300-435 Question #62: Real Exam Question with Answer & Explanation

Question

What is the purpose of using the Cisco SD-WAN vManage Certificate Management API?

Options

• Ato generate a CSR
• Bto allocate resources to the certificate server
• Cto request a certificate from the certificate server
• Dto enable vManage Center

Explanation

The Cisco SD-WAN vManage Certificate Management API is primarily used to generate a Certificate Signing Request (CSR) for obtaining digital certificates.

Common mistakes.

• B. Allocating resources to a certificate server is an infrastructure management task related to the CA itself, not a function provided by the vManage Certificate Management API.
• C. While the overall goal is to obtain a certificate, the vManage API's role is typically generating the CSR, which is then presented to the CA; directly "requesting a certificate from the certificate server" via this API, without prior CSR generation, is not its primary or sole purpose.
• D. Enabling vManage Center is a broad operational task, and certificate management is a specific security component, not the overall enabling function of the entire vManage platform.

Concept tested. Cisco SD-WAN vManage Certificate API purpose

Reference. https://developer.cisco.com/docs/sdwan/#!vmanage-apis

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