiliency?

Question

Options

• ACreate a Cisco ASA failover pair.
• BUpgrade the current Cisco ASA
• CUpgrade from the FirePOWER software module to the hardware module
• DDeploy Cisco ASA clustering.

• A
  5% (2)
• B
  9% (4)
• C
  2% (1)
• D
  84% (36)

Explanation

Cisco ASA Clustering (D) directly addresses all three requirements simultaneously - scalability (add units to increase throughput), performance (distribute load across multiple devices), and resiliency (no single point of failure). A failover pair (A) improves resiliency but doesn't scale performance, since the standby unit sits idle. Upgrading the ASA (B) may boost performance temporarily but hits a hard ceiling and doesn't address resiliency or horizontal scalability. Upgrading to the FirePOWER hardware module (C) improves inspection throughput on a single device but still doesn't solve scalability or resiliency at the infrastructure level.

Memory tip: Think "SPR" - Scalability, Performance, Resiliency. Only Clustering checks all three boxes because it's the only option that adds multiple active units working together. If the question mentions all three of those words, clustering is almost always the answer.

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