Automation and Artificial Intelligence (15%)

350-601 · 45 questions

• A government agency created a scheduler job that records interface status, but the job has never run. The job exists, and no timetable is associated with it. What has to be added?
• A factory IoT network wants a Nexus switch to save the output of a transceiver command only when a specific interface-down syslog message appears. Which on-box tool matches that event and then runs the command?
• A logistics company wants a Nexus switch to create a configuration checkpoint every night at 02:00, whether or not any syslog event occurred. Which on-box tool should run that job?
• A logistics company needs an on-box tool to reach an archive server through an address and route that must not be installed in the Nexus default routing table. Which environment can hold that address in its own network namespace?
• A factory IoT team wants to install extra Python libraries on a Nexus switch without placing those packages in the NX-OS system root. Which environment is the supported place for that install?
• A logistics company has an EEM applet that should save the routing table only when a specific BGP neighbor-down syslog appears, but the applet also runs for unrelated syslog lines. Which part of the applet is matching too much?
• A logistics company developer runs Python on a jump host, not on the switch, and needs to add a VLAN over the network. Which approach matches that off-box script?
• A logistics company can retrieve show command output through NX-API, but a request that should add an NTP server never changes the configuration. The request uses the show message type. What should the client send instead?
• A government agency script runs inside the Nexus on-box Python interpreter and must execute a show command on that same switch. Which interface is built for that call?
• A government agency Nexus boots with no startup configuration and begins POAP, requesting an address from DHCP. The engineer wants the normal CLI and does not want a scripted install. What is the right conclusion?
• A logistics company runs three VXLAN fabrics and wants the same tenant network intent applied to all three from one controller. Which tool is built for that multi-fabric job?
• A logistics company wants a repeatable NTP configuration pushed to many Nexus switches, with nothing installed on the switches, and a second run must not stack a duplicate NTP server. Which tool fits?
• A logistics company wants an Intersight server profile assigned to a new rack server. The server is powered and reachable on the management network, but it has never been claimed. What has to happen first?
• A government agency wants a Nexus switch to shut an uplink when that port's input-error counter crosses a threshold the operator sets. The reaction must follow the counter, not a clock. Which tool matches?
• A logistics company keeps automation on a Windows host and wants a PowerShell session to list Intersight server profiles, with no agent installed on the servers. Which tool matches that host?
• A government agency wants infrastructure described as desired state, reviewed as a plan, and recorded in a state file before anything is applied. Which tool matches that workflow?
• A logistics company wants each Nexus switch to save its interface counter output to a local file every hour, on the switch itself, whether or not a syslog event fired and with no external automation host. Which tool should run that job?
• A logistics company is connecting a GPU cluster that uses RDMA over Converged Ethernet version 2. Under load the fabric drops those frames and the job stalls. What does this traffic need from the Ethernet fabric?
• A government agency engineer runs Python on a workstation that sends show commands to a Nexus switch through NX-API. Which description matches this script?
• A logistics company wants a troubleshooting script on a Nexus switch to use its own IP address and its own routing table, separate from the switch management VRF. Which environment provides that separate network namespace?
• A logistics company script runs inside the Nexus Python interpreter on the switch and must execute a show command there. Which module should the script use?
• A replacement Nexus switch at a logistics company boots with an old startup configuration still stored, and the expected day-0 script never starts. Why did POAP not run?
• A government agency client can reach NX-API on a Nexus switch, yet a show command returns no show output because the request uses the configuration message type. What should the request use instead?
• A logistics company must ensure one VLAN exists on many Nexus switches, install no agent on them, and run the job again without creating a duplicate VLAN. Which tool fits?
• A logistics company wants a Nexus switch to shut a named downlink at the moment a named uplink goes down, and not because a clock reached a set time. Which on-box tool binds that interface event to the shutdown?
• A government agency's GPU cluster drops frames on a best-effort VLAN whenever the links congest, and the RoCEv2 jobs retry. Which fabric behavior do those jobs require?
• A logistics company wants image compliance and configuration for dozens of Nexus switches from one place, rather than a console session on each switch. Which platform service matches?
• A logistics company wants to claim new rack servers and stamp them from one set of policies through an external API, rather than configuring each server's local controller by hand. Which product is that automation plane?
• A government agency automates UCS and Intersight from a Windows host and wants cmdlets that open a session and apply a server policy. Which tool matches that host?
• A logistics company stores the desired Nexus configuration in files and wants a preview of what will change, based on a stored state file, before any switch is touched. Which tool matches that workflow?
• A government agency forbids guest shell and on-box package installs. An automation host must collect interface status from Nexus switches with a Python script the agency already runs on that host. Which approach matches the constraint?
• A government agency NX-API client receives JSON replies for show commands, but configuration commands sent the same way do not change the switch. Those requests use the show message type. What must a configuration request use?
• A logistics company wants a Python script that runs inside the NX-OS Python interpreter and executes CLI on that same switch. Which facility is built for those CLI calls?
• A logistics company can ping a log collector from the Nexus management VRF, but a script in the guest shell cannot reach that collector. The guest shell is already enabled. What is the guest shell missing?
• A logistics company finished configuring a Nexus switch, then every reload stops at the POAP prompt. The engineer applied the changes to running-config and never saved them. Why does POAP return?
• A logistics company wants VLAN changes pushed to dozens of Nexus switches from one control host, with no agent installed on the switches, and a second run should change nothing if the VLANs already match. Which tool fits?
• A logistics Windows host must list server profiles for a UCS X domain that runs only in Intersight Managed Mode. UCS Manager is not running on those fabric interconnects. Which automation path can list the profiles?
• A government operator runs terraform plan against a Nexus provider. The plan lists a VLAN to add. After the plan finishes, the switch does not have that VLAN. Why not?
• A government jump host cannot open NX-API on a Nexus switch. SSH to the same switch works, and show commands succeed on the CLI. What is missing on the switch?
• A logistics company wants one place to correlate interface errors, congestion, and anomalies across a Nexus fabric instead of opening SSH to every switch. Which product family is built for that fabric-wide view?
• Two government agency operators each run Terraform against the same ACI tenant from different laptops. Each laptop has its own state file. The second plan wants to create objects the first laptop already created. What is the right fix?
• A game studio GPU cluster uses RoCEv2. Jumbo frames already pass end to end, and the GPUs still drop when the fabric is busy. The traffic class has no flow control. What supplies lossless behavior for that class?
• A logistics rack server is claimed in Intersight. A server profile that contains the new BIOS policy is assigned to that server and has not been deployed. The server still runs the previous BIOS. What has not happened?
• A logistics engineer adds a VLAN on one leaf from the CLI. That VLAN is not part of the fabric intent stored on Nexus Dashboard. At the next deploy from the dashboard, the VLAN is gone. Why?
• A factory Nexus switch has no startup configuration, so it enters POAP. DHCP offers an address and a default gateway, and the switch never downloads a configuration script. What is missing from the offer?