An administrator is configuring an active/standby BIG-IP pair. The requirement is that if the primary web server pool becomes unhealthy (e.g., all servers return HTTP 500 errors), the standby BIG-IP should become active to take over traffic processing. Which configuration is required to meet this requirement?

Enable connection mirroring on the virtual server to copy sessions to the standby.

Set the failover mode to 'active/active' to allow the standby to process traffic immediately.

Configure a cron job on the standby device to check the pool status every minute.

Configure an HTTP health monitor on the pool and set the failover trigger to 'pool down'.

Which of the following is a common failover trigger in an HA pair?

A hardware failure on the active device

A scheduled configuration backup

A change in the DNS server configuration

Which of the following is typically synchronized between HA peers?

Virtual server definitions and load-balancing pools

In an active/standby high availability (HA) pair, what is the primary role of the standby device?

To monitor the network and block malicious traffic independently

To remain idle and take over traffic processing if the active device fails

To synchronize configuration changes to the active device in real time

To process a portion of the traffic load alongside the active device

What is the role of a floating IP address in an HA configuration?

To translate internal server addresses to public addresses

To allow the standby device to communicate with the active device

To assign a unique IP address to each device for management

To provide a single virtual address that clients use to access the service

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An administrator is configuring an active/standby BIG-IP pair. The requirement is that if the primary web server pool becomes unhealthy (e.g., all servers return HTTP 500 errors), the standby BIG-IP should become active to take over traffic processing. Which configuration is required to meet this requirement?
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Which of the following is typically synchronized between HA peers?
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In an active/standby high availability (HA) pair, what is the primary role of the standby device?
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