300-710 SNCF Deployment Practice Question
An enterprise network design incorporates Equal-Cost Multi-Path (ECMP) routing across two Cisco Secure Firewall Threat Defense units functioning independently in routed mode. What is the primary benefit of enabling ECMP on the firewalls?
Answer choices
Why each option matters
Answer the question above first, then reveal the full breakdown to understand why each option is right or wrong.
Correct answer & explanation
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It enables the firewall to balance outbound traffic across multiple next-hop gateways using multiple equal-cost routes.
ECMP allows the firewall to install multiple equal-cost paths to the same destination in its routing table, distributing traffic across multiple next-hop routers for load balancing and redundancy.
Answer analysis
Option-by-option breakdown
For each option: why learners choose it and why it is or isn't the right answer here.
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It allows passive NGIPS interfaces to share inspection load without SPAN replication.
Why it's wrong here
Passive interfaces rely on mirrored traffic, not routing protocols or ECMP.
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It pools the CPU and memory resources of both firewalls into a single logical cluster.
Why it's wrong here
Pooling resources is a function of clustering, not ECMP.
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It enables the firewall to balance outbound traffic across multiple next-hop gateways using multiple equal-cost routes.
Why this is correct
ECMP provides traffic load balancing across multiple equal-cost paths.
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It synchronizes connection state tables across both independent firewalls for zero-loss failover.
Why it's wrong here
State synchronization is a feature of High Availability (HA) or clustering, not ECMP.
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Last reviewed August 2026 · checked against the official Cisco exam blueprint
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