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Question 60

Refer to the exhibit.

A collaboration engineer needs to replace the original, single NTP server that was configured during the initial install of a Cisco UCM server. What is the first step to accomplish this task?

    Correct Answer: A

    The first step to replace an NTP server in a Cisco Unified Communications Manager (UCM) environment is to ensure the NTP service is stopped. This ensures that there is no synchronization activity taking place while making configuration changes, which helps in preventing inconsistencies or errors during the process. Once the NTP service is stopped, you can proceed with adding the new NTP server, configuring it if necessary, and then restarting the service to begin synchronization with the newly configured servers.

Discussion
PijiOption: D

I am not agree with ciscogeek's answer, and the correct answer is D. If you look at the exhibit on the "utils ntp status", it shows two original servers installed. And if you ready the question carefully, there is a "," after "original,", which means, from two original NTP servers, only single NTP server needs to be delete. So you can delete a single NTP server from the two listed NTP servers. However, even if there is only one server, you can’t enable authentication for the new NTP server, you need first add it, then enable it with command “utils ntp auth symmetric-key enable” which you get prompt to select for enable the authentication for the listed servers: admin:utils ntp auth symmetric-key enable At the end, nothing in the question mentioned about NTP authentication, as you can see authentication report with the following command: admin:utils ntp auth symmetric-key status

MeowthL

Agreed with you

ciscogeekOption: B

Original, Single NTP Server cannot be deleted unless there are two or more NTP servers. Hence we need to add one NTP server, before being able to delete the available NTP server as question says a 'single' NTP server is currently available.

movalleuu

on the exhibit, there are 2 ntp servers configured on CUCM already

b3532e4Option: C

Just C

OSJAYOption: D

Still in doubt but I would agree with Piji. Q says there was a single original NTP server and we see 2 of them. That means the new one has already been configured and you need to Delete the original one. Or am I seeing this wrong? What makes it more confusing is that the Q asks "what is the first step". Hope I don't get this one in my upcoming test.