Question 1180
An operations group at a manufacturing plant resolved: A primary circuit has intermittent latency spikes but an SD-WAN quality profile uses an overly insensitive threshold that never triggers. Which ongoing safeguard should become part of its change process?
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Correct Answer
Reassess path thresholds using measured application SLEs each quarter. This control reduces recurrence of the documented mechanism: Threshold configuration can mask genuine application quality issues. It creates a repeatable check around the needed response: Adjust the relevant latency threshold and sensitivity to measured application requirements and test impairment.
Incorrect Answers
Document and test individual SLA breach behavior before deployment. That safeguard addresses another potential failure: A voice path changes even when only packet loss exceeds its threshold, but an engineer expects all three SLA metrics to fail before failover. It is not the most targeted recurring control for the described cause: Threshold configuration can mask genuine application quality issues.
Maintain application/destination path-policy tests for regulated services. That safeguard addresses another potential failure: A link management rule selects a low-cost Internet path for payment transactions even though their regulated destination must use the private link. It is not the most targeted recurring control for the described cause: Threshold configuration can mask genuine application quality issues.
Validate effective SD-WAN object visibility at each destination folder. That safeguard addresses another potential failure: An SD-WAN rule refers to a Path Quality profile that was created in a different folder and is unavailable to the branch firewall. It is not the most targeted recurring control for the described cause: Threshold configuration can mask genuine application quality issues.