Question 710
In a technical design review: The enterprise uses its production campus VRF to manage core devices, exposing administration to ordinary user traffic. Which technical principle BEST explains the design decision?
Explanation
Correct Answer
Management-plane segmentation reduces the attack surface and common-mode dependency on user traffic. The correct engineering response is: Separate management reachability into an appropriate management VRF or dedicated management network with restricted access. The observable check is: Only approved jump hosts can reach management interfaces and user VLANs cannot enter the management segment.
Incorrect Answers
Management-plane segmentation reduces the attack surface and common-mode dependency on user traffic. The offered choice instead concerns a different principle: Telemetry collectors can carry sensitive operational data and should be protected by management and access boundaries. Those technical conditions are not interchangeable.
Management-plane segmentation reduces the attack surface and common-mode dependency on user traffic. The offered choice instead concerns a different principle: Critical management flows can be protected from starvation by a coherent end-to-end QoS policy. Those technical conditions are not interchangeable.
Management-plane segmentation reduces the attack surface and common-mode dependency on user traffic. The offered choice instead concerns a different principle: Shared management and infrastructure services become dependencies that can undermine an otherwise redundant routed network. Those technical conditions are not interchangeable.