ACI

Question 1

What is the APIC Policy Manager?

Answer 1

Distributed repository responsible for the definition and deployment of the policy-based configuration.

Question 2

What are the APIC components?

Answer 2

Policy Manager, Topology Manager, Observer, Boot Director, Appliance Director (cluster controller), VMM Manager, Event Manager, and Appliance Element.

Question 3

Which APIC component maintains up-to-date topology and inventory information

Answer 3

Topology Manager

Question 4

What is the monitoring subsystem of the APIC, and serves as a data repository of the ACI operational state, health and performance?

Answer 4

Observer

Question 5

What is the APIC Boot Director?

Answer 5

Controls the booting and firmware of the spine, leaf and controller elements

Question 6

What is the APIC Appliance Director?

Answer 6

Responsible for the formation and control of the APIC appliance cluster

Question 7

Which APIC component acts as an agent between the policy repository and a hypervisor?

Answer 7

VMM Manager

Question 8

Which APIC component is a repository for all events and faults initiated from the APIC or fabric nodes?

Answer 8

Event Manager

Question 9

What is the APIC Appliance Element?

Answer 9

Monitors / manages the inventory and state for the local appliance

Question 10

Describe the ACI Policy Model

Answer 10

Object-oriented model (based on the promise theory) that provides declarative and scalable control of intelligent objects

Question 11

Name the tools used to manage ACI

Answer 11

APIC GUI, APIC CLI, Postman (or other REST tools), Python (using ACI SDK - acitoolkitcli.py), custom GUI using REST, or advanced orchestration engines (UCSD, OpenStack, vRA, etc.)