Question 330
At the Claremont campus network, a backbone transceiver reports normal administrative settings but persistent optical errors on one strand. Which underlying issue most directly explains this situation?
Explanation
Correct Answer
The architectural weakness is that configuration changes cannot repair excessive attenuation or a defective transceiver. It can be addressed through the controlled change to use measured light levels and a known-good optic or fiber segment to isolate the physical fault. This result addresses the stated challenge at the Claremont campus network.
Incorrect Answers
The option states: BGP cannot converge if the underlying connection or peer access is blocked. The source describes its associated mechanism as: it requires the team to monitor BGP transport and peer state after firewall updates. By contrast, the current situation is governed by: configuration changes cannot repair excessive attenuation or a defective transceiver; a passing acceptance check would show that after component replacement the same load test shows stable link and clean error counters. Choosing this alternative would leave the question’s specific root-cause explanation unresolved.
microbursts can fill egress buffers briefly while averaged utilization looks normal, rather than merely a monitoring or presentation issue. The offered alternative applies that mechanism: Microbursts can fill egress buffers briefly while averaged utilization looks normal. The reported facts point to a different controlling condition: configuration changes cannot repair excessive attenuation or a defective transceiver; a passing acceptance check would show that after component replacement the same load test shows stable link and clean error counters. The alternative does not directly settle the required root-cause explanation.
A physical link can be up while the VLAN tag is omitted or filtered. In this question, the decisive issue is: configuration changes cannot repair excessive attenuation or a defective transceiver; a passing acceptance check would show that after component replacement the same load test shows stable link and clean error counters. That is why the offered option is not the most direct root-cause explanation.