Foundation Topics" portion of the chapter, helps you determine how to spend your limited study time.
Which of the following causes a failover event?
A reboot or power interruption on the active PIX Firewall
Low HTTP traffic on the outside interface
Issuance of the failover active command on the standby PIX Firewall
Low memory utilization for several consecutive seconds
What is the command to view failover configuration?
show failover
failover
view failover
show me failover
Which of the following is/are replicated in stateful failover operation?
Configuration
TCP connection table, including timeout information for each connection
Translation (xlate) table
Negotiated H.323 UDP protocols
All of the above
Which of the following is not replicated in stateful failover operation?
User authentication (uauth) table
ISAKMP and IPSec SA table
ARP table
Routing information
All of the above
What is the command to force configuration replication to the standby unit?
write standby
copy to secondary
force secondary
force conf
Which of the following is a stateful failover hardware restriction?
The stateful failover configuration is supported only by PIX Firewall 535 models.
Only fiber connections can be used in a stateful failover hardware configuration.
A PIX Firewall with two FDDI cards cannot use stateful failover, because an additional FDDI interface is not supported.
There is no hardware restriction for stateful failover configuration.
What command assigns an IP address to the standby Cisco PIX Firewall?
secondary ip address ip address
failover ip address if-name ip-address
ip address ip address secondary
ip address ip address failover
What is the command to configure a LAN-based failover?
conf lan failover
failover ip LAN
failover lan interface if-name
lan interface failover
What is an advantage of a LAN-based failover?
It quickly fails over to a peer when a power failure on the active unit takes place.
It does not have the 6-foot-cable distance limitation for failover communication.
It is preconfigured on the PIX Firewall.
All of the above
What is the default failover poll, in seconds?
10 seconds
15 seconds
30 seconds
25 seconds
Which of the following is true about the serial link cable connection in a PIX Firewall failover configuration?
Serial link cable can transfer data at 100 Mbps.
The two units maintain the heartbeat network over the cable.
Network link status is not communicated over the serial link.
Keepalive packets and configuration replication are communicated over the serial link.
The answers to the "Do I Know This Already?" quiz are found in Appendix A, "Answers to the ''''Do I Know This Already?'''' Quizzes and Q&A Sections." The suggested choices for your next step are as follows:
Foundation Topics," "Foundation Summary," and "Q&A" sections.
Foundation Summary" section and then go to the "Q&A" section. Otherwise, move to the next chapter.