Free HPE7-A08 Practice Test Questions 2026

While troubleshooting a scenario in which the customer has added two new line cards on an HPE Aruba Networking CX 6400 switch, the LEDs on the line card do not show light on the first card. Which troubleshooting methodology should you use to isolate the problem?

A. Spot the difference by comparing the switch configurations

B. Divide and conquer by swapping the line cards in their slot

C. Follow the path and check the connectivity from the access switch to the CX 6400

D. Replace the configuration using the previous checkpoint on the switch

A junior engineer has configured eBGP between two CX switches (Agg-1 and Agg-2) using the configuration below, and tells you that the neighbors are in the ‘Active’ state.

What can you tell them?

A. When configuring eBGP the AS numbers must match.

B. The eBGP multi-hop feature must be configured.

C. Peering using loopback addresses is not supported.

D. The BGP peers are advertising and learning routes.

You are reviewing the configuration of a VSX LAG and have noticed the command LACP fallback. Why might this have been configured?

A. For operation using a single partner LACP interface.

B. For backward compatibility with LACP v1.

C. To support provisioning a gateway without LACP.

D. To allow operation with active or passive LACP.

Your customer is a large hotel that would like to use a single VLAN per floor and isolate each room's wired network port from the others. Which CX switch feature should you recommend for the simplest solution?

A. VPN

B. UBT

C. PVLAN

D. VXLAN

After configuring IGMP snooping on a Layer 2 VLAN, multicast applications are no longer working. Which additional configuration step is required?

A. Enable IGMP snooping on the Layer 3 interface for the VLAN.

B. Enable IGMP on the Layer 3 interface for the VLAN.

C. Enable PIM-SM on the Layer 3 interface for the VLAN

D. Enable PIM-DM on the Layer 3 interface for the VLAN.

Refer to the exhibit:

Based on the output, which statement is true?

A. The switch is currently managed by local CLI overrides.

B. The switch has a configuration pushed that has changed the default settings

C. The switch is set to auto checkpoint creation for auto-rollback, if configuration push fails

D. The switch requires a commit configuration, once the change is pushed.

When configuring a multicast solution on HPE Aruba Networking CX switches, what needs to be configured on the access switch to enable efficient traffic flow?

A. PIM on VLAN

B. IGMP-snooping on VLAN

C. IGMP on VLAN

D. IGMP-snooping on SVI

What should you configure for an interface connected to a device you cannot trust to assign DSCP markings? (Select two.)

A. Configure "qos trust cos"

B. Apply a classifier-based policy to the interface to assign a Local Priority value

C. Apply a dscp-map to the interface to assign a Local Priority value

D. Configure Weighted Fair Queuing

E. Configure "qos trust none

Your customer’s CX switches are managed in HPE Aruba Networking Central. You plan to deploy new APs connecting to your existing CX switches. Which report can you run to determine if there are enough available ports and PoE capacity?

A. Infra Inventory

B. Switch Capacity Planning

C. Network

D. Resource Utilization

After configuring BFD for OSPF you are receiving monitoring alerts for high CPU utilization on your switches. Based on the configuration below, how should you resolve the issue? Bash bfd ! router ospf 1 bfd all-interfaces

A. Enable ICMP active mode

B. Ensure BFD is enabled on all passive OSPF interfaces

C. Enable BFD echo mode

D. Disable ICMP redirects

With the given output from an HPE Aruba Networking CX 6300:

Which statement about the output above is true?

A. The accepted AS paths are defined in the aspath-list.

B. The defined route-map is used in BGP with neighbor remote-as export.

C. The advertised AS paths are configured in an IP prefix-list.

D. The route-map with aspath-list intended for iBGP peers

You are implementing a directly connected routing plan using OSPF on an HPE Aruba Networking CX 6200 and ISP router. What would be the impact of changing the network type to point-to-point?

A. It will reduce the number of LSA type-2 advertisements

B. A larger number of OSPF routes would be supported

C. It will increase the number of LSA type-3 advertisements

D. The configuration would remain as the default