200-901 Question #611: Real Exam Question with Answer & Explanation

Question

What is an advantage of device-level management as compared to controller-level management to automate the configuration of network devices?

Options

• ADevice-level management has access to all devices from a single point on the network and
• BDevice-level management supports all subsets of the potential device settings and controller-level
• CDevice-level management supports REST API-enabled devices and controller-level management
• DDevice-level management requires one controller per vendor and controller-level management

Explanation

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