300-425 Question 5
Single answerA retail company is deploying Cisco FlexConnect in their branch locations to minimize WAN usage while maintaining connectivity to the centralized Wireless LAN Controller (WLC). During the design phase, the engineer is asked to ensure that wireless clients can continue to access local resources even if the WAN link to the WLC goes down. Which feature of FlexConnect should the engineer enable?
- A
Local Switching
- B
Central Authentication
- C
FlexConnect ACLs
- D
FlexConnect Grouping
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Correct answer: A
Explanation
FlexConnect's Local Switching feature is key to enabling wireless clients to access local resources without relying on the WAN link to the WLC. This is especially useful in branch deployments where WAN connectivity may be intermittent or unreliable. Central Authentication and other features do not address this requirement.
- A. Correct.
Local Switching enables traffic from wireless clients to be locally switched at the access point, allowing them to access local resources even if the WAN link to the WLC is down.
- B. Incorrect.
Central Authentication requires the WAN link to the WLC to authenticate clients, which would not work if the WAN link is unavailable.
- C. Incorrect.
FlexConnect ACLs are used to control traffic at the access point level but do not ensure local resource access when the WAN link is down.
- D. Incorrect.
FlexConnect Grouping is a management feature to configure multiple access points simultaneously but does not directly impact client connectivity to local resources.