HP hpe7-a08 practice test

HPE Network Switching Professional Exam

Last exam update: Nov 18 ,2025
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Question 1

Refer to the partial exhibit from an HPE Aruba Networking CX 8325:

A new port 1/1/44 needs to be configured to connect to a 29301, which has the following
configuration:

Which configuration would be used?
A.

B.

C.

D.

  • A. Option A
  • B. Option B
  • C. Option C
  • D. Option D
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Question 2

OSPF peering is configured between HPE Aruba Networking CX 6300 switches utilizing BFD. You've
made this configuration on switch B, while switch A is in the default configuration:

Which BFD Tx/Rx interval values will switch A use for the show bfd session?

  • A. Switch A show BFD sessions using 500ms
  • B. Switch A show BFD sessions using 6000ms
  • C. Switch A show BFD sessions using 2000ms
  • D. Switch A show BFD sessions using 300ms
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Question 3

You have applied the following OSPF configuration but are seeing the output from the command
below. What is the reason for this?

  • A. A loopback interface hasn't been configured on Agg-2
  • B. OSPF interfaces are passive by default
  • C. A different OSPF process ID is used on each switch
  • D. A Layer-3 interface has not been associated with a VRF
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Question 4

You need to run a packet capture on a CX switch and be able to view the full output on a remote
device in real-time. What is the best way to do this?

  • A. Configure a mirror session using ERSPAN to a computer running Wireshark
  • B. Inspect the summary of the packets in real time on the switch using tcpdump
  • C. Configure a mirror session with another port on the switch as the destination
  • D. Configure a mirror session to the CPU, use tshark to capture it to a PCAP file
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Question 5

When configuring a multicast solution on HPE Aruba Networking CX switches, what needs to be
configured on the access switch to enable efficient traffic flow?

  • A. PIM on VLAN
  • B. IGMP-snooping on VLAN
  • C. IGMP on VLAN
  • D. IGMP-snooping on SVI
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Question 6

You are deploying a pair of VSX switches parallel to some existing HPE Comware switches. You would
like to configure a common first-hop redundancy protocol as part of your migration strategy. Which
of these would be suitable?

  • A. Active Forwarding
  • B. HSRP
  • C. VRRP
  • D. Active Gateway
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Question 7

What does it mean when an event like the one below is seen on the HPE Aruba Networking CX
switch?
2024-04-04T08:35:38.312254+00:00 ICX-Core-1 hpe-vaxd[2167]:
Event[701|LOG_INFO|AMM1/1|VSX2 state local up, remote down]

  • A. VSX secondary switch is down.
  • B. VSX keepalive has detected that the secondary member is down.
  • C. The multichassis LAG 2 interface is down on both switches.
  • D. The physical interface of LAG 2 on the secondary VSX member is down.
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Question 8

A Linux SFTP server is configured for IP address 192.168.1.100, and the CX 6325 switch has a
management IP address 192.168.1.200.
How can you back up the saved switch configuration to a remote location?

  • A. Use the command copy startup-config scp://[email protected]/switch_config.cfg vrf default on the switch.
  • B. Use the command scp [email protected]:/running-config on the SFTP server.
  • C. Use the command copy startup-config sftp://[email protected]/switch_config.cfg vrf mgmt on the switch.
  • D. Use the command scp [email protected]:/startup-config on the SFTP server.
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Question 9

An HPE Aruba Networking CX switch is configured with IGMP using the given output:

Which statement is true about the possible supported message types?

  • A. Leave and Report
  • B. Join, Leave, Query and Report
  • C. Query and Report
  • D. Join and Query
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Question 10

Your customer's CISO would like to deploy colorless ports across the network. Which will you need to
configure to meet this requirement?

  • A. VRRP
  • B. VNBT
  • C. VSF
  • D. VRF
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Question 11

An Aruba CX B100 VSX has the following state for LACP:
2024-06-08T19:48:34.713434+03:00 VSX1 lacpd[837]: Event|1321|LOG_INFO|AMM|1/1|LAG 253
State change for interface 1/1/25:3: Actor state: ALFNCD, Partner state: ASFNCD
2024-06-06T19:48:34.675496+03:00 VSX1 lacpd[837]: Event|1308|LOG_INFO|AMM|1/1|LACP rate
set to slow for LAG 253
What can be observed based on the output?

  • A. The LAG 253 has a mismatching configuration with a peer
  • B. The global LACP rate has been configured for LACP ports
  • C. The LAG 253 has been negotiated automatically with peer timeout values
  • D. The local LAG 253 has a matching LACP configuration with peer
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Question 12

You are implementing a directly connected routing plan using OSPF on an HPE Aruba Networking CX
6200 and ISP router. What would be the impact of changing the network type to point-to-point?

  • A. It will reduce the number of LSA type-2 advertisements
  • B. A larger number of OSPF routes would be supported
  • C. It will increase the number of LSA type-3 advertisements
  • D. The configuration would remain as the default
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Question 13

You need to configure BGP on an HPE Aruba Networking switch using AS 65010. What is required
when establishing peering with neighboring devices using eBGP that are not directly connected?

  • A. Use of next-hop-self
  • B. Use of ebgp-multihop
  • C. Use of route-reflector
  • D. Use of address-family ipv4 external
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Question 14

Your customer's CX switches are managed in HPE Aruba Networking Central. If a VSX primary switch
is accidentally powered off, which alert will be triggered?

  • A. Switch Reboot
  • B. Switch Stack Conductor Change
  • C. Switch Disconnected
  • D. Switch STP Root Change
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Question 15

Which data format do CX switches support for the REST API?

  • A. XML
  • B. YAML
  • C. JSON
  • D. SOAP
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