300-610 Designing Cisco Data Center Infrastructure (DCID) Question and Answers

Which two statements describe Ethernet switching mode on Cisco UCS 6100 Series Fabric Interconnects? (Choose two.)

The management of the Cisco Nexus switches is provided over an isolated put-of-band network. The VDC feature is configured on the Cisco Nexus core switches. How is out-of-band management access provided for each VDC?

A network architect must design a large-scale Cisco SAN topology. The customer has a limited budget, so a design that provides use of resources is required. To support this requirement, the architect to share array ports, ISL, and line card bandwidth. The customer has also presented these additional considerations:

The customers plans to expand the network by 10% over the next two years.

The customer’s policy requires physically separated infrastructure to support high availability.

Which solution should be used to meet these requirements?

Drag and drop the Cisco Nexus 7000 Series Switch resources from the left onto the correct groups on the right.

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 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?

An engineer needs to configure multiple network devices using Ansible Device passwords must meet these requirements:

be stored securely

not be visible as plaintext

be available to Ansible playbooks for executing scripts

Which solution must the engineer choose?

Which type of encoding is used on 8-Gbps links as compared to 10-Gbps links?

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 company has added a new FCoE storage array to increase the performance of datastore access for end users. This storage array is directly connected to the Cisco Nexus 5672UP switches using four 10G port-channel interfaces. After deployment, the end users fail to access the datastore compared to the older solution. A network engineer verified the port-channel interface and finds that the congestion occurs when PFC frames are generated at the FCoE ingress interface. Which action must be taken to resolve the congestion issue?

Refer to the exhibit.

Which template is used when a vHBA template pair is created for a specific server that inherits its attributes from an existing template?

A network architect designs a high-availability architecture for the Cisco UCS Fabric interconnects that installed in a data center. The architecture must support clustering and redundancy. Which architecture 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 customer requires a VXLAN fabric deployment with these requirements:

• DNS must be a shared service.

• Users will not require direct sharing of resources with other users.

• The deployment must use the least configuration intensive approach to achieve route leaking.

Which action must the customer take to meet these criteria?

A customer requires a tool to manage Cisco network hardware. The solution must use secure communication using a secure network protocol, support the use of declarative language to manage the state of resources, and periodically pull changes to the controlled nodes. Which tool meets these requirements?

An engineer is configuring a Cisco UCS Service Profile template for an environment that will host Windows servers Some of the servers require access to a Fibre Channel storage network The design requires the server HBA to send the maximum number of commands to a Fibre Channel disk using a single transmission Which action must be taken to meet these requirements?

An engineer must design a solution with storage reachability between too physical servers and a storage array. The storage array connectivity is to a SAN switch that Is limited to 46 ports. Which topology meets the requirements without adding more MOS switches?

Refer to the exhibit. An engineer is creating a new data center design for a customer. The design must support virtual applications, enhance network resilience, and meet these requirements:

• Extend Layer 2 across all network segments to support endpoint mobility.

• Access switches will support up to 20 GB capacity for north-south and east-west traffic.

• Provide fast convergence during link failures.

• MAC address advertisement will not depend on the control plane.

Which solution must the engineer include in the design between the access and distribution switches?

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?

An engineer must connect a Cisco UCS Fabric Interconnect to a storage array using a Fibre Channel protocol. The SAN must be directly connected to the UCS fabric interconnects using ports 1/1 and 1/2. Which fabric interconnect configuration must be used?

Refer to the exhibit.

A system administrator needs a solution to manage random packet drops between two Cisco UCS C240 M4 servers The servers are connected to a pair of Cisco Nexus 7009 switches using 10G fibre interfaces Both servers are generating too many east-west traffic flows from TCP-based applications which causes significant latency that impacts the customer Also the transfer of files from Server-1 to Server-2 larger than 10 GB results in multiple retransmits Which design solution resolves this issue?

Which protocol prevents fiber failures from causing a Layer 2 loop in a dark fiber DCI?

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?

An ACI deployment must:

Which VRF configuration must be used?

A customer is deploying a SAN based on Cisco MDS 9000 Series Switches. Each Inter-Switch Link must carry multiple VSANs at the same time. The access switch must share the same domain ID as the director switch to reduce the number of domain IDs needed in the fabric Drag and drop the operational port types from the right onto the boxes on the left to create a topology that meets these requirements. Not all port types are used. Port types are used more than once.

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?

What can be implemented on Cisco Nexus 5600 Series Switches for link redundancy within a Fibre Channel fabric?

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?

A Cisco engineer is using a PowerShell script to create a service profile template on Cisco UCS Manager. After defining the server pools and other templates, the engineer must ensure that the hosts are visible lo the northbound SAN network and storage initiators. Which configuration must be applied to enable this capability?

Refer to the exhibit. A Cisco engineer is configuring a FlexPod data center for SAP with Cisco ACI, Cisco UCS Manager 4.0. and Net AppAFFA-Series. All systems and fabric links feature redundancy and provide end-to-end high availability. After the engineer sets the needed VLANs on the NetApp controller ports and adds them to the data broadcast domain, the engineer must make the storage disks visible for the UCS hosts Which action must be taken on the UCS to accomplish this task?

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.)

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 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?

Refer to the exhibit.

An engineer is configuring a QoS policy with these requirements

Match-all AF11 traffic and set it to a DSCP value of 14.

The committed rate must be 10 Mbps with a committed burst rate of 1000 ms

Drop any AF11 traffic that violates these settings.

Any traffic other than af11 must have a DSCP value of 0

The given class-map configuration already exists. Which solution must the engineer use to meet the requirements?

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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?

What is the disadvantage of asynchronous storage replication as compared to synchronous storage replication in a disaster recovery design?

Which two configurations are available by using a service profile template in Cisco UCS Manager? (Choose two.)

A company needs a solution to virtualize their legacy desktop computers. The solution must be highly resilient and able to withstand the loss of a data center site. Each compute node requires a minimum of 20 disk drives.

Which solution meets these requirements?

Refer to the exhibit. A Cisco engineer is configuring a Cisco UCS integrated infrastructure for SAP HANA that consists of 8 x Cisco UCS B/C480-M5 servers for SAP HAN A and 4 x Cisco UCS C240-M5 C-Series rack mount servers for storage. The rack servers are equipped with Cisco VIC 1225T. The engineer plans to install RHEL8. but the boot process is interrupted at installation because the iSCSl LUNs are not recognized by the VIC adapter. After proper Investigation, the engineer concludes that the initiator and target configuration that is programmed on the primary ISCSl VNIC to the operating system Is missing. What is the reason for the issue?

A company’s data center is currently running on a traditional SAN architecture with Cisco UCS C200 M5 Blade Servers, producing 1000 IOPS The SAN is becoming a performance bottleneck, so management decided to implement a new solution to provide better performance and scalability. The preferred solution must meet these requirements:

•Provide at least 10x the performance of the current SAN

•Provide up to 100 Gbps of throughput per node

•Be easily scalable to meet the future needs of the enterprise

Which solution must the company deploy to meet the requirements9

Where does Cisco UCS handle Fibre Channel traffic failover?

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?

An engineer manages hundreds of Cisco Nexus Series and 9000 Series Switches that are installed at several data centers and wants to use one of the built-in automation tools of the Cisco NX-OS Guest Shell to automate daily activities. The engineer requires a tool that uses imperative language, has extensive support, and is object-oriented. Which automation tool should be used to meet these requirements?

A client in a commercial building Installs a Cisco blade server in the multitenant Cisco UCS blade Infrastructure. To cut operating costs me client’s data center is shared with other organizations. The client asks an engineer prevent third parties from accessing their equipment and from accessing BlOS-related information when booting a server. Which Two policies must be used to meet these requirements? (Choose two.)

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?

What is an advantage of using OTV as compared to VPLS for data center redundancy?

An engineer must design a VXLAN EVPN network. The solution should optimize broadcast, unknown unicast, and multicast (BUM) and short BUM replication, and use PIM anycast RP. Which solution should be included in the design?

An engineer must configure an interface for managing and orchestrating a Cisco Nexus device. The interface must be operational if the data and control planes crash, support IPv4 and IPv6 addressing, and have been access to its own VRF instance. Which interface should be used to meet these requirements?

Refer to the exhibit.

The FCoE packets fail to be forwarded through the switch. What is the minimum MTU QoS requirement for the FCoE to work?

An engineer must interconnect two geographically separated data centers. The service provide offers a Layer 2 metro Ethernet link. The strict security policy requires that the information that is shared between two sites must be sent encrypted. The application deployed between sites requires a line-rate throughput regardless of the packet size and speed. Which solution meets these requirements?

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 technology enables Layer 2 extension between remote data center sites?

A cloud provider deploys an infrastructure based on Cisco ACI Fabric, Cisco UCS, and Cisco HyperFlex Data Platform. The storage area network will be based on Cisco MDS 9000 Series Switches with Hyper-V, VMware, and KVM used as the virtualization platform. The requirement is to deploy the overall solution by using a robust automation and orchestration tool.

Which tool meets these requirements?

Which two configurations allow for routing traffic between two VDCs? (Choose two.)

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?

A Cisco UCS instance has four interfaces on a UCS VIC. Where on the fabric interconnect does each interface terminate?

An engineer must connect a storage array directly to an existing Cisco UCS Fabric Interconnect. The customer requires a solution that provides IP-based storage that does not need to be connected through an external switch Also, the operations team wants to have the ability to have direct access to the files stored on the storage array from their Linux hosts. Which storage technology meets these requirements?

A network engineer must create a Fibre Channel fabric QoS design for an existing data center. The solution must provide relative bandwidth guarantees to application traffic, control latency, and prioritize application traffic.

Which mechanism must be deployed to support 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 implementing a Cisco UCS environment. The system must aggregate all vNICs into a single policy and consistently enforce node disassociation across the cluster. Which two UCS policies meet these requirements? (Choose two.)

Refer to the exhibit.

Server 1 fails to connect to the storage array over the Storage Area Network (SAN) of the Cisco NDS 9000 Series Switch. The requirements are to redesign the storage network and keep these considerations in mind:

The traffic from each of the server must be redundant and isolated.

The design must tolerate hardware and software failures and upgrades of SAN fabric devices.

Which action must be taken to meet these requirements?

Refer to the exhibit.

A Cisco UCS chassis that has two IOMs is discovered. The chassis discovery policy creates a fabric port channel. What is the result of this policy?

A failure occurs on the network between two BFD and OSPF neighbors. Drag and drop the protocol actions from the left into the correct order on the right.

Refer to the exhibit.

An engineer must deploy a SAN that meets these criteria:

•The upstream director switch must be configured to minimize the number of issued domain IDs

•The access switch must aggregate multiple locally connected ports not a single uplink that shares the same domain ID as the upstream switch.

Drag and drop the port types from the right onto the boxes on the left to create a SAN topology that meets these requirements Not all port types are used Port types are used more than once

What are two functions of a Network Services Orchestrator in an NFV environment? (Choose two.)

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?

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?

Which feature provides a sandbox to convert NX-OS CLI commands to REST-based scripts on Cisco Nexus 7700 Series Switches?

A network engineer must design a Cisco HyperFlex solution based on these requirements:

• two clusters in the main data center consisting of five HyperFlex nodes

• one edge node tor the remote branch

• cluster nodes that use one rack unit of space

Which two devices should be used in the remote branch cluster for this design? (Choose two.)

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?

Which two methods mitigate congestion in a SAN network? (Choose two.)

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?

Refer to the exhibit. An engineer builds a data center network design using EVPN technology. Within the design, the fabric acts as a gateway. Traffic from host X to host Y must pass through the Cisco ASA firewall for deep packet inspection and increased security. Which firewall deployment must the engineer choose to accomplish this goal?