Question 310
At Willowbrook Education, a team reports that it corrected the following problem affecting student collaboration platforms: Hosts experience ARP spoofing on a VLAN that already has a valid DHCP snooping database. Which observation BEST verifies that the correction actually worked?
Explanation
Correct Answer
Spoofed ARP replies are blocked while bindings from legitimate hosts are accepted. This is the decisive evidence for the original problem: Hosts experience ARP spoofing on a VLAN that already has a valid DHCP snooping database. It verifies that the intended corrective control—Enable Dynamic ARP Inspection with appropriate trusted ports and binding validation—works in the relevant environment; a completed change ticket alone would not prove the outcome at Willowbrook Education.
Incorrect Answers
Excess learned addresses trigger the configured action without impacting approved devices. This would be relevant evidence for a different failure: An access port accepts many spoofed source MAC addresses and exhausts switch forwarding entries, usually addressed by Configure port-security limits and a suitable violation response on untrusted edge ports. It does not demonstrate that the current problem at Willowbrook Education was resolved. The specific required evidence is: Spoofed ARP replies are blocked while bindings from legitimate hosts are accepted.
A crafted trunk-negotiation attempt cannot create an unauthorized trunk. This would be relevant evidence for a different failure: A user can hop into another VLAN through unintended DTP trunk negotiation on a wall jack, usually addressed by Disable automatic trunk negotiation and enforce a fixed access VLAN and unused native VLAN hygiene. It does not demonstrate that the current problem at Willowbrook Education was resolved. The specific required evidence is: Spoofed ARP replies are blocked while bindings from legitimate hosts are accepted.
A rogue offer on an access port is discarded and genuine clients obtain correct leases. This would be relevant evidence for a different failure: A campus switch accepts DHCP offers from an untrusted workstation acting as a rogue server, usually addressed by Enable DHCP snooping and mark only the legitimate DHCP uplinks as trusted. It does not demonstrate that the current problem at Willowbrook Education was resolved. The specific required evidence is: Spoofed ARP replies are blocked while bindings from legitimate hosts are accepted.