Documentation and Processes

Question 1

What is IPAM and what does it do?

Answer 1

IP Address Management (IPAM) is a suite of tools used to plan, track, and manage IP address space. It aids in network performance analysis, detection, and reporting by centralizing IP data and improving visibility across the infrastructure.

Question 2

MTTR

Answer 2

Mean Time To Repair (MTTR) Average time to repair a network device after failure.

Question 3

MTBF

Answer 3

Mean Time Between Failures (MTBF) Average time between failures on a device.

Question 4

MTD

Answer 4

Maximum Tolerable Downtime (MTD) Longest period a business can be down without causing failure.

Question 5

RTO

Answer 5

Recovery Time Objective (RTO) Time taken to resume normal business operations.

Question 6

RPO

Answer 6

Recovery Point Objective (RPO) Longest tolerable period of data loss.

Question 7

You’re having trouble keeping network device records up to date manually. What feature can simplify this and reduce errors?

Answer 7

Dynamic inventories — they auto-discover and update network devices, eliminating the need for manual inventory management.

Question 8

How do you calculate the Mean Time Between Failures (MTBF) for a cluster of devices?

Answer 8

(48 hrs*64 hosts)/2 fialures=1536

it measures the average time between failures across all devices in the system.