300-420 Exam Dumps : Designing Cisco Enterprise Networks (ENSLD) v1.1

Dual multihomed is the only listed WAN design that satisfies all failure conditions: CE, PE, ISP, and link failure. A single-homed design has one provider attachment and cannot survive most of those events. A single multihomed design uses more than one provider or provider connection, but if it still has only one customer edge device, a CE failure remains a single point of failure. A dual-homed design can provide multiple links to one provider, but it may not protect against a complete ISP failure. Dual multihoming combines redundant customer edge devices with connections to multiple provider edge devices and, typically, multiple providers. Cisco WAN and BGP design guidance uses multihoming to increase availability, control inbound and outbound path selection, and avoid dependence on a single provider path. This design gives the architect the necessary device, link, and provider diversity. Reference topics: WAN edge redundancy, BGP multihoming, dual-provider design, CE and PE resiliency, internet edge high availability.

Explicit QoS trust should be configured at the network boundary points where markings first enter the managed DiffServ domain and are known to be reliable. In a DiffServ design, traffic classification and marking are typically performed at the access edge or at a controlled ingress boundary, and downstream devices then honor DSCP or CoS markings based on the trust boundary. Cisco QoS design stresses that the trust boundary must be intentionally placed; endpoints or unmanaged devices should not be trusted by default because they can mark traffic incorrectly and steal priority treatment. The exhibit answer identifies B and E as the correct trust points, meaning those are the controlled ingress locations where markings should be accepted. Options that trust uncontrolled endpoint-facing points or internal transit locations would either create a security problem or add no practical value. Once traffic is trusted and marked at the correct boundary, queuing, policing, and shaping policies can use the DSCP values consistently across the campus or WAN. Reference topics: DiffServ, QoS trust boundary, DSCP marking, classification, enterprise QoS design.

Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN separates orchestration from management, control, and data forwarding. The orchestration-plane function is provided by vBond, which authenticates WAN Edge devices and helps establish secure connectivity between edges and controllers. In Cisco design terms, vBond is also the NAT traversal facilitator because it allows devices sitting behind NAT to discover reachable public and private address information and form the correct control connections. These two functions match the options for primary authentication point and NAT traversal facilitation. Centralized provisioning, troubleshooting, monitoring, and template-based configuration belong to vManage, the management plane. Route and policy distribution belongs to vSmart, the control plane, through OMP. Zero Touch Provisioning is part of the onboarding workflow, but the question asks for orchestration-plane functions, not the broader provisioning service. A sound SD-WAN design should deploy redundant vBond instances, ensure DNS reachability to them, and validate firewall rules so DTLS/TLS control connections can be established reliably across Internet and private transports. Reference topics: Cisco SD-WAN architecture, vBond orchestration, control connections, NAT traversal.