SDN, Virtualization & AI

Covers Lesson 3 and Lesson 4

Checks that you can place the API directions correctly, tell the virtualization models apart, and sort an AI example into the right category.

Topics covered

• The plane split in SDN
• Northbound versus southbound APIs
• Underlay, overlay, and fabric
• Cloud service models
• VMs, containers, and VRFs
• Generative versus predictive AI

Every question here is answerable from the first-party notes of the lessons above. You commit to an answer before you see whether it was right.

This quiz is a Week 9 milestone in its own right. Passing it does not change the completion state of any individual lesson, and you do not need it to finish the lessons it covers.

Section quiz

SDN, Virtualization & AI

8 questions covering Lesson 3 and Lesson 4. Answer each one before you see whether you were right.

Question 1 of 8

1. In an SDN architecture, which plane centralizes and which stays distributed?

2. An automation dashboard sends a request to the controller expressing what it wants. Which API is that, and does the transport protocol decide?

3. Which protocols are examples of southbound APIs?

4. What is the relationship between underlay, overlay, and fabric?

5. You manage the operating system, the applications, and the data. Which cloud model is this?

6. What is the fundamental difference between a virtual machine and a container?

7. What does a VRF provide?

8. A tool warns that a WAN link will likely saturate next Tuesday, based on months of traffic data. Which kind of AI is this?

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