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Question #: 36
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A technician is troubleshooting a network switch that seems to stop responding to requests intermittently whenever the logging level is set for debugging. Which of the following metrics should the technician check to begin troubleshooting the issue?

  • A. Audit logs
  • B. CPU utilization
  • C. CRC errors
  • D. Jitter
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Suggested Answer: B 🗳️

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GeekSpunk
Highly Voted 2 years, 3 months ago
Selected Answer: B
A fun tip - Don't enable debugging on a production environment during business hours or you'll be looking for a new job. Answer is B :)
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Eumousten
1 year, 11 months ago
You make me laugh my butt of lol. What an awesome statement lol
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dcdc1000
Highly Voted 2 years, 8 months ago
CPU is the correct answer. When you enable debugging, your CPU shoots through the roof until you turn off. That is a metric you can measure.
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Jkeller
Most Recent 7 months, 3 weeks ago
Selected Answer: D
"intermittently" makes me think it is D - Jitter. Can someone help me out here, please?
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TheMichael
5 months, 2 weeks ago
The reason it isn't Jitter is because: In networking, jitter refers to the variation in the delay between when data packets are transmitted and when they are received. It's essentially the inconsistency or fluctuation in latency. Because we aren't transmitting or receiving any data over the network, everything from the Logs is being done locally. That's why it has to do with the hardware of the local machine and wouldn't be in regards to a networking term like Jitter.
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TheMichael
5 months, 2 weeks ago
I think the key here is that they said the problem with the switch was that it entirely stopped responding to requests at times. It would be more likely to be Jitter if they had said that the ping requests were fluctuating in speed which were causing the switch requests to time out.
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Jaeide__X
7 months, 3 weeks ago
Selected Answer: B
When the logging level is set to debugging, it generates extensive log messages, which can increase the processing load on the network switch, especially if the switch has limited resources. High CPU utilization can cause the switch to become unresponsive or slow in processing network traffic, leading to intermittent issues with responding to requests.
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Sarmad_Mansour
7 months, 2 weeks ago
Thank you, that makes sense now.
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phoenix98
1 year ago
Selected Answer: C
The receiving interface uses the same calculation. If it derives a different value, the frame is rejected. 183 is a high number errors getting rejected.
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Mehsotopes
1 year ago
Selected Answer: B
CPU can stop responding from the overload of requests occurring, debug utilizes a full assembly of tests that are only useful for the debug phase & can take up a lot of processing that can interfere with mainline production.
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rah555
1 year, 6 months ago
Selected Answer: B
Debugging mode is a high level of logging, which means that the switch generates a large volume of logs, and it requires additional processing power to generate and process the logs. If the CPU utilization on the switch is too high, it may cause the switch to stop responding to requests intermittently.
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famco
1 year, 7 months ago
Faced this many times. Not fun. I have done syslog and it reduces the problem
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StevenElev11n
1 year, 9 months ago
Selected Answer: B
- CPU utilization: High CPU utilization can indicate that the switch is overwhelmed with processing, which could cause it to stop responding to requests.
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JakeCharles
1 year, 9 months ago
Selected Answer: B
B. CPU utilization.
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AaronS1990
2 years, 3 months ago
Selected Answer: B
CPU utilisation is more of a metric. Additionally it has stated that it is only happening when the logging level is set for debugging. Given this will heavily utilise the CPU then that seems the logical thing to check
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alayeluwa
2 years, 4 months ago
Selected Answer: B
B is the correct answer. Audit logs ain’t no metrics.
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waqdhiyo
2 years, 8 months ago
Selected Answer: A
I am sure it is an audit log
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RRabbit_111
2 years ago
someone said this user is trolling
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Freddysoft
1 year, 10 months ago
I think so too. and he should be kicked out
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ArchEpic
2 years, 8 months ago
I am agreeing with Tyrial on this. The question asked for a metric to look at for what is causing the switch issues. Audit logs have to more with the accounting aspect of users on a network and not metrics that determine high system usage that would cause system sluggishness.
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Timock
2 years, 9 months ago
I'm pretty sure this should be A) Audit logs. If the logging level is configured to send too many logs to the SNMP server it can cause the device's throughput to suffer
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Tyrial
2 years, 8 months ago
Audit logs is wrong for a few reasons. One, the question is asking which metric to review. Logs are not metrics. Furthermore audit logs are for authentication/authorization which won't help with identifying the problem. Looking at CPU utilization will help narrow down the problem.
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itssnowyseason
2 years, 9 months ago
Is this correct?
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