Question 590
For this Cisco ENSLD design case: During a predeployment review for a regional healthcare WAN, the team discovers this design gap: a Cisco SD-WAN rollout expects OMP to carry end-user packets between sites. An approval gate requires both a measurable acceptance check and a durable prevention control. Which technical principle BEST explains the design decision?
Explanation
Correct Answer
The SD-WAN overlay control plane distributes reachability or policy, not the application payload itself. The correct engineering response is: Use OMP for overlay route and policy information while leaving end-user forwarding to the WAN-edge data plane. The observable check is: OMP routes are present as expected and application captures show traffic in WAN-edge data tunnels. The regional healthcare WAN acceptance record also captures this result.
Incorrect Answers
The SD-WAN overlay control plane distributes reachability or policy, not the application payload itself. The offered choice instead concerns a different principle: SD-WAN management centralizes configuration and visibility, while WAN edges forward application packets. Those technical conditions are not interchangeable.
The SD-WAN overlay control plane distributes reachability or policy, not the application payload itself. 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.
The SD-WAN overlay control plane distributes reachability or policy, not the application payload itself. The offered choice instead concerns a different principle: Two external circuits on one router still share a single customer edge hardware failure domain. Those technical conditions are not interchangeable.