4.5 Describe How Cisco Catalyst Center (formerly Cisco DNA Center) Is Used to Apply Network Configuration, Monitoring, and Management Using Traditional and AI-powered Workflows 350-401 Practice Questions (Page 6)

Questions 26–30

1. 26expert · hard

   A university uses Catalyst Center to manage its network. They have a compliance policy that requires all switches to have a specific banner message. The policy is set to 'enforce' with auto-remediation. The team needs to temporarily change the banner on a few switches for a security exercise, but they must ensure the change is reverted after the exercise. What is the best approach?

   • AMake the change directly on the switches and rely on the auto-remediation to revert it after the exercise.
   • BUse a template to deploy the temporary banner and then use another template to revert it.
   • CChange the compliance policy to 'monitor' mode for all switches, make the change, and then set it back to 'enforce'.
   • DDisable the compliance policy for the affected switches, make the change, and re-enable the policy after the exercise.
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2. 27application · medium

   A hospital is deploying Catalyst Center to manage its network. They have a mix of new switches that support NETCONF and older switches that only support SSH. The team wants to use a single workflow to provision both types of devices with the same VLAN configuration. What should they do?

   • AUse a CLI template that works over SSH for all devices, ensuring consistency across both types.
   • BUse NETCONF for the new switches and manually configure the older ones.
   • CCreate two separate templates: one for NETCONF and one for SSH, and deploy them separately.
   • DUpgrade the older switches to support NETCONF before provisioning.
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4. 28expert · hard

   A large enterprise uses Catalyst Center to manage its network. They have a change management process that requires all configuration changes to be approved and scheduled. However, they also have a compliance policy that auto-remediates any drift from the desired configuration. The team needs to make a temporary change to a few switches for a troubleshooting session, but they must ensure the change is not reverted by auto-remediation and that the change is documented. What is the best approach?

   • ACreate a change request in Catalyst Center, schedule the change, and temporarily disable the compliance policy for the affected switches.
   • BChange the compliance policy to 'monitor' mode for all switches, make the change, and then set it back to 'enforce'.
   • CUse a template to deploy the temporary change and then use another template to revert it.
   • DMake the change directly on the switches and rely on the auto-remediation to revert it after the troubleshooting session.
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5. 29expert · hard

   A network engineer is responsible for managing a network with a mix of Cisco Catalyst 9000 switches and older Catalyst 2960 switches. The engineer wants to use Cisco Catalyst Center to automate configuration changes, but the older switches do not support all the features required by the templates. The engineer needs to ensure that the configuration is applied correctly to all devices without causing errors. What should the engineer do?

   • AUse a single template for all devices and rely on the Compliance dashboard to flag any errors.
   • BUse the Plug and Play service to automatically configure all devices with the same configuration.
   • CUse the Assurance dashboard to monitor the devices after applying a generic configuration.
   • DCreate separate templates for each device model and use the Compliance dashboard to verify that the correct template was applied.
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6. 30application · medium

   A retail chain's store network has been experiencing intermittent drops in the wireless controller's CPU utilization. The NOC team sees the health score for the controller drop from 10 to 7 during peak hours, but no users have reported issues yet. The team wants to understand whether this degradation is likely to impact user experience soon. Which Catalyst Center capability should they use?

   • ACheck the syslog messages on the controller for any error logs.
   • BLook at the 'Network Devices' inventory page to see the controller's uptime.
   • CReview the AI-driven 'Impact Analysis' report that correlates controller health with client experience metrics.
   • DRun a speed test from the NOC to the store's network.
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