Free Practice Questions for HP HPE7-A08 Exam

When establishing eBGP peering between devices that are not directly connected, the TTL (Time To Live) value of the BGP packets must be increased to allow them to traverse multiple hops. This is achieved by configuring ebgp-multihop, which increases the TTL beyond the default value of 1.

next-hop-self changes the BGP next-hop attribute but is not required for multihop eBGP.

route-reflector is a BGP design feature unrelated to multihop.

address-family ipv4 external is not a standard command on Aruba CX switches.

Therefore, to successfully peer eBGP sessions across multiple hops, ebgp-multihop must be configured.

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To prevent man-in-the-middle attacks based on Layer 2 (Ethernet) addressing, enabling ARP inspection in the VLAN context is recommended. ARP inspection validates ARP packets and ensures only legitimate ARP responses are forwarded.

Enabling ARP inspection at VLAN level allows granular control.

Interface-level or global context is less typical or supported for ARP inspection on Aruba CX switches.

To avoid split-brain scenarios in VSF stacks, the VSL split-detect mgrep command is used to enable multicast group detection over the Virtual Switching Link (VSL). This helps detect when the stack links are down or partitioned, triggering appropriate failover or shutdown mechanisms.

Options like vsf start-auto-stacking, vsf secondary-member 2, or vsf conductor-member 2 are related to stack initialization and member roles but do not address split-brain detection directly.

Hence, enabling split-detect with mgrep is the best practice for VSF stack stability.

The output indicates the use of an aspath-list within a route-map, which is used to filter or match accepted AS paths in BGP. The aspath-list defines which AS paths are accepted, controlling route advertisement or acceptance.

The route-map is applied to neighbor configurations to filter routes based on AS paths.

Prefix-lists filter IP prefixes, not AS paths.

Neighbor remote-as export is not a valid command.

Therefore, the aspath-list is correctly used to define accepted AS paths.

The Aruba CX switches REST API supports the JSON (JavaScript Object Notation) data format for both requests and responses. JSON is widely adopted for REST APIs due to its lightweight and readable format.

XML and YAML are not supported for REST API on CX switches.

SOAP is a different protocol not used by Aruba CX REST API.

Therefore, JSON is the correct and supported data format.

This question involves OSPF peering configured between CX 6300 switches using BFD (Bidirectional Forwarding Detection). BFD parameters include transmit (Tx) and receive (Rx) intervals.

Switch B has custom BFD interval values configured, but switch A is at default configuration.

According to Aruba CX default BFD parameters, the Tx and Rx intervals default to 2000ms (2 seconds). This is why switch A’s show BFD session displays intervals of 2000ms even if switch B uses different values.

BFD interval negotiation results in the highest Tx/Rx interval being used, or default in case one side is unconfigured.

To monitor BGP neighbor state changes and automatically create a helpdesk ticket, the NAE (Network Analytics Engine) action to use is a REST API call. This allows integration with external ticketing or automation systems, enabling automated ticket creation when a monitored event occurs.

Executing shell commands, sending emails, or generating logs are limited to internal actions and do not integrate as seamlessly with helpdesk systems.

REST API calls allow custom integration and automation.

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The issue is VMware vMotion traffic on VLAN 3903 failing, while other VLANs work normally. vMotion traffic requires support for larger frame sizes (jumbo frames) because vMotion packets are large and benefit from increased MTU to improve performance and reduce fragmentation.

Configuring jumbo frames on VLAN 3903 ensures that frames on this VLAN can use an MTU larger than the default 1500 bytes.

Configuring jumbo on the interface alone may not be sufficient if the VLAN itself is not set to support jumbo frames.

Setting MTU on VLAN or interface might not work unless jumbo frames are enabled.