Question 540
A preventive architecture review covers this situation: A critical factory is single-homed to one WAN provider, yet its SLA requires survival of a local access-fiber cut. Which preventive design control MOST DIRECTLY addresses this specific risk?
Explanation
Correct Answer
Audit actual last-mile diversity rather than counting two circuits sharing a duct as independent. This control targets the underlying design risk. Single-homing leaves a single path failure that routing protocols cannot repair without alternate physical access. The follow-up acceptance check remains: The factory continues its critical transaction workload after the primary access span is disabled.
Incorrect Answers
Two external circuits on one router still share a single customer edge hardware failure domain. The repeat risk here is different: Single-homing leaves a single path failure that routing protocols cannot repair without alternate physical access. A directly relevant preventive control is: Audit actual last-mile diversity rather than counting two circuits sharing a duct as independent.
Failover changes available capacity; a backup path that is up may still violate application SLA without admission or QoS. The repeat risk here is different: Single-homing leaves a single path failure that routing protocols cannot repair without alternate physical access. A directly relevant preventive control is: Audit actual last-mile diversity rather than counting two circuits sharing a duct as independent.
Stateful security and asymmetric routing can disrupt sessions even when both paths are individually reachable. The repeat risk here is different: Single-homing leaves a single path failure that routing protocols cannot repair without alternate physical access. A directly relevant preventive control is: Audit actual last-mile diversity rather than counting two circuits sharing a duct as independent.