Question 370
A switch team takes firmware backups but no configuration snapshot before a planned major change. Which failure mechanism best explains the observed behavior?
Explanation
Correct Answer
The symptoms fit this mechanism. A targeted response is to capture and verify a restorable device configuration with a tested rollback path, followed by verification that a staged rollback restores the intended switch configuration and services.
Incorrect Answers
That explanation fits a different case, such as when Central shows a device with the wrong site tag, causing its client statistics to appear under another location. The symptoms here are better explained by a software image alone does not reconstruct the previous running configuration.
That explanation fits a different case, such as when a packet capture taken only on a client endpoint cannot reveal which VLAN tags the upstream trunk adds to frames. The symptoms here are better explained by a software image alone does not reconstruct the previous running configuration.
That explanation fits a different case, such as when a Central dashboard reports intermittent switch disconnections after device management moves to a new VLAN. The symptoms here are better explained by a software image alone does not reconstruct the previous running configuration.