QUESTION=You work for a large company that needs to connect four buildings with a high-speed, high-bandwidth backbone. They are all on the same city block and fiber already connects between the buildings. There are multiple departments in each building and all run multiple protocols. The company already owns Cisco Catalyst 6000 series switches, which you can use for the distribution layer. What switch should you use for the core layer?
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ANSWER1=###s[bold] A. ###sn 2900
ANSWER2=###s[bold] B. ###sn 4000
ANSWER3=###s[bold] C. ###sn 6500
ANSWER4=###s[bold] D. ###sn 8500
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REACTION4=A Cisco 6500 or 8500 switch is recommended at the core, and even though only one of those switches might be sufficient to handle the traffic, Cisco recommends two switches for redundancy and load balancing. You could consider a 5500 Catalyst switch if you don't need the power of the 6500 or the 8500. Because the customer is using 6500 at the distribution layer, you should use 8500s as the core switches. D is the best answer.
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TEXT_SHOW_ANSWER=A Cisco 6500 or 8500 switch is recommended at the core, and even though only one of those switches might be sufficient to handle the traffic, Cisco recommends two switches for redundancy and load balancing. You could consider a 5500 Catalyst switch if you don't need the power of the 6500 or the 8500. Because the customer is using 6500 at the distribution layer, you should use 8500s as the core switches. D is the best answer.
