VNX301 Questions and Answers

The correct answer is B . The DoS profile in the exhibit is a Classified Profile using Source IP Only as the classification key. For TCP flood protection, the profile is enabled and shows an Alarm Rate of 5000 packets per second , an Activate Rate of 7000 packets per second , a Maximum Rate of 100000 packets per second , a Drop Period of 300 seconds , and an action of Random . This means the first threshold, 5000 pps, is used to trigger alarm behavior, while the second threshold, 7000 pps, activates the configured mitigation action. Since the selected action is Random , packets are randomly dropped when the TCP rate reaches the activate threshold.

Versa documentation shows that DoS policies can match traffic using source, destination, service, application, schedule, IP version, DSCP, and other conditions, and that a DoS policy can set either an aggregate or classified DoS profile. It also documents that DoS policies support enforcement actions and logging through LEF profiles for DoS events. Therefore, 7000 pps does not merely generate an alarm, and it does not mean complete dropping. Complete dropping is not selected in the exhibit.

The correct answer is B . The exhibit shows the branch interface summary in Versa Director with a Live Data column. To populate real-time bandwidth graphs for WAN circuits, the administrator must select Live Data for the WAN interfaces that need to be monitored. Versa monitoring documentation states that, from a Director node, you can monitor VOS devices and organizations, and that Director, together with Versa Analytics, can poll VOS devices in real time to understand what is happening on the devices. This real-time information can be displayed to assist with troubleshooting.

Because the question asks for the current bandwidth of each WAN circuit, historical analytics alone is not sufficient. The dashboard must poll live statistics from the selected WAN circuits. In the exhibit, not all WAN interfaces appear to have Live Data selected; therefore, the graph is not populated for all circuits. Refreshing the page does not enable polling and will not solve the missing data condition. Selecting only MPLS would populate only the MPLS circuit, not all WAN circuits. Unselecting and reselecting only the INET circuit would affect only that one interface. Therefore, Live Data must be selected for all WAN circuits whose current bandwidth should be displayed.

The correct answers are C and D . Versa templates are designed to reuse common configuration while still allowing per-device customization. Template variables allow the same template to be deployed to multiple appliances while using device-specific values such as addresses, VLAN IDs, DHCP information, or other bind-data values. Versa documentation for deploying templates describes assigning values to variables contained in a main template that are specific to the device. This makes option C correct.

Option D is also correct because Versa workflows are used to create templates for VOS device configuration. Versa documentation states that workflows are used to create templates to configure VOS devices, and also to create templates for application steering, spoke groups, and service chains.

Option A is not correct in the normal Versa Director onboarding model because a group of devices is associated with one staging template and one post-staging template, rather than multiple device templates being stacked per appliance. Option B is also incorrect because service templates are optional reusable service-specific fragments. Versa documentation states that service templates can be used by multiple device templates and device groups, but it does not require every appliance to have one.

The correct answer is A . Versa’s handy troubleshooting CLI command reference lists show system package-info as the command used to view information about the VOS software image running on the CPE .

This command is useful before upgrade planning because it confirms the installed software package and helps validate whether the device is on the expected release. Administrators can compare the running version against the target upgrade image, verify upgrade prerequisites, and ensure that branch and Controller releases are compatible with required features such as internet speed testing, SD-WAN policy behavior, or security services.

show system uptime only tells how long the system has been running. show interfaces brief provides operational and administrative interface status, MAC address, tenant, VRF, and IP address information. show class-of-services interfaces brief helps troubleshoot QoS or shaping behavior. None of those commands directly identifies the VOS software package. Therefore, for checking the running image before an upgrade, the correct command is show system package-info.

The correct answer is C . In Versa Secure SD-WAN, licensing and device management are centralized through Versa Director , not directly through the Controller. During zero-touch provisioning and staging, the branch device is brought under centralized management, and Director pushes the required staging and operational configuration. Versa staging documentation explains that during Stage 2 and Stage 3, Versa Director pushes configuration to the branch device, and after Stage 3 the branch becomes fully operational as part of the customer SD-WAN network.

Versa monitoring documentation also shows that the Director node provides license visibility, specifically stating that the Director monitoring view includes a License pane that displays information about the licenses installed on the VOS devices managed by the Director node. This confirms that license administration is handled from Director, not from the Controller. The Controller is responsible for SD-WAN control-plane functions and tunnel connectivity, but it is not the primary system for managing customer license subscriptions.

Option A is incomplete because the practical operational model is not simply receiving individual soft licenses. Option B incorrectly implies licenses are preloaded on physical CPEs as the key licensing method. Option D is incorrect because ZTP management and license subscription handling are not performed by the Controller.

The correct answer is A . During Versa SD-WAN onboarding, the branch uses the staging server only in the early part of the process. Versa documentation states that in Stage 1 , the branch starts an IKE session with the staging server, receives an IP address, and is informed of the Versa Director IP address. In Stage 2 , Versa Director pushes the stage-two configuration to the branch through the staging server. In this stage-two configuration, the Controller IP address is given as the remote IP address in the IPsec profile , and the branch is rebooted. After reboot, the branch should establish the IKE session with the Controller.

If the branch keeps trying to connect to the staging server after the stage-two reboot, the most likely issue is that the stage-two IPsec profile still points to the staging server or does not contain the correct Controller remote IP. Analytics, DHCP, and URL filtering settings do not determine whether the branch moves from staging-server connectivity to Controller IKE connectivity.

The correct answer is A . Versa’s handy CLI command reference lists show interfaces brief as the command used to view a list of interfaces along with their MAC addresses, operational and administrative status, tenant ID, VRF, and IP addresses. This is one of the first commands administrators run when validating device bring-up, staging interface assignment, WAN/LAN mapping, or whether a template applied interface addressing as expected.

For deeper interface troubleshooting, show interfaces detail provides additional information such as interface index, host interface, MTU, speed and duplex settings, RX/TX errors, and bridge information. However, for a quick overview of state and addressing across interfaces, show interfaces brief is the correct choice.

show system package-info identifies the running VOS software package. show system storage reports system storage resources. show coredumps shows generated core files. These are valuable operational commands, but they do not provide the requested interface status and addressing summary.

The correct answer is B . Versa documentation describes checking for asymmetrical SD-WAN paths when troubleshooting bandwidth and throughput issues. It gives the example of traffic being transmitted on one transport network and returning on another transport network that has different bandwidth. To check whether traffic is traversing an asymmetrical SD-WAN path, Versa recommends using show orgs org organization-name sessions sdwan brief.

In that output, the key fields are RX WAN CKT and TX WAN CKT . If the SD-WAN paths are symmetrical, the circuits shown in the RX and TX WAN circuit fields must be the same on the local and remote sites. If traffic goes out over Internet and returns over MPLS, throughput may differ depending on the bandwidth and quality of each circuit.

Source and destination zones are security-policy concepts, while BGP local preference and MED are routing attributes. Tenant ID and VSN ID identify context, but they do not directly prove directional WAN-circuit asymmetry.

The correct answer is A . Versa CGNAT troubleshooting documentation states that, after connecting to the vsmd daemon, administrators can view CGNAT access lists used for traffic matching with the command show cgnat acl info < tenant-id > . The sample output shows ACL handle, rule ID, category, precedence, VRF, source IP, destination IP, tenant ID, and total filters.

This is the correct command when NAT configuration appears present but translations do not occur, because it verifies whether the runtime dataplane has the correct traffic-match rules. If the source prefix, destination prefix, VRF, or precedence is wrong, the session may never match the NAT rule, and no translation will be applied.

show system status checks system services. show device clients shows active and failed sessions, CPU usage per session, and memory load for processes. show system storage shows disk usage. These commands are useful in other troubleshooting workflows, but they do not validate CGNAT ACL matching criteria for tenant traffic.

The correct answer is A . Versa data-path troubleshooting documentation gives a specific VSM control-plane workflow for checking SD-WAN tunnel objects. After connecting to the VSM daemon, administrators can use show vsm p2mp local-tunnel-sites 0 to inspect local site objects. To check whether remote site objects were learned from BGP or from configuration , Versa instructs administrators to issue show vsm p2mp tunnel-remote-endpoint tenant < tenant-id > on the VSM control plane.

This command is highly relevant when local WAN interfaces are operational, but overlay tunnel formation is incomplete. It shows remote endpoints such as Controllers, hubs, or branches, along with site type, site name, branch ID, tenant ID, remote WAN link information, and tunnel state-related fields.

show interfaces brief confirms interface state and IP addresses, but it does not show learned remote SD-WAN endpoint objects. CGNAT summary is unrelated to tunnel endpoint learning. System storage is useful for disk checks, but not for SD-WAN overlay endpoint troubleshooting.

The correct answer is B . Versa documentation for internet speed tests explains that when you run an internet speed test from a Director node, it creates approximately 200 sessions . This is useful for measuring aggregate throughput, but it does not represent the behavior of a single application flow. The same documentation states that you can run a speed test with a single session from the device CLI, and that this is useful for simulating file transfer rates when using SCP or FTP .

Therefore, when the goal is to understand how a single file transfer behaves, the CLI-based single-session test is the best option. A default Director-based test may produce higher aggregate results because multiple sessions can use parallelism and better fill the pipe.

show interfaces brief is useful for interface status and addressing, but it does not measure file-transfer throughput. SLA latency is useful for path-quality monitoring, but latency alone does not show single-session TCP throughput.

The correct answer is A . Versa CGNAT troubleshooting documentation includes per-pool and resource counters that show allocation behavior and failures. The counters include values such as bindings allocated, bindings freed, allocation failures, out-of-address errors, and out-of-ports errors. It also shows that CGNAT source-port resources are divided and distributed to worker threads by Versa RFD/RFM, and that allocated source-port ranges can be viewed using show rfm table src-port allocated.

If out-of-ports errors increase while out-of-address errors remain zero, the pool still has usable translated IP addresses, but the available port resource for NAT bindings is exhausted. This commonly occurs when too many concurrent sessions share a limited public IP or source-port range. The corrective action would be to expand the NAT resource, add more public translated IPs, adjust port allocation, or reduce excessive session usage.

A missing NAT IP pool would more likely produce out-of-address problems. A wrong zone match might prevent translation entirely, and OSPF in the LAN VR is unrelated to CGNAT port-resource exhaustion.

The correct answer is A . In Versa SD-WAN traffic steering, forwarding profiles define how traffic is mapped to WAN circuits, how next hops are selected, and how traffic behaves when SLA conditions are violated. If the requirement is to stop traffic when no SLA-compliant path is available, the relevant behavior is the SLA Violation Action . Setting this option to Drop prevents the VOS device from forwarding the matching traffic over a circuit that does not satisfy the policy’s SLA requirements.

This is the opposite of using Forward , which allows traffic to continue even when the available next hops violate the SLA. Forward may be appropriate for best-effort applications where degraded delivery is better than no delivery, but it is not appropriate for strict business-critical applications that must not use a degraded path.

Nexthop Failure Action controls how the system behaves when a next hop fails, such as waiting for recovery or re-evaluating. Header compression affects packet overhead, and the recompute timer controls periodic recalculation timing. None of those settings directly enforce “drop when SLA is not met.”