CCSP Question #656: Real Exam Question with Answer & Explanation

The correct answer is A: Filtering and forwarding. With SDN, the filtering and forwarding capabilities and administration are separated. This allows the cloud provider to build interfaces and management tools for administrative delegation of filtering configuration, without having to allow direct access to underlying network equi

Submitted by kwame.gh· Apr 18, 2026Cloud Platform & Infrastructure Security

Question

With software-defined networking (SDN), which two types of network operations are segregated to allow for granularity and delegation of administrative access and functions?

Options

AFiltering and forwarding
BFiltering and firewalling
CFirewalling and forwarding
DForwarding and protocol

Explanation

With SDN, the filtering and forwarding capabilities and administration are separated. This allows the cloud provider to build interfaces and management tools for administrative delegation of filtering configuration, without having to allow direct access to underlying network equipment. Firewalling and protocols are both terms related to networks, but they are not components SDN is

Topics

#SDN#Control Plane#Data Plane#Network Segregation

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