About the Exam

This exam is the certification assessment for HPE Aruba Networking Certified Professional - Campus Access Architect. It covers gathering and analyzing customer requirements, mapping them to technical solutions, creating wired and wireless topologies, designing RF coverage, and selecting the appropriate technologies for campus access designs. It is aimed at networking professionals who design enterprise HPE Aruba Networking campus access solutions, and passing demonstrates expert knowledge and skills to build those solutions for customer needs.

Exam Topics

  • Discover customers' requirements23%
  • Analyze requirements30%
  • Architect the solution30%
  • Propose the solution17%
  • New technologies0%

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QuestionQ1

Analyze requirements

Under which condition is a Mode Conditioning Patch Cable necessary?

  • A A 1000Base-SX Transceiver is operated with 62.5/125 cables up to 500 m.
  • B A 1000Base-LX Transceiver is operated with 62.5/125 cables up to 500 m.
  • C A 10GBase-LX4 Transceiver is operated with 62.5/125 cables up to 2 km.
  • D A 10GBase-LR Transceiver is operated with 62.5/125 cables up to 500 m.
Explanation

A mode-conditioning patch cable is required for a 1000BASE-LX/LH transceiver connected to 62.5/125 µm multimode fiber, particularly for link distances beyond 300 m. It offsets the laser launch into legacy multimode fiber to avoid transmission errors caused by differential mode delay.

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QuestionQ2

Propose the solution

A large multinational financial institution has engaged you to design a new full-stack wired and wireless network for its new 6-story regional office building. The bottom two floors of the facility will provide retail space for a large banking branch. The upper floors will be carpeted corporate office space, with each floor approximately 100,000 sq ft (9290 sq m). All data centers are offsite and outside this project’s scope. The customer is inadequately served by its existing L2-based network infrastructure and wants to use modern best practices in the new design. The network must be fully resilient and fault-tolerant, with dynamic segmentation at the edge.

The retail space will offer public guest Wi-Fi access. Retail associates will use corporate tablets for customer service, and the retail floors will contain a mix of wired and wireless devices. Corporate users will mainly connect wirelessly, although several wired clients, printers, and hard VoIP phones will also be used.

The customer also plans to renovate the corporate office space to take advantage of “smart office” technology. These enhancements will enable blue-dot wayfinding, presence analytics, and other location-based services.

The client wants redundant RADIUS resources in each of its three geographic regions: AMER, EMEA, and APAC. A large office location in each region has sufficient VMware resources available.

Each region has between 4,481 and 5,692 clients, all of which must perform either 802.1X wired or wireless authentication, as well as 802.1X authentication for one personal Wi-Fi device.

All non-personal devices must also validate health using a local agent.

A total of 500 guests are expected to be connected on average, with a maximum of 700 simultaneous connections using Guest Portal for Internet access.

TACACS authentication will also be configured for 1200 evenly distributed NADs.

How many OnGuard Licenses are required in this scenario?

  • A 5,000
  • B 25,000
  • C 35,000
  • D 15,000
Explanation

ClearPass OnGuard licensing is consumed per device for devices using OnGuard health validation over a 24-hour period. Planning for 5,692 non-personal devices in each of AMER, EMEA, and APAC requires coverage for 17,076 devices. The 25,000-license tier is the smallest listed quantity that satisfies this requirement; personal devices, guest connections, and TACACS NADs do not require OnGuard health-validation licenses.

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QuestionQ3

Propose the solution

XYZ Regional Hospital is an integrated healthcare system comprising hospitals, neighborhood health centers, and small doctor offices. XYZ Regional Hospital has recently merged with 4x neighborhood health centers and 125 doctor branch offices. Its wireless, wired access, and AAA solutions are outdated and must be replaced.

XYZ Regional Hospital wants to future-proof and improve efficiency at all sites by enhancing wired and wireless access and moving to centralized, unified wired/wireless and policy management that delivers uninterrupted availability of all systems.

Locations:

  • XYZ Regional Hospital is located in New York City
  • Dila Health Center is located in City A
  • Mount Health Center is located in City B
  • Rock Health Center is located in City C
  • Branch clinics are located at different locations across the United States

Requirements:

  • Provide, through management software, a single pane of glass to manage wired and wireless LANs and VPNs across campus, branch, and remote environments through a web/cloud architecture that provides near-real-time insight, troubleshooting tools, and Service Level performance reporting.
  • Seamless integration across wired, wireless, WAN, SD-Branch, and IoT
  • Provide secure wireless access for all Regional Hospital employees and partners, and wireless Internet access for medical citizens when they visit the facilities.
  • All access points must support these features and specifications: 802.11 ax (Wi-Fi 6E Certified)
  • Security options including WP2/WPA3 and 802.1X with Radius secure authentication
  • Identify and authenticate every wireless and wired device
  • End-to-end role-based security
  • Seamless mobility across the hospital for medical teams, patients, and visitors
  • Cut Wi-Fi deployment times from days to hours and enable Zero-Touch deployments across the site
  • Establish a resilient, future-ready network infrastructure with the intelligence, scalability, and intuitive toolsets to meet emerging needs
  • Fully redundant branch solution with dynamic path selection to the hospital

The hospital IT director is concerned that branch clinics will lack an onsite resource to troubleshoot issues that may arise and wants a solution that enables the hospital IT team to proactively monitor the branch offices.

Requirements:

  • Monitor wireless and wired connections
  • Provide an end-to-end experience view that identifies points of failure
  • Proactively troubleshoot issues that affect application performance

What is the correct solution?

  • A Client Insight
  • B AirWave
  • C HPE Aruba Networking User Experience Insight
  • D HPE Aruba Networking ClearPass Device Insight
Explanation

HPE Aruba Networking User Experience Insight is a digital experience monitoring solution for campus, branch, and remote environments. Its sensors and agents continuously test wired and wireless connectivity, network services, and internal or external applications from an end-user perspective. Its cloud dashboard supplies end-to-end visibility, identifies faults, and provides proactive alerts and troubleshooting for application-performance issues, including at sites without onsite IT staff.

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QuestionQ4

New technologies

What distinguishes OM4 cabling from OM5 cabling?

Choose two
  • A OМ5 supports speeds up to 100 Gbps, while OM4 does not.
  • B OM5 is approved as Wide Band Multimode Fiber (WBMMF), while OM4 is not.
  • C OM4 supports distances up to 100 m. while OM5 supports distances up to 150 m using 100 GBps transceivers.
  • D OM5 supports Multiplexing operating in the 850 to 950 nm range, while OM4 does not.
Explanation

OM5 is the approved designation for Wide Band Multimode Fiber (WBMMF). It meets OM4 specifications at 850 nm and adds bandwidth characterization around 953 nm, allowing 100G BiDi or SWDM optical links to reach up to 150 m, compared with 100 m on OM4. OM4 may still be used with SWDM, although its specified wideband performance and achievable reach are lower.

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QuestionQ5

Propose the solution

You are taking part in a joint technical and business review with a customer that plans to deploy HPE Aruba Networking User Experience Insight (UXI) across multiple sites. The customer has a large campus with several buildings and smaller remote offices, and is assessing UXI as part of its digital-experience monitoring strategy.

During the review, the technical team is concentrating on deployment best practices and technical capabilities, while business stakeholders are concerned about deployment efficiency, cost justification, and ensuring the sensors deliver actionable visibility throughout the environment.

You are asked to provide validated deployment guidance and correct any misconceptions about UXI capabilities and deployment options.

What is a valid recommendation for UXI deployment options?

  • A Sensors should be installed at the finished ceiling level, not above the false ceiling.
  • B Sensors can test up to 4 wired and 4 wireless networks per test cycle.
  • C Sensors should be deployed in approximately a 1:5 to 1:8 UXI to AP ratio at the campus.
  • D Each UXI test cycle can support up to a maximum of 10 configured tests.
Explanation

HPE Aruba Networking’s validated campus design guidance recommends deploying UXI sensors at an approximate 1:5–8 UXI-sensor-to-AP ratio in a base design, with one sensor per small-building floor as an alternative guideline. This placement is intended to represent end-user experience rather than test every individual AP.

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