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350-401 Practice Question: Which two statements about Cisco SD-WAN control…
Which two statements about Cisco SD-WAN control plane components are true? (Choose two.)
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vSmart controllers are responsible for distributing OMP routes and policies to vEdge routers.
The Cisco SD-WAN control plane consists of vSmart controllers that distribute OMP routes and vBond orchestrators that authenticate and onboard devices. vEdge routers are data plane devices, not control plane. vManage is a management plane component. TLOCs are used for transport location identification, not for route redistribution.
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vSmart controllers are responsible for distributing OMP routes and policies to vEdge routers.
Why this is correct
Correct because vSmart controllers act as the central control plane, disseminating Overlay Management Protocol (OMP) information and policy to all WAN Edge devices.
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vBond orchestrators authenticate and onboard vEdge routers into the SD-WAN fabric.
Why this is correct
Correct because vBond is the orchestrator that authenticates devices and provides the initial list of vSmart and vManage controllers.
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vEdge routers function as the control plane devices that maintain the routing table for the entire SD-WAN domain.
Why it's wrong here
Incorrect because vEdge routers are data plane devices that forward traffic; they do not maintain a global routing table for the domain.
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vManage is the control plane component that distributes BGP routes to all WAN Edge routers.
Why it's wrong here
Incorrect because vManage is the management plane component used for monitoring and configuration, not for distributing BGP routes.
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TLOCs are used by vSmart controllers to redistribute routes between different OMP instances.
Why it's wrong here
Incorrect because TLOCs (Transport Locations) identify the transport endpoints for tunnels; they are not used for route redistribution between OMP instances.
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Route Redistribution and Filtering
Key term
Cisco SD-WAN
Cisco SD-WAN is a software-defined wide area network architecture that separates the control and data planes to centrally manage and optimize traffic across multiple WAN connections.
Key term
Route Redistribution
Route redistribution is the process of sharing routing information from one routing protocol to another within a network.
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