ANS-C01 Network Management and Operations Practice Question

Network Topology

A network engineer is monitoring a Direct Connect connection. The exhibit shows CloudWatch metric data for the ConnectionState metric. The engineer sees that the average value is 0.0 for most of the day. What does this indicate?

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The connection was down for most of the day.

The ConnectionState metric indicates the state of the Direct Connect connection, where 0 means down and 1 means up. An average value of 0.0 for most of the day indicates the connection was down. Therefore, option B is correct. Option A is incorrect because the metric shows a consistent value of 0, not fluctuating. Option C is incorrect because the data is complete and clearly shows the connection was down. Option D is incorrect because a value of 0 means the connection was not up and stable.

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The connection was fluctuating between up and down.
Why it's wrong here
Average 0.0 means it was consistently down.
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The connection was down for most of the day.
Why this is correct
0 means down.
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The metric data is incomplete.
Why it's wrong here
Data is present.
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The connection was up and stable.
Why it's wrong here
0 indicates down.

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