The municipal airport IT board asks whether a software-defined data center still needs physical switches. What should the candidate identify?
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Short Explanation
Software-defined does not mean the airport unplugs every switch. The underlay still forwards encapsulated packets. The overlay—the virtual networks and services—is what becomes software.
Full Explanation
An SDDC abstracts network services above a physical underlay that continues to forward encapsulated overlay packets. Physical switches remain. Claiming the underlay disappears, substituting Workspace ONE Access, or moving packets onto a SaaS mailbox misstates the model.