350-601 Automation Practice Question
An organization adopts Infrastructure as Code (IaC) for network automation. Which tool is commonly used to manage ACI fabric configuration declaratively?
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Why each option matters
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Terraform
Terraform with the terraform-provider-aci allows declarative management of ACI objects.
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Terraform
Why this is correct
Terraform natively supports declarative configuration.
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Python acitoolkit
Why it's wrong here
acitoolkit is a Python library, not a declarative tool.
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NX-API CLI
Why it's wrong here
NX-API CLI is for Nexus switches, not ACI.
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Ansible
Why it's wrong here
Ansible is more procedural, though can be declarative with some modules.
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