A small company with a headquarters and three branch offices needs to connect all sites. The budget is limited, and most traffic is between each branch and headquarters, not between branches. Which WAN topology is most cost-effective and appropriate?

Full mesh between all four sites

A single point-to-point link between the two largest branches

Point-to-point links between each branch and every other branch

Hub-and-spoke with headquarters as the hub

A large enterprise campus is upgrading its network. The current three-tier design has a redundant core, distribution, and access layers. The network team is considering moving to a two-tier collapsed core design to reduce cost. However, the campus has several buildings with high-bandwidth video surveillance traffic that must be isolated from general user traffic. Which factor is most important when deciding whether to collapse the core and distribution layers?

Whether the campus uses a public or private cloud for video storage

Whether the collapsed core can provide sufficient bandwidth and policy enforcement for the video surveillance traffic

Whether the WAN links to remote sites are point-to-point or hub-and-spoke

Whether the access layer can be replaced with spine-leaf switches

A startup wants to deploy a web application with variable traffic. They want to avoid purchasing and maintaining physical servers and want to scale capacity up or down quickly based on demand. Which architecture best meets these requirements?

Hub-and-spoke WAN with a central data center

Public cloud with elastic compute resources

Private cloud hosted in a company-owned server room

On-premises data center with fixed-capacity servers

Which characteristic is commonly associated with cloud network architectures compared to on-premises architectures?

Requirement to manage all physical switches and routers

Higher upfront capital expenditure for hardware

Ability to provision additional resources on demand

Fixed capacity that cannot be changed without hardware replacement

A company is designing a new data center network. The design must support high east-west traffic and be able to scale by adding more switches without increasing the number of hops. However, the budget is limited, and the team wants to minimize the number of spine switches required. Which approach best meets these requirements?

Deploy a spine-leaf topology with a small number of spine switches and add leaf switches as needed

Deploy a hub-and-spoke topology with a central switch

Deploy a three-tier topology with a collapsed core and add access switches

Deploy a full-mesh topology among all switches

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A small company with a headquarters and three branch offices needs to connect all sites. The budget is limited, and most traffic is between each branch and headquarters, not between branches. Which WAN topology is most cost-effective and appropriate?
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2expert · hard
A large enterprise campus is upgrading its network. The current three-tier design has a redundant core, distribution, and access layers. The network team is considering moving to a two-tier collapsed core design to reduce cost. However, the campus has several buildings with high-bandwidth video surveillance traffic that must be isolated from general user traffic. Which factor is most important when deciding whether to collapse the core and distribution layers?
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3application · medium
A startup wants to deploy a web application with variable traffic. They want to avoid purchasing and maintaining physical servers and want to scale capacity up or down quickly based on demand. Which architecture best meets these requirements?
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Which characteristic is commonly associated with cloud network architectures compared to on-premises architectures?
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A company is designing a new data center network. The design must support high east-west traffic and be able to scale by adding more switches without increasing the number of hops. However, the budget is limited, and the team wants to minimize the number of spine switches required. Which approach best meets these requirements?
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A small company with a headquarters and three branch offices needs to connect all sites. The budget is limited, and most traffic is between each branch and headquarters, not between branches. Which WAN topology is most cost-effective and appropriate?

A startup wants to deploy a web application with variable traffic. They want to avoid purchasing and maintaining physical servers and want to scale capacity up or down quickly based on demand. Which architecture best meets these requirements?

Which characteristic is commonly associated with cloud network architectures compared to on-premises architectures?

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