SD-WAN-Engineer Operations And Monitoring — 15 Questions

Question 1

An administrator needs to verify if an ADEM test is actively monitoring an application. Where can they find the real-time test results?

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Monitoring > ADEM > Test Results.. ADEM test results are displayed within the vManage interface under the specific monitor dashboard.

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Administration > Settings > ADEM.

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Tools > Troubleshooting > ADEM.

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Configuration > Policies > ADEM.

Question 2

You are troubleshooting an ADEM end-to-end path analysis. The hop-by-hop view shows packet loss at the 'ISP Gateway' segment. What does this indicate?

Accepted Answer

The loss is occurring on the carrier network segment, likely outside the enterprise-managed devices.. ADEM path analysis separates the path into segments, identifying specifically where loss occurs outside the SD-WAN fabric.

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The application server is rejecting connections.

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The local vEdge has an MTU mismatch.

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The vManage server is overloaded.

Question 3

You are monitoring a site via WAN Clarity. You see that latency fluctuates based on time of day. Which feature should you verify to ensure dynamic path selection is behaving optimally?

Accepted Answer

Verify the Application-Aware Routing (AAR) policy criteria for latency thresholds.. AAR (Application-Aware Routing) policies use path characteristics to steer traffic; fluctuations suggest the policy may need tuning.

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Disable packet duplication.

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Change the device's system IP.

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Increase the BGP hold-down timer.

Question 4

You have two vEdge routers in a High Availability (HA) pair. The standby device fails to transition to active mode during a manual failover test. Which command provides the most relevant output to debug the HA state synchronization?

Accepted Answer

show redundancy state. The show redundancy state command displays the synchronization status of the HA pair.

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show bfd sessions

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show control connections

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show system status

Question 5

During an HA failover, sessions are dropping. You suspect the state synchronization is not occurring fast enough. Which configuration parameter should you check?

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The HA heartbeat and hold-time intervals.. The HA keepalive and heartbeats define the timing of the failover process.

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The BFD multiplier.

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The OMP advertisement interval.

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The NTP synchronization status.

Question 6

An administrator notices that the WAN Clarity dashboard shows no data for a site. Which is the most likely cause?

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The 'Telemetry' collection is not enabled on the device template.. Without the telemetry source enabled, vManage cannot collect the necessary data for WAN Clarity.

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The device is in 'Controller Mode'.

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The BGP neighbor is down.

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The site ID is incorrectly configured in vManage.

Question 7

You are troubleshooting a scenario where an application is experiencing intermittent packet loss. You notice the WAN Clarity dashboard shows a high jitter metric on a specific transport. Which action should you take to confirm the impact on the application's SLA?

Accepted Answer

Navigate to Monitoring > WAN Clarity and inspect the path-specific SLA violation logs for the application.. WAN Clarity tracks link health; correlating this with application performance requires checking the specific SLA class policy applied to that path.

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Run a traceroute from the vEdge CLI to the destination IP.

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Disable ADEM for the specific application.

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Change the transport color to 'public-internet' to avoid the jitter.

Question 8

You are monitoring a circuit using ADEM and notice 'Blackholing' in the path. What does this mean?

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The packets are reaching a hop that silently discards them without sending ICMP error messages.. Blackholing in ADEM refers to packets being dropped without an ICMP response or clear path termination.

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The application server is offline.

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The ISP has blocked your traffic based on volume.

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The local device interface is down.

Question 9

You need to verify the status of the HA control plane synchronization. Which command confirms that both devices in the pair have the same control plane view?

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show redundancy status. The show redundancy status command provides the synchronization status between HA pair members.

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show sdwan ha status

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show control local-properties

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show ip route

Question 10

You are monitoring a branch site and notice WAN Clarity reports 'High Loss' on the MPLS circuit. However, the ping tests from the vEdge to the data center are successful. What is the most likely cause?

Accepted Answer

The SLA class policy thresholds are exceeded for the specific application traffic.. WAN Clarity tracks application-specific SLA metrics, which can differ from simple ICMP availability.

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The vManage telemetry agent is corrupted.

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The ISP is blocking ICMP.

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The device is malfunctioning.

Question 11

An ADEM test shows a 'DNS Latency' spike. What does this indicate?

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The DNS server is taking too long to resolve the application domain.. DNS latency spikes imply that the initial resolution of the application URL is delayed, impacting startup time.

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The application server is overloaded.

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The firewall is dropping DNS packets.

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The client browser is outdated.

Question 12

You observe that a device is frequently 'Flapping' between HA active and standby roles. What should you examine first?

Accepted Answer

The status of the physical heartbeat cable and the HA timers.. Unstable HA roles are usually caused by timing issues or physical connectivity problems on the HA heartbeat link.

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The system CPU usage.

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The vManage connectivity.

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The BGP neighbor status.

Question 13

Where do you configure the alert threshold for WAN Clarity metrics in vManage?

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Configuration > Policies > Alerts.. Configuration > Policies > Alerts allows the customization of notification thresholds.

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Administration > Settings.

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Monitoring > WAN Clarity.

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Tools > Alerts.

Question 14

During an ADEM test, you identify 'Server Latency'. What does this indicate?

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The destination application server is taking too long to process the request.. Server latency specifically refers to the time taken by the destination application server to respond.

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The DNS resolution is failing.

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The firewall is blocking the traffic.

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The network path is congested.

Question 15

Which TWO actions should an administrator take when configuring a new WAN Clarity monitor?

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Select the source and destination sites for the monitor.. WAN Clarity requires identifying the application and the endpoints to measure properly.

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Disable all other monitoring features.

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Configure a manual static route for the traffic.

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Assign a unique physical port ID to the monitor.