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700-551 · Question #39

Which best describes how Cisco solutions enable customer's businesses?

The correct answer is C. The only comprehensive policy enforcement tool. Option C is correct because Cisco positions itself as the only vendor offering a truly comprehensive, end-to-end policy enforcement framework - spanning network, cloud, and endpoint - giving customers a unified control plane rather than piecing together multiple vendor tools. Thi

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Question

Which best describes how Cisco solutions enable customer's businesses?

Options

  • ABest continuous analysis
  • BFaster threat identification
  • CThe only comprehensive policy enforcement tool
  • DOpen, agile and expandable platforms

How the community answered

(65 responses)
  • A
    5% (3)
  • B
    2% (1)
  • C
    92% (60)
  • D
    2% (1)

Explanation

Option C is correct because Cisco positions itself as the only vendor offering a truly comprehensive, end-to-end policy enforcement framework - spanning network, cloud, and endpoint - giving customers a unified control plane rather than piecing together multiple vendor tools. This "only comprehensive" claim is Cisco's differentiator in their official business value messaging.

Why the distractors are wrong:

  • A (Best continuous analysis): This describes a feature capability (analytics), not how Cisco broadly enables business - it's too narrow.
  • B (Faster threat identification): Again, a security outcome metric, not a platform-level business enablement description.
  • D (Open, agile and expandable platforms): This sounds plausible and reflects Cisco's architecture philosophy, but it describes the platform design, not the customer business enablement value - the exam distinguishes between the two.

Memory tip: Think of the phrase "Only Complete Policy" - the word "only" signals Cisco's claim to uniqueness, "comprehensive" signals breadth across the entire stack, and "policy enforcement" signals business control. If an answer combines uniqueness + breadth + control, that's your answer.

Topics

#Cisco solutions value proposition#Policy enforcement#Platform comprehensiveness#Business enablement

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