Designing Cisco Data Center Infrastructure (DCID) Questions and Answers
A company data center requires a new disaster recovery solution to host critical services. The solution can sustain several hours of data loss because the services are routinely backed up to an offsite location. Also, the disaster recovery solution must provide 24-hour availability. Due to the strict policy requirements, the company wants to retain complete control of when the failover process occurs. Which solution meets these requirements?
Refer to the exhibit. An engineer deployed a VXLAN fabric with this configuration:
• interface VLAN 100 on VTEP1 with no IP address
• interface VLAN 200 on VTEP4 with no IP address
Which set of actions must the engineer take to ensure that host A communicates with host B?
A network consultant proposes that the configuration of the Cisco UCS servers be based on service templates to facilitate the UCS infrastructure operation. The service profiles must remain connected to the template and be modified when the template settings are changed.
Which configuration meets these requirements?
An engineer must build a VXLAN flood-and-learned network. The customer requires the solution to be based on the IETF documented practice in RFC 7348. The solution must use broadcast, unknown unicast, and multicast (BUM) and include the efficient BUM and short BUM replication modes that use only shared trees. Which technology meets these requirements?
An architect must automate routine tasks within a data center The data center exclusively uses Cisco Nexus Series Switches The networking team lacks proper programming knowledge and prefers an automation solution that leverages NXOS commands Any configuration change must use HTTPS for transport due to a security compliance requirement. Which solution must the architect choose?
What are two characteristics of VRF-Lite on the Cisco NX-OS platform? (Choose two.)
An engineer must design a Cisco UCS environment for a customer The design requires the most efficient use of available bandwidth with active-active uplinks The upstream Cisco Nexus 9000 Series Switch must automatically initiate the port-channel connectivity to the fabric interconnects Which configuration must the engineer choose to meet these requirements?
A network consultant must design a high availability interconnection of a clustered Cisco UCS Fabric Interconnect toward two upstream Layer 2 switches. The Ethernet interconnection must use all redundant links and have no impact on the STP domain size.
Which connectivity solution must be used?
A data center with over 4000 VLANs must be stretched lo a disaster recovery site. The solution must support the migration of virtual machines to a disaster recovery site. To support the scalability of the solution, the internal fabric of the main site must be from the DCI network. The connecting network infrastructure uses a 10 Gbps link with PIM ASM supported, which will be replaced with a different overlay in the next 12 months. The solution must support head-end replication for broadcast, unknown unicast, and multicast traffic. Which solution must be used to meet these requirements?
Which feature must be configured to connect a classical Ethernet network to a data center network so that the data center network appears to be one large switch.
A Cisco engineer is discussing a data center design scenario that consists of 24 Cisco UCS B200M6 Wade servers. 2 Cisco UCS 6454 Fabric Interconnects, and 3 Cisco UCS 5108 server chassis In the proposed configuration, the server links, which are vNICs on the blades, are associated with a single uplink port Server-to-server Layer 2 traffic is locally switched, server-to-network traffic goes out on its pinned uplink port, and each server MAC address must be learned before traffic can be forwarded to it Which feature stipulates that traffic is forwarded to a server only if it is received on a pinned uplink port for this server?
An engineer must design a secondary site to prevent a catastrophic primary site failure. The applications must communicate across sites via the data link layer of the OSI model. The Layer 3 transport that is available for this solution consists of 10-Gb connections over Layer 3.
Which two solutions meet these requirements? (Choose two.)
Which Cisco HyperFlex feature provides virtual machine cost scaling for desktop virtualization growth?
Which two automation requirements can be met by using Puppet? (Choose two.)
Which mode must be enabled on a Cisco UCS Fabric Interconnect to connect directly to a storage array?
A network engineer designs a virtual network in a Cisco UCS Manager. The traffic must be explicitly forwarded from the vNIC on the server to a specific uplink Ethernet port on the Cisco fabric interconnect. Also, the server vNIC must use the same uplink Ethernet port after reboot. Finally, the design requires a OoS policy for remote direct memory access over converged Ethernet (RoCE v2). Which set of design features meets these requirements?
An engineer must connect a Cisco UCS B-Series based system to an existing large storage area network fabric. The deployment must support hardware-based load balancing, prevent Fibre Channel domain ID exhaustion, and enable all blade servers to be in the same VSAN. Which set of actions meets the requirements?
A network engineer needs to configure a high availability feature for a data center that uses a Cisco Nexus 7700 Series Switch that is configured with dual supervisors. The feature must meet these requirements:
• Network resilience must be ensured.
• Network instability for Layer 3 external routing protocols must be reduced.
• Neighbors must be notified when the control plane is restarting.
• Traffic must still be forwarded to peers while neighbor relationships arc restarting.
What should be used to meet these requirements?
An engineer needs to design a network environment in a data center that uses Cisco Nexus 9000 Series Switches The solution must meet these requirements
• interoperate with 802 1D devices
• load-balance spanning-tree traffic
• interoperate with third-party devices
Which spanning-tree protocol meets these requirements?
Drag and drop the components from the left onto the descriptions on the right that indicate what occurs to Fibre Channel fabric when that component fails.
An engineer is designing a data center that uses FCIP. How is QoS configured in this environment?
A company is using Cisco UCS and wants a network orchestration solution to meet these requirements :
centrally manage compute and storage platforms
reduce the time it takes to detect an outage
easily exchange data with TAC to reduce resolution times
The company does not have in-house knowledge about scripting. Which solution must the company choose?
An engineer must secure the payload traversing across the DCI. The solution must support confidentially and integrity and it must be open standard. The solution must encrypt Ethernet frames regardless of the upper layer protocol used. Which technology must be used to support these requirements?
Refer to the exhibit. A Cisco engineer is configuring a customer scenario with 2 x MDS 9000 switches 24 x UCS B200M6 blade servers. UCS 64S4 Fabric Interconnect in end-host mode and 3 x UCS 5108 server chassis with 2408 Fabric Extenders The engineer installs 6 x SQL Server 2019 on all blades and then notices that there are read and write latencies What is the best way to balance the utilization across the shared ports?
A network engineer is implementing Cisco UCS manager with Cisco UCS center integration. The company is strict security policies require that the logical profile of virtual network adapters and logical addressing assigned to Cisco UCS servers be managed by the Cisco UCS manager. The users must also be prevented from being able to acknowledge pending activities in the Cisco UCS manager. Which two profile must be used to meet these requirements? (Choose two.)
A storage engineer requires a solution that achieves multiple paths between a server and storage array. The design must support complete traffic isolation and support a 50% growth in the next year. Which FCoE solution meets these requirements?
An engineer must logically partition two Cisco Nexus 7000 Series Switches into two environments called Test_39919596 and Production_59423879. The environments must use only F2-Series line cards and be limited to a maximum of 265 port-channels. Which Cisco Nexus feature must be used?
Refer to the exhibit.
Fiber links are provisioned directly between the spine and leaf switches in the given LAN topology A/30 prefix has been configured over each fiber link to provide underlay connectivity for a VXLAN network. The network-engineering team must update the network configuration to provide the shortest possible convergence time if a fiber link is cut. Which action must the team take to meet the requirement?
An engineer is designing a Cisco UCS Central implementation for an existing Cisco UCS infrastructure, and the current policies must be reused. Which action must the engineer select?
Refer to the exhibit In this scenario a Cisco engineer is building a loop-free topology where a dedicated layer of the vPC domain adjacent to the aggregation layer which also runs vPC Is used to interconnect the two data centers together. The engineer globally configures a vPC domain identifier on both vPC devices where the domain ID is the same on both peer devices. Which action successfully forms the domain?
An engineer needs an orchestration and monitoring tool that should be used for managing the storage networks and VXLAN fabrics. The tool should also allow support built-in dashboard and real-time health summary for managed devices. Which tool meets these requirements?
A customer needs a design for a new network VLANs must be dynamically provisioned based on the information received from connected hosts No Layer 2 or Layer 3 configuration must be performed on the related switch ports. Which feature must be used?
An architect is gathering technical requirements tor a large-scale data center with up to 3000 Ethernet ports and 70 ToR switches. The stakeholders agreed that it a ToR switch becomes compromised via its management plane, access to the production data plane must not be possible tram that switch. Which type of management network must the architect recommend in the design?
An engineer enables the HSRP feature on a Cisco Nexus 7000 Series Switch. It must be ensured that the switch manages packets that are sent to the local vPC MAC address, remote vPC MAC address, and HSRP virtual MAC address.
Which command accomplishes this goal?
An engineer is expanding an existing ISCSI environment and must choose an addressing scheme. When checking one of the devices, the engineer discovers this target device naming used
{prefix}. 2019-01.com.acme.123:00. ftd0cb21.bcb389458389
Which addressing scheme was used in the environment?
Refer to the exhibit. FCoE is used in the topology between the SAN Storage devices and SAN-Core routers. After noticing traffic drops to hosts accessing SAN-B storage, the engineering team wants to reduce the oversubscription ratio in the topology. Which action must the team take?
What can be implemented on Cisco Nexus 5600 Series Switches for link redundancy within a Fibre Channel fabric?
An engineer is building a data center network with VXLAN EVPN. The requirement is to use multicast for the broadcast, unknown unicast, and multicast replication.
Which two VNI to multicast group mapping methods must be used to meet these requirements? (Choose two.)
An engineer must design a solution to divide the workload across two different data centers and achieve redundancy in case of the failure of either data center Which solution must the engineer choose?
Refer to the exhibit.
A Cisco engineer is configuring Cisco Nexus 7000 Series Switches To simplify initial configuration verification and vPC+/HSRP troubleshooting, the engineer configures the primary vPC+ peer device with the FHRP active router highest priority The primary FHRP device responds to ARP requests, even though the secondary vPC+ device also forwards the data traffic Which configuration enables the Layer 3 connectivity from each vPC+ peer device?
An engineer is operating data center environment that hosts data-intensive financial applications. The applications are mostly processing HTTP/HTTPS data with large data segments, which results in a CPU contention due to the significant network processing.
Which set of the Ethernet adapter policies must be selected to resolve the issue?
A network engineer designs a Cisco Nexus data center network for a client-server farm using a pair of Nexus 9000 Series. Switches In a vPC setup. Each server connects with two interfaces to both Nexus switches. The Nexus switches must always initiate the negotiation with the server. Which feature should be used in this design to ensure traffic is forwarded from the server to the data center network?
An engineer must interconnect customer data centers by using a 10-Gbps. unicast-only, Layer 3 circuit The requirement is to stretch the Layer 2 connection over the tunnel isolate STP traffic and create more than two million logical network segments Much solution meets these requirements?
An engineer deploys a Cisco UCS environment with the storage array directly attached to the Fabric Interconnects. The operations team mandates that the solution must not require the configuration of Fibre Channel zoning. Which configuration set meets these requirements?
A customer needs to deploy a three-tier network architecture that will consist of web, and other business-critical applications. The solution will include Cisco UCS 6324 Fabric interconnects managing B and C Series servers The Fabric interconnects will be connected to the cisco nexus 7706 series switch for network access. A storage array will be directly connected to the UCS deployment. Which type must be used to meet these requirements?
What influences the number of ISLs that are required between Cisco MDS Series switches?
Refer to the exhibit.
The security team created a new security policy that requires certain types of traffic to be subject to deep packet inspection The traffic types are
•internet traffic to application servers
•internet traffic to corporate users
•partner network traffic to application servers
•partner network traffic to corporate users
Where must the next-generation firewalls be inserted to implement the new policy?
Drag and drop the feature descriptions from the left onto the correct UCS Fabric Interconnect modes on the right.
Which two configurations allow for routing traffic between two VDCs? (Choose two.)
An engineer must deploy a Cisco HyperFlex system at two data centers. For redundancy reasons, the setup must achieve data protection in case of an entire site failure. The data must be available on both sites at all times to keep the recovery time objective to a minimum.
Which Cisco HyperFlex deployment model meets these requirements?
Which protocol prevents fiber failures from causing a Layer 2 loop in a dark fiber DCI?
A data center uses Cisco Nexus 7000 Series Switch and contains two tenants, tenant A and tenant B.
Tenant A uses IP addresses in the 10.2.30.41/24 to 10.2.30.64/24 range.
Tenant B uses IP addresses in the 10.2.30.120/24 to 10.2.30.192/24 range.
The engineer must implement a solution that
Isolates the traffic for each tenant as separate routing data and control planes.
Physically partitions the Cisco Nexus device into separate multiple logical devices with separate management, failure domain isolation, and resource management.
Which two technologies meet these requirements? (Choose two.)
Drag and drop the Cisco Nexus 7000 Series Switch resources from the left onto the correct groups on the right.
The data center aggregation layer that uses IPv4 and IPv6 address space must act as a redundant Layer 3 gateway The solution must support a minimum of 240 virtual groups for an interface The data center aggregation layer hosts network devices from different vendors Which FHRP solution meets these requirements?
A customer is implementing a business continuity solution for the current data centers The new location must mitigate the impact of a disaster in any existing data centers by providing an acceptable level of service The solution must support
•fully segregated Layer 2 and 3 fault domains
•low or no human intervention for service restoration
•medium to high RPCVRTO for a subset of applications
•asynchronous storage replication for application data
Which disaster recovery solution must the customer select to meet these requirements?
Refer to the exhibit.
An engineer must connect the four-port Cisco UCS VIC adapter to the fabric extenders. Which connectivity implements a port-channel standalone mode?
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Refer to the exhibit. An engineer needs a solution to extend Fibre Channel traffic between multiple sites. The IPsec tunnels must be used to encrypt and secure the traffic. Which technology must be selected to meet these requirements?
A set of virtual machines must be live migrated from a data center to a disaster recovery site. The data center and disaster recovery sites are connected through an Inter-Pod Network topology. The gateway address of the virtual machine is the same across the data center and disaster recovery. Which Cisco Nexus feature supports this requirement?
Refer to the exhibit.
A customer must ensure that the interface on a switch has enough resources to sustain the line rate traffic during peak load.
Which action meets this requirement?
A Cisco UCS instance has four interfaces on a UCS VIC. Where on the fabric interconnect does each interface terminate?
An engineer must integrate Layer 4 to Layer 7 services within Cisco ACI Fabric. The main requirement is to have a single point of configuration for network elements and firewall policies.
Which action meets these requirements?
A customer wants to deploy a Layer 2 extension over a transport infrastructure for multiple data centers. The data center technology should support a localized Layer 3 gateway, a separate flooding domain, and STP isolation per data center. Which DCI technology meets these requirements?
An engineer must design a Cisco HyperFlex solution to support a virtualized environment in a single data center location. The design must consider these customer requirements:
a large-scale cluster with eight or more nodes
distributed high-performance file system for virtualized servers
high fault tolerance to multiple node failures
Which action meets these objectives?
An engineer must connect an existing Cisco Fabric Interconnect to an IP-based storage array. The connection be a channel made directly between the fabric interconnect expansion module and the storage array. The engineer must also consider that the environment is running FCoE for storage and uses QoS to prioritize traffic. Which port type should be used to meet these requirements?
A Cisco engineer is configuring MPLS VPN BGP at a customer site that is connected to the provider site by more than one path MPLS VPN BGP Local Convergence link protection is enabled. After the engineer installs the main forwarding path and the redundant backup path within the BGP, they assign a unique route distinguisher to each VRF table on all PE devices that serve as a backup to the link. What is a prerequisite for this local convergence to work?
An engineer must design a solution based on Cisco Nexus 7709 Switches. The solution must connect test and development network segments and separate the enterprise applications from the production network. The network security team requires routing instances and the IP stack to be completely separated from each other and for traffic between the environments to undergo a deep packet inspection. The development team also requests the ability to allocate additional physical interfaces from the Cisco Nexus 7709 device in each environment.
Which solution meets these requirements?
An engineer must design Layer 2 connectivity for a subnet between two data centers. The engineer must ensure seamless host mobility and optimal first-hop routing. Which attribute must be synchronized across all data centers to achieve this goal?
Refer to the exhibit A Cisco engineer is configuring Cisco Nexus 7000 Series Switches. To simplify initial configuration verification and vPC+/HSRP troubleshooting, the engineer configures the primary vPC+ peer device with the FHRP active router highest priority. The primary FHRP device responds to ARP requests, even though the secondary vPC+ device also forwards the data traffic. Which configuration enables the Layer 3 connectivity from each vPC* peer device?
A customer attaches an additional storage appliance to an existing Cisco UCS domain, which contains 50 virtualization hosts that require fabric failover connectivity on fabric interconnect B. The interfaces are bound to a separate pin group to segregate traffic with a CoS value of 0 Which Cisco UCS Manager feature meets these requirements?
An engineer working for a private data center with an employee ID 4947.57 424 designs a storage area network solution The requirement is to apply QoS to ensure that Fibre Channel data traffic for latency-sensitive applications receives higher pnonty over throughput-intensive applications that are used for data warehousing Which two attributes must be used to identify and set the Fibre Channel traffic classes? (Choose two )
An engineer designs a Cisco UCS solution that must provide guaranteed and deterministic bandwidth to a specific server in the environment. The solution must apply to network and storage traffic of C-Series and B-Series servers. Which solution should be included to meet these requirements?
A SAN fabric is built between a pair of Cisco MDS 9000 Series Switches. The requirement is for the ISL to use the VSAN ID to toward traffic from multiple VSANs across the same physical link. Additionally, the Fibre Channel trace feature must be supported. Which ISL interface parameters are required to meet these requirements?
A midsize corporation with significant data-storage requirements is planning to deploy RFC 3720-based technology in its data center to provide efficient and reliable block-level storage access to servers The corporation requires a robust solution with optimal performance, load-balancing, and fault tolerance. The solution must use multiple network paths to optimize bandwidth usage and provide redundancy LACP has already been enabled on the data-center switches Which two actions must be taken to accomplish the goal? (Choose two.)
Implement VLAN tagging in accordance with the IEEE 802.10 standard to segregate iSCSI traffic from other data-center traffic
Refer to the exhibit.
The data center DC1 uses VXLAN technology The company asked a service provider to design another data center called DC2 and stretch EVPN information between the data centers based on the same technology The fabric requires
•endpoint information propagated end-to-end across both data centers
•misconfiguration replicated from DC1 to DC2
Which actions must the design include in DC2 to meet these criteria?
Refer to the exhibit The data center DC1 uses VXLAN technology The company asked a service provider to design another data center called DC2 and stretch EVPN information between the data centers based on the same technology The fabric requires
•endpoint information propagated end-to-end across both data centers
•misconfiguration replicated from DC1 to DC2
Which actions must the design include in DC2 to meet these criteria?
An engineer is implementing management access to a Cisco Nexus platform. The customer requires a solution that provides isolation between the data and control planes. In addition to management that uses encryption and authentication. The customer will manage the device using both IPv4 and IPv6. Which two components should be used to meet these requirements (Choose two.)
A network design must include a solution to run CLI commands remotely on Cisco Nexus 9000 Series Switches. The customer's security policy requires secure login credentials and an encrypted underlying transport. The command output will be processed using tools that support XML or JSON encoding. Which two components should be included in the design? (Choose two.)
Which orchestration tool provides a graphical interface to manage LAN and SAN fabrics?
