Free Practice Questions for Huawei H19-404_V1.0 Exam

Hardware-based encryption is the unambiguously correct statement. MACsec protects Ethernet frames at Layer 2 using AES-GCM-based authenticated encryption. On enterprise switches and routers, the encryption and integrity operations are commonly implemented in forwarding ASICs or dedicated hardware so that frames can be protected at high throughput with low latency.

Option A is incorrect because complex manual configuration is not an inherent requirement. MACsec can use manually configured connectivity-association keys, but IEEE 802.1X MACsec Key Agreement can automate peer authentication, secure-channel establishment, key distribution, and rekeying. The operational complexity therefore depends on the deployment model and management platform.

Option C is also inaccurate. MACsec is media-independent, meaning it can operate over supported copper or fiber Ethernet; however, it does not eliminate the requirement for appropriate Layer 2 connectivity between participating MACsec entities. Standard hop-by-hop MACsec protects Ethernet links or LAN connectivity between peers and is not a general Layer 3 tunneling mechanism.

MACsec supplies Layer 2 confidentiality, integrity, origin authentication, and replay protection. Its encryption can be performed directly in network-device hardware, enabling substantially better forwarding performance than software-only encryption implementations.

All four options are recognized terminal identification methods. MAC OUI examines the first three bytes of a device’s MAC address to determine its manufacturer, although it generally cannot identify the exact model or operating system. DHCP option identification analyzes fields such as DHCP options 12, 55, and 60, which can reveal the hostname, parameter-request list, vendor class, and other terminal characteristics. SNMP query is an active identification method that retrieves device details from relevant MIB objects and is particularly useful for printers, network devices, and other SNMP-capable equipment.

Nmap is also an active scanning method. It analyzes open ports, service responses, protocol behavior, and operating-system fingerprints to estimate a terminal’s device type and OS. Huawei distinguishes information-reporting methods from proactive scanning methods: MAC OUI and DHCP options generally use information observed in traffic, whereas SNMP and Nmap actively query or scan the endpoint. iMaster NCE-Campus can correlate multiple fingerprints to improve identification accuracy and automatically apply terminal-specific access policies.

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Broadcast TWT, Individual TWT, and Implicit TWT are valid Target Wake Time concepts. Individual TWT establishes a wake schedule between an AP and a specific station. Broadcast TWT advertises scheduling information that multiple stations can use, reducing individual negotiation overhead and coordinating groups of devices. An implicit TWT agreement defines a repeating schedule in which subsequent wake times are calculated from the agreed wake interval instead of being renegotiated for every service period.

These mechanisms allow stations, particularly battery-powered IoT devices, to sleep for predictable periods and wake only when transmission or reception is scheduled. TWT consequently reduces power consumption, channel contention, collisions, and unnecessary medium access in dense WLAN environments. Research describing IEEE 802.11ax TWT confirms that the mechanism schedules station transmission periods and allows stations to remain asleep outside their negotiated service periods.

“Multicast TWT” is not one of the standard TWT concepts represented by this question. Broadcast scheduling can cover multiple stations, but that does not create a separate mechanism formally identified here as Multicast TWT. Therefore, the correct answers are A, B, and C.

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The statement is true in the context of Huawei’s AI-assisted application-identification architecture. Conventional identification depends mainly on predefined signatures, fixed destination addresses, port numbers, protocol fields, DNS correlation, or deep packet inspection. Huawei’s standard SD-WAN process uses Service Awareness and First-Packet Identification signature databases to identify and group application traffic. These mechanisms are effective for known applications but become less reliable when traffic is encrypted, applications change versions, or previously unseen applications appear.

A CNN-based classifier learns multidimensional traffic characteristics such as packet-length sequences, timing, direction, and flow behavior. It can classify traffic matching learned application patterns and, when implemented with open-set detection, recognize flows outside known classes as unknown or zero-day applications. Commercial-grade deep-learning traffic classification research demonstrates identification of known encrypted applications together with the handling of unknown zero-day applications.

This does not mean the system automatically assigns an exact commercial name to every unseen application. It detects that the traffic does not match established classes so that it can be investigated, labelled, and incorporated into later model updates. Therefore, the statement is True.

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Option B is false because it reverses the encapsulation behavior. In IPsec transport mode, the IPsec security header is inserted after the existing IP header; a new outer IP header is not normally added. In tunnel mode, the complete original IP packet is encapsulated and a new outer IP header is added. Tunnel mode therefore generally introduces greater overhead and produces a longer packet than transport mode, not the reverse.

The remaining statements are correct. IPsec supports both transport and tunnel modes. GRE over IPsec performs GRE encapsulation first, allowing GRE to transport the original payload, and then applies IPsec protection to the resulting GRE packet. The IPsec security association is established between the GRE tunnel endpoints, protecting the GRE-encapsulated traffic as it traverses an untrusted transport network.

Huawei SD-WAN data channels can use either GRE or GRE over IPsec. GRE provides flexible overlay encapsulation, while IPsec adds confidentiality, integrity, origin authentication, and anti-replay protection for site-to-site traffic. Huawei specifically identifies IPsec encryption as the mechanism securing site-to-site SD-WAN services.

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An AP’s transmit power must be maintained within an appropriate range. Excessive power does not automatically improve service quality. A high-power AP can enlarge its interference domain, create co-channel or adjacent-channel interference, produce asymmetric uplink and downlink coverage, and cause sticky-client behavior because a station continues hearing an AP even when its weaker transmission cannot reliably reach that AP. Huawei states that high-power APs can interfere with adjacent APs and that radio calibration dynamically adjusts AP channels, power, and frequency bands to ensure coverage while minimizing interference.

Conversely, power that is too low creates coverage holes, weak received signal strength, low modulation rates, retransmissions, and roaming instability. When a new AP is added, neighboring APs may reduce their transmit power to limit interference. When an AP goes offline, neighboring APs may increase power to compensate for the missing coverage. The engineering objective is therefore neither maximum nor minimum power, but sufficient coverage with controlled overlap and minimum interference. Accordingly, option B is correct.

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A border device, or more precisely a device at a border site, provides communication between different areas in a hierarchical SD-WAN topology. The hierarchical model divides a large WAN into multiple areas. Each area can independently use a hub-spoke or full-mesh topology, while selected border sites connect the local area to a centralized backbone area.

When a non-border site receives a route originating in another area, the route’s next-hop site ID is changed to the border site in its own area. The local border device then forwards traffic toward the border site in the destination area or toward an interconnected hub site. Ordinary edge devices provide connectivity for their own sites but do not automatically perform cross-area transit.

Huawei describes border sites as members of both the level-2 area network and the level-1 backbone network. These sites collectively implement interconnection between areas. Huawei further explains that inter-area routes point to border sites and recommends two border sites operating in active/standby mode for reliability. Therefore, the correct answer is B.

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Huawei SD-WAN provides all four technologies. Per-flow load balancing distributes separate application flows among multiple links that have the same priority and satisfy the required SLA. Per-packet load balancing can transmit packets from one flow across multiple eligible links, improving aggregate bandwidth utilization for large file transfers, backups, and replication.

Multi-fed and selective receiving duplicates critical traffic across different links. The receiving device selects valid packets, removes duplicates, and preserves packet order. Packet loss or failure on one path therefore does not interrupt the service, enabling zero-millisecond link switchover in applicable deployments.

A-FEC dynamically generates redundant packets and adjusts the redundancy ratio according to measured packet loss. The receiving device reconstructs lost packets, reducing video freezing and voice-quality deterioration. Huawei describes both adaptive FEC and multi-fed selective receiving as WAN-optimization mechanisms for key traffic.

Intelligent traffic steering selects links according to application identity, quality, bandwidth, priority, and load. Therefore, A, B, C, and D are all correct.

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The statement is true. In this three-layer campus design, aggregation switches function as VXLAN edge nodes and distributed gateways, while access switches provide terminal connectivity. Policy association allows the access switches to participate in user admission and policy enforcement without requiring them to support full VXLAN functions.

The access switch collects terminal access information and associates user traffic with the appropriate service or policy. The aggregation switch, acting as the fabric edge and VXLAN tunnel endpoint, performs VXLAN encapsulation, distributed gateway forwarding, and policy-related operations. Huawei specifically states that when aggregation switches operate as edge nodes, access switches do not need to support VXLAN and can cooperate with aggregation switches through policy association. This also permits legacy access switches to be reused.

The design reduces upgrade costs and avoids extending complex overlay configurations to every access device. Huawei’s automated virtual-network deployment model also explicitly includes policy association between the aggregation and access layers, allowing access switches without VXLAN capability to operate as transparent or associated access nodes. Therefore, option A is correct.

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