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350-401 Practice Question: An engineer configures model-driven telemetry on…
An engineer configures model-driven telemetry on a Cisco IOS-XE device with the following gRPC dial-out configuration:
``` telemetry ietf subscription 101 encoding encode-kvgpb filter xpath /interfaces/interface/state/counters source-address 10.1.1.1 stream yang-push update-policy periodic 500 receiver ip address 10.2.2.2 50001 protocol grpc-tcp ```
What is the purpose of the 'encoding encode-kvgpb' command?
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It specifies that the data should be encoded using the Key-Value Google Protocol Buffers format.
The 'encoding encode-kvgpb' command specifies that the telemetry data should be encoded using the Key-Value Google Protocol Buffers (KV-GPB) format, which is a compact binary encoding used for efficient data transmission.
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It sets the encoding to JSON format for human readability.
Why it's wrong here
KV-GPB is not JSON; it is a binary format.
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It specifies that the data should be encoded using the Key-Value Google Protocol Buffers format.
Why this is correct
KV-GPB is a binary encoding used for telemetry data.
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It enables compression of the telemetry data.
Why it's wrong here
Encoding does not imply compression.
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It sets the encoding to XML format.
Why it's wrong here
KV-GPB is not XML.
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