Identify Common Campus Networking Topologies POWERSWITCH-CAMPUS-DEPLOY Practice Questions (Page 3)

Questions 11–15

1. 11expert · hard

   A city government is designing a new campus network for its administrative buildings. The network will support 2,000 users and a small data center. The budget is limited, and the city wants to minimize ongoing operational costs. The network team is comparing a three-tier hierarchical design and a spine-leaf design. Which factor should be the PRIMARY consideration in this decision?

   • AThe operational simplicity and lower cost of a three-tier hierarchical design for a network with mostly north-south traffic
   • BThe higher initial cost of spine-leaf due to more cabling and switches
   • CThe ability of spine-leaf to scale more easily for future growth
   • DThe need for low latency for the city's administrative applications
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2. 12foundation · easy

   In a collapsed core design, which two layers of the three-tier model are combined into a single layer?

   • AAccess and core
   • BCore and edge
   • CAccess and distribution
   • DDistribution and core
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4. 13application · medium

   A large enterprise campus is implementing a three-tier hierarchical network. The network architect wants to ensure that a failure in one building does not affect users in other buildings. Where should redundancy be implemented to achieve this goal?

   • AAt the access layer only
   • BAt the access and core layers
   • CAt the distribution layer
   • DAt the core layer only
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5. 14application · medium

   A small law office with 15 employees is setting up a new network. The office has a single switch and a single server. The IT consultant recommends a flat network design. What is the PRIMARY disadvantage of this design that the consultant should mention?

   • AIt cannot support VLANs
   • BIt is difficult to troubleshoot because there are no clear layers
   • CIt is more expensive than a hierarchical design
   • DIt does not provide any redundancy
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6. 15foundation · easy

   A campus network is being designed for a building where most traffic is between users and a central server farm, with little server-to-server traffic. Which topology characteristic is most relevant to this traffic pattern?

   • ANorth-south traffic optimization
   • BHigh east-west bandwidth
   • CMaximum number of redundant paths between every pair of switches
   • DLowest possible cost per port
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