A campus network is being designed with multiple buildings. Each building has its own access switches, and the network team wants to ensure that a failure of a single distribution switch does not disrupt user connectivity to the core. The design must also allow the distribution layer to enforce policy and aggregate traffic. Which combination of design elements best achieves this?

Place one distribution switch per building and connect it to two core switches for redundancy.

Place two distribution switches per building, connect each access switch to both distribution switches, and run HSRP between the distribution switches.

Use a single distribution switch with redundant supervisor modules and SSO to provide high availability.

Connect all access switches directly to the core and use VRRP on the core switches for gateway redundancy.

A small branch office with 40 users is being redesigned. The network team wants to reduce hardware costs while still providing redundancy for the default gateway and the uplink to the WAN router. The branch has two access switches that will connect to the WAN router. Which design approach best meets these requirements?

Connect each access switch to the WAN router with a single link and rely on the router's built-in redundancy.

Use a collapsed core design where the two access switches also act as the distribution/core layer, and configure HSRP between them for gateway redundancy.

Deploy a 3-tier design with separate distribution switches and use HSRP between them.

Implement a fabric design with a fabric edge node and a control plane node in the branch.

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A campus network is being designed with multiple buildings. Each building has its own access switches, and the network team wants to ensure that a failure of a single distribution switch does not disrupt user connectivity to the core. The design must also allow the distribution layer to enforce policy and aggregate traffic. Which combination of design elements best achieves this?
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Which First Hop Redundancy Protocol (FHRP) is an open standard that provides default gateway redundancy and is similar to HSRP but not proprietary to Cisco?
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Which First Hop Redundancy Protocol (FHRP) is Cisco proprietary and allows multiple routers to share a virtual IP address, with one router active and the others in standby?
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A network team is implementing gateway redundancy for a VLAN that spans two access switches. They want to use a protocol that allows both switches to forward traffic for the virtual IP address, thereby utilizing both uplinks to the distribution layer. Which protocol should they choose?
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A small branch office with 40 users is being redesigned. The network team wants to reduce hardware costs while still providing redundancy for the default gateway and the uplink to the WAN router. The branch has two access switches that will connect to the WAN router. Which design approach best meets these requirements?
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Which First Hop Redundancy Protocol (FHRP) is an open standard that provides default gateway redundancy and is similar to HSRP but not proprietary to Cisco?

Which First Hop Redundancy Protocol (FHRP) is Cisco proprietary and allows multiple routers to share a virtual IP address, with one router active and the others in standby?

A network team is implementing gateway redundancy for a VLAN that spans two access switches. They want to use a protocol that allows both switches to forward traffic for the virtual IP address, thereby utilizing both uplinks to the distribution layer. Which protocol should they choose?

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