Designing Cisco Data Center Infrastructure for Traditional and AI Workloads v1.2 (DCID 300-610) Questions and Answers
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.)
An engineer must develop a Python tool to automate software upgrades of both data center and non-data center devices. All devices offer a RESTful API and require a JSON or XML payload Vendor-specific libraries must be avoided. Which library must the engineer choose?
A network engineer is using a Cisco UCS environment connected to a Fibre Channel storage array. The Cisco UCS environment must be connected to an existing SAN network, and several Cisco MDS 9000 Series Switches must be added to increase storage density. The solution must not exhaust the SAN network from the list of available domain IDs after connecting Also, most of the SAN traffic must be mapped from the Cisco UCS blades to a specific group of the fabric interconnect ports Which two features must be deployed to meet these requirements? (Choose
two.)
An architect is designing a storage solution for a Cisco UCS server infrastructure with these requirements:
• identical deployment of servers
• can add vHBAs to a group of servers
• configuration of servers stays synchronized
Which solution meets these requirements?
Which type fields can an engineer use to identify an iSCSI participant? (Choose two.)
A network administrator must create a redundant vHBA for the mission-critical virtual machines (VMs) installed on a Cisco UCS Fabric Interconnect blade server. The VMs access multiple datastores using VSAN55 and VSAN95. The datastore on which the VMs are hosted must be accessible if any of the uplinks goes offline. Which action meets these requirements?
Which multicast rendezvous point redundancy mode is valid for Bidirectional PIM?
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?
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?
What influences the number of ISLs that are required between Cisco MDS Series switches?
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.)
An engineer must choose the World Wide Port Name for the Cisco UCS Fibre Channel virtual host bus adapter.
Which identifier must be used?
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 networking team must implement a new management solution for the network devices at their organization. The solution must meet these requirements
• It must enable seamless monitoring, configuration, and troubleshooting while ensuring security and reliability.
• It must allow access to devices even if the production network is down.
• It must be easy to use and manage.
The company ' s budget is limited. Which implementation must the team perform to meet the 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?
Which type of encoding is used on 8-Gbps links as compared to 10-Gbps links?
Which mode must be enabled on a Cisco UCS Fabric Interconnect to connect directly to a storage array?
A cloud service provider provisioned four active/active data centers in various locations within the country at 50 miles between each data center. The data centers must provide redundant network infrastructure and always be available to customers.
Which two data center design steps must be used to meet these requirements? (Choose two.)
Which two automation requirements can be met by using Puppet? (Choose two.)
A network consultant reviews the requirements for the Storage Area Network (SAN) design. The proposed solution must offer a very efficient port usage and eliminate the need for a separate physical layer of switches and their associated ISLs. The design is not expected to require future expansion.
Which SAN topology must be used to meet these requirements?
A network architect wants to automate data center LAN configuration by use of Kubernetes, aligned with Cisco best practices for underlay and overlay provisioning The automation must be able to operate in high-availability mode with active/active operation between hosts in dual data centers. Which configuration approach must the architect choose?
Which Fibre Channel SAN topology is simple to architect, implement, maintain, and troubleshoot?
An engineer Installs a B-Series server in a Cisco UCS chassis that contains a pair of UCS-IOM-2208XP I/O modules. The full bandwidth of the I/O module must be utilized. Which two elements should be used in this environment? (Choose two.)
An engineer working for a private telecommunication company with an employee id 4298 53 420 must evaluate connectivity to the new data centre location based on Cisco Nexus 7000 Series Switches. The IP connectivity is already supplied by the service provider. The solution must provide a Layer 2 extension and optimize the traffic localization Which technology supports these requirements?
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?
An engineer is installing a Cisco Nexus 7000 Series Switch with F2-Series I/O Module. The company ' s strict security policy requires that the port be in-band. The engineer must also keep these
considerations in mind:
The customer ' s security requirements mandate the use of a secure management mechanism that supports authentication and encryption.
The port should support management over IP.
Which port type must be used to meet these requirements?
Refer to the exhibit. A network engineer must improve high availability within the given UCS infrastructure The engineer configured central nodes A and B in cluster mode to ensure that traffic fails over in the case of a network outage. Which type of redundancy will the cluster configuration provide?
A cloud service provider is managing day-2 operations of over 200 blade servers installed in the Cisco UCS environment. This pool of network resources is providing virtual networks to their customers. To successfully operate this environment, frequent changes to vNICs and other operational policies are required across multiple UCS domains. The operations team must streamline these repetitive tasks. Which orchestration tool must be used to meet this requirement?
The network engineering team at a large corporation operates a critical data center with stringent business requirements for network reliability and high availability. EIGRP is used as an interior routing protocol. The team is planning to implement a robust new redundancy strategy that minimizes downtime and maximizes network uptime. According to the requirements, business services can tolerate 3 seconds for failover performance. The solution must be based on RFC 2281. Which action must the team take as part of the implementation?
Which programming model is vendor-agnostic and combines operational and configuration data in the same container?
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?
What are two reasons to select OTV as the DCI solution to connect multisite topologies? (Choose two.)
A company must implement a multitenant environment for DEV and PROD application teams. The design must support end-to-end route isolation for remote external sites, overlapping IP ranges, and fast, transparent application deployment. Which solution meets the objectives?
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?
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.)
Refer to the exhibit. A Cisco engineer is configuring a PBR in a Cisco ACI data center scenario and plans to insert a transparent firewall. The APIC release is 4.1. the Cisco ACI fabric is configured to be the gateway for the servers and for the PBR node, and the Layer 4/ Layer 7 devices are deployed as Layer 1/ Layer 2 mode in the physical domain. Layer 1/Layer 2 PBR node interfaces arc also configured to be in a bridge domain and not in an L30ut. What is required for the consumer and provider connectors of the Layer 1/Layer 2 device for this scenario to work?
The network infrastructure team is beginning to automate routine tasks within the Cisco ACI fabric and is searching for the appropriate solution The solution must not require any additional software installed on the Cisco APIC Networking team members lack automation experience and prefer to use a tool that does not require in-depth programming knowledge Finally configuration within the Cisco ACI fabric is rarely modified or removed Which solution must the team choose?
A network architect is designing an automation strategy for a large virtualized data center to improve application deployment time. The design has these requirements:
The connection policy must determine connectivity between virtual machines and dynamic vNICs on servers equipped with Cisco VIC adapters.
Dynamic vNIC traffic must prefer fabric A while retaining failover protection.
When a virtual machine or server is migrated, the required dynamic vNIC resources must be assigned automatically.
Which configuration must the architect use?
A company has several data centers around the world that must be interconnected over Layer2. The service provider supports MPLS services to all the locations. The proposed solution must be vendor agnostic and scalable enough to support the rapid growth of the company. Which data center technology is recommended to achieve this goal?
What are two characteristics of VRF-Lite on the Cisco NX-OS platform? (Choose two.)
Which two paths are provided by deploying an OOB management network in a data center that uses Cisco Nexus switches? (Choose two.)
Which two vSphere features must be included in the design of a Cisco HyperFlex systems stretched cluster? (Choose two.)
Refer to the exhibit A company plans to implement high availability between the iSCSI host and the Fibre Channel target. Which solution must the company implement to recover from a failure of a host NIC. MDS IP storage port or Fibre Channel target port?
Refer to the exhibit.
The Cisco Nexus Series Switch with hostname Nexus! is the default gateway for server A and server B Both servers must have reachability to the internet; however, server A internet traffic must pass through the firewall for deep packet inspection. Also, the firewall must inspect any communication between server A and server B. Which solution must be applied to separate the data plane path for server A and server B?
Which authentication software natively runs within the CLI of Cisco NX-OS devices?
A storage administrator receives reports of network delays when database software attempts to access the storage array. The virtual machines that host the database software are installed on different rack servers connected to the Cisco UCS Fabric Interconnect domain. The existing SAN switches are connected to the Fabric Interconnects using two 8 Gb port-channel interfaces to connect the storage array. The storage administrator has decided to deploy iSCSI storage with four 10 Gbps interfaces connected to the Cisco UCS Fabric Interconnects.
Which deployment type resolves the problems with storage contention?
A network consultant evaluates the Ethernet Adapter Policy configuration to be applied to the Cisco UCS blade servers. The policy must minimize latency and increase throughput for sensitive applications. The solution must increase the CPU data cache hit rate to meet these requirements Which policy is required?
An architect is designing a VXLAN solution for a client with limited experience in complex deployments and has recommended using Cisco Nexus Dashboard Fabric Controller (NDFC) to automate the configuration and management of the solution. NDFC will manage a dual-site production data center environment by using physical appliances in active-active high-availability mode. Which NDFC deployment model must the architect select?
An engineer deploys VMware ESXi hypervisor on blade servers. The virtual networking is managed by Cisco Nexus 1000V Series Switches.
Which configuration aligns with Cisco recommended practices for providing high availability and a maximum throughput to the VMware ESXi hosts?
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?
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?
Drag the requirements from the left onto the correct policy types on the right.
An engineer is deploying a Fabric Interconnect within a data center SAN over a Fiber Channel link in end-host mode. The hosts are connected through multiple vHBAs, each of which has been hard-pinned to a specific Fibre Channel uplink. What happens to the vHBAs if the Fibre Channel uplink port fails?
Which statement describes differences between training and inference in AI learning models?
Which technology enables Layer 2 extension between remote data center sites?
Which two features are provided by deploying an OOB management network in a Cisco Nexus data center? (Choose two.)
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 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?
A network consultant evaluates the Cisco UCS Fabric Interconnect SAN configuration, which must meet these requirements:
All traffic must pass over the upstream device for switching and domain IDs must be preserved in the fabric.
Each server should be pinned to one designated upstream interface and for the traffic to pass through the pinned port.
Which Fabric Interconnect SAN operational mode 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?
An engineer manages a multi-organization Cisco UCS fabric and requires a solution to streamline the daily operational tasks of creating service profile templates. The operations team is unfamiliar with programming languages and must have a solution that is written in an easy-to-read and declarative manner. The operations team also requires the tool to be flexible enough to support the creation of custom modules. The development team is familiar with the Python programming language and can develop these custom modules for the operations team. Which tool meets 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?
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.)
Which approach splits a pair of clustered fabric interconnects into two standalone devices?
Drag and drop the configurations from the left onto the correct policies on the right.
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 seeks a solution to retrieve routing information from Cisco Nexus switches. The data must be exported to a web application in a JSON or XML data format for monitoring and must be encrypted during transmission. The solution must not require extensive knowledge to support and should be simple to implement.
Which technology accomplishes these goals?
Which orchestration tool must be used to manage VXLAN fabrics and includes a built-in dashboard and real-time network health summary for managed devices?
An engineer must interconnect two data centers to support the dynamic virtual machine migration. The data centers are currently interconnected using an IPv4 network. However, the data piano encapsulation of the underlay network is expected to change next year. To meet the VM migration requirement, the solution must track MAC route changes, update all other remote devices simultaneously and prevent excessive MAC flapping with broadcast and unicast traffic loops. The company must also use networking equipment from different manufacturers to prevent vendor-locking. Which solution meets these requirements?
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?
Drag and drop the SAN components from the left onto the correct design considerations on the right.
A network engineer is designing a Cisco Hyperflex infrastructure. The Infrastructure will be connected to an external SAN fiber channel array and must support Microsoft clustering.
Which storage connectivity method must be used to meet these requirements?
A customer deploying Cisco UCS blade servers must centrally manage VLANs carried by the server interfaces. Interface properties must be updated in one location and applied to multiple servers simultaneously, including after the servers have been deployed. Which technology must the customer use?
What can be implemented on Cisco Nexus 5600 Series Switches for link redundancy within a Fibre Channel fabric?
An engineer must provide Layer 2 adjacency between data centers that are in two locations and separated by a routed network The adjacency must be based on Cisco Nexus 7000 Series Switches The solution must offload learning of host reachability information to the control plane to avoid excessive flood and learn congestion Also the data center in one of the sites experiences a large volume of unknown unicast traffic that the solution must mitigate Which data center interconnect technology meets these requirements?
An engineer is designing a Multichassis EtherChannel topology in which two switches must appear as a single device to a third downstream switch? Which two technologies meet this requirement? (Choose two.)
Drag the appropriate from the left onto the current UDLD modes of operation on the right.
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?
Drag and drop the Cisco Nexus 7000 Series Switch resources from the left onto the correct groups on the right.
Refer to the exhibit. A Cisco engineer is planning a data migration job in heterogeneous SANs where the existing and new storage devices for the migration are already connected to the MDS switches. All paths from the SSM to the storage-connected switch are going through the Cisco fabric. The setup is with active/active arrays and multiple LUN sets. What is the best approach to copy the LUN sets to the new location?
A network engineer must design a data center network with four Cisco Nexus 7706 switches. The switches will be installed in primary and secondary data centers in vPC domains. The two data centers must be connected via Layer 2 links and provide the maximum throughput, redundancy, and avoid port-blocking spanning-tree design.
Which deployment model meets these requirements?
Which feature provides a sandbox to convert NX-OS CLI commands to REST-based scripts on Cisco Nexus 7700 Series Switches?
An engineer must design a Cisco UCS environment that will connection to a storage area network. The solution must include support for these conditions:
• connectivity to the existing 10 Gigabit Ethernet network
• booting the server infrastructure from the network
• integration with the existing Fibre Channel storage arrays
• lossless data transfer
Which solution should be used to meet these requirements?
What is an advantage of using OTV as compared to VPLS for data center redundancy?
Which Ethernet to Cisco Fabric Interconnect connectivity configuration is supported when FCoE is implemented?
What should be implemented on a Cisco Nexus 9300 Series Switch to reduce oversubscription between switches within a Fibre Channel fabric?
An enterprise recently provisioned multiple new servers in their data center using service profile templates on Cisco UCS. Server 2 now requires two additional vNICs. How must the engineer facilitate the change to server 2 without affecting the other servers?
An engineer must implement an iSCSI storage connectivity in the existing Cisco UCS environment. The environment is based on Cisco UCS С-Series rack server, Cisco Nexus 1000V Series Switches, and VMware ESXi hosts. The implementation must meet these requirements:
Provide multipathing and high availability in the event of a critical path failure.
Be cost-effective and not require the purchase of new equipment.
Which two components must be selected to meet these requirements? (Choose two.)
A Cisco engineer is preparing a service profile template for a design, which consists of 20 x UCS B200M6 blade servers 2 x UCS 6454 Fabric Interconnect in End Host Mode, and 3 x UCS 5108 server chassis with 2408 Fabric Extenders The blade servers are equipped with VIC 1480 adapters The engineer does not configure a vNIC/vHBA placement policy in the service profile and the vNICs and vHBAs are assigned to the vCon in a particular order What is the mapping scheme in which Cisco UCS assigns the vCons based on the type of server and the selected virtual slot?
