Question 570
The design record describes this issue: An engineer describes the SD-WAN management GUI as the component that forwards user packets between branches. Which technical principle BEST explains the design decision?
Explanation
Correct Answer
SD-WAN management centralizes configuration and visibility, while WAN edges forward application packets. The correct engineering response is: Distinguish management functions from WAN edge data-plane forwarding in the architecture. The observable check is: Configuration changes reach the correct edges but production packets are observed through WAN-edge tunnels rather than the management UI.
Incorrect Answers
SD-WAN management centralizes configuration and visibility, while WAN edges forward application packets. The offered choice instead concerns a different principle: Secure SD-WAN onboarding depends on authenticated controllers and connectivity to the orchestration services. Those technical conditions are not interchangeable.
SD-WAN management centralizes configuration and visibility, while WAN edges forward application packets. The offered choice instead concerns a different principle: the SD-WAN overlay control plane distributes reachability or policy, not the application payload itself. Those technical conditions are not interchangeable.
SD-WAN management centralizes configuration and visibility, while WAN edges forward application packets. The offered choice instead concerns a different principle: SLA-based policy selects eligible paths using active performance measurements rather than only static next-hop reachability. Those technical conditions are not interchangeable.