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A global cruise line company needs to refresh its current fleet. They will refresh the ‘insides’ of the ship to be cost-effective and increase their sustainability. They will replace the complete WLAN/LAN hardware of the ship. In this refresh, the company will not refresh its current security requirements. The CIO also wants to limit the number of unused ports in the switches. Future expansion will always mean a refresh of hardware. They start with the smallest ship with a maximum of 800 guests.

Each ship has a LAN infrastructure consisting of two core switches, up to 10 redundant distribution switches, and up to 500 access switches (400 cabins, 100 technical rooms). The Core switches are located in the MDF of the ship and the distribution switches are located in the IDFs of the ship. Each cabin and technical room gets one single access switch.

The cabling structure of the ship will not be refreshed. Each IDF is connected to the MDF by SMF, of which two pairs are available for the interconnect between the core and distribution. The length of SM fiber between MDF and IDF is less than 300 meters (980 ft) and the type used is OS1. Each cabin is connected by a single OM2 pair to the IDF, the maximum length is 60 meters (200 ft). Each technical room is connected by a single OM2 pair to the IDF, with lengths between 100 and 150 meters (320 and 500 ft).

For each cabin/technical room the customer is looking to replace their current fan-less 2530/2540 without changing the requirements, except they need to upgrade the uplink to distribution switch to 10GbE to handle the increased network traffic, and the technical rooms need redundant power.

The WLAN infrastructure will be 1:1 refreshed without new cabling or new AP locations. Their WLAN infrastructure is based on the 200/300 series indoor and outdoor APs running InstantOS (less than 300 APs), the customer has no change in WLAN requirements.

The cruise line company will replace its current internet connection before the LAN/WLAN refresh. The new Internet connection will provide a 99.8% uptime, which is needed to ensure the paid quest Wi-Fi is always operational. With this new Internet connection, the CIO of the cruise line wants to base the design on the ESP architecture from Aruba because internet connection is guaranteed.

Based on the best practices and customer requirements, what is the correct WLAN approach?

Instant OS6 deployment
OS10 AP only deployment
OS8 campus deployment
OS10 AP and gateway deployment

Correct answer: B

Explanation:

B: 3 - Mosted

Which platform can be used to demo your solution to a customer? (Choose three.)

your own lab
Innovation Zone
CX Switch Simulator
Support Portal
Solution Exchange
Demo Experience Platform

Correct answer: ABF

Explanation:

ABF: 1 - Mosted

Which alternative source is best suited for site surveys or simulations if no floor plans are available?

fire escape plan
blank sheet of paper
simple wall drawings
Google Maps

Correct answer: C

Explanation:

A: 4

A customer wants to have the ability to show network usage. Which product would allow them to have this visibility?

UXI
HPE Aruba Networking ClearPass
HPE Aruba Networking Central
OS 8.X

Correct answer: C

Explanation:

C: 4 - Mosted

The client's existing network is experiencing trouble with voice occasionally dropping out on phone calls between office locations. It is determined that no packet loss is occurring and QOS is likely the cause.

With what phenomenon is the client currently experiencing issues?

Correct answer: A

Explanation:

A: 2 - Mosted

Based on this campus design, click on the layer that is the most appropriate to be designed as a Stub Persona, considering an EVPN VXLAN Fabric?

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A large multinational financial institution has contracted you to design a new full-stack wired and wireless network for their new 6-story regional office building. The bottom two floors of this facility will be retail space for a large banking branch. The upper floors will be carpeted office space for corporate users, each floor being approximately 100,000 sq ft (9290 sq m). Data centers are all offsite and will be out of scope for this project. The customer is underserved by its existing L2-based network infrastructure and would like to take advantage of modem best practices in the new design. The network should be fully resilient and fault-tolerant, with dynamic segmentation at the edge.

The retail space will include public guest Wi-Fi access. Retail associates will have corporate tablets for customer service, and there will be a mix of wired and wireless devices throughout the retail floors. The corporate users will primarily use wireless for connectivity, but several wired clients, printers, and hard VoIP phones will be in use.

The customer is also planning on renovating the corporate office space in order to take advantage of ‘smart office’ technology. These improvements will drive blue-dot wayfinding, presence analytics, and other location-based services.

The client has decided that more critical switch stacks supporting Contact Center resources will need to support greater than 600W of CL4 PoE and have redundant power supplies. These stacks will have approximately six members.

What would be the most economical choice switch series to meet these requirements?

CX 6400
CX 6100
CX 6300F
CX 6200M

Correct answer: C

Explanation:

D: 2 - Mosted

What is the best practice for using VSX at the core of a 3-tier design?

You should implement VSX at the core when the aggregation layer is layer 3 only with OSPF-routed traffic forwarding between the core and aggregation layers.
You should never implement VSX at the core of a 3-tier redundancy core.
VSX-lags allow the collapsed core to connect directly to services such as gateways and services only so long as spanning tree is used to prevent loops.
You should implement VSX at the core when the aggregation layer operates at layer 2 only.

Correct answer: A

Explanation:

D: 2

What documents should be included in the solution proposal? (Place the correct items into the list at the right. Order is not important. Not all options will be used.)

Correct answer: To work with this question, an Exam Simulator is required.

‘Don't Buy at Us’ is a US-based retail company that is expanding into Europe. They are expanding into EMEA with a regional headquarters called HQ2 inside The Netherlands.

Their US-based headquarters HQ1 was refreshed last year based on the HPE Aruba Networking ESP architecture. You have created the design for HQ2 based on the same design as HQ1, a two- tier architecture. The high level is shown below.

Switch BOM for this project based on Two Tier:

Collapsed Core: 2 x 8360-16Y2C in VSX (ISL 2x100GbE DAC)

Access Stack: 10 x Stack of 6200F 48G Class4 PoE 4SFP+ 740W (each stack has 4 members, VSF with 10GbE VSF links) (2 x 10GbE uplink per stack)

During the presentation of your design to the CTO of ‘Don't Buy at Us’ you were informed about the changes they want you to incorporate into the updated design.

HQ2 will include the EMEA regional distribution center (EMEA-DISTR) next to the HQ2.
Only two pairs of OS1 are available between HQ2 and EMEA-DISTR.
The uplinks from all access stacks need to Increase to 2 x 25GbE, the fiber in HQ2 and EMEA-DISTRI is certified for 25GbE.
EMEA-DISTR needs at least 7 x stack of Aruba 48 ports switches (each stack has 4 members).

Which answer based on best practice is presenting the correct Switch BOM for the updated design?

core: 2 x 8360-12C in VSX (ISL 2x100GbE DAC)
aggregation: 2 x Aggregation stacks, each consists of 2 Aruba 8360-16Y2C in VSX (ISL 2x100GbE DAC, 2 x 25GbE uplinks per stack) access stack: 17 x stack of Aruba 6300F 48-port 1GbE Class 4 PoE and 4-port SFP56 (each stack has 4 members, VSF with 50GbE VSF links, 2 x 25GbE uplinks per stack)
core: 2 x 8360-12C in VSX (ISL 2x100GbE DAC)
aggregation: 2 x aggregation stacks, each consists of 2 Aruba 8360-16Y2C in VSX (ISL 2x100GbE DAC, 2 x 100GbE uplinks per stack) access stack: 17 x stack of Aruba 6300F 48-port 1GbE Class 4 PoE and 4-port SFP56 (each stack has 4 members, VSF with 50GbE VSF links, 2 x 25GbE uplinks per stack)
core: 2 x 8360-12C in VSX (ISL 2x100GbE DAC)
aggregation: 2 x aggregation stacks, each consists of 2 Aruba 8360-32Y4C in VSX (ISL 2x100GbE DAC, 2 x 100GbE uplinks per stack) access stack: 17 x stack of Aruba 6300F 48-port 1GbE Class 4 PoE and 4-port SFP56 (each stack has 4 members, VSF with 50GbE VSF links, 2 x 25GbE uplinks per stack)
collapsed core: 2 x 8360-16Y2C in VSX (ISL 2x100GbE DAC)
access switch: 17 x stack of Aruba 6200F 48G Class4 PoE 4SFP+ 740W (each stack has
4 members, VSF with 10GbE VSF links, 2 x 10GbE uplinks per stack)

Correct answer: A

Explanation:

C: 2 - Mosted

‘Don't Buy at Us’ is a US-based retail company that is expanding into Europe. They are expanding into EMEA with a regional headquarters called HQ2 inside The Netherlands.

Their US-based headquarters HQ1 was refreshed last year based on the HPE Aruba Networking ESP architecture. You have created the design for HQ2 based on the same design as HQ1, a two-tier architecture. The high level is shown below.

Switch BOM for this project based on Two Tier:

Collapsed Core: 2 x 8360-16Y2C in VSX (ISL 2x100GbE DAC)

Access Stack: 10 x Stack of 6200F 48G Class4 PoE 4SFP+ 740W (each stack has 4 members, VSF with 10GbE VSF links) (2 x 10GbE uplink per stack)

During the presentation of your design to the CTO of ‘Don't Buy at Us’ you were informed about the updated fiber infrastructure that ‘Don't Buy at Us' has installed in HQ2.

The core stack is installed in the MDF and per IDF there is one access stack installed. Based on best practice, what is the most cost-effective update to the switch BOM?

core: 2 x 8360-16Y2C in VSX (ISL 2x100GbE DAC)
access stack: 10 x stack of Aruba 6200F 48G Class4 PoE 4SFP+ 740W (each stack has 4 members, VSF with 10GbE VSF links) (2 x 10GbE uplink per stack) optics: 12 x 10Gbit-SR + 8 x 10Gbit-LR
core: 2 x 8360-16Y2C in VSX (ISL 2x100GbE DAC)
access stack: 10 x stack of HPE Aruba Networking 6200M 48G Class4 PoE 4SFP+ (each stack has 4 members, VSF with 10GbE VSF links) (2 x 10GbE uplink per stack) optics: 12 x 10Gbit-SR + 8 x 10GbiLLR
core: 2 x 8360-16Y2C in VSX (ISL 2x100GbE DAC)
access stack: 10 x stack of Aruba 6200F 48G Class4 PoE 4SFP+ 740W (each stack has 4 members, VSF with 10GbE VSF links) (2 x 10GbE uplink per stack) optics: 10 x 10Gbit-SR + 10 x 10Gbit-LR
core: 2 x 8360-16Y2C in VSX (ISL 2x100GbE DAC)
access stack: 10 x stack of HPE Aruba Networking 6200M 48G Class4 PoE 4SFP+ (each stack has 4 members, VSF with 10GbE VSF links) (2 x 10GbE uplink per stack) optics: 12 x 10Gbit-SR +8 x 10Gbit-LRM

Correct answer: A

Explanation:

A: 1

Vendor:	HP
Exam Code:	HPE7-A03
Exam Name:	Aruba Certified Campus Access Architect
Date:	Sep 29, 2025
File Size:	645 KB
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