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101-01 Practice Exam Questions with Answers Riverbed Certified Solutions Associate Certification

Question # 6

Which version of WCCP supports redirection of all TCP traffic?

A.

Version 1

B.

Version 2

C.

Version 9

D.

Version 12.2.18

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Question # 7

Application Streamlining in a Steelhead appliance or Steelhead Mobile does what?

A.

Reduces round trips over the WAN for all TCP traffic

B.

Reduces round trips over the WAN for supported applications

C.

Gives applications priority using our QoS engine

D.

All of the above

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Question # 8

Assuming the Steelhead appliance has a 250 GB datastore capacity, by enabling RSP on a supported Steelhead appliance which of the following would be true:

A.

The datastore capacity will shrink due to the amount of space used by RSP

B.

The datastore capacity will grow due to the amount of space added by RSP

C.

The datastore capacity does not change

D.

The datastore capacity will have to be reformatted

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Question # 9

When performing a logical in-path deployment, which interface needs to be physically cabled for optimization to occur?

A.

LAN

B.

AUX

C.

WAN

D.

Primary

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Question # 10

In which menu of the Steelhead Management Console do you configure WAN visibility modes?

A.

In-Path Rules

B.

Peering Rules

C.

Connection Forwarding

D.

Services

E.

Simplified Routing

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Question # 11

With a server-side Interceptor deployment, once a TCP handshake has been completed between the server-side SteelHead and the server, how will data packets sent from the server get forwarded to the server-side SteelHead?

A.

Destination NAT is performed on the Interceptor, changing the destination IP adress from the client IP to the SteelHead's IP.

B.

The server sees the IP address of the SteelHeads in-path interface as its client, so there is no need for the Interceptor to forward it.

C.

They are GRE-encapsulated by the Interceptor, and forwarded using the SteelHead IP.

D.

The Interceptor tunnels them over the connection using port 7850 to the SteelHeads.

E.

The Interceptor applies the MAC address of the SteelHead's in-path interface and forwards at layer 2.

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Question # 12

How many in-path rules will a WAN-initiated single connection execute on a Steelhead appliance?

A.

0

B.

1

C.

2

D.

3

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Question # 13

Application Streamlining supports which of the following protocols in the Steelhead appliance?

A.

HTTP, FTP, MAPI, NFS

B.

MAPI, CIFS, NFS v4

C.

CIFS, RDP, MAPI, HTTP, SSL, Oracle, MAC-CIFS, ICA, UDP

D.

HTTP, MAPI, NFS v3, CIFS, Lotus Notes, MS-SQL

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Question # 14

Which two parameters are required when configuring a fixed-target rule?

A.

The target IP address and subnet mask of the target Steelhead appliance

B.

The TCP option number for auto-discovery

C.

The target Steelhead appliance and destination port number

D.

The source IP address and source port number of the client traffic

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Question # 15

How many separate TCP sessions exist for each optimized connection?

A.

1

B.

2

C.

3

D.

4

E.

It depends on the WAN visibility mode

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Question # 16

Which of the following is a valid type of in-path rule on the Steelhead appliance? (Select 3)

A.

Pass Through

B.

Dynamic Detection

C.

Auto Discover

D.

Fixed-Target

E.

Real-Time

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Question # 17

What is the default WAN visibility mode?

A.

Correct Addressing

B.

Port Transparency

C.

Full Addressing

D.

Full Transparency

E.

Transparency

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Question # 18

What is the packaging distribution format for the Virtual Steelhead appliance?

A.

Open Virtual Appliance

B.

Open Virtual Image

C.

Open Virtual Release

D.

Open Virtual Source

E.

Open Virtual Package

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Question # 19

To help secure the server private key on the server-side Steelhead appliance, which of the following features can be used?

A.

TACACS+ authentication

B.

RADIUS authentication

C.

Secure Vault

D.

Datastore encryption

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Question # 20

What happens to "new" data that a Steelhead appliance has not seen before? (Select 2)

A.

Drop the new data

B.

Create a tunnel to optimize the data

C.

Scalable Data Referencing creates and sends new reference pointers to the peer Steelhead appliance

D.

Compress the data using Lempel-Ziv and sends it to the peer Steelhead appliance

E.

Sends only the references for the data to the counterpart Steelhead appliance

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Question # 21

When deploying a Steelhead appliance server-side out-of-path in the data center, which configuration is necessary on the client-side Steelhead appliance in order for the design to function correctly?

A.

An auto-discover rule with the IP address of the server-side Steelhead appliance

B.

A fixed-target rule with the Primary IP address of the server-side Steelhead appliance

C.

A fixed-target rule with the IP address of the destination server

D.

No configuration is required

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Question # 22

In a single in-path design, in order for CIFS prepopulation to properly function at a branch office, the Primary interface of the Steelhead appliance must be:

A.

On the LAN side branch office Steelhead

B.

Directly connected to the AUX interface

C.

On the same switch as the WAN side interface

D.

In the same subnet as the file server

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Question # 23

Which of the following are considered to be root causes of poor application performance over wide area networks? (Select 3)

A.

Application protocol chattiness

B.

Transport protocol inefficiencies

C.

Proxy ARP

D.

Insufficient bandwidth

E.

Daylight Savings Time settings

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Question # 24

What factors should you use when measuring resources to help you size your Steelhead appliances? (Select 3)

A.

Number of connections per second

B.

Average response time

C.

Maximum number of optimized connections

D.

Datastore capacity

E.

Maximum number of TCP connections

F.

WAN capacity

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Question # 25

What are valid WAN visibility modes of the Steelhead appliance? (Select 3)

A.

Correct Addressing

B.

Port Transparency

C.

Full Addressing

D.

Full Transparency

E.

Transparency

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Question # 26

What does the RiOS acronym stand for?

A.

Riverbed interact Operations Shares

B.

Riverbed Optimization System

C.

Riverbed integrating Operating System

D.

Riverbed is Orange Shamrocks

E.

Riverbed is Outstandingly Simple

F.

Riverbed Internet Optimization System

G.

Riverbed Open Standards

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Question # 27

What are valid datastore encryption types? (Select 4)

A.

No encryption

B.

AES_128

C.

AES_64

D.

AES_256

E.

AES_192

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Question # 28

When upgrading a Steelhead appliance from the Management Console, the new image is always installed on the:

A.

Booted partition

B.

Backup partition

C.

Both the boot and backup partitions

D.

The image is only installed into a partition after a reboot (from a temporary location)

E.

Upgrades can only be done from the CLI

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Question # 29

Which of the following parameters can be used to classify traffic into QoS classes? (Select 3)

A.

Destination subnet

B.

Source subnet

C.

VLAN

D.

WCCP Mask or HASH

E.

Service Groups

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Question # 30

When MAPI prepopulation is enabled, what is default TCP keep-alive time used to prepopulate the Steelhead appliance with emails and attachments?

A.

24 hours

B.

48 hours

C.

72 hours

D.

96 hours

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Question # 31

When configuring CIFS prepopulation, which of the following parameters must be configured for prepopulation to function? (Select 3)

A.

Remote path

B.

Username

C.

CMC hostname

D.

Password

E.

RADIUS authentication

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Question # 32

In an in-path deployment, when a Steelhead appliance fails to wire, the Steelhead appliance acts as a:

A.

Straight-through cable

B.

Crossover cable

C.

Router

D.

Firewall

E.

None of the above

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Question # 33

Which of the following reflects the primary benefit of configuring CIFS prepopulation on a Steelhead appliance?

A.

Prelearning different CIFS dialects on the network

B.

Prewarming the datastore

C.

CIFS management reporting

D.

Management Streamlining

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Question # 34

What action should be taken when the Steelhead appliance datastore is full?

A.

Disconnect all users

B.

Expand disk capacity

C.

No action is required

D.

Clean the datastore

E.

Insert a USB key for extra storage

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Question # 35

Steelhead appliances increase. (Select 2)

A.

Application performance

B.

Data transfer speed over the WAN

C.

Data transfer speed over the LAN

D.

Quality of service

E.

WORM stability

F.

Prototyping

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Question # 36

A user downloads a Microsoft PowerPoint presentation from a server across the network. The file has been seen before by both Steelhead appliances that are optimizing the link and so the user experiences warm performance. A second user at the same office has a local copy and adds some pictures then uploads the very same file. This file transfer can be considered:

A.

Cold, the data now travels in another direction so the Steelhead appliance needs to relearn the data

B.

Cold, the file has been changed to the file needs to be stored again

C.

Warm, all the data has been seen by the Steelhead appliances before

D.

Warm, the transaction prediction module of the Steelhead appliance can detect the application and accelerate the transfer

E.

Partially warm, the Steelhead appliances only need to learn the new data

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Question # 37

What does the Data Streamlining module in RiOS do?

A.

Eliminates redundant bytes from transfers

B.

Prioritizes application traffic

C.

Reduces transport protocol inefficiencies

D.

All of the above

E.

None of the above

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Question # 38

What WAN traffic problems do Steelhead appliances overcome? (Select 3)

A.

Number of connections per second

B.

Data deduplication

C.

Bandwidth

D.

Latency

E.

TCP window size

F.

Optimization

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Question # 39

What is the default action of a Steelhead appliance when it hits the bandwidth limit?

A.

Fail-to-wire

B.

Inbound Optimized traffic is shaped to the specifications of the Steelhead appliance

C.

Passthrough all connections

D.

Passthrough new connections

E.

Outbound Optimized traffic is shaped to the specifications of the Steelhead appliance

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Question # 40

What is the remote port used for on a Riverbed hardware appliance?

A.

Remote control using a modem or ISDN device

B.

IPMI “lights out” Remote control management

C.

Export of netflow statistics

D.

SteelFusion Edge device connection

E.

Data store synchronization

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Question # 41

When the SteelHead SaaS optimization service is correctly configured, how does the SteelHead identify the SaaS traffic that needs to be optimized?

A.

The SteelHead recognized the URL of the SaaS traffic using the DPI engine.

B.

The SteelHead must be configured with appropriate in-path rules on the cloud SteelHead.

C.

The SteelHead must be configured with appropriate in-path rules on the data center side.

D.

As part of the configuration, the SteelHead downloads a list of IP addresses that correspond to SaaS servers.

E.

The SteelHead must be configured with appropriate in-path rules on the client side.

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Question # 42

When optimizing SSL, trust is established between which hosts? (Select three.)

A.

Client side SteelHead and server-side SteelHead

B.

Client side SteelHead and server

C.

Server-side SteelHead and server

D.

Client PC and server-side SteelHead

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Question # 43

Overcoming TCP chattiness and latency are functions of:

A.

Storage Streamlining

B.

Transport Streamlining

C.

Data Streamlining

D.

Application Streamlining

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Question # 44

An employee who has just installed Steelhead Mobile onto her workstation notices that she never gets any reduction. It always says 0%.

The status of the mobile client appears to Be:

Optimization State: Firewalled

Controller Status: Connected

The reason she is seeing 0% reduction statistics is:

A.

Location Awareness is in effect

B.

The physical branch Steelhead appliance in her office is behind a firewall

C.

The office firewall is stripping the IP options field

D.

Her workstation is blocking TCP port 7801

E.

The data center is currently firewalling all optimized connections

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Question # 45

Which of the following Steelhead appliance models support field replaceable disk drives? (Select 3)

A.

250

B.

2050

C.

6050

D.

5050

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Question # 46

The SteelHead's HTTP optimization blade supports a number of other configurable features as well. Examples include: (choose two)

A.

Video stream splitting

B.

Proxy File Service

C.

Citrix optimization

D.

SharePoint (WebDAV and FPSE)

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Question # 47

The key difference between the "Degraded" status and the "Critical" status is:

A.

With degraded, only one alarm has been triggered, whereas with critical, two or more alarms were triggered

B.

With degraded, the Steelhead appliance is still optimizing traffic, whereas with critical the Steelhead may or may not be optimizing

C.

With degraded, there is no optimization due to a software problem, whereas with critical there is no optimization due to a hardware problem

D.

With both degraded and critical, optimization functions as normal however administrator attention is required

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Question # 48

You have a SteelHead with paths over a public and a private network. You want to encrypt the traffic which goes via the public network.

Which are the relevant SteelHead configuration requirements? (Choose two.)

A.

The peer SteelHead must be marked as a Cloud SteelHead in the local SteelHead peering table.

B.

The network must be set to 'public' by ticking the 'Public Network' box in the configuration.

C.

A SteelCentral Controller for SteelHead must be used to push the secure transport configuration.

D.

The In-Path IP address of the SteelHead must be in public address space.

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Question # 49

Login to the CMC appliance can be authenticated against what type servers? (Select 3)

A.

RADIUS

B.

Local

C.

XAUTH

D.

TACACS+

E.

Kerberos

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Question # 50

Which SteelHead domain authentication features can be used to optimize signed SMB traffic or encrypted MAPI traffic? (Choose two.)?

A.

Transient mode

B.

Domestic mode

C.

Transparent mode

D.

Delegation mode

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Question # 51

How many TCP connections can an Interceptor appliance set up per second?

A.

1000

B.

2000

C.

3000

D.

4000

E.

5000 or over

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Question # 52

When implementing WCCP, Riverbed recommends using which service groups?

A.

61 and 62

B.

69 and 70

C.

100 and 101

D.

101 and 102

E.

102 and 103

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Question # 53

Which Riverbed products can be managed by the SteelCentral Controller for SteelHead? (Choose six.)

A.

SteelFusion Core

B.

SteelHead

C.

SteelCentral AppResponse

D.

SteelFusion Edge

E.

SteelHead EX

F.

SteelCentral NetProfiler

G.

SteelCentral Controller for Mobile

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Question # 54

Manually moving an entry from the SSL grey list to the white list on a SteelHead enables trust between which hosts?

A.

Client-side SteelHead and server-side SteelHead

B.

Client PC and server-side SteelHead

C.

Client-side SteelHead and server

D.

Server-side SteelHead and server

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Question # 55

Your SteelCentral Controller for SteelHead Mobile is running at user license capacity with location awareness configured. No more client licenses can be used. Another client comes online requesting a license and there is no branch SteelHead available. What will happen?

A.

The controller will disconnect any idle clients to grant a license to the new user.

B.

The controller will deny a license but all connections will be optimized.

C.

The controller will grant an emergency license and a limited number of connections will be optimized.

D.

The controller will deny a license and all connections will be passed-through.

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Question # 56

Refer to the exhibit.

101-01 question answer

Which of the following correctly describes the combination of cable types used in a fail-to-wire scenario for the interconnected devices shown in the exhibit? Assume Auto-MDIX is not enabled on any device.

A.

Cable 1: Crossover, Cable 2: Crossover

B.

Cable 1: Straight-through, Cable 2: Straight-through

C.

Cable 1: Crossover, Cable 2: Straight-through

D.

Cable 1: Straight-through, Cable 2: Crossover

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Question # 57

What is the best way to invoke and analyze a very large TCP dump on a remote SteelHead?

A.

Create a TCPDUMP on the SteelHead and analyze it with tshark from the CLI.

B.

Generate a TCPDUMP on the SteelCentral Controller for SteelHead (SCC) and upload it from the SCC.

C.

Use Riverbed NetProfiler to dissect the TCPDUMP.

D.

Connect to the SteelHead with HTTP(s), download the TCPDUMP and open it in Wireshark.

E.

Enable the embedded NetShark and connect to it using Riverbed Packet Analyzer software.

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Question # 58

What are some key reasons for purchasing an Interceptor appliance? (Select 3)

A.

Redirect traffic to a pool of Steelhead appliances

B.

Failover for Steelhead appliances

C.

No single point of failure in a redundant Steelhead appliance deployment

D.

Centralize reporting and management

E.

Increase throughput of connections

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Question # 59

What benefit does the Interceptor appliance provide? (Select 3)

A.

Load balances connections across Steelhead appliances

B.

Provides redundancy in case of Steelhead appliance failure

C.

Maintains stateful connection table if a Steelhead appliance fails

D.

Allows clustering of multiple Steelhead appliances

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Question # 60

A customer is marking QoS between the Steelhead appliances based on the application (port number) being used. What is the recommended WAN visibility mode?

A.

Correct Addressing

B.

Port Transparency

C.

IPSec tunnel mode

D.

SSL mode

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Question # 61

To ensure peak operational performance, it is recommended that the Steelhead appliance be rebooted:

A.

Once every week

B.

Once every month

C.

Rebooting the Steelhead appliance is not recommended as a performance enhancing maintenance activity

D.

Rebooting the Steelhead appliance is not recommended because all network activity stops until it comes back

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Question # 62

Clients connect to which interface on the SteelCentral Controller for SteelHead Mobile?

A.

Primary or aux

B.

Primary only

C.

Inpath0_0 only

D.

Aux only

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Question # 63

A customer will not allow the export of the private key of their SSL encrypted Web Application server to be installed on a SteelHead. What option exists to allow SSL optimization between the client and server?

A.

Import just the server certificate onto the server-side SteelHead.

B.

Create a proxy server certificate and private key on the server-side SteelHead.

C.

Create a proxy server certificate and private key on the server.

D.

Create a self-signed peering certificate and private key on the server-side SteelHead.

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Question # 64

With RiOS v9.0 and later, what does a 'topology' consist of? (Choose three.)

A.

Uplinks

B.

Networks

C.

Services

D.

Applications

E.

Sites

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Question # 65

During packet analysis of TCP flows from a SteelHead using path selection, you consistently notice that the first few packets go over one path, and subsequent packets go via another. What is the cause of this?

A.

The SteelHead attempted to optimize the traffic and failed. When the connections proceeded in passthrough they get treated differently than if they had been optimized.

B.

The SteelHead has detected that a path has gone down and therefore re-routed the traffic.

C.

QoS traffic classification has matched a configured application and moved the traffic into a different QoS class.

D.

This is normal operation of using the Application Flow Engine with path selection, as the SteelHead needs to examine several packets before it can identity the traffic.

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Question # 66

On the SteelCentral Controller for SteelHead Mobile, which report would you use to examine data reduction over time?

A.

Desktop Bandwidth

B.

Endpoint Report

C.

Endpoint History

D.

Desktop Traffic

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Question # 67

In a network where QoS classification and enforcement is being performed by the customer’s carrier-managed WAN routers and QoS traffic classification is based on IP address and/or destination TCP port, what WAN visibility mode should be employed for TCP sessions optimized by the Steelhead appliances to maintain interoperability with the existing QoS strategy?

A.

Full Transparency

B.

Correct Addressing

C.

Port Transparency

D.

Port Mapping

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Question # 68

Which ethernet network cable type does Riverbed strongly recommend you use when connecting your SteelHead appliance to a switch when all ports are set to auto negotiation?

A.

Straight

B.

It doesn’t matter

C.

Crossover

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Question # 69

Packet mode optimization supports which types of in-path rules?

A.

Full Transparency Fixed-target

B.

Correct Addressing Auto Discovery

C.

Full Transparency Auto Discovery

D.

Correct Addressing Fixed-target

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Question # 70

What is required for CIFS prepopulation to succeed?

A.

The SteelHead must be joined to the domain.

B.

The connection from the client-side CteelHead Aux interface must be optimized by the client-side SteelHead.

C.

The connection from the client-side StealHead primary interface must be optimized by the client-side SteelHead.

D.

It must have enough PFS disk space to store the entire server share.

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Question # 71

The SteelHead Admission Control feature activates when: (choose two)

A.

The data store has reached full capacity

B.

Throughput exceeds the licensed limit of the appliance

C.

Total connections exceeds the licensed limit of the appliance

D.

Optimization service memory exceeds the limit of the appliance

E.

Optimized connections exceed the licensed limit of the appliance

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Question # 72

Which xx50 Steelhead appliance models provide both inpath0_0 and inpath0_1 interfaces without adding additional network cards? (Select 3)

A.

Steelhead 550

B.

Steelhead 6050

C.

Steelhead 1050

D.

Steelhead 250

E.

Steelhead 2050

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Question # 73

What effect will enable SDR-M (Scalable Data Referencing – Memory) have on a Steelhead appliance in production?

A.

An increase in overall LAN throughput

B.

SDR would occur in RAM until flushed to disk

C.

An increase in overall WAN throughput

D.

SDR would occur on disk and backed up to RAM for future lookups

E.

SDR must occur over the primary interface directly to RAM

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Question # 74

Connection forwarding without multi-interface support uses which interface for communication?

A.

Wan0_0

B.

Remote

C.

Primary or Aux

D.

Lan0_0

E.

Inpath0_0

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Question # 75

In order to achieve SteelHead SaaS optimization two things must happen. First acquire and install a subscription license to enable the feature, and then SteelHead SaaS must be configured.

Which statement correctly describes the configuration step?

A.

Every SteelHead is configured with a registration key included in a RiOS upgrade.

B.

All the configuration is done from the Riverbed Cloud Portal.

C.

Every SteelHead is configured with a new license in the standard form LK1-SHSaaS-XXX.

D.

Every SteelHead is configured with the same registration key copied from the Riverbed Cloud Portal.

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