Question 1120
After a corrective change at a hospital campus, the team documents: A company selects symmetric flow distribution for a transactional app but uses indiscriminate per-packet traffic distribution across disparate Internet links. Which repeatable control BEST prevents a recurrence?
Explanation
Correct Answer
Include transaction and reverse-path tests when selecting link distribution methods. This control reduces recurrence of the documented mechanism: Aggressive distribution without session awareness can disrupt stateful applications. It creates a repeatable check around the needed response: Configure supported session-consistent traffic distribution to preserve the business app's path expectations.
Incorrect Answers
Monitor quality as well as availability for business-critical transports. That safeguard addresses another potential failure: An administrator configures SD-WAN path quality for business collaboration but ignores one-way packet loss on an underlay that appears operational. It is not the most targeted recurring control for the described cause: Aggressive distribution without session awareness can disrupt stateful applications.
Audit forced-path exceptions against live SLA measurements. That safeguard addresses another potential failure: A branch has a high-quality private link and degraded broadband link, but a hard-coded app route forces voice over broadband despite better available private connectivity. It is not the most targeted recurring control for the described cause: Aggressive distribution without session awareness can disrupt stateful applications.
Validate tunnels, NAT, routing and SD-WAN policy jointly during deployment. That safeguard addresses another potential failure: A site enables SD-WAN tunnel path switching but the selected tunnel interface is missing the required routing/security configuration. It is not the most targeted recurring control for the described cause: Aggressive distribution without session awareness can disrupt stateful applications.