300-425 Question 11
Single answerAn enterprise is deploying FlexConnect to a remote branch office with limited WAN bandwidth. The IT team wants to ensure that critical wireless traffic is processed locally while maintaining central control for management and non-critical traffic. Which configuration should they implement on the FlexConnect APs to achieve this requirement?
- A
Enable local switching for specific SSIDs and central switching for the rest
- B
Configure all SSIDs for local switching to reduce WAN dependency
- C
Disable local authentication to ensure all authentication traffic is sent to the controller
- D
Enable Split Tunneling mode on all SSIDs to balance traffic between local and central processing
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Correct answer: A
Explanation
FlexConnect allows wireless traffic to be processed locally or centrally based on the configuration. In this scenario, enabling local switching for specific SSIDs ensures that critical traffic is handled at the branch location, reducing WAN dependency, while central switching for other SSIDs maintains centralized management and control for non-critical traffic.
- A. Correct.
Enabling local switching for specific SSIDs ensures critical traffic is processed locally while still allowing non-critical traffic to be centrally managed. This is the correct approach for balancing local and central processing.
- B. Incorrect.
Configuring all SSIDs for local switching reduces WAN dependency but eliminates central control for management and non-critical traffic, which is not aligned with the requirements.
- C. Incorrect.
Disabling local authentication would increase WAN dependency and contradict the goal of processing critical traffic locally.
- D. Incorrect.
Split Tunneling is not a configuration option for FlexConnect in this context. FlexConnect uses local switching and central switching modes to handle traffic.