Question 970
A switch team takes firmware backups but no configuration snapshot before a planned major change. Which first diagnostic check is most useful before changing the network?
Explanation
Correct Answer
This check collects evidence at the layer implicated by the symptom: a software image alone does not reconstruct the previous running configuration. Examine the evidence before choosing the corrective change.
Incorrect Answers
This would be a reasonable check when a Central dashboard reports intermittent switch disconnections after device management moves to a new VLAN, but is less direct for the issue at hand: a software image alone does not reconstruct the previous running configuration.
This would be a reasonable check when a packet capture taken only on a client endpoint cannot reveal which VLAN tags the upstream trunk adds to frames, but is less direct for the issue at hand: a software image alone does not reconstruct the previous running configuration.
This would be a reasonable check when an external automation script changes CX VLAN configuration but the operations team cannot trace when it happened, but is less direct for the issue at hand: a software image alone does not reconstruct the previous running configuration.