Question 230
The acceptance test for administrative security at a regulated enterprise in London must confirm a fix for: Remote SSH login attempts time out because the management class policer is too low for legitimate maintenance bursts. Which outcome shows that the precise problem was corrected?
Explanation
Correct Answer
This is the observable outcome for copp ssh throttling. It tests whether the targeted change, 'Separate authorized SSH management traffic into an appropriate CoPP class and set usable rates', actually resolved the reported issue at a regulated enterprise in London. The original failure was: Remote SSH login attempts time out because the management class policer is too low for legitimate maintenance bursts.
Incorrect Answers
That observation verifies copp snmp polling impact in a different situation, such as when the monitoring station sees SNMP timeouts during busy periods while CoPP exceeded counters increase for the polling class. For the reported copp ssh throttling incident at a regulated enterprise in London, the required acceptance evidence is: Authorized SSH connections succeed without allowing unlimited management traffic. This other result does not test that condition directly.
That observation verifies copp protection against cpu attack in a different situation, such as when high-rate packets addressed to router management services exhaust CPU while transit interfaces remain uncongested. For the reported copp ssh throttling incident at a regulated enterprise in London, the required acceptance evidence is: Authorized SSH connections succeed without allowing unlimited management traffic. This other result does not test that condition directly.
That observation verifies copp http management in a different situation, such as when hTTPS management packets from authorized administrators are incorrectly classified with untrusted HTTP management probes. For the reported copp ssh throttling incident at a regulated enterprise in London, the required acceptance evidence is: Authorized SSH connections succeed without allowing unlimited management traffic. This other result does not test that condition directly.