200-901 Understanding and Using APIs Practice Question
Which Cisco platform provides an Intent API for network automation, including endpoints for network-device, topology, and site hierarchy?
⚠ Common exam trap
Cisco often tests the distinction between device-level APIs (like IOS XE RESTCONF) and platform-level Intent APIs (like Catalyst Center), causing candidates to confuse direct device management with abstracted network automation.
Answer choices
Why each option matters
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Correct answer & explanation
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Cisco Catalyst Center
Cisco Catalyst Center (formerly DNA Center) provides an Intent API that abstracts network intent into RESTful endpoints. This API includes specific endpoints for managing network devices, retrieving topology views, and interacting with site hierarchy, enabling declarative network automation without low-level device configuration.
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Cisco Catalyst Center
Why this is correct
Cisco Catalyst Center exposes the Intent API with network-device, topology and site-hierarchy endpoints, matching the stem precisely. Competing platforms such as Meraki Dashboard or DNA Spaces expose different API surfaces, so Catalyst Center is the platform providing these specific intent endpoints.
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Cisco Webex
Why it's wrong here
Webex provides collaboration APIs for meetings, messaging and calling, exposing no network-device, topology or site-hierarchy endpoints. It would be the right platform when automating meeting scheduling or team messaging, not for querying and configuring network infrastructure.
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Cisco IOS XE
Why it's wrong here
IOS XE is device OS, not a platform with Intent API.
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Meraki Dashboard
Why it's wrong here
Meraki Dashboard exposes its own REST API scoped to Meraki cloud-managed devices, not the DNA Center Intent API endpoints for network-device, topology and site hierarchy. It is correct when automating Meraki organisations, not for a platform-agnostic intent-based network controller.
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