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An engineer wants to ensure that common services communicate to several applications in various EPGs. Which two features within Cisco ACI accomplish this goal? (Choose two.)
The correct answer is A. application profile C. contract. In Cisco ACI, application profiles organize EPGs into logical application constructs, while contracts define the permitted communication policies between provider and consumer EPGs for shared services.
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An engineer wants to ensure that common services communicate to several applications in various EPGs. Which two features within Cisco ACI accomplish this goal? (Choose two.)
Options
- Aapplication profile
- Bbridge domain
- Ccontract
- Dfilter
- Etenant
How the community answered
(18 responses)- A83% (15)
- B6% (1)
- E11% (2)
Why each option
In Cisco ACI, application profiles organize EPGs into logical application constructs, while contracts define the permitted communication policies between provider and consumer EPGs for shared services.
An application profile is the ACI object that groups EPGs representing different application tiers or services into a logical construct, providing the organizational framework that associates common service EPGs with the application EPGs they need to reach.
A bridge domain defines the Layer 2 flooding boundary and IP subnet scope within a tenant but does not control or enable cross-EPG communication policies for common services.
A contract defines the directional communication policy between a provider EPG (the common service) and one or more consumer EPGs (the application EPGs), specifying which traffic flows are permitted - this is the precise mechanism that enables a shared service to communicate with multiple application EPGs across the fabric.
A filter specifies the traffic match criteria (protocol, port) used inside a contract but is a sub-component of a contract rather than a standalone feature capable of independently enabling inter-EPG communication.
A tenant is the top-level administrative and policy boundary in ACI that contains all network objects but does not itself define or enable the communication policy between a common service and application EPGs.
Concept tested: ACI application profiles and contracts for shared service communication
Source: https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/dcn/aci/apic/all/cisco-aci-fundamentals/cisco-aci-fundamentals.html
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