HPE Network Campus Access Professional Architect Exam Free Sample Questions
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Covers identifying stakeholders and documenting the current environment, mapping requirements to technologies, building topology diagrams, and writing technical proposals.
12 free sample questions150 in the full practice test
Discover customers' requirements · Identify the technical stakeholders and map their roles
During the initial discovery phase for a large hospital network refresh, you are introduced to the Chief Medical Information Officer (CMIO). The CMIO emphasizes that the new wireless network must support uninterrupted telemetry data from mobile medical carts. Based on stakeholder role mapping, how should the CMIO be classified?
Answer and explanation
Correct answer: B
The CMIO is a Business Influencer. They dictate business and clinical requirements (uninterrupted telemetry) but do not own the technical implementation, budget approval (usually the sponsor/decision maker), or the day-to-day operation of the network (technical owner).
Q2Question 2
Intermediate
Discover customers' requirements · Identify the technical stakeholders and map their roles
A campus architect is utilizing a RACI matrix to map roles for a university's network upgrade project. The Director of IT Security requires that all new network access policies comply with the university's Zero Trust framework, though they will not be configuring the ClearPass servers themselves. Which RACI designation is most appropriate for the Director of IT Security regarding the ClearPass policy configuration task?
Answer and explanation
Correct answer: B
The Director of IT Security is Accountable (or Consulted, depending on project structure, but Accountable for compliance). Since they dictate the framework that must be adhered to and ultimately sign off on the security posture, they hold accountability, while the network engineers are Responsible for the actual configuration.
Q3Question 3
Intermediate
Discover customers' requirements · Identify, collect, analyze, and document the current environment
Company Background: GlobalCorp is a manufacturing enterprise with a large brownfield campus network. The current infrastructure consists of legacy third-party switches and an aging wireless deployment.
Current Situation: You have been hired to architect a new HPE Aruba Networking campus access solution. The customer provides you with outdated physical topology diagrams and states that many undocumented ad-hoc switches exist on the factory floor.
Requirements: The new design must integrate seamlessly during a phased migration. You must identify all existing VLANs, routing adjacencies, and active PoE endpoints before finalizing the new design.
Which of the following approaches is the MOST effective method to accurately discover and document the active current-state environment while minimizing manual tracing?
flowchart TD
A[Legacy Core] --> B[Distribution 1]
A --> C[Distribution 2]
B --> D[Known Access Switch]
B --> E[? Unknown Ad-hoc Switch]
C --> F[Known Access Switch]
Answer and explanation
Correct answer: B
In a large brownfield environment with undocumented ad-hoc switches, manual tracing is highly inefficient and prone to errors. Utilizing automated network management tools that leverage standard protocols like SNMP, LLDP (Link Layer Discovery Protocol), and CDP (Cisco Discovery Protocol) allows the architect to dynamically map the active topology, identify connected endpoints (including PoE devices), and discover routing adjacencies.
Q4Question 4
AdvancedMultiple answers
Discover customers' requirements · Identify, collect, analyze, and document the current environment
When gathering dependencies for a wireless network upgrade to Wi-Fi 6E in a historic building, which TWO constraints must the architect explicitly document as part of the current-state analysis? (Select TWO)
Answer and explanation
Correct answers: A, C
Wi-Fi 6E APs typically require 802.3at (PoE+) or 802.3bt (Class 4/6) to operate at full capacity. Documenting that existing switches only support 802.3af (15.4W) is a critical physical constraint. Historic building restrictions on mounting also dictate AP placement and installation methods.
Q5Question 5
Beginner
Discover customers' requirements · Interpret the technical requirements
True or False: A customer's requirement that the new campus network must support 802.1X authentication using EAP-TLS is considered a non-functional requirement.
Answer and explanation
Correct answer: B
False. Supporting 802.1X authentication using EAP-TLS is a functional requirement because it describes a specific behavior or function the system must perform. Non-functional requirements typically describe how the system performs those functions (e.g., performance, scalability, availability SLAs).
Q6Question 6
Intermediate
Discover customers' requirements · Interpret the technical requirements
A financial services customer states that their trading floor network must never experience a single point of failure and must recover from any link or node failure in under 50 milliseconds. How should the architect interpret this technical requirement when designing the core-to-distribution topology?
Answer and explanation
Correct answer: C
To meet strict sub-50ms or sub-second failover requirements without a single point of failure, relying on RSTP is insufficient. Deploying Aruba VSX with MC-LAG ensures high availability, active-active forwarding, and near-instantaneous failover by eliminating the need for spanning tree convergence upon link failure.
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