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N10-009 · Question #567

A company recently experienced outages of one of its critical, customer-facing applications. The root cause was an overutilized network router, but the Chief Technology Officer is concerned that the…

The correct answer is B. SNMP. SNMP enables monitoring of network devices (routers, switches, firewalls, servers) and provides performance data such as CPU usage, bandwidth utilization, and interface status. In this scenario, if SNMP monitoring had been in place, administrators would have received alerts…

Submitted by alyssa_d· Mar 6, 2026Network Operations

Question

A company recently experienced outages of one of its critical, customer-facing applications. The root cause was an overutilized network router, but the Chief Technology Officer is concerned that the support staff was unaware of the issue until notified by customers. Which of the following is the best way to address this issue in the future?

Options

  • APacket capture
  • BSNMP
  • CSyslog collector
  • DSIEM

How the community answered

(65 responses)
  • A
    3% (2)
  • B
    82% (53)
  • C
    6% (4)
  • D
    9% (6)

Explanation

SNMP enables monitoring of network devices (routers, switches, firewalls, servers) and provides performance data such as CPU usage, bandwidth utilization, and interface status. In this scenario, if SNMP monitoring had been in place, administrators would have received alerts that the router was overutilized before customers noticed outages.

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