Aruba Certified Switching Professional (ACSP) Practice Exam

Aruba Certified Switching Professional (ACSP) Practice Exam

The Aruba Certified Switching Professional (ACSP) exam confirms your ability to deploy and manage enterprise-grade Aruba campus switching solutions. This certification affirms your understanding of the following areas and beyond:

• Implementation of ArubaOS-Switches, encompassing access security, redundancy protocols, link aggregation methods, and switch virtualization utilizing HPE’s Virtual Switching Framework.
• Configuration of dynamic routing protocols such as Open Shortest Path First (OSPF) and Border Gateway Protocol (BGP).
• Management of IP multicast routing.
• Network optimization techniques integrating Quality of Service (QoS) prioritization.
• Network security enhancement through the implementation of Access Control Lists (ACLs) and other relevant security measures.

Who should take the exam?

The exam is most suitable for networking IT professionals who have advanced-level expertise in deploying ArubaOS-CX wired switching solutions. These individuals typically have a minimum of four to five years of overall networking experience, with two years dedicated to interpreting network architectures and customer requirements to install and configure Aruba solutions.

Exam Details

• Exam Code: HPE6-A73
• Exam Name: The Aruba Certified Switching Professional (ACSP)
• Time Duration: 1 hour 30 minutes
• Exam Questions: 60
• Passing Score: 71%
• Exam Language: Latin American Spanish, Japanese, English

The Aruba Certified Switching Professional (ACSP) Exam Course Outline 

The Exam covers the given topics  - 

Domain 1: Learn about planning the wired network solution. 15%

• Given a scenario with a design and/or customer requirements, determine an appropriate implementation plan.

Domain 2: Understand how to Install and configure the wired network solution. 43%

• Install and Configure NetEdit
• Given an implementation plan, explain how to physically configure the switches.
• Given the implementation plan, explain how to configure Layer 2 technologies.
• Given an implementation plan, explain how to configure and validate Layer 3 interfaces, services, routing protocols and overlays.
• Explain multicast features and configuration concepts.
• Explain Aruba Switch security features and configuration concepts.
• Explain QoS Aruba Switch features and configuration concepts. 
• Explain Aruba solutions integration and configuration concepts. 

Domain 3: Understand Troubleshooting the wired network solution. 22%

• Given a scenario, identify a network failure (IP mismatch, VLAN mismatch, hardware configuration or failure, port configuration).
• Given an action plan to remediate an issue, determine the implications to the network state. 
• Given a scenario, determine the cause of the performance problem (QoS issue, Configuration issue HW and Software, end node).

Domain 4: Manage, maintain, optimize, and monitor the wired network solution. 20%

• Given a scenario, determine a strategy to implement configuration management (maintenance, auditing, backup, archiving).
• Analyze data that represents the operational state of a network and determine the appropriate action.