HPE Aruba Network Campus Access Professional (HPE7-A01) Certification Sample Questions

02. Which two levers most directly address a wireless capacity constraint in a densely occupied area?
(Select two.)
a) Increasing the number of wireless networks advertised, so clients can be separated across them
b) Raising transmit power so that clients maintain a stronger signal to their access point
c) Distributing clients across more radios and across available frequency bands
d) Managing the lowest data rates permitted, so slow clients consume less airtime

03. After an optimization program, wireless performance measurements are markedly better than the baseline. The team also notes that client numbers during the second measurement were about half those during the first. What can be concluded?
a) The improvement should be scaled in proportion to the difference in client numbers
b) The comparison cannot separate the effect of the changes from the effect of the lower load
c) The optimization had no measurable effect, since the improvement is explained by the reduced load
d) The optimization succeeded, since performance improved against the recorded baseline

04. Which two changes improve the resilience of a campus LAN without increasing its convergence time?
(Select two.)
a) Bundling parallel access uplinks so that the loss of one link does not require a topology change
b) Reducing the timers used by the loop-prevention protocol so that recalculation completes faster
c) Adding a second redundant path through the access layer, protected by the loop-prevention protocol
d) Presenting the aggregation pair as one logical upstream, so access switches see a single path

05. Two faults are reported on the same afternoon. One affects wireless users at a single site; the other affects a routing path used by the whole campus. How should the investigation be organized?
a) Address the wireless fault first, because a single site is easier to isolate and will resolve faster
b) Treat them as separate until evidence links them, and address the campus-wide fault first
c) Treat them as one incident, since two faults appearing together are more likely to share a cause
d) Escalate both to the vendor together, so that any shared cause is identified by a single investigation

06. An engineer has isolated a fault to an AOS-10 gateway cluster, has confirmed its configuration matches the group, and has worked through the documented diagnostics without reaching a cause. What should the engineer do next?
a) Restore service by moving the affected clients to a bridged forwarding path, and investigate afterwards
b) Escalate, passing on the diagnostics already gathered and the hypotheses that remain untested
c) Restart the cluster members in turn, to see whether the fault clears
d) Continue with undocumented diagnostics, since the documented set has now been exhausted

07. Following the loss of a first-hop redundancy peer, clients on a subnet lose connectivity for longer than the design intended before recovering. Which two explanations are consistent with that behavior?
(Select two.)
a) The surviving peer took longer than expected to assume the active role for the subnet
b) Devices on the segment continued to send to the previous gateway address mapping until it aged out
c) The redundancy protocol was not configured on the surviving peer, so no failover occurred at all
d) The clients were reassigned to a different subnet during the failover, and had to obtain new addressing

08. Users connected to one AOS-CX access switch experience slow performance. The switch uplink shows no errors and is well below capacity. Users on neighboring switches in the same building are unaffected. Where should the investigation focus next?
a) On the wireless coverage in that area, since affected users may be roaming onto a different path
b) On the aggregation layer, since a fault there could affect this switch more than its neighbors
c) On the client devices attached to that switch, since the infrastructure has been shown to be healthy
d) On the switch itself and the access ports, since the uplink and the wider building are both clear

09. Wireless users in a large open area report poor performance at busy times. Signal strength measured at their locations is strong throughout. Which two conclusions follow from that combination?
(Select two.)
a) The clients are connecting at the lowest supported data rate because of their distance from the access point
b) Signal strength is not the limiting factor, so a coverage remedy would not address the complaint
c) The constraint is more likely to be contention for airtime among the devices present
d) The access points serving the area are likely to have failed or degraded during busy periods

10. During a phased migration, part of a campus runs the new access design while the remainder still runs the legacy design. Users move between the two areas during the working day. What must the deployment ensure throughout the transition?
a) That a user receives equivalent access in both areas, even though the mechanisms enforcing it differ
b) That both areas are managed from the same platform, so that a single team can operate the whole estate
c) That users are prevented from moving between the migrated and unmigrated areas until the work completes
d) That the legacy area is frozen against change until every building has been migrated to the new design