Question 680
The change advisory board sees a repeat risk in this case: Voice packets compete with bulk file transfers on a low-speed WAN link and experience unacceptable queue delay. Which preventive design control MOST DIRECTLY addresses this specific risk?
Explanation
Correct Answer
Enforce priority admission limits and authenticate high-priority marking sources. This control targets the underlying design risk. A priority queue reduces latency for a tightly controlled real-time class but must be bounded to avoid starving others. The follow-up acceptance check remains: Under a mixed-load test, voice delay remains low and nonvoice classes still receive service.
Incorrect Answers
End-to-end QoS behavior depends on consistent class mapping across each administrative transport domain. The repeat risk here is different: a priority queue reduces latency for a tightly controlled real-time class but must be bounded to avoid starving others. A directly relevant preventive control is: Enforce priority admission limits and authenticate high-priority marking sources.
Average bandwidth below circuit capacity does not prevent short congestion intervals from filling queues. The repeat risk here is different: a priority queue reduces latency for a tightly controlled real-time class but must be bounded to avoid starving others. A directly relevant preventive control is: Enforce priority admission limits and authenticate high-priority marking sources.
Weighted random early detection can drop selected packets before total queue exhaustion to help reduce synchronized TCP congestion. The repeat risk here is different: a priority queue reduces latency for a tightly controlled real-time class but must be bounded to avoid starving others. A directly relevant preventive control is: Enforce priority admission limits and authenticate high-priority marking sources.