HPE Network Switching Associate HPE6-A86 Exam Questions

Answer : B

The correct answer is B. The SNMP service on the Conductor switch will respond to all SNMP queries for the stack. A CX 6200F VSF stack operates as a single logical switch. HPE Aruba Networking VSF documentation explains that one switch in the stack is the Conductor, and the Conductor runs the control-plane software and manages the ASICs of all stack members. The Standby member maintains a synchronized copy of the Conductor's configuration database and can assume the Conductor role after a failure. HPE Aruba Networking documentation also states that configuration changes are applied on the Conductor switch and then synchronized to the Standby. Since the VSF stack is managed as one logical system, SNMP monitoring is performed against the stack through the active Conductor role, not by independently polling each member as a separate switch. Option A is incorrect because SNMP is not separately enabled per VSF member. Option C is incorrect because SNMP is not enabled by default on each OOBM port for member-specific queries. Option D is incorrect because both Conductor and Standby do not independently answer as separate stacked SNMP endpoints.

Answer : A

The correct answer is A. The CX 6300M VSF stack is the Layer 3 gateway for VLAN 200 clients, so the DHCP relay configuration must be applied to interface vlan 200, the SVI for the client VLAN. The SVI should use an address in the client subnet, such as 192.168.200.1/24, and the remote DHCP server should be defined with the AOS-CX ip helper-address command. HPE Aruba Networking AOS-CX documentation states that ip helper-address <IPV4-ADDR> defines the address of a remote DHCP server or DHCP relay agent and that the DHCP relay agent forwards DHCP client requests to the defined servers. Option B is incorrect because VLAN 1 is not the VLAN 200 client gateway. Options C and D are incorrect because dhcp-relay server is not the correct AOS-CX command shown for configuring IPv4 DHCP relay on the SVI. The correct configuration is ip helper-address 192.168.1.100 under interface vlan 200.

Answer : D

The correct answer is D. show system. HPE Aruba Networking AOS-CX documentation describes the show system command as displaying general status information about the system. The official command example includes fields such as Vendor, Product Name, and Chassis Serial Nbr. These fields provide the switch make, model/product name, and serial number directly in the CLI session. Option A is not the best answer because show support-information is intended for collecting broader support and diagnostic information, not the most direct command for viewing the switch identity. Option B is not the normal user command for displaying switch make, model, and serial number. Option C is incorrect because configuration output shows switch configuration, not necessarily the hardware identity information requested. Therefore, the direct command to display make, model, and serial number is show system.

Answer : B

The correct answer is B. Transport Layer. Data segmentation is a Transport Layer function. At Layer 4, protocols such as TCP divide application data into smaller pieces called segments so that data can be transported between endpoints. The Transport Layer also uses TCP and UDP port numbers to identify application conversations between hosts. HPE Aruba Networking AOS-CX ACL documentation references TCP/UDP ports as Layer 4 ports, which aligns transport-layer port usage with the Transport Layer. The Application Layer provides user-facing application services, but it does not perform transport segmentation. The Network Layer handles logical IP addressing and routing. The Data Link Layer handles Ethernet framing, MAC addressing, and local delivery on a network segment. Therefore, when the question asks where data segmentation occurs in the OSI model, the correct answer is the Transport Layer. (arubanetworking.hpe.com)

Answer : B

The correct answer is B. A VLAN range can be created with the syntax vlan 100-110. HPE Aruba Networking AOS-CX documentation defines the VLAN creation command as vlan <VLAN-LIST>. The VLAN list can contain a single VLAN ID or multiple VLAN IDs separated by commas, dashes, or both. The documentation gives examples such as vlan 2-8,10, which creates VLANs 2 through 8 and VLAN 10. Therefore, vlan 100-110 is the correct AOS-CX syntax for creating a range of VLANs. Option A is incorrect because a colon is not the documented range separator for VLAN creation. Options C and D are incorrect because newly created VLANs are enabled by default. HPE Aruba documentation states that the VLAN is enabled by default and that the shutdown command is used to disable a VLAN. Therefore, no additional enable or no shutdown command is required after creating a VLAN.

Answer : A

The correct answer is A. CX 6300. The configuration shown uses OSPFv2 with a process ID, redistribution of connected routes, and a route map. HPE Aruba Networking AOS-CX IP Routing documentation for the CX 6300 and related higher CX platforms includes OSPFv2 routing commands such as router ospf and redistribute connected route-map. The same command documentation shows redistribution into OSPF with a route map as a supported configuration. By contrast, the AOS-CX IP Routing Guide for lower platforms such as the 4100i, 6000, and 6100 includes OSPF command information showing platform support for OSPF on 5420 and 6200, not on the 4100i, 6000, or 6100. Therefore, from the choices provided, the CX 6300 is the switch family that supports creating this OSPF redistribution configuration. The CX 6000 and CX 6100 are access-layer switches and are not the correct choice for this OSPF route redistribution example.

Answer : A

The correct answer is A. API. HPE Aruba Networking Fabric Composer is an orchestration and management platform for supported AOS-CX switches. HPE Aruba Networking Fabric Composer documentation describes Fabric Composer as managing and orchestrating HPE Aruba Networking AOS-CX switch fabrics and includes an API Explorer containing Fabric Composer API documentation. The Fabric Composer guide also describes system settings for switch polling, switch events through a web socket connection, and enhanced logging of API calls. This aligns with Fabric Composer using API-based communication and orchestration rather than traditional CLI-only management. SSH can be used for direct administrator access to a switch, but it is not the best answer for Fabric Composer's switch-management communication method. Telnet is insecure and not appropriate. SNMPv3 is useful for secure monitoring, but it is not the protocol used by Fabric Composer for configuration orchestration of CX switches. Therefore, the correct option is API.