Cisco Updated 350-401 Exam Questions and Answers by ismael

 The Hot Standby Router Protocol (HSRP) uses virtual MAC addresses for redundancy in a network. For HSRP group 14, the virtual MAC address is formed by the prefix 0000.0c07.ac followed by the HSRP group number in hexadecimal format. Since 14 in hexadecimal is ‘0e’, the correct virtual MAC address for HSRP group 14 is 00:00:0c:07:ac:0e. However, the question seems to contain a typo, as the correct hexadecimal representation for 14 is ‘0e’, not ‘14’. Therefore, the closest correct answer would be C, assuming the ‘14’ at the end of option C is a typo and should be ‘0e’. References: HSRP Calculations - Networking - Spiceworks Community

 The configuration shown in the exhibit sets up NAT where inside local addresses from the subnet 10.1.1.0/27 are translated to inside global addresses from the pool consisting of addresses in the range of 209.165.201.0/27 when accessing outside networks. References:Implementing and Operating Cisco Service Provider Network Core Technologies (SPCOR) - Official Certification Guide

The correct method to display text directly into the active console with a synchronous EEM applet policy is by using the puts command. The puts command in EEM (Embedded Event Manager) is used to output messages to the console. In the context of the given options, option C is the correct one because it uses the puts command to display the message ‘logging directly to console’ to the active console session.

References:

Cisco Community discussion on sending ‘show’ command outputs to console/terminal using EEM1.

Cisco documentation on Writing Embedded Event Manager Policies Using the Cisco IOS CLI2.

Cisco IOS Embedded Event Manager Command Reference3.

Question regarding the method that displays text directly into the active console with a synchronous EEM applet policy4.

Cisco Press article on Embedded Events Manager5

Orchestration

 Orchestration means arranging or coordinating multiple systems. It’s also used to mean “running the same tasks on a bunch of servers at once, but not necessarily all of them.”

 Configuration Management

Config Management is part of provisioning. Basically, that’s using a tool like Chef, Puppet or Ansible to configure our server. “Provisioning” often implies it’s the first time we do it. Config management usually happens repeatedly.

Configuration management (CM) is a systems engineering process for establishing and maintaining consistency of a product’s performance, functional, and physical attributes with its requirements, design, and operational information throughout its life Configuration management is all about bringing consistency in the infrastructure.

Configuration Orchestration vs Configuration Management

The first thing that should be clarified is the difference between “configuration orchestration” and “configuration management” tools, both of which are considered IaC tools and are included on this list.

Configuration orchestration tools, which include Terraform and AWS CloudFormation, are designed to automate the deployment of servers and other infrastructure. Configuration management tools like Chef, Puppet, and the others on this list help configure the software and systems on this infrastructure that has already been provisioned.