A cloud provider is building a new data center to host virtual machines for multiple tenants. The network must support high east-west traffic and provide consistent performance regardless of which physical servers communicate. Which topology should the provider use?

Hub-and-spoke with a central core switch

Three-tier with a robust core layer

Two-tier with collapsed core and access switches

Spine-leaf with all leaf switches connected to all spine switches

A company operates a hybrid network with on-premises servers and a public cloud environment. The on-premises network uses a hub-and-spoke WAN to connect branch offices. The company wants to extend the hub-and-spoke to the cloud to allow branches to access cloud resources. Which approach best integrates the cloud into the existing WAN topology?

Connect the on-premises hub to the cloud via a VPN or dedicated link, and route branch traffic through the hub

Move all branch offices to the cloud

Create a VPN tunnel from each branch to the cloud provider

Replace the hub-and-spoke with a full mesh between branches and the cloud

A hospital must keep patient records on servers it fully controls and must be able to audit physical access to the hardware. However, it also wants to use cloud-based analytics that process de-identified data. Which architecture satisfies both requirements?

Hybrid cloud with patient records in the public cloud and analytics on-premises

On-premises data center for patient records and public cloud for analytics

Private cloud hosted at a colocation facility

A small branch office with 50 users needs a simple, cost-effective network. The IT team wants to minimize the number of devices while still providing redundancy for the distribution/core function. Which architecture is most appropriate?

Two-tier with a collapsed core/distribution layer using redundant switches

Spine-leaf with two spines and multiple leaves

A single switch acting as both access and core

Three-tier with separate core, distribution, and access layers

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A cloud provider is building a new data center to host virtual machines for multiple tenants. The network must support high east-west traffic and provide consistent performance regardless of which physical servers communicate. Which topology should the provider use?
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A company operates a hybrid network with on-premises servers and a public cloud environment. The on-premises network uses a hub-and-spoke WAN to connect branch offices. The company wants to extend the hub-and-spoke to the cloud to allow branches to access cloud resources. Which approach best integrates the cloud into the existing WAN topology?
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A hospital must keep patient records on servers it fully controls and must be able to audit physical access to the hardware. However, it also wants to use cloud-based analytics that process de-identified data. Which architecture satisfies both requirements?
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A small branch office with 50 users needs a simple, cost-effective network. The IT team wants to minimize the number of devices while still providing redundancy for the distribution/core function. Which architecture is most appropriate?
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A cloud provider is building a new data center to host virtual machines for multiple tenants. The network must support high east-west traffic and provide consistent performance regardless of which physical servers communicate. Which topology should the provider use?

A hospital must keep patient records on servers it fully controls and must be able to audit physical access to the hardware. However, it also wants to use cloud-based analytics that process de-identified data. Which architecture satisfies both requirements?

A small branch office with 50 users needs a simple, cost-effective network. The IT team wants to minimize the number of devices while still providing redundancy for the distribution/core function. Which architecture is most appropriate?

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