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Select 4An enterprise network operations team has recently deployed a monitoring solution designed to alert on critical network events, such as device failures or link congestion. To ensure alert functionality is working as intended, the team decides to validate the alert configuration. Which of the following steps should they carry out as part of this validation process?
- A
Simulate specific network conditions to test if the defined alerts are triggered appropriately.
- B
Check the alert thresholds against historical data to ensure they align with normal operational baselines.
- C
Disable all alerts to verify that no false positives occur during regular network operations.
- D
Verify that alerts are being routed to the correct communication channels, such as email, SMS, or incident management tools.
- E
Review the alert configuration to ensure it is synchronized with the latest network topology changes.
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Correct answers: A, B, D, E
Explanation
To validate alert configuration and functionality effectively, it is important to test the entire alerting workflow: verifying that alerts are triggered under appropriate conditions, ensuring thresholds are aligned with historical data, confirming the delivery mechanism works correctly, and keeping configurations up-to-date with network changes. Disabling alerts is not a valid step in validation as it does not test functionality.
- A. Correct.
Simulating network conditions, such as device failures or high traffic loads, is a critical step to validate if the alerts are being triggered as expected.
- B. Correct.
Checking the alert thresholds against historical data ensures that alerts are set appropriately and reflect the typical behavior of the network, reducing false positives and negatives.
- C. Incorrect.
Disabling all alerts is counterproductive as it does not validate functionality; instead, it risks missing critical events during the testing phase.
- D. Correct.
Verifying that alerts are being routed to the correct communication channels ensures that the alerts reach the intended recipients promptly for action.
- E. Correct.
Reviewing the alert configuration to ensure it aligns with the latest network topology is critical as network changes can affect the accuracy and relevance of alerts.