Question

A network automation engineer is standardizing programmable interfaces on new Catalyst switches. The security team requires all management traffic to use encrypted transport, and the automation platform will use HTTP-based tooling (curl, Postman) for ad-hoc configuration changes. The engineer must enable the correct protocol and confirm the transport it uses. Which statement correctly describes RESTCONF on a Cisco IOS XE device?

Accepted Answer

RESTCONF uses HTTPS over TCP port 443 by default and exposes YANG data models through RESTful HTTP verbs

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RESTCONF uses SSH over TCP port 830 and requires a candidate datastore commit for every change

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RESTCONF uses SNMPv3 over UDP port 161 to retrieve and modify YANG-modeled configuration

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RESTCONF uses NETCONF-over-TLS on TCP port 6513 and only supports XML-encoded payloads