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CV0-003 · Question #935

A company is migrating a large fleet of on-premises servers into the public cloud. The number of servers is estimated to be between 800 and 900. The systems administrator is doing the network planning

The correct answer is A. 10.10.115.0/22 F. 192.168.10.0/21. Hosting 800-900 servers requires subnets with at least 1022 usable host addresses, meaning only CIDR blocks with a prefix length of /22 or shorter (larger host space) are sufficient.

Cloud Architecture and Design

Question

A company is migrating a large fleet of on-premises servers into the public cloud. The number of servers is estimated to be between 800 and 900. The systems administrator is doing the network planning. Which of the following subnets should the administrator use? (Select two).

Options

  • A10.10.115.0/22
  • B10.10.119.0/23
  • C10.10.120.0/23
  • D192.168.1.0/23
  • E192.168.1.0/24
  • F192.168.10.0/21

How the community answered

(37 responses)
  • A
    51% (19)
  • B
    27% (10)
  • C
    14% (5)
  • D
    3% (1)
  • E
    5% (2)

Why each option

Hosting 800-900 servers requires subnets with at least 1022 usable host addresses, meaning only CIDR blocks with a prefix length of /22 or shorter (larger host space) are sufficient.

A10.10.115.0/22Correct

A /22 subnet allocates 2^10 = 1024 total addresses minus 2 reserved (network and broadcast), yielding 1022 usable host addresses - enough to accommodate 800-900 servers.

B10.10.119.0/23

A /23 subnet provides only 2^9 - 2 = 510 usable host addresses, which is insufficient for a fleet of 800-900 servers.

C10.10.120.0/23

A /23 subnet provides only 510 usable host addresses regardless of the base address range, falling far short of the 800-900 server requirement.

D192.168.1.0/23

A /23 subnet provides only 510 usable host addresses and cannot support 800-900 servers, regardless of whether private 192.168.x.x space is used.

E192.168.1.0/24

A /24 subnet provides only 2^8 - 2 = 254 usable host addresses, far too few for a fleet of 800-900 servers.

F192.168.10.0/21Correct

A /21 subnet allocates 2^11 = 2048 total addresses minus 2 reserved, yielding 2046 usable host addresses, comfortably accommodating the 800-900 server fleet with capacity to spare.

Concept tested: CIDR subnet sizing for large-scale cloud server deployments

Source: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/vpc/latest/userguide/configure-subnets.html

Topics

#subnetting#CIDR#network planning#IP addressing

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