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CISSP · Question #950
In a High Availability (HA) environment, what is the PRIMARY goal of working with a virtual router address as the gateway to a network?
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Submitted by khalil_dz· Mar 5, 2026Security Architecture and Engineering
Question
In a High Availability (HA) environment, what is the PRIMARY goal of working with a virtual router address as the gateway to a network?
Options
- AThe second of two routers can periodically check in to make sure that the first router is
- BThe second of two routers can better absorb a Denial of Service (DoS) attack knowing the first
- CThe first of two routers fails and is reinstalled, while the second handles the traffic flawlessly.
- DThe first of two routers can better handle specific traffic, while the second handles the rest of the
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#High Availability (HA)#virtual router redundancy#network resilience#fault tolerance