350-601 Storage Network Practice Question
An administrator needs to configure zoning on a Cisco MDS switch. After creating zones and adding members, what must be done to activate the zoning configuration?
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Assign zones to a zone set and then activate the zone set.
Zone sets must be activated to enforce zoning. The active zone set is the currently enforced zoning configuration. Multiple zone sets can be configured, but only one can be active.
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Reboot the switch for changes to take effect.
Why it's wrong here
Reboot is not required.
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Assign zones to a zone set and then activate the zone set.
Why this is correct
Zones must be in a zone set, and the zone set must be activated.
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Activate the zone set using the 'zone activate' command.
Why it's wrong here
The command is 'zone set activate name <name>'.
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Save the configuration to startup-config.
Why it's wrong here
Saving does not activate zoning.
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