Question 430
At the Glenbrook school district, a regional outage destroys a network file server that held the only copies of switch configurations. Which explanation best accounts for the concern?
Explanation
Correct Answer
The situation shows that backups co-located with the failed site cannot support restoration after a regional disaster, rather than merely a monitoring or presentation issue. Remediation is to store encrypted configuration recovery copies in an independent approved offsite repository. This result addresses the stated challenge at the Glenbrook school district.
Incorrect Answers
The option states: Peer configuration drift can produce different forwarding and security outcomes after failover. By contrast, the current situation is governed by: backups co-located with the failed site cannot support restoration after a regional disaster, rather than merely a monitoring or presentation issue. Choosing this alternative would leave the question’s specific root-cause explanation unresolved.
The number of link-up ports cannot reveal whether powered endpoints face imminent overload. The present question instead depends on this mechanism: backups co-located with the failed site cannot support restoration after a regional disaster, rather than merely a monitoring or presentation issue. That difference matters for the requested root-cause explanation.
Snapshot route presence can conceal unstable sessions and transient packet loss. The reported problem is governed by this different mechanism: backups co-located with the failed site cannot support restoration after a regional disaster, rather than merely a monitoring or presentation issue. The offered choice would not address that particular root-cause explanation directly.