Cisco 300-420 Certification Sample Questions and Answers

Cisco 300-420 sample questions for Cisco Certified Specialist Enterprise Design preparationThe Cisco 300-420 Certification Sample Questions on this page help you become familiar with the question style and knowledge areas of the Cisco Certified Specialist Enterprise Design (ENSLD) exam. Each question is written to reflect the syllabus topics and the level of understanding the certification expects, so you can see how theoretical concepts are tested in practice. Working through them lets you check your understanding, identify topics that need further study, and get comfortable interpreting certification-style questions before you sit the official exam.

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Cisco 300-420 (ENSLD) Sample Questions:

01. A company with multiple service providers wants to speed up BGP convergence time in the event a failure occurs with their primary link. Which approach achieves this goal and does not impact router CPU utilization?
a) Utilize BFD and tune the multiplier to 50
b) Lower the BGP hello interval
c) Decrease the BGP keepalive timer
d) Utilize BFD and keep the default BGP timers
 
02. Which WAN technology is a popular solution for connecting L2 domains over an IP/MPLS network?
a) Metro Ethernet
b) VPLS
c) MPLS
d) DWDM
 
03. A large SD-Access site can support up to how many endpoints?
a) 50,000
b) 25,000
c) 30,000
d) Unlimited
 
04. RESTCONF supports both XML and ______ representation.
a) YANG
b) JSON
c) SOAP
d) XMLv2
 
05. How many priority bits are used for a Class of Service (CoS) value in an 802.1Q frame?
a) 8
b) 7
c) 3
d) 2
 
06. In a cisco SD-Access brownfield deployment scenario, which configuration deployment must be taken with Cisco DNA center?
a) LAN automation
b) Subnet stretching
c) Automated UNDERLAY
d) Manual underlay
 
07. When a primary WAN link fails, what type of VPN tunnel can be used as a backup link to corporate headquarters?
a) GRE
b) MPLS
c) IPsec
d) VPN cannot be configured as a secondary link
 
08. Hardware queues utilize what strategy when processing packets?
a) FIFO
b) QoS match policy
c) WFQ
d) CQ
 
09. Gateway Load Balancing Protocol (GLBP) routers communicate between each other via what multicast address?
a) 223.0.0.10
b) 224.0.0.0
c) 224.0.0.10
d) 224.0.0.102
 
10. What protocol is used to create the logical mapping of endpoints and user devices for the Fabric control plane?
a) LISP
b) STP
c) VXLAN
d) SGT

Answers:

Question: 01

Answer: d

Question: 02

Answer: b

Question: 03

Answer: a

Question: 04

Answer: b

Question: 05

Answer: c

Question: 06

Answer: a

Question: 07

Answer: c

Question: 08

Answer: a

Question: 09

Answer: d

Question: 10

Answer: a

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