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200-901 Practice Question: An engineer is using the Cisco Intersight API to…
An engineer is using the Cisco Intersight API to manage UCS servers. The API response returns a paginated list. What is the proper way to retrieve all items?
⚠ Common exam trap
Cisco often tests the distinction between offset-based pagination (common in REST APIs) and cursor-based pagination (used by Intersight), trapping candidates who assume they can manually increment a page number or offset.
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Correct answer & explanation
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Loop through pages using the 'next' link in the response
The Cisco Intersight API uses cursor-based pagination, where each page response includes a 'next' link pointing to the next page of results. To retrieve all items, you must follow that link in a loop until the 'next' field is null or absent, ensuring you get every page without assuming a fixed offset or page size.
Answer analysis
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Loop through pages using the 'next' link in the response
Why this is correct
Intersight paginates large result sets, returning only a subset per call. Following the 'next' link in each response walks the remaining pages sequentially until it is absent, ensuring every item is retrieved rather than only the first page.
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Increase the page size limit to maximum
Why it's wrong here
Raising the page size still returns a bounded page; the API enforces a maximum, so the full collection is never delivered in one response. It is tempting because larger pages genuinely reduce request counts, and would be correct where the total record count already sits below that ceiling.
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Send multiple requests with different offsets manually
Why it's wrong here
Manually tracking offsets works but ignores the API's own next-page mechanism, so it breaks when the server changes page boundaries or ordering. It is tempting because offsets genuinely address pagination, and would be correct against APIs that expose only offset parameters and no continuation token.
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Use a single request with a filter to get all
Why it's wrong here
Intersight caps the number of records a single response returns, so one filtered request cannot yield the entire collection regardless of filter breadth. It is tempting because filters genuinely narrow result sets, and would be correct where the matching subset already fits within one page.
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