350-501 Automation and Quality of Services Practice Question
In a hierarchical QoS policy applied to a subscriber aggregation interface, the parent policy shapes to 100 Mbps and the child policy allocates 50% bandwidth to voice and 50% to data. If voice traffic exceeds 50 Mbps, what happens to the excess?
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Excess voice is dropped or re-marked
The child policy's police command within LLQ drops or re-marks voice traffic exceeding the configured bandwidth to prevent starvation of other queues.
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Excess voice is queued in the data queue
Why it's wrong here
Voice is not re-queued into data; it is policed.
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Excess voice is shaped by the parent policy
Why it's wrong here
Shaping occurs at the parent, but child police is independent.
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Excess voice is forwarded with best effort
Why it's wrong here
The police action drops or re-marks, not simply forward.
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Excess voice is dropped or re-marked
Why this is correct
LLQ typically includes policing to limit the priority queue.
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