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Which method of device management uses box-by-box management?

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Traditional

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What are some advantages of using a Cisco DNA Center for device management over a traditional approach?

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GUI-based network control facilitating network design and dynamic topology visualization, centralized management and control, AI to assist in troubleshooting problems

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What are two benefits of network automation?

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Cost reduction
Less time troubleshooting
Configuration consistency
Elastic scaling

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What type of device management features a centralized management dashboard and automation to facilitate intent-based networking?

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Cisco DNA center

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What is a purpose of the Cisco DNA Center controller?

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To manage and deploy network devices securely, for automation of devices and services

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What is a benefit of a Cisco DNA Center over traditional campus management?

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Centralized management
Centralized control of initial configurations
Using SNMP/telemetry to gather data
SDKs that support interaction with third party devices
REST APIs that allow external applications to interact natively

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In a Cisco DNA Center environment, what happens when you add, import, or discover a device?

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The device is put in a managed state and assigns it to the Global site by default

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What are some common languages and protocols for network automation?

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NETCONF/YANG
RESTCONF/YANG
OpenFLow
Cisco OpFlex
REST APIs

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What approach does Cisco use to controller-based networking?

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Declarative approach
Controller declares the requirements of the applications and the network devices decide how to translate that into functional access

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What is the imperative approach to controller-based networking?

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The control plane logic resides in the controller, and the controller has complete control over programing the forwarding path of devices

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In SDN, what does the data plane do?

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Forwards user data/traffic from one interface to another

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What do Southbound APIs do?

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Facilitate control over the network and enable the SDN controller to dynamically make changes according to real-time demands and needs

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What is accomplished in SDN?

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Centralizes the control plane into an application called a controller

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Which API is used for communications between the controller and the network devices it controls?

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South-bound

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What do North-bound APIs do?

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Allow us to interact with the controller via our scripts and applications

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What is the control layer in SDN architecture?

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Contains the SDN controller that receives and processes instructions from the application layer

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What is the application layer in SDN architecture?

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Contains scripts/applications that tell the SDN controller what network behaviors are desired

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What is the infrastructure layer in SDN architecture?

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Contains network devices that are responsible for forwarding messages across the network

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What is an example of a southbound API?

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NETCONF
OnePK
OpenFlow
OpFlex

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What is an example of a northbound API?

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REST
OSGi
SOAP

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What are some protocols that take place in the control plane?

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EIGRP
OSPF

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What are some protocols that take place in the data plane?

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MAC address table matching
IP routing table matching
NAT
Filtering with ACLs

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What are some protocols that take place in the management plane?

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SSH
Syslog
SNMP

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What is a benefit of using JSON?

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Light-weight; shorter than xml
Easy to read and write
Text-based; human readable

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How is data in JSON written?
In name/value (key-value) pairs
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What are configuration management tools and why would you use them?
Ansible, Puppet, Chef Prevent configuration drift Assist in configuration provisioning, changes to devices on a mass scale
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What language is Ansible written in?
Python
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What language are Chef and Puppet written in?
Ruby
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What is an advantage of Ansible over Chef and Puppet?
It's agentless and doesn't require an special software to run on the managed devices
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What is a push model?
Used by Ansible Uses SSH to connect to devices and push configuration changes to them
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What are the components of Ansible?
Playbook - blueprints written in YAML Inventory- list managed devices Templates - device's configuration file Variable - list variables and their values written in YAML
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How do clients communicate with the Puppet master?
TCP 8140
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What automation programs are agent-based?
Puppet, Chef (Puppet can be agent-less with a proxy server)
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What communication protocol does Puppet and Chef use?
HTTPS via REST API
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What port does Chef use?
TCP 10002
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What is CRUD?
Operations performed using REST APIs Create Read Update Delete
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What do REST APIs typically use as their application layer protocol?
HTTP
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What is the HTTP verb is used for create?
Post
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What is the HTTP verb is used for read?
Get
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What is the HTTP verb is used for update?
Put, patch
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What is the HTTP verb is used for delete?
Delete
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What format do REST APIs typically encode data in?
JSON XML
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What is REST?
Representational State Transfer A set of rules about how the API should work
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In what language does white-space matter?
YAML
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What was a replacement for SNMP that uses SSH?
NETCONF
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What was a newer replacement for SNMP that uses HTTPS?
RESTCONF
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What kind of architecture do SDNs use?
Spine-and-leaf
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What is the enterprise model of SDN?
APIC-EM
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What creates L2 tunnels over L3 networks?
VXLAN
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What does CRUD do?
Data manipulation
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In Ansible, what does a playbook define?
The script for configuration management
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In Ansible, what is the inventory?
Defines hosts and connection information
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What are facts in puppet?
Describe global variables
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What protocol does Ansible use to communicate?
SSH
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In JSON, what is enclosed in quotes?
String
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What type of configuration uses => ?
Puppet
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What symbols are seen in JSON?
{ } : , [ ] ""
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In JSON, what is enclosed in {curly brackets}?
Objects
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What is a JWT?
JSON Web Token An encoded JSON token that is commonly used in REST API security for authentication
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How are arrays identified in JSON?
[Square brackets]
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What method does Chef use to update configurations?
Pull

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