SNCF — Securing Networks with Firepower — Question 150

A mid-sized company is experiencing higher network bandwidth utilization due to a recent acquisition. The network operations team is asked to scale up their one
Cisco FTD appliance deployment to higher capacities due to the increased network bandwidth. Which design option should be used to accomplish this goal?

Answer options

• A. Deploy multiple Cisco FTD HA pairs in clustering mode to increase performance.
• B. Deploy multiple Cisco FTD appliances in firewall clustering mode to increase performance.
• C. Deploy multiple Cisco FTD appliances using VPN load-balancing to scale performance.
• D. Deploy multiple Cisco FTD HA pairs to increase performance.

Correct answer: B

Explanation

The correct answer is B because deploying multiple Cisco FTD appliances in firewall clustering mode allows for increased performance by balancing the traffic load among the appliances. Option A is incorrect because HA pairs are primarily for redundancy, not performance. Option C does not address scaling performance effectively for general network traffic. Option D is similar to A and focuses on redundancy rather than performance enhancement.