HPE6-A86 Exam Dumps - HPE Network Switching Associate Exam

The correct answer is A. The VSF feature is enabled by default. The key difference is between the older AOS-Switch VSF behavior used by the 2930F and the AOS-CX VSF behavior used by the CX 6200. In AOS-Switch 2930F manual VSF configuration, each switch must be configured individually for VSF before joining the stack. In contrast, HPE Aruba Networking AOS-CX VSF documentation for CX switches states that users cannot disable VSF and that a factory-default switch boots as a VSF-enabled device with member ID 1. Therefore, when replacing 2930F switches with CX 6200 switches, the important stacking difference is that VSF is inherently enabled on the CX 6200 platform. Option B is incorrect because VSF MAD is not automatically enabled on each LAG simply because LACP active mode is configured. Option C is incorrect because it states the opposite of the CX 6200 behavior. Option D is not the key difference for CX 6200; it more closely resembles manual AOS-Switch VSF setup behavior where switches are individually prepared for VSF participation.

The correct answer is C. auditors. HPE Aruba Networking AOS-CX documentation for the 6200, 6300, and 6400 switch series identifies three built-in user groups: administrators, operators, and auditors. These built-in groups have fixed privileges. The administrators group has full privileges, including full CLI access, firmware upgrades, configuration viewing, configuration changes, and user account management. The operators group has no switch configuration privileges and is mainly limited to basic display-only access and viewing nonsensitive configuration information. The auditors group is restricted to audit-related functions. Since the question asks which user group exists by default on a CX 6400 Series switch, “auditors” is the only listed option that matches the HPE Aruba Networking AOS-CX built-in groups. The other options—read-only, restricted, and reporting—are not listed as default built-in AOS-CX user groups for the CX 6400 platform. This makes option C the verified answer.

The correct answer is B. The SNMP service on the Conductor switch will respond to all SNMP queries for the stack. A CX 6200F VSF stack operates as a single logical switch. HPE Aruba Networking VSF documentation explains that one switch in the stack is the Conductor, and the Conductor runs the control-plane software and manages the ASICs of all stack members. The Standby member maintains a synchronized copy of the Conductor’s configuration database and can assume the Conductor role after a failure. HPE Aruba Networking documentation also states that configuration changes are applied on the Conductor switch and then synchronized to the Standby. Since the VSF stack is managed as one logical system, SNMP monitoring is performed against the stack through the active Conductor role, not by independently polling each member as a separate switch. Option A is incorrect because SNMP is not separately enabled per VSF member. Option C is incorrect because SNMP is not enabled by default on each OOBM port for member-specific queries. Option D is incorrect because both Conductor and Standby do not independently answer as separate stacked SNMP endpoints.

The correct answer is C. The wrong subnet mask has been configured. The PC is configured with IP address 10.211.55.151 and subnet mask 255.255.255.0, which is a /24 network. However, the HPE Aruba Networking CX switch SVI for VLAN 55 is configured as 10.211.55.1/25. A /25 mask divides the 10.211.55.0/24 range into two subnets: 10.211.55.0–10.211.55.127 and 10.211.55.128–10.211.55.255. The switch gateway address 10.211.55.1/25 is in the first /25 subnet, while the PC address 10.211.55.151 is in the second /25 subnet. This means the PC and its configured default gateway are not actually in the same subnet from the switch’s perspective. HPE Aruba Networking AOS-CX CLI documentation shows IP addressing on interfaces using prefix-length notation, such as /25, which defines the subnet size. Option A is incorrect because the port is configured with no shutdown and no STP error state is shown. Option B is incorrect because an access port does not require VLAN tagging from the PC. Option D is incorrect because a PC normally uses a default gateway, not a static route, for Internet access.

The correct answer is D. The VSF stack remains fully operational. The output shows the VSF topology is a ring. In a ring topology, each member has an alternate VSF path through another member. If only the VSF link between members 1 and 2 is disconnected, members 1 and 2 can still communicate through member 3: member 1 connects to member 3, and member 3 connects to member 2. This changes the physical topology from a ring to a chain, but it does not split the stack. HPE Aruba Networking VSF documentation states that a ring topology provides resiliency against link and member hardware failures because any single failure does not isolate the remaining stack members from each other, and Aruba strongly recommends ring topology where possible. Options A, B, and C are incorrect because a single link failure in this three-member ring does not isolate the conductor, standby, or member. Split detection using the management interface would become relevant only if the stack actually split into separate fragments.