Question 640
A stack's standby control member cannot take over after a failover drill because the new member has incompatible firmware. Which ongoing operational safeguard best reduces the chance of recurrence?
Explanation
Correct Answer
This is a continuing control for the failure mode in which control-member version mismatch prevents stable participation in the intended logical stack. It complements the immediate fix instead of relying on a one-off correction.
Incorrect Answers
That control is useful for a different failure, such as when a VSX peer restarts for an upgrade and port-channel traffic drops because the downstream LACP timeout is too strict for the expected convergence. It would leave the present failure mode insufficiently addressed.
That control is useful for a different failure, such as when a redundant OSPF network has two uplinks, but one interface's routing adjacency never forms because its area ID is wrong. It would leave the present failure mode insufficiently addressed.
That control is useful for a different failure, such as when a site uses a single access-switch uplink to two cores with static routes and expects automatic gateway failover when the first core fails. It would leave the present failure mode insufficiently addressed.