Appendix A

Answers to Chapter Review Questions

Chapter 1

1. A, B, E. Businesses are looking to reduce operational complexity, increase usable bandwidth by using dormant backup links or commodity Internet links, and improve the overall user experience, all with a topology-independent environment.

2. A, B, E. Administrative distance, traffic engineering, and preferred path selection all come into play when there are multiple links in the branch routers.

3. A, B. SD-WAN is designed to give the business control of all routing and service-level agreements (SLAs).

4. A, B, C, F. IoT devices and increased cloud consumption are IT trends, not benefits of SD-WAN.

5. A, B, E. Cisco SD-WAN can support dual MPLS, hybrid WAN, and dual Internet as options ...

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