300-415 Question 255
Single answerYou are configuring a Cisco SD-WAN solution to prioritize critical application traffic across the network. To ensure that specific application traffic is routed during non-peak hours, you need to configure a policy that enables a custom schedule for traffic redirection. Which step is necessary to achieve this?
- A
Define a Time-of-Day (ToD) scheduling policy in vManage and apply it to the data policy.
- B
Configure a QoS policy in vManage and associate it with the control plane.
- C
Use vSmart to create a centralized policy with a time-based match condition.
- D
Set up a traffic engineering (TE) tunnel with a time-based activation policy.
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Correct answer: A
Explanation
To enable traffic redirection based on time, Cisco SD-WAN supports Time-of-Day (ToD) scheduling, which is configured in vManage and applied to data policies. This feature allows precise control over application traffic routing during specific times, making it ideal for use cases like non-peak hour prioritization.
- A. Correct.
This is the correct answer as Time-of-Day (ToD) scheduling is explicitly supported in Cisco SD-WAN solutions and can be applied via data policies in vManage to redirect traffic based on specific time frames.
- B. Incorrect.
QoS policies in vManage are used for traffic prioritization based on bandwidth and queuing but do not include time-based scheduling capabilities for redirection.
- C. Incorrect.
Although vSmart manages centralized policies, it does not support time-based match conditions directly for scheduling traffic redirection.
- D. Incorrect.
Traffic engineering tunnels can be used for specific path selection, but there is no time-based activation policy feature for TE tunnels in Cisco SD-WAN.