HP HPE7-A08 Exam Questions
Questions for the HPE7-A08 were updated on : Dec 01 ,2025
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Question 1
Which HPE Aruba Networking ClearPass configuration is required to implement DUR?
- A. Enable the RadSec service
- B. Create an admin user role
- C. Import RADIUS dictionary attributes
- D. Configure an HTTPS certificate
Answer:
D
Question 2
You are attempting to configure an interface, but you are seeing the error message below. What
could explain this?
Access-1(config)# interface 1/1/1
Invalid input: interface
- A. The switch is in password recovery mode
- B. The command must be run from the manager context
- C. The switch is being managed by HPE Aruba Networking Central
- D. Authorization is enabled for CLI commands
Answer:
C
Question 3
Refer to the exhibit.
You are about to make a change to the HPE Aruba Networking CX switch in HPE Aruba Networking
Central and are encountering the condition displayed above. What needs to be done to make a
change to the switch with multi-edit?
- A. Select configuration status and enable edit config
- B. Enable edit config mode using the gear icon
- C. Override state
- D. Select the device in multi-edit and enable edit config mode
Answer:
B
Question 4
You have configured UBT on your CX switches, but now HTTPS-enabled websites will not load, which
you suspect is due to the packet size. To resolve the issue, what should you configure on each device
with funneled traffic?
- A. Path MTU discovery
- B. Fragment reassembly
- C. Jumbo frames
- D. IP fragmentation
Answer:
D
Question 5
Refer to the exhibit:
The primary VSX switch has a DHCP relay configured; however, the secondary switch does not display
the DHCP relay configuration in the running configuration.
How can the VSX configuration be changed to have the same config on both nodes?
- A. On the secondary switch, add vsx-sync ip-helper under VSX configuration.
- B. On the primary switch, add vsx-sync ip-helper under VSX configuration.
- C. On the primary switch, add vsx-sync dhcp-relay under VSX configuration.
- D. On the secondary switch, add vsx-sync dhcp-relay under VSX configuration.
Answer:
C
Question 6
You have run a script to configure a new VLAN on a CX switch, but are receiving a '404 - Not Found'
HTTP response code.
What do you need to do to resolve the issue?
- A. Send a POST request to the /rest/v1/login resource.
- B. Correct syntax error contained in the data payload.
- C. Enable the switch REST API in read/write mode.
- D. Specify the /rest/v1/system/vlan URI in the request.
Answer:
D
Question 7
Refer to the exhibit:
Both switches, Core-1 and Core-2, are configured with default spanning-tree priorities. Both switches
appear as primary root bridges. What must be done to have only one spanning tree domain?
- A. Create MST instances 1 and 2 on Core-2.
- B. Create matching MST configuration on Core-2.
- C. Set the spanning tree priority to 1 on Core-1.
- D. Set the spanning tree priority to 1 on Core-2.
Answer:
B
Question 8
You've rebooted s-agg2 in a VSX configuration in an attempt to live-upgrade the cluster, and then you
see this condition:
What would be the correct way to live-upgrade the VSX cluster?
- A. Always reload the primary switch first with the new image.
- B. Use the issu update-software option.
- C. Use vsx update-software option.
- D. Set the VSX to compatibility mode first, before rebooting the secondary switch.
Answer:
C
Question 9
You are reviewing the configuration of an aggregation switch and have noticed that VLAN 1 is
configured as the native VLAN on all interfaces connected to access switches. Why might this have
been configured?
- A. To support LLDP
- B. To support UBT
- C. To support MSTP
- D. To support ZTP
Answer:
D
Question 10
Which statement is valid when enabling ARP protection features on HPE Aruba Networking CX
switches?
- A. Once you enable DHCP snooping, you can enable ARP protection, and you will have full information to mitigate security risks.
- B. In an active network, you should generally wait at least a week after enabling DHCP snooping to enable ARP protection.
- C. Client lease time on the DHCP server should be at least 3600s before enabling ARP protection.
- D. DHCP server utilization is required for IP to MAC binding to enable ARP protection.
Answer:
B
Question 11
A recent routing change has caused an outage to one of your customer's branch sites. You are about
to run the command below:
copy checkpoint 20240722 running-config
Which troubleshooting methodology does this exemplify?
- A. Divide and conquer
- B. Top-down/Bottom-up
- C. Replace configuration
- D. Spot the difference
Answer:
C
Question 12
With the given output from an HPE Aruba Networking CX 6300:
Which statement about the output above is true?
- A. The accepted AS paths are defined in the aspath-list.
- B. The defined route-map is used in BGP with neighbor remote-as export.
- C. The advertised AS paths are configured in an IP prefix-list.
- D. The route-map with aspath-list intended for iBGP peers.
Answer:
A
Question 13
You would like to receive a monthly report tracking your available HPE Aruba Networking Central
licenses and their expiration dates. Which report should you schedule?
- A. Switch Capacity Planning
- B. Resource Utilization
- C. Network
- D. Infra Inventory
Answer:
D
Question 14
A database administrator has reported intermittent connectivity issues with a SQL server hosted in
the data center and has provided you with the source and destination IP addresses. Which
troubleshooting methodology would be the most suitable to start with?
- A. Spot the difference
- B. Follow the path
- C. Divide and conquer
- D. Top-down/Bottom-up
Answer:
B
Question 15
A multicast configuration on an HPE Aruba Networking CX 6300 VSF is used for a group address
239.0.0.1. The configuration is having issues, and the video streaming clients are not receiving the
stream.
What would be a possible root cause for the problems experienced?
- A. The IGMP-snooping is using version 2 configured for the SVI.
- B. The selected multicast address will overlay with Link-Local Multicast address scope.
- C. The selected multicast address will overlay with PIM-SM discovery address.
- D. The IGMP is enabled on the VLANs without any multicast traffic.
Answer:
B