CTP Network & Infrastructure Management 3

Question 1

Which infrastructure as code (IaC) practice allows network configurations to be version-controlled and reproducibly deployed?

Accepted Answer

Declarative configuration management

Answer

Manual change management

Answer

Configuration drift monitoring

Answer

Physical cabling documentation

Question 2

What is configuration drift in infrastructure management?

Accepted Answer

Unintended divergence of a system's actual configuration from its documented baseline

Answer

Gradual degradation of network cable performance over time

Answer

Automatic migration of workloads between servers

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Scheduled updates applied across all network devices simultaneously

Question 3

Which disaster recovery metric defines the maximum acceptable amount of data loss measured in time?

Accepted Answer

RPO (Recovery Point Objective)

Answer

RTO (Recovery Time Objective)

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MTTR (Mean Time To Repair)

Answer

MTBF (Mean Time Between Failures)

Question 4

What distinguishes a cold site from a hot site in business continuity planning?

Accepted Answer

Cold sites have no pre-installed equipment; hot sites are fully operational with current data

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Cold sites use older hardware while hot sites use current hardware

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Cold sites are located closer to the primary site than hot sites

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Cold sites support only data recovery while hot sites support voice communications

Question 5

In network capacity planning, which approach forecasts future resource needs based on historical growth trends?

Accepted Answer

Trend-based capacity planning

Answer

Reactive scaling

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Vertical scaling

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Event-driven provisioning

Question 6

Which network monitoring approach uses flow data (e.g., NetFlow, sFlow) to analyze traffic patterns?

Accepted Answer

Flow-based monitoring

Answer

Packet capture analysis

Answer

SNMP polling

Answer

Synthetic transaction monitoring

Question 7

What is the primary purpose of network segmentation using micro-segmentation in a data center?

Accepted Answer

To enforce granular security policies between individual workloads

Answer

To increase available bandwidth between servers

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To reduce east-west traffic latency

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To simplify IP address management across server pools