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A network architect proposes a distinct Fibre Channel fabric to be used for a Cisco UCS blade server that hosts critical applications. Which action should be implemented for the fibre Channel traffic from the vHBA of this service to pass through the I/O module in the Cisco chassis to a specified uplink Fibre Channel port?
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.)
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?
Which two configurations allow for routing traffic between two VDCs? (Choose two.)
Drag the appropriate from the left onto the current UDLD modes of operation on the right.
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 company owns a large-scale compute infrastructure that consists of over 1000 servers and virtual machines. The operational complexity continues to grow with additional policies and servers added to the environment. An infrastructure engineer is looking for an automation tool to reduce the operational complexity of configuring complex infrastructure. Because of the strict security requirements, the tool must be agentless, use the secure shell for transport, and be extendable using existing Python modules. Which tool meets these requirements?
Refer to the exhibit. An engineer must deploy NEW-VRF-001 in the data center. All hosts require full reachability with all other hosts, no matter on which pod the host deployment occurs. Which set of commands must the engineer include in the deployment?
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?
After experiencing traffic disruptions from the failure of a single router, a customer asks an engineer to design a solution that will prevent this from occurring in the future. While examining the customer’s environment, the engineer discovers that the routers are manufactured by a variety of different vendors, and they have varying amounts of CPU and memory resources. Additionally, several of the customer’s applications require the ability to fine-tune the load-balancing parameters between multiple routers. Which solution should be used 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?
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?
What is an advantage of Cisco HyperFlex Edge as compared to Cisco HyperFlex Standard Clusters?
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 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.)
The end users report issues with datastore reachability between the newly installed virtual machines (VMs) and the storage array. The VMs are deployed on a Cisco C-Series server, directly connected with Cisco Nexus 5672UP switches over FCoE VLAN. The data traffic on VLAN 99, which is designated as a native VLAN, reaches its default gateway, but FCoE VLAN 99 fails to access the datastore. Which action resolves the problem?
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?
Refer to the exhibit Due to power limitations at the customer data center, the engineering team must decommission one of the modular switches in the new design the customer must ensure that the OSPF process is fully protected on the remaining switch and minimize OSPF flapping in case of any module failure. Which solution fulfills the requirements for the new design?
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?
Which two paths are provided by deploying an OOB management network in a data center that uses Cisco Nexus switches? (Choose two.)
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?
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 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?
What influences the number of ISLs that are required between Cisco MDS Series switches?
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.)
A large financial institution hosts all customer data in a critical data center with a single physical location Top management is concerned about the risk of a single-site failure. Dot budget is also an issue, so the network engineering team is working to implement a cost-effective redundancy strategy with a second data center. The new data center must use a three-tier design Identical to the existing data center. Business requirements dictate that all data must always be accessible from anywhere in the world, even It a single site fails. The team purchased two Cisco Nexus 7700 Series Switches and four Catalyst 8000 Series Routers. Which action must the team take to accomplish the goal?
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?
An engineer is experiencing performance issues on a cisco UCS blade server. The B-series blade server contains four CPUs, most of which are idle. The engineer notices that the CPU is suffering from too many requests sent by the NIC. Additionally, the number of queues appears to be insufficient and only a single CPU is processing the network traffic. Which policy must be used to alleviate these issues?
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 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?
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?
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 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 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 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?
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 company must integrate an iSCSI storage solution into its existing production environment. The new iSCSI network must be accessible from a limited set of network segments. The client devices follow a strict network security policy to access critical data from the storage array. Which design steps must be used to meet these requirements?
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?
A Cisco engineer is developing a custom application that can run natively in Cisco NX-OS on Nexus 9000 and Nexus 3000 platforms For the NX-SDK application to run the engineer enables the NX-SDK feature on the device Then the NX-SDK is imported into the application via an import nx_sdk_py statement. The engineer creates custom CLI commands and defines custom CLI command syntax within the sdkThread function When CLI commands originate from an NX-SDK application what class is this?
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?
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?
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?
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 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?
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?
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?
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?
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?
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 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 disaster recovery solution for a Cisco ACI Multi-Site network. One requirement is that the applications must have seamless IP addressing across sites. The solution must also be highly resilient and support Layer 2 adjacency. Which design meets these requirements?
Which type fields can an engineer use to identify an iSCSI participant? (Choose two.)
Which Cisco HyperFlex feature provides virtual machine cost scaling for desktop virtualization growth?
Refer to the exhibit. A Cisco engineer is implementing a customer data center design and must configure Cisco MDS 9000 Series Switches. The configuration has the required IP addresses on each SAN. The requirement is that each FCIP is a separate E(ISL). and the FCIP links must connect to different switches across the two SAN islands. Also, the Fibre Channel traffic is to be load-balanced across the FCIP link. After the engineer configures the FCIP profiles and interfaces they want to enable QoS for the link. Which types of values are needed for the DSCP to mark the IP packets?
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?
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?
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?
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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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
Refer to the exhibit.
What must be the default gateway of the servers in EPG Web?
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?
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?
Which two features are provided by deploying an OOB management network in a Cisco Nexus data center? (Choose two.)
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 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 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.)
Drag and drop the configurations from the left onto the correct policies on the right.
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 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.)
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?
Which authentication software natively runs within the CLI of Cisco NX-OS devices?
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?
TESTED 24 Apr 2025
