HPE7-A13 sample questions

Question 1

As a Lead Architect, you are conducting a current-state discovery for a manufacturing plant planning to upgrade its campus access network. The customer currently operates a flat Layer 2 network using legacy third-party switches and wants to migrate to an HPE Aruba Networking routed access design. Which specific piece of current-state information is most critical to capture during discovery to prevent broadcast storms during the phased migration?

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The specific Spanning Tree Protocol (STP) variant and root bridge placement currently running on the legacy switches.

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The exact physical dimensions of the legacy switches to ensure the new CX switches fit in the racks.

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The BGP AS path prepending policies configured on the WAN edge routers.

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The exact firmware versions of the legacy third-party access points.

Question 2

During a requirements gathering workshop for a new university campus network, stakeholders provide various statements about what the new system must achieve. Which TWO of the following statements represent non-functional requirements rather than functional requirements? (Select TWO)

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The core network infrastructure must provide 99.999% availability year-round.

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The wireless system must scale to support up to 25,000 concurrent client devices.

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The network must support 802.1X authentication for all student laptops.

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The guest Wi-Fi must redirect users to a captive portal with the university logo.

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The network must isolate IoT devices into a dedicated virtual network.

Question 3

A financial institution requires a new campus core network. The CIO states: 'Our trading floor applications cannot tolerate any dropped packets during maintenance windows or switch upgrades.' As an architect, how should you translate this business requirement into a specific HPE Aruba Networking technical requirement?

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The core switches must support Virtual Switching Extension (VSX) with VSX Live Upgrade enabled.

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The core switches must be stacked using Virtual Switching Framework (VSF) to ensure a single management plane.

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The core network must utilize OSPF with Graceful Restart configured on all inter-switch links.

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The design must implement EVPN-VXLAN with Anycast Gateway to eliminate Layer 2 boundaries.

Question 4

You have been engaged to design a new campus access network for a large healthcare provider. The hospital consists of a main building and three adjacent clinics.

During discovery, the IT Director mentions that doctors use mobile workstations on carts (WOWs) that roam continuously between the clinics and the main building. These WOWs run a legacy charting application that relies on the client maintaining the same IP address; if the IP address changes, the application crashes and requires a 10-minute reboot process.

The hospital also has strict budget constraints and prefers to reuse their existing single-mode fiber infrastructure between buildings, which currently supports 10Gbps links. They want to manage the entire environment from a single cloud-based pane of glass.

Based on these discovery findings, which combination of requirements and constraints must drive your high-level design?

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Requirement: Seamless Layer 2 roaming for WOWs across the entire campus. Constraint: Reuse existing 10Gbps single-mode fiber without requiring bandwidth upgrades.

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Requirement: Layer 3 roaming across all buildings. Constraint: 10Gbps fiber links must be upgraded to 40Gbps.

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Requirement: Implement strict network segmentation for WOWs using VRFs. Constraint: Deploy on-premises management to comply with healthcare data privacy laws.

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Requirement: Replace legacy charting application with a modern web-based app. Constraint: Single cloud-based pane of glass management.

Question 5

While conducting discovery for a municipal government campus, you find that the customer lacks up-to-date documentation regarding the fiber optic cabling between their 15 remote buildings and the main datacenter. The customer states they 'believe' all links are Single-Mode Fiber (SMF) capable of 10Gbps, but they cannot verify this. How should you formally handle this situation in your design documentation?

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Document the fiber type and capacity as a formal Assumption, noting the dependency for 10Gbps transceivers, and highlight the risk to the BoM if multimode fiber is discovered later.

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Document it as a Technical Requirement that the customer must upgrade all fiber to SMF before the project begins.

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Halt the design process until the customer hires a third-party contractor to test and certify every fiber link.

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Proceed by quoting Multi-Mode Fiber (MMF) optics in the preliminary BoM to be safe, as they are generally less expensive.

Question 6

True or False: When discovering requirements, a business constraint (such as a strict IT budget or a mandated project completion date) should be converted directly into a technical requirement for the network architecture.

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False

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True

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During a requirements gathering workshop for a new university campus network, stakeholders provide various statements about what the new system must achieve. Which TWO of the following statements represent non-functional requirements rather than functional requirements? (Select TWO)

True or False: When discovering requirements, a business constraint (such as a strict IT budget or a mandated project completion date) should be converted directly into a technical requirement for the network architecture.

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