Appendix A
Answers to Review Questions
Chapter 1
1. B, Task based. In this scenario, you are triggering a task to change the hostnames of all your devices. Even though you are using the device’s IP address to derive its location, this is not what triggers the automation.
2. B, Configuration. The intent is to configure new hostnames.
3. B, Pull model. Your network is already bandwidth constrained, and you don’t want to stress it even further by having devices constantly pushing their metric data.
4. A, Push model. SNMP traps are sent by the devices to a configured destination.
5. Configuration drift means that devices have different configurations from each other or from your template configurations. It occurs when changes are made to the devices ...
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