What is a Cisco best practice for deploying switches?
- When a server connects to a switch, the switch port should have the port speed manually configured, but the autonegotiation feature used for duplex.
- A compound word should be used as a password on an infrastructure network device such as a switch.
- Telnet should be used whenever possible on the switch vty lines.
- The enable secret password should be used when configuring a switch to use SSH on the vty lines.
Explanation: Gigabit Ethernet and 10Gb Ethernet NICs can only run in full duplex. Speed should be manually configured on a port that has an important device such as a server. A network engineer would not want to chance the autonegotiation configuring a slower speed. No normal word (whether compound or not) should be used as a password. Passwords should include uppercase and lowercase letters as well as special symbols. SSH is the preferred method of remote connectivity for a switch.
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