1. Which of the following is not one of the three layers of the new system replacing proprietary class switches?

2. ______________________ communicate with and control a combination of media gateways or IADs, SIP phones, H.323 devices, and application servers.

3. Which of the following are considered softswitch elements?

4. Which of the following is an example of a network element failure scenario?

5. The traditional approach to achieving high availability in stand-alone systems is with fault tolerant hardware.

6. Although redundancy is provided on a separate platform, different versions of software must be executed on the same platform.

7. Softswitches, though critical to implementing the network office, are relatively new to the industry.

8. Which of the following is an element fault?

9. ___________________ are identified as breakdowns of connectivity in the network that prevents the distributed softswitch from functioning properly.

10. A softswitch architecture based upon redundant systems and network redundancy can deliver the high availability required of the critical next-generation network systems.