Description
1. (10 points) Explain the motivation for developing COPS. What were the goals of COPS
framework?
2. (10 points) What feature is intrinsically new to COPs (compared to the SNMP)
3. (30 points) NETCONF:
Read RFC 3535, and answer the following questions (you can cite the relevant text of RFC 3535
verbatim). Each correct answer is worth 10 points.
a. Why the SNMP transactional model and the protocol constraints make it more complex
to implement MIBs, as compared to the implementation of commands of a commandline interface interpreter?
b. What is the problem with the SNMP lack of support for easy retrieval and playback of
Configurations?
c. List the operators’ requirements for network management:
4. (10 points) Does NETCONF use REST API in its Messages layer?
5. (10 points) Name a de-facto modeling language for NETCONF. What document is it specified
in? What is the name of this language’s XML-based representation?
6. (10 points) List the steps involved in onboarding of an application.
7. (10 points) List the actors involved in the service life cycle and its stages. What constitutes an
offering?
8. (10 points) What is the name of the protocol used for communications among the OpenStack
daemons?
