CCDE: Cisco Certified Design Expert (Written) — Question 48

As part of a new network design, you are helping the Network Management Team to develop a proactive report to identify places in the network where problems may happen. The network management tool can poll the network devices only via SNMP GET operations. Which two threshold-crossing metrics should you include in this report? (Choose two.)

Answer options

• A. packet loss
• B. CPU utilization
• C. heat dissipation
• D. IP reachability
• E. energy consumption
• F. link bandwidth utilization

Correct answer: B, F

Explanation

The correct answers are B and F because CPU utilization and link bandwidth utilization are critical metrics that can indicate potential performance issues. Packet loss, heat dissipation, IP reachability, and energy consumption are important but do not provide direct insights into the operational capacity and performance bottlenecks of the network like the other two metrics do.