350-401 Exam Dumps - Implementing Cisco Enterprise Network Core Technologies (350-401 ENCOR)

The correct answer is A. integrated IPS.

A traditional firewall provides:

Stateful inspection

Basic ACL filtering

NAT

Sometimes VPN services

A Next-Generation Firewall (NGFW) adds advanced capabilities such as:

Integrated Intrusion Prevention System (IPS)

Application awareness and control

Advanced malware protection

Integrated IPS (Intrusion Prevention System) is a defining feature of NGFWs.

It allows the firewall to:

Detect and block known and unknown threats

Perform deep packet inspection

Stop attacks in real time

This capability is not part of traditional firewalls, which only inspect traffic based on state and basic rules.

B. Stateful firewall policies This is a core feature of traditional firewalls, not unique to NGFWs.

C. SSL VPN VPN functionality exists in both traditional and next-generation firewalls.

D. NAT NAT is a basic firewall/network feature, not exclusive to NGFWs.

Remember the distinction:

Traditional Firewall → Stateful filtering, NAT, VPN

Next-Generation Firewall → Adds IPS + Application Awareness + Advanced Security

NGFW = Traditional Firewall + Advanced Threat Protection

Blank 1: C

Blank 2: E

Blank 3: D

The correct script must first import the JSON module, so the first blank is json, producing import json. The Python object in the exhibit is a dictionary named data, containing fields such as measurement, policy, alert state, and device information. To convert a Python object into a JSON-formatted string, the correct function is json.dumps(). That makes the second blank json.dumps, producing json_string = json.dumps(data). The third blank must be json_string, because that is the variable containing the serialized JSON text that should be printed. json.loads() is the reverse operation; it parses a JSON-formatted string and converts it into a Python object, so it is not correct for object-to-string conversion. model is merely a value extracted from the object and does not perform JSON serialization. The key distinction is dump/dumps versus load/loads: dumps returns a JSON string, while dump writes JSON to a file. References/topics: ENCOR Automation, Python data structures, JSON serialization, json.dumps(), API payload handling, network programmability.

The Python library commonly used for NETCONF automation is ncclient. NETCONF is an XML-based network management protocol that uses YANG data models to structure configuration and operational state. The ncclient library provides Python functions for connecting to NETCONF-capable devices, opening a manager session, issuing get, get-config, edit-config, and other NETCONF operations, and processing XML responses. Option A is correct. The requests library is commonly used for REST API calls over HTTP or HTTPS, such as RESTCONF or controller northbound APIs, but it is not the standard NETCONF client library. Postman is an API testing application, not a Python library. cURL is a command-line tool for sending HTTP and other protocol requests, not a Python library for NETCONF/YANG workflows. In ENCOR automation, the distinction matters: REST-based APIs often use JSON and HTTP methods, while NETCONF uses XML-based RPC operations over SSH and is commonly automated in Python with ncclient. References/topics: ENCOR Automation, NETCONF, YANG, Python automation, ncclient, model-driven programmability.