During the Defend phase for a Cisco ISE deployment, a competitor claims their NAC solution offers simpler licensing and is 'good enough' for basic guest and BYOD. The customer is concerned about the perceived complexity and cost of ISE. Which argument most effectively defends the value of ISE in an enterprise environment?
A financial services client requires a highly resilient SD-WAN design for their data centers. They have two data centers, each with dual internet circuits from different providers. The primary business requirement is to ensure that critical trading application traffic is never dropped and maintains path quality, even during a single circuit failure at either data center. Which design approach best meets this requirement?
A prospective customer is evaluating Cisco SD-Access against a solution from a competitor that uses a controller-based overlay but relies on traditional VLANs and ACLs for segmentation. The customer believes the competitor's approach is simpler to implement. Which two points should a field engineer emphasize to defend the superiority of the SD-Access segmentation model? (Select TWO)
A university is designing a large-scale SD-Access network to support students, faculty, staff, and IoT devices across a multi-building campus. They need to ensure that the control plane remains stable and that endpoint registration/de-registration events do not overwhelm the LISP Map-Server. Which design choice is critical for achieving this goal?
During a demonstration of Cisco SD-WAN, a customer asks to see how the solution can guarantee performance for their critical SaaS applications like Microsoft 365 and Salesforce, which are accessed directly from branch offices. Which vManage feature is the most direct and effective way to demonstrate this capability?
A hospital is implementing Cisco ISE for network access control. During the Discover phase, the biomedical engineering department expresses concern about network access for critical medical devices like MRI machines and infusion pumps. These devices do not have 802.1X supplicants. The primary requirement is to securely onboard these devices while ensuring they are correctly identified and placed into a segmented 'Medical_Devices' group. What is the most appropriate initial discovery question to ask the customer to determine the best ISE design?
A retail company with 500 stores is planning an SD-WAN deployment. During the discovery phase, the network team states their primary goals are to reduce MPLS costs by using dual broadband internet circuits and to simplify branch deployments. They have a small IT team and require a solution that minimizes manual configuration at each store. Which SD-WAN feature directly addresses the goal of simplified branch deployments?
True or False: In a Cisco SD-Access fabric, the Border node is responsible for advertising fabric endpoint (EID) subnets into the external routing domain using BGP.
A company is designing an ISE deployment for 50,000 endpoints across three geographically dispersed data centers. The primary requirement is high availability for authentication services and centralized management and logging. Which ISE persona should be deployed in a cluster at each of the three data centers?
During an SD-Access discovery workshop for a manufacturing company, the OT team reveals they have a large number of legacy industrial control systems that require layer 2 adjacency to function. The company wants to integrate these devices into the new fabric to gain visibility and apply basic segmentation. Which SD-Access design feature must be included to accommodate this requirement?