Free Practice Questions for the Huawei HCSP Presales H19-404_V1.0 Exam (2026 Updated)

Huawei firewalls provide four commonly predefined security zones: Local, Trust, DMZ, and Untrust. The Local zone represents the firewall itself, including traffic generated by or destined for the device, and has the highest default security priority of 100. The Trust zone normally represents an organization’s protected internal network and has a default priority of 85, not 95. Therefore, option C is false.

The DMZ typically hosts public-facing or semi-trusted resources, such as web, email, and application servers. Its default priority is 50, placing it between the trusted internal network and the external untrusted network. The Untrust zone normally represents the Internet or another uncontrolled network and has the lowest predefined priority of 5.

Zone priority expresses the relative security level used to classify inbound and outbound traffic direction; it does not independently permit traffic. Security policies still determine whether matched traffic is allowed or denied. Huawei’s SD-WAN design uses Trust and Untrust zones on CPEs, and iMaster NCE can orchestrate the corresponding zones and firewall policies for Internet-access protection.

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Broadcast TWT, Individual TWT, and Implicit TWT are valid Target Wake Time concepts. Individual TWT establishes a wake schedule between an AP and a specific station. Broadcast TWT advertises scheduling information that multiple stations can use, reducing individual negotiation overhead and coordinating groups of devices. An implicit TWT agreement defines a repeating schedule in which subsequent wake times are calculated from the agreed wake interval instead of being renegotiated for every service period.

These mechanisms allow stations, particularly battery-powered IoT devices, to sleep for predictable periods and wake only when transmission or reception is scheduled. TWT consequently reduces power consumption, channel contention, collisions, and unnecessary medium access in dense WLAN environments. Research describing IEEE 802.11ax TWT confirms that the mechanism schedules station transmission periods and allows stations to remain asleep outside their negotiated service periods.

“Multicast TWT” is not one of the standard TWT concepts represented by this question. Broadcast scheduling can cover multiple stations, but that does not create a separate mechanism formally identified here as Multicast TWT. Therefore, the correct answers are A, B, and C.

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The two IPsec encapsulation modes are transport mode and tunnel mode. In transport mode, IPsec protects the upper-layer payload of the original IP packet while retaining the original IP header as the packet’s outer header. It is commonly associated with end-to-end host communication, although it can also protect a GRE packet between tunnel endpoints.

In tunnel mode, IPsec protects the complete original IP packet and adds a new outer IP header containing the addresses of the IPsec peers. This mode is commonly used between security gateways, routers, or site-to-site VPN endpoints because the original source and destination information can be protected within the encrypted inner packet. RFC 4301 formally defines transport and tunnel as the two IPsec security-association modes.

AH and ESP are not encapsulation modes. They are IPsec security protocols. Authentication Header provides integrity and source authentication but not encryption. Encapsulating Security Payload can provide encryption, integrity, authentication, and anti-replay protection. Either protocol can conceptually operate in transport or tunnel mode, although ESP is overwhelmingly used for encrypted enterprise VPN and SD-WAN data channels.

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The AR5710-S8T1XWE-NRGL supports all four listed 5G-Advanced capabilities. Support for 3GPP Release 16 enables enhanced 5G New Radio functions and provides the standards foundation for improved mobile-WAN capacity, reliability, and service performance.

Carrier aggregation combines multiple component carriers to increase available throughput. Downlink 3CC allows three component carriers to be aggregated for received traffic, while uplink 2CC combines two carriers for transmitted traffic. This is valuable for high-bandwidth branch access, video backhaul, and mobile private-network scenarios.

Support for eight APNs permits multiple logically separated mobile services or provider profiles to be configured. Different APNs can represent enterprise services, management traffic, production systems, backup connectivity, or isolated customer networks. Global-frequency-band support improves deployment flexibility across countries and carrier networks, subject to local spectrum regulation and the supported modem variant.

Huawei SD-WAN can use 5G as a primary, secondary, or bypass link and supports combinations such as dual 5G and 5G plus wired connectivity for service assurance. Therefore, NR Release 16, carrier aggregation, eight APNs, and global frequency bands are all supported.

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The statement is true. iMaster NCE-Campus supports multiple on-premises deployment combinations rather than being restricted exclusively to Huawei-branded physical servers and Huawei virtualization platforms. The training material explicitly lists physical-server deployment using SUSE Linux and a third-party server, as well as virtual-machine deployment using VMware.

The platform can also be deployed using Huawei server and virtualization combinations, including Huawei 2288X servers, EulerOS, FusionCompute, and TaiShan-based environments. The availability of several combinations enables customers to select an architecture consistent with their existing data-center standards, procurement strategy, virtualization environment, and operational requirements.

Huawei nevertheless identifies a recommended platform combination in the training material. A recommendation does not mean that the other listed combinations are unsupported; it identifies the preferred configuration for standardized deployment and support. The material displays third-party server plus SUSE Linux and VMware-based virtual-machine deployment as valid alternatives while recommending Huawei 2288X V5 plus EulerOS.

The deployment must still satisfy the specified CPU, memory, storage, network-interface, software-version, and compatibility requirements. Therefore, the statement is True.

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The capabilities introduced with Wi-Fi 7 are 4096-QAM and channel bandwidth of up to 320 MHz. Wi-Fi 7, based on IEEE 802.11be Extremely High Throughput, doubles the maximum channel width available under Wi-Fi 6 and Wi-Fi 6E from 160 MHz to 320 MHz where sufficient regulatory spectrum is available. It also introduces 4096-QAM, encoding 12 bits per modulation symbol compared with 10 bits for Wi-Fi 6’s 1024-QAM. This can increase peak spectral efficiency when the signal-to-noise ratio is sufficiently high.

The other options were available before Wi-Fi 7. Support for up to eight spatial streams existed in earlier IEEE 802.11 generations, and MU-MIMO was already supported before Wi-Fi 7, with major uplink and downlink enhancements delivered by Wi-Fi 6. The 6 GHz band was commercially introduced through Wi-Fi 6E. Huawei’s material specifically describes Wi-Fi 6E as extending Wi-Fi 6 into the 6 GHz spectrum. Wi-Fi 7 continues using 6 GHz but did not introduce it. Therefore, only A and C are correct.

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Non-authenticated terminals can access a virtual network by using statically configured VLANs. Such terminals may include printers, cameras, sensors, industrial devices, and other dumb terminals that cannot perform 802.1X, Portal, or comparable interactive authentication. Their access interfaces and service VLANs are therefore configured in advance and mapped to the required VN.

Dynamic VLAN authorization requires a completed authentication or identification process. Normally, an authentication server returns a VLAN or other authorization attribute after validating the user or terminal. Because the question specifically refers to non-authenticated terminals, dynamically authorizing a VLAN is not the applicable mechanism. The wired-mode and wireless-mode authorization options are likewise associated with authentication-based policy delivery rather than unconditional VN access.

Huawei’s VN design guidance states that LAN-side physical interfaces and VLANs are assigned to the appropriate departments or services and then associated with corresponding VRFs or VNs. It also explains that a department may use an independent physical interface or share an interface while maintaining isolation through VLANs. Therefore, configuring a static VLAN is the correct method.

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Enabling the GRE checksum is optional. A functional point-to-point GRE tunnel requires a tunnel interface, GRE as the tunnel protocol, and reachable source and destination tunnel endpoints. The source identifies the local interface or IP address used to construct the delivery header, while the destination identifies the remote GRE endpoint. Without these endpoint parameters, the device cannot correctly encapsulate and deliver packets to the peer.

The checksum field is controlled by the Checksum Present bit in the GRE header. When checksum processing is enabled, the sender includes a checksum covering the GRE header and payload, and the receiver verifies it. This can provide additional corruption detection, but it increases processing and is not required for basic GRE operation. RFC 2784 explicitly labels the checksum field as optional and states that it is present only when the Checksum Present bit is set.

Huawei SD-WAN uses GRE or GRE over IPsec to establish data channels between edge devices. The essential tunnel and transport-network information is distributed through the control system, while optional GRE functions such as checksum validation may be enabled according to operational requirements.

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An industrial RedBox can provide all four listed interconnection modes. In HSR-SAN mode, it connects a singly attached node that does not natively support High-availability Seamless Redundancy to an HSR network. The RedBox duplicates frames entering the HSR domain and removes duplicate frames before delivering traffic to the SAN.

HSR-PRP mode interconnects an HSR ring with a Parallel Redundancy Protocol network while preserving seamless redundancy. PRP-PRP mode couples two PRP network domains, while HSR-HSR mode connects separate HSR rings. Depending on the implementation, the HSR-HSR interconnection function may also be described as a QuadBox function because four HSR-facing ports can be involved.

The essential RedBox responsibilities are frame conversion, duplication, duplicate elimination, sequence-number handling, and prevention of unintended forwarding loops between redundancy domains. HSR and PRP use compatible duplicate-identification principles, enabling controlled interconnection between these network types without introducing a single point of failure. RedBoxes also provide redundant connectivity for devices that have only one ordinary Ethernet interface.

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After identifying a terminal, iMaster NCE-Campus can use the identification result for security monitoring, visibility, and policy automation. Spoofing detection is supported because the platform can compare a terminal’s current type and traffic behavior with its previously identified characteristics. For example, if a device originally identified as an IP phone suddenly behaves like a PC, the system can generate a spoofing alarm or apply an isolation policy.

Terminal identification also supports statistics and reporting by vendor, operating system, device category, access port, and policy status. Huawei explicitly describes terminal-type statistics, report export, and visibility of access policies.

In addition, iMaster NCE-Campus can automatically deliver VLAN, security-group, QoS, authentication, and access-permission policies according to the identified terminal type. Option B is incorrect because wired authentication is an admission process, not a service produced after terminal identification. Therefore, A, C, and D are correct.

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APs support barcode scanning through the CloudCampus APP, DHCP Option 148–based deployment, and deployment through Huawei’s registration query center. With barcode scanning, the installer scans the AP’s label using the CloudCampus APP. The application obtains information such as the electronic serial number and MAC address, associates the AP with the correct tenant and site, and allows the AP to register with iMaster NCE.

With DHCP Option 148, the DHCP server supplies the AP with its IP configuration and the IP address and port number of iMaster NCE. The AP changes to cloud-management mode and automatically initiates registration. Huawei lists AR routers, switches, and APs as supported devices for this mode.

The registration query center can also provide the controller address after the AP contacts Huawei’s query service. It supports APs together with ARs, firewalls, and switches. Email-based deployment is primarily an SD-WAN CPE or AR-router ZTP method, not an AP deployment mode. Therefore, A, C, and D are correct.

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iMaster NCE-Campus primarily improves the operations and maintenance experience in this solution. It provides centralized planning, deployment, configuration, policy orchestration, monitoring, topology management, device management, alarm handling, and maintenance through a unified graphical interface.

Instead of configuring each switch, AP, WAC, firewall, or router separately, administrators can define services and policies centrally and deliver them across the network. Huawei states that iMaster NCE-Campus provides integrated LAN and WAN management, integrated deployment, integrated policies, and integrated O & M, thereby improving deployment and O & M efficiency. It also provides network monitoring, service alarms, file management, log management, device maintenance, user management, and virtual-network management from one platform.

Wireless, wired, and application experience analysis is more directly associated with iMaster NCE-CampusInsight, which uses telemetry, AI, protocol tracing, and predictive analysis to quantify user and application experience. iMaster NCE-Campus serves as the management and control platform that simplifies administrators’ daily work. Therefore, the experience specifically improved by iMaster NCE-Campus is the O & M experience, making option C correct.

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The statement is false because Huawei SD-WAN supports both priority-based link selection and load balancing. Multiple Internet or WAN links do not have to be treated equally. An administrator can define a preferred or primary link and designate another link as secondary or backup according to application requirements, link quality, cost, bandwidth, or operational policy.

For delay- and packet-loss-sensitive services such as voice and video, a higher-quality link can be configured as the primary path and another link as the backup. If the primary link no longer satisfies the configured SLA thresholds, traffic can be dynamically switched to a better path. Huawei’s material explicitly describes primary and secondary link selection based on SLA and also presents load-balancing-based steering as a separate option.

Load balancing is useful when an enterprise wants to utilize the bandwidth of multiple links concurrently. Priority-based active/standby forwarding is preferable when one provider offers better quality or when one circuit should be reserved for critical services. Intelligent traffic steering can additionally consider application priority and current bandwidth utilization. Therefore, multiple links can be prioritized, load-balanced, or used in a policy-controlled combination, making option B correct.

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All four options are recognized terminal identification methods. MAC OUI examines the first three bytes of a device’s MAC address to determine its manufacturer, although it generally cannot identify the exact model or operating system. DHCP option identification analyzes fields such as DHCP options 12, 55, and 60, which can reveal the hostname, parameter-request list, vendor class, and other terminal characteristics. SNMP query is an active identification method that retrieves device details from relevant MIB objects and is particularly useful for printers, network devices, and other SNMP-capable equipment.

Nmap is also an active scanning method. It analyzes open ports, service responses, protocol behavior, and operating-system fingerprints to estimate a terminal’s device type and OS. Huawei distinguishes information-reporting methods from proactive scanning methods: MAC OUI and DHCP options generally use information observed in traffic, whereas SNMP and Nmap actively query or scan the endpoint. iMaster NCE-Campus can correlate multiple fingerprints to improve identification accuracy and automatically apply terminal-specific access policies.

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The statement is false. In Parallel Redundancy Protocol, LAN A and LAN B must remain two separate, failure-independent networks. A PRP RedBox connects a singly attached node or conventional network to both parallel LANs and behaves toward the PRP network like a doubly attached node. It duplicates outgoing frames and transmits one copy through each PRP port. For incoming traffic, it accepts the first valid copy and discards the later duplicate before forwarding the frame through its interlink port.

The RedBox must not operate as a normal bridge that directly forwards frames from its LAN A port to its LAN B port. Doing so would connect the two redundant LANs, potentially creating loops, duplicate propagation, broadcast amplification, and a common failure path. That would defeat the fundamental PRP requirement that failure or disruption in one LAN must not affect the other.

The original video contains the typing error “PPR RedBox”; the correct term is PRP RedBox , meaning Parallel Redundancy Protocol Redundancy Box. PRP topology requires two separate networks with no direct links between them, while the RedBox provides controlled redundant attachment for non-PRP devices.

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