Why is SSH considered a suitable transport for NETCONF?

It provides unencrypted, fast communication for high-throughput data transfer

It is designed specifically for transferring configuration files between devices

It offers authentication, encryption, and integrity protection for management sessions

It is a lightweight protocol that does not require TCP

Compared to REST APIs, what is a distinguishing feature of NETCONF?

NETCONF is designed only for monitoring, not configuration

NETCONF provides transaction-like operations on configuration datastores

NETCONF is stateless and uses HTTP methods

NETCONF uses JSON for data encoding

A network operations team must choose a management protocol to automate configuration changes across a fleet of Junos devices. The solution must support transactional configuration changes, rollback on failure, and structured data modeling. Which protocol should they select?

CLI over SSH with commit scripts

In the NETCONF message layer, what is the purpose of the and elements?

To define the available NETCONF capabilities

To encode the configuration data being managed

To encapsulate requests and responses between the client and server

To establish the secure transport connection

An automation engineer needs to apply a configuration change to a Junos device using NETCONF. The change must be validated before it is applied to ensure no syntax errors. Which operation and parameter combination should be used?

lock with a target of candidate

edit-config with error-option set to rollback-on-error

edit-config with test-option set to test-then-set

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NETCONF Concepts JN0-224 Practice Questions (Page 3)

Part of the NETCONF and XML API domain, which makes up ~20% of our current practice bank. Juniper Networks does not publish an official question count, but from its 90-minute exam (~35–60 total, ~7–12 in this domain), expect 2–3 from this objective — we provide 29 practice questions to prepare you well beyond it. (estimate)

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11foundation · easy
Why is SSH considered a suitable transport for NETCONF?
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12foundation · easy
Compared to REST APIs, what is a distinguishing feature of NETCONF?
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13application · medium
A network operations team must choose a management protocol to automate configuration changes across a fleet of Junos devices. The solution must support transactional configuration changes, rollback on failure, and structured data modeling. Which protocol should they select?
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14foundation · easy
In the NETCONF message layer, what is the purpose of the <rpc> and <rpc-reply> elements?
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15application · medium
An automation engineer needs to apply a configuration change to a Junos device using NETCONF. The change must be validated before it is applied to ensure no syntax errors. Which operation and parameter combination should be used?
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