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Ansible & Configuration Management Practice Questions

Updated for CCNA v2.0

Inventories, playbooks, and the cisco.ios modules used to execute commands on network devices.

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Which statement about Ansible is correct?

It is agentless and pushes tasks to devices from a control node, commonly over SSH

Ansible needs no agent on the managed device. The control node connects to it, typically over SSH for network devices, runs the requested modules, and collects the results. Puppet and Chef are the tools usually associated with agents that pull configuration.

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  1. In Ansible, which file lists the devices and groups that playbooks will target?

    • The inventory
    • The playbook
    • The template
    • The handler

  2. In what format are Ansible playbooks written?

    • YAML
    • XML only
    • Compiled binary
    • Cisco IOS CLI syntax

  3. Which Ansible module from the cisco.ios collection sends configuration commands to an IOS device?

    • ios_config
    • ios_command
    • ios_facts
    • ios_ping

  4. An engineer needs a playbook to run 'show ip interface brief' on a group of routers and capture the output. Which module is the best fit?

    • ios_command
    • ios_config
    • ios_vlans
    • copy

  5. Which command runs a playbook named site.yml against the devices in an inventory file named hosts?

    • ansible-playbook -i hosts site.yml
    • ansible-inventory hosts site.yml
    • ansible-galaxy run site.yml
    • ansible-vault -i hosts site.yml

  6. What does it mean when an Ansible task is idempotent?

    • Running it repeatedly leaves the device in the same desired state, changing nothing once the state is already correct
    • It always reloads the device after running
    • It can only be run once per day
    • It ignores the current configuration and overwrites everything

  7. Which Ansible feature is intended to keep passwords and other secrets encrypted in the files stored with a project?

    • Ansible Vault
    • Inventory groups
    • Handlers
    • Facts

  8. In an Ansible inventory for IOS devices, which variable setting selects the connection plugin that sends CLI commands over SSH?

    • ansible_connection=ansible.netcommon.network_cli
    • ansible_connection=local_console
    • ansible_network_os=ssh
    • ansible_become=snmp