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Cisco Implementing and Configuring Cisco Identity Services Engine (SISE, 300-715, CCNP Security) (SISE) Practice Test

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Q1Architecture And Deploymenteasy
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A customer is planning a large campus deployment with 50,000 concurrent endpoints. Which persona should be dedicated to handle the authentication load to ensure high performance?

APolicy Administration Node (PAN)
Policy Service Node (PSN)Correct
CStandalone Node
DMonitoring and Troubleshooting Node (MnT)

Policy Service Nodes (PSNs) are the workhorses of an ISE deployment — they handle all authentication, authorization, and accounting (AAA) requests from network devices via RADIUS. For 50,000 concurrent endpoints, the deployment must scale PSNs horizontally (typically in a dedicat…Read full explanation

Q2Architecture And Deploymenthard
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When configuring a load balancer for a group of PSNs, what is the best practice for handling RADIUS traffic?

ASSL-offloading
Source-IP affinity (persistence)Correct
CActive-passive failover only
DRound-robin without persistence

RADIUS is a UDP-based protocol where the NAS and PSN maintain session state across the Access-Request/Access-Challenge/Access-Accept exchange. If a load balancer distributes successive packets from the same client to different PSNs, the challenge/response state is lost and authen…Read full explanation

Q3Architecture And Deploymentmedium
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You are configuring a new ISE node for your deployment. What is the correct sequence to join a secondary node to the existing deployment?

Initiate registration from the Primary PAN under Administration > System > DeploymentCorrect
BConfigure the Secondary node as an standalone node and merge databases
CRun the join command from the secondary node's CLI
DCreate a cluster via the ISE CLI setup wizard

In Cisco ISE, the Primary PAN is the authoritative node that maintains the deployment database and controls node registration. To add a secondary node, you log into the Primary PAN, navigate to Administration > System > Deployment, and use the 'Register an ISE node' action to ini…Read full explanation

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