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

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?

Which element is the main functional component of the architecture that separates the internal fabric and the external network that connects sites when VXLAN EVPN is deployed multisite?

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 ACI deployment must:

Which VRF configuration must be used?

Which two types of service profile templates does Cisco UCS support? (Choose two.)

What must be configured in Cisco Intersight when Enum is selected as the data typo in a workflow input?

Which approach splits a pair of clustered fabric interconnects into two standalone devices?

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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?

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?

A company runs mission -critical infrastructure in a single data center. Due to business growth It plans to open more data center in the coming years. A network engineer is asked to recommend a network technology for data center interconnection that allows scalability and seamless VM mobility while providing maximum security and fault isolation between data center. Which technology must be used to meet these requirements?

A network architect needs secure access to the organization’s perimeter routers and firewalls. The administrator must access network devices from a remote location that is reachable from the WAN cloud Which action meets these requirements?

Drag and drop the feature descriptions from the left onto the correct UCS Fabric Interconnect modes on the right.

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?

Drag and drop the data center technologies from the left onto the correct descriptions on the right. Not all technologies are 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.)

A network architect is designing a storage network to connect to an existing IP network over 100G Ethernet ports for multiple hosts The architect decided to require iSCSI multipathmg to provide multiple routes between servers within the SAN and storage devices that reside within the IP network. Which requirement must be applied to the IP network switch that connects to the SAN environment where the hosts reside9

An engineer develops a framework for automatic repetitive tasks needed to manage a Cisco Nexus 9000 Series Switch. The engineer plans to use a programmatic interface and must keep these considerations in mind.

•The customer’s environment requires the script to authenticate before executing further actions.

•The customer’s security requirements mandate the use of HTTP transport.

•The automation team is familiar with parsing messages encoded in XML or JSON format.

Which solution meets these requirements?

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A high-availability setup for iSCSI is designed with the host running ISCSI software. Each storage port on the MDS exports the same two Fibre Channel target ports with different ISCSI target names. In this design, how many ISCSI session are created from the host so that recovery occurs if any component fails?

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?

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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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Which orchestration tool should be used for the management and analytics of servers across multiple sites?

Which mode must be enabled on a Cisco UCS Fabric Interconnect to connect directly to a storage array?

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A customer runs an Online Transaction Processing (OLTP) application on Server1. The application generates a small number of transactions and requires low storage latency. Server2 is a backup server that performs backups twice a day During the backup window, the OLTP application experiences high-latency spikes that affect the application performance The customer must meet these requirements

•Maintain consistent low I/O latency for the OLTP server.

•Guarantee I/O throughput for the OLTP server during backup time

•Allow the customer to keep the existing hardware.

Which action must be taken 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?

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.)

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 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?

An engineer deploys LISP VM mobility. Which feature is configured on the interfaces that have VM mobility enabled?

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 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?

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.)

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

Which Cisco HyperFlex feature provides virtual machine cost scaling for desktop virtualization growth?

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?

Which two paths are provided by deploying an OOB management network in a data center that uses Cisco Nexus switches? (Choose two.)

A engineer wants to eliminate the manual process of checking the system hardware and firmware against a specified hardware compatibility tool. The tool must be able to manage an extensive list of devices including cisco HyperFlex, MDS, and Nexus switches. The tool must manage hardware in multiple data centers so it should be deployed on public cloud infrastructure. Which tool meets these requirements?

An architect needs vendor-agnostic technology to orchestrate and automate a customer network with scripts. The technology must support running ad-hoc scripts from the CLI and support a deployment of scripts based on a large, readily available set of support libraries. Which technology must the architect choose?

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 factor determines the choice of platform designing a Cisco HyperFlex infrastructure to support computer-aided design applications?

Which programming model is vendor-agnostic and combines operational and configuration data in the same container?

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 deploys 32 virtualization hosts in a Cisco UCS domain. All hosts run in the same cluster and have Identical hardware specifications. The operating system requires that all firmware is consistent across the hosts (or driver support. The customer must provision additional interfaces later for expandability. Which feature of Cisco UCS Manager meets these requirements?

Refer to the exhibit. An engineer working for a service provider with an employee ID: 4800:35-849 must perform the mapping of Fibre Channel LUN targets lo the indicated iSCSI virtual target. Which configuration shows the requited mapping?

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?

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?

Drag and drop the SAN components from the left onto the correct design considerations on the right.

A network architect designs the iSCSI architecture. The requirements are to achieve high performance and a low amount of oversubscription and to minimize latency. Which two actions must be taken to meet these requirements? (Choose two.)

A customer asks an engineer to develop a framework to configure Cisco services that will be used to replace process of manual device configuration. The engineer plans to use a programmatic interface and must keep these considerations in mind:

• The customer's environment requires the script to authenticate before executing further actions.

• The customer's security requirements mandate the use of HTTPS transport.

• The support stall has limited shell scripting knowledge, so the scripts should be easy to read and write and be serf-documenting.

Which two solutions should be used to meet these requirements? (Choose two.)

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?

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?

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

An engineer requires a solution that achieves Ethernet traffic forwarding on all available paths from the hosts to the Cisco Nexus Fabric Extender and from the Fabric Extenders to the Cisco Nexus 5000 Series Switches. The NIC teaming from the Fabric Extender to a server should use an LACP EtherChannel. Which solution should be implemented to meet 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?

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?

Which technology enables Layer 2 extension between remote data center sites?

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.)

What are two advantages of using Cisco vPC as compared to traditional access layer designs? (Choose two.)

An engineer is implementing a storage area network where an NPV is used. The engineer notices that the servers in a storage farm are experiencing heavy traffic contention. The engineer needs to migrate traffic from heavily loaded server interfaces to interfaces with less load. When the new links are deployed, the existing traffic is not rebalanced as expected. Which feature must be used to meet these requirements?

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 company purchased a Cisco UCS system with four 5108 Chassis populated with UCS B-Series servers. The environment consists of nine Cisco HyperFlex rack servers. An engineer must provision virtual machines using an orchestration tool to optimize overall deployment time.

Which orchestration must be used to meet this requirement?

Which two vSphere features must be included in the design of a Cisco HyperFlex systems stretched cluster? (Choose two.)

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 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 two features are provided by deploying an OOB management network in a Cisco Nexus data center? (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?

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 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 for 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.)

What are two advantages of using Cisco vPC over traditional access layer designs? (Choose two.)

An engineer configured the OSPF protocol in the vPC topology. During the catastrophic failure of one of the vPC the member switches, the traffic was routed to a black hole. This route was caused by the long convergence time caused by the delay of the of the vPC member switch reboot. After the failure, the engineer rebooted both switches, but the secondary switch powered on before the primary one. It caused all the vPCs to be shut down due to consistency-check violations. Which two features must be used to prevent these situations from happening in the future? (Choose two.)

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?

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?

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 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?

To help automate the vHBA configuration process, a network engineer is configuring vHBA template pairs on UCS. The engineer is creating primary and secondary templates to define how vHBAs on a server connect to the SAN. Which fact about the template pair should the engineer consider for its potential impact on service?