H19-404_V1.0 HCSE-Presales-Campus Network Planning and Design V1.0 Questions and Answers

Option C is false. Traditional QoS can classify traffic and provide differentiated treatment for service categories such as voice, video, and ordinary data. It normally performs classification, marking, policing, shaping, congestion avoidance, and queue scheduling on an interface. This provides service-level differentiation but does not deliver sufficiently refined simultaneous management across multiple users and multiple applications.

Huawei’s material explicitly states that traditional QoS schedules traffic based on port bandwidth and can differentiate traffic according to service levels, but it is difficult to distinguish traffic by user. It also states that traditional QoS cannot manage and schedule traffic from multiple services and multiple users simultaneously.

HQoS addresses this limitation through hierarchical, multi-level queues. For example, a parent level can allocate bandwidth to departments, VPNs, sites, or users, while child queues prioritize applications such as voice, video, email, and best-effort traffic. Huawei describes HQoS as hierarchical scheduling that differentiates both services and users. Therefore, statements A, B, and D are correct, while statement C incorrectly attributes an HQoS capability to traditional QoS.

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A border device, or more precisely a device at a border site, provides communication between different areas in a hierarchical SD-WAN topology. The hierarchical model divides a large WAN into multiple areas. Each area can independently use a hub-spoke or full-mesh topology, while selected border sites connect the local area to a centralized backbone area.

When a non-border site receives a route originating in another area, the route’s next-hop site ID is changed to the border site in its own area. The local border device then forwards traffic toward the border site in the destination area or toward an interconnected hub site. Ordinary edge devices provide connectivity for their own sites but do not automatically perform cross-area transit.

Huawei describes border sites as members of both the level-2 area network and the level-1 backbone network. These sites collectively implement interconnection between areas. Huawei further explains that inter-area routes point to border sites and recommends two border sites operating in active/standby mode for reliability. Therefore, the correct answer is B.

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An AP’s transmit power must be maintained within an appropriate range. Excessive power does not automatically improve service quality. A high-power AP can enlarge its interference domain, create co-channel or adjacent-channel interference, produce asymmetric uplink and downlink coverage, and cause sticky-client behavior because a station continues hearing an AP even when its weaker transmission cannot reliably reach that AP. Huawei states that high-power APs can interfere with adjacent APs and that radio calibration dynamically adjusts AP channels, power, and frequency bands to ensure coverage while minimizing interference.

Conversely, power that is too low creates coverage holes, weak received signal strength, low modulation rates, retransmissions, and roaming instability. When a new AP is added, neighboring APs may reduce their transmit power to limit interference. When an AP goes offline, neighboring APs may increase power to compensate for the missing coverage. The engineering objective is therefore neither maximum nor minimum power, but sufficient coverage with controlled overlap and minimum interference. Accordingly, option B is correct.

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The statement is false because “AP” is a generic term covering several operating architectures. A Fit AP requires a WAC, and a cloud-managed AP is centrally managed through iMaster NCE-Campus. However, a Fat AP is autonomous: it can operate and be configured independently without a centralized controller. Huawei also describes the leader AP architecture, in which a capable AP integrates part of the WAC functionality, operates independently, and manages a limited number of Fit APs.

Therefore, the absolute claim that an AP cannot work independently is technically incorrect. The correct interpretation depends on the AP mode. Fit APs depend on a WAC or leader AP for centralized configuration and CAPWAP-based management, whereas Fat APs provide local control and forwarding. Huawei explicitly states that the Fat AP architecture is autonomous and requires no additional centralized control device. Because at least one recognized AP architecture operates independently, the correct answer is False.

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The statement is true. AI-based energy-saving systems analyze historical traffic and usage patterns to predict periods of low network demand. Ordinary AP radios or access devices can then enter an energy-saving state when their capacity is not required, while surrounding devices maintain sufficient coverage and service availability.

IoT APs, however, may host continuously operating IoT cards, sensors, electronic shelf-label services, Bluetooth location functions, RFID services, healthcare devices, or asset-tracking terminals. Placing such an AP into an energy-saving or hibernation state could interrupt more than ordinary Wi-Fi connectivity. It could also disable an IoT module’s power supply, management channel, data backhaul, or persistent sensing function. Huawei’s Wi-Fi and IoT convergence architecture uses APs as shared locations, power sources, and communication channels for IoT services.

Huawei also applies intelligent technologies to analyze AP load trends and perform predictive network optimization. The safer default is therefore to exclude IoT APs from automatic energy-saving actions unless the administrator confirms that their attached IoT services tolerate interruption. Accordingly, the answer is True.

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Huawei switches’ unauthorized access prevention function can prevent users from connecting unauthorized hubs and sharing network access through unauthorized Wi-Fi hotspots. An unauthorized hub allows multiple terminals to enter the network through a port intended for a single managed endpoint. This can bypass normal terminal-count limitations, admission controls, and access-policy enforcement.

Unauthorized Wi-Fi hotspot sharing occurs when a user connects an authenticated endpoint to the enterprise network and then enables hotspot or connection-sharing functionality. Other terminals can subsequently access the network through that endpoint without completing the required authentication process. Huawei switches can analyze terminal behavior, MAC-address relationships, packet characteristics, and access patterns to identify and restrict this behavior.

A USB flash drive is a local storage device and does not provide Ethernet network access, so option A is unrelated to switch-based unauthorized network access prevention. An unauthorized router is normally controlled through device identification, NAC, port security, or explicit access policies rather than the specific hub and hotspot-sharing prevention function described by this question.

Huawei intelligent terminal management combines terminal identification, authorization, traffic analysis, and bogus-terminal detection to achieve visualized access and prevent unauthorized connectivity.

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Option B is false because a station retains its original IP address during Layer 3 roaming. Preserving the IP address is essential for maintaining active application sessions when the station moves between APs associated with different service VLANs, Layer 2 domains, and gateways. Huawei’s training diagram shows the same station IP address before and after roaming, while the service VLAN changes.

When the STA initially accesses the WLAN, a Home AP or HAP is selected for it. After the STA roams to a Foreign AP, the new AP obtains the station information and establishes the required forwarding relationship with the HAP. In direct-forwarding implementations, the STA’s traffic is encapsulated and forwarded to the HAP, which preserves access through the original network and gateway.

Therefore, A and C accurately describe HAP-based Layer 3 roaming. Option D is also correct: the APs use the same SSID and authentication mode but different service VLANs. The station’s IP address does not change, so B is the false statement.

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After identifying a terminal, iMaster NCE-Campus can use the identification result for security monitoring, visibility, and policy automation. Spoofing detection is supported because the platform can compare a terminal’s current type and traffic behavior with its previously identified characteristics. For example, if a device originally identified as an IP phone suddenly behaves like a PC, the system can generate a spoofing alarm or apply an isolation policy.

Terminal identification also supports statistics and reporting by vendor, operating system, device category, access port, and policy status. Huawei explicitly describes terminal-type statistics, report export, and visibility of access policies.

In addition, iMaster NCE-Campus can automatically deliver VLAN, security-group, QoS, authentication, and access-permission policies according to the identified terminal type. Option B is incorrect because wired authentication is an admission process, not a service produced after terminal identification. Therefore, A, C, and D are correct.

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The two IPsec encapsulation modes are transport mode and tunnel mode. In transport mode, IPsec protects the upper-layer payload of the original IP packet while retaining the original IP header as the packet’s outer header. It is commonly associated with end-to-end host communication, although it can also protect a GRE packet between tunnel endpoints.

In tunnel mode, IPsec protects the complete original IP packet and adds a new outer IP header containing the addresses of the IPsec peers. This mode is commonly used between security gateways, routers, or site-to-site VPN endpoints because the original source and destination information can be protected within the encrypted inner packet. RFC 4301 formally defines transport and tunnel as the two IPsec security-association modes.

AH and ESP are not encapsulation modes. They are IPsec security protocols. Authentication Header provides integrity and source authentication but not encryption. Encapsulating Security Payload can provide encryption, integrity, authentication, and anti-replay protection. Either protocol can conceptually operate in transport or tunnel mode, although ESP is overwhelmingly used for encrypted enterprise VPN and SD-WAN data channels.

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The distinguishing function supported by the AR6177 is VDSL. VDSL, or Very-high-bit-rate Digital Subscriber Line, enables a branch router to obtain WAN connectivity over existing copper telephone infrastructure. It is appropriate for small branches and distributed sites where Ethernet private lines, fiber, or mobile connections are unavailable or commercially impractical.

The AR6177 can terminate the VDSL access circuit and provide routing, NAT, DHCP, VPN, and other branch-gateway functions for the connected LAN. In this single-answer question, Wi-Fi and PoE are not the defining integrated capabilities of the AR6177 model. Similarly, the complete combination of IPS, antivirus, and URL filtering belongs to a security-enhanced product profile rather than the function used to distinguish the AR6177.

Huawei’s campus design material recognizes DSL links as a specific WAN-access category and notes that deployments involving complex or low-speed links, including DSL, may require an appropriate branch-device deployment method. The model is therefore selected when direct VDSL-based WAN access is required. Consequently, VDSL is the supported capability intended by this question, and option C is correct.

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For the R024C10 software release specified in the question, the AR6700V-L cannot be deployed on Google Cloud Platform. The supported environments represented by this release and question are Amazon Web Services, Oracle Cloud, and Microsoft Azure.

Public-cloud support for a virtual CPE is release-specific. A virtual router requires more than generic virtual-machine compatibility. Huawei must provide or validate the appropriate cloud image, virtual network-interface drivers, deployment template, bootstrap mechanism, licensing integration, resource specifications, and controller-registration process for each cloud platform. Therefore, support for one KVM- or VMware-based environment does not automatically mean that every public-cloud provider is supported.

A cloud-hosted virtual CPE enables branches to establish overlay connectivity directly with cloud workloads and allows the controller to provide unified management and policy orchestration for physical and virtual edge devices. Huawei describes this model as deploying a virtual SD-WAN router on a public cloud to implement branch-to-cloud interconnection and unified policy orchestration. Under the R024C10 compatibility matrix tested by this question, GCP is excluded. Therefore, option B is correct.

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A-FEC, or Adaptive Forward Error Correction, is the correct technology. It protects delay-sensitive traffic by adding calculated redundant packets to the original packet stream. If some original packets are lost during WAN transmission, the receiving edge device can reconstruct them using the surviving original and redundant packets rather than waiting for end-to-end retransmission.

The key distinction between ordinary FEC and A-FEC is adaptation. With A-FEC, the receiving device reports real-time packet-loss and continuous-loss information to the transmitting device through FEC acknowledgement messages. The transmitting edge then dynamically increases or decreases the redundancy ratio according to actual network conditions. This provides stronger recovery during severe loss while avoiding unnecessary bandwidth overhead when link quality improves. Huawei describes this feedback-controlled adjustment as a mechanism that can alleviate or eliminate the impact of packet loss.

IFIT and IPCA are primarily measurement and service-quality analysis technologies; they do not reconstruct lost video packets. Fixed FEC does not adapt its redundancy level as effectively to changing loss conditions. Therefore, the technology intended for smooth video under packet loss of up to 20% is A-FEC.

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The statement is true. iMaster NCE-Campus supports multiple on-premises deployment combinations rather than being restricted exclusively to Huawei-branded physical servers and Huawei virtualization platforms. The training material explicitly lists physical-server deployment using SUSE Linux and a third-party server, as well as virtual-machine deployment using VMware.

The platform can also be deployed using Huawei server and virtualization combinations, including Huawei 2288X servers, EulerOS, FusionCompute, and TaiShan-based environments. The availability of several combinations enables customers to select an architecture consistent with their existing data-center standards, procurement strategy, virtualization environment, and operational requirements.

Huawei nevertheless identifies a recommended platform combination in the training material. A recommendation does not mean that the other listed combinations are unsupported; it identifies the preferred configuration for standardized deployment and support. The material displays third-party server plus SUSE Linux and VMware-based virtual-machine deployment as valid alternatives while recommending Huawei 2288X V5 plus EulerOS.

The deployment must still satisfy the specified CPU, memory, storage, network-interface, software-version, and compatibility requirements. Therefore, the statement is True.

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Huawei SD-WAN supports full-mesh, hub-spoke, and partial-mesh interconnection models. In a full-mesh topology, every site can communicate directly with the other sites. This model minimizes intermediate forwarding and is appropriate when branches frequently exchange latency-sensitive traffic such as voice, video, or collaborative application data.

In a hub-spoke topology, branch sites communicate with a central headquarters or data-center hub. Branch-to-branch traffic normally traverses that hub. The model is simple, scalable, and suitable for enterprises whose applications and shared resources are concentrated at headquarters.

Partial-mesh is used when most sites can communicate directly but some sites lack direct underlay connectivity or do not require direct tunnels. Those sites can communicate through a redirect or intermediate site. Huawei describes full-mesh, hub-spoke, and partial-mesh as supported topology designs and explains the role of a redirect site in partial-mesh networking.

“Partial-spoke” is not a defined SD-WAN topology model. A spoke is a role within hub-spoke networking rather than an independent partial-spoke topology. Therefore, A, B, and D are correct.

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Professional security devices should be deployed at the headquarters or another centralized Internet-access site. Under centralized Internet access, branch Internet traffic is first carried through the SD-WAN overlay to the centralized gateway. The headquarters security infrastructure then performs access control and security inspection before forwarding the traffic to the Internet.

This approach is appropriate when branch CPEs lack sufficient processing capacity or advanced security functions. A centralized firewall or dedicated security platform can provide intrusion prevention, antivirus inspection, URL filtering, application control, content security, and unified logging. It also allows the enterprise to enforce one consistent security policy instead of maintaining separate advanced configurations at every branch.

Deploying advanced security capabilities on each CPE, as proposed in option C, is a distributed local-breakout design and does not satisfy the stated limitation concerning security-processing capability. Third-party cloud security services can be used in some site-to-cloud or secure Internet-access architectures, but they are not the intended headquarters-based centralized solution in this question.

Huawei explicitly states that centralized Internet traffic is diverted to the centralized access site and that the firewall function is deployed there to secure Internet services. Therefore, option D is correct.

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