What is the primary purpose of Switched Port Analyzer (SPAN) on a Cisco switch?

To encrypt traffic between switches to ensure confidentiality

To block unauthorized traffic by analyzing packet contents in real time

To replicate traffic from one or more source ports or VLANs to a destination port for monitoring

To provide redundant paths for critical traffic by duplicating packets

Which command is used to define the destination port for a local SPAN session on a Cisco IOS switch?

monitor session 1 output interface GigabitEthernet0/1

monitor session 1 destination interface GigabitEthernet0/1

monitor session 1 target interface GigabitEthernet0/1

span session 1 destination interface GigabitEthernet0/1

What is the role of the source session in an ERSPAN configuration?

It specifies which traffic to mirror and the destination IP address

It defines the encapsulation type as VXLAN

It specifies the local port where the monitoring device is connected

It creates the RSPAN VLAN used to transport the traffic

What is the primary purpose of Encapsulated Remote SPAN (ERSPAN)?

To replace RSPAN by using a dedicated VLAN for transport

To monitor traffic across an IP network by encapsulating mirrored packets in GRE

To provide a secure tunnel for management traffic between switches

To monitor traffic on a single switch without using a destination port

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Which monitoring method is best suited for sending mirrored traffic to a monitoring device located in a different building connected via a routed WAN link?
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