Question 180
A campus VLAN can reach its gateway but cannot access an internet SaaS site although neighboring VLANs can. Which immediate engineering change most directly addresses this issue?
Explanation
Correct Answer
The underlying issue is that local gateway success does not verify downstream routed, policy or name-resolution service. This intervention addresses that cause directly. A useful result to confirm is: a permitted SaaS transaction succeeds from the affected VLAN without relaxing unrelated policy.
Incorrect Answers
This is suited to a different condition, such as when a user has a valid IP address but intermittent access to a local service, and switch counters show CRC errors. The reported fault instead arises because local gateway success does not verify downstream routed, policy or name-resolution service.
This is suited to a different condition, such as when two core switches disagree on an OSPF route after a configuration change, and one advertises a stale static prefix. The reported fault instead arises because local gateway success does not verify downstream routed, policy or name-resolution service.
This is suited to a different condition, such as when a network administrator assumes a wireless slowdown is an ISP fault, but wired clients on the same WAN are fast. The reported fault instead arises because local gateway success does not verify downstream routed, policy or name-resolution service.