9.0 Cisco Data Center and Compute Management Platforms ana APIs

Question 1

Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI)

Answer 1

a software-defined networking (SDN) solution designed for data centers. Cisco ACI allows network infrastructure to be defined based upon network policies

Question 2

Application Policy Infrastructure Controller (APIC)

Answer 2

the single point of policy and management of a Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI)

Question 3

Management Information Model (MIM)

Answer 3

contains all of the managed objects in the system and their properties.

Question 4

Management information tree (MIT)

Answer 4

manages and maintains the whole hierarchical tree of objects on the switch, with each object representing the configuration, operational status, accompanying statistics and associated faults for a switch function.

Question 5

Managed object (MO)

Answer 5

an abstract representation of a physical or logical entity that contain a set of configurations and properties

Question 6

Distinguished name (DN)

Answer 6

uniquely identifies the object globally.

Question 7

virtual routing and forwarding (VRF) instance

Answer 7

an IP-based computer network technology that enables the simultaneous co-existence of multiple virtual routers as instances

Question 8

Endpoint group (EPG)

Answer 8

a configuration object that specifies a group of backend endpoints or services.

Question 9

Unified Computing System (UCS)

Answer 9

a converged data center architecture that integrates computing, networking and storage resources to increase efficiency and enable centralized management.