Cisco 300-610 Designing Cisco Data Center Infrastructure Exam Practice Test
Designing Cisco Data Center Infrastructure Questions and Answers
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 engineer must perform a VMM integration for the VMWare vCenter platform with the Cisco ACI Fabric. The vCenter is already installed in one of the rack servers connected to ACI leaf switches in a vPC mode. Which type of management network must be used to integrate vCenter with ACI?
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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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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?
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?
Which factor determines the choice of platform designing a Cisco HyperFlex infrastructure to support computer-aided design applications?

Refer to the exhibit. Two Cisco Nexus 9000 Series Switches exchange OSPF routing information with R1. Which action accomplishes this goal?
Which feature provides a sandbox to convert NX-OS CLI commands to REST-based scripts on Cisco Nexus 7700 Series Switches?
Drag and drop the feature descriptions from the left onto the correct UCS Fabric Interconnect modes on the right.

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?
When planning to deploy a load-balancing service as a managed node, which ACI configuration must be included?
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?
Drag the requirements from the left onto the correct policy types on the right.

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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?
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?
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 service7
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 architect must automate routine tasks within a data center The data center exclusively uses Cisco Nexus Series Switches The networking team lacks proper programming knowledge and prefers an automation solution that leverages NXOS commands Any configuration change must use HTTPS for transport due to a security compliance requirement. Which solution must the architect choose?
What can be implemented on Cisco Nexus 5600 Series Switches for link redundancy within a Fibre Channel fabric?
An engineer is designing a disaster recovery solution. In the event of a node failure, the solution should either direct all of the traffic to another node, or load-balance the traffic across the remaining nodes. Which solution should be implemented in the design?
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Refer to the exhibit. A 4x10G Fibre Channel has been configured between SW1 and SW2 to carry backup traffic sourced to and from the SAN. An engineer noticed that 10G Link 1 is being used more heavily than the other links within the port channel. Which action must the engineer take on the two switches to ensure that the traffic uses all available links between SW1 and SW2?
A network administrator must simplify and optimize the VRF architecture in a Cisco ACI fabric. The current deployment contains multiple tenants, each with its own network stack, and uses VRF leaking for inter-tenant communication. The large number of tenants and leaked routes is causing the switches to approach their prefix-capacity limits. Which solution should the engineer recommend?
A customer attaches an additional storage appliance to an existing Cisco UCS domain, which contains 50 virtualization hosts that require fabric failover connectivity on fabric interconnect B. The interfaces are bound to a separate pin group to segregate traffic with a CoS value of 0 Which Cisco UCS Manager feature meets these requirements?
A customer attaches an additional storage appliance to an existing Cisco UCS domain, which contains 50 virtualization hosts that require fabric failover connectivity on fabric interconnect B. The interfaces are bound to a separate pin group to segregate traffic with a CoS value of 0 Which Cisco UCS Manager feature meets these requirements?
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?
Which programming model is vendor-agnostic and combines operational and configuration data in the same container?
An engineer must configure a new maintenance policy that will apply to multiple Cisco UCS domains The policy must be available for use by service profiles and service profile templates created and managed n either Cisco UCS Manager or Cisco UCS Central Changes to this policy must be allowed only in Cisco UCS Central Which policy type must the engineer select to accomplish these goals?
An engineer must implement a WWPN pool for the vHBA template inside the Cisco UCS Manager. The template is used to connect a Cisco UCS B-Series blade to an external storage array.
Which addressing sequence accomplishes this goal?

Refer to the exhibit. A company has three data centers based on different network technologies. The company must provide Layer 2 and Layer 3 connectivity among the sites with these requirements:
VLAN 172 must be extended as shown.
Client A must be able to access the database server.
Client B must be able to communicate with Client A.
Which solution meets the requirements?

Refer to the exhibit. Two Cisco Nexus 9000 Series Switches exchange OSPF routing information with R1. Which action accomplishes this goal?
A Cisco engineer is analyzing a customer environment where dozens of VMs are running on a physical server and UCS chassis are cascaded The setup uses two ISLs in a port channel to the SAN switch (per fabric) The oversubscription from VM to physical SAN port is often 20 (VMs/host) x 72 (9 UCS chassis cascaded = 72 hosts): 2 (ISLs from fabric interconnect to SAN switch port on the NPV core (NPIV enabled switch) This results to 20 x 72 2 per single ISL = 720 VMs per ISL
20 (VMs per host) x 8 (hosts per chassis) x 9 (chassis per port channel to SAN switch) / 2 (ISLs per port channel) = 20 x 8 x 9 / 2 = 720 VMs per SAN F-port What is the best way to resolve possible IOPS bottleneck?
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 technology enables Layer 2 extension between remote data center sites?
Which set of actions ensures that the Cisco UCS network configuration contains the required VLAN settings and that those settings are consistently applied through the service profile templates?
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A customer must ensure that the interface on a switch has enough resources to sustain the line rate traffic during peak load.
Which action meets this requirement?
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?
Which factor determines the choice of platform designing a Cisco HyperFlex infrastructure to support computer-aided design applications?
Which Fibre Channel SAN topology is simple to architect, implement, maintain, and troubleshoot?
What are two functions of a Network Services Orchestrator in an NFV environment? (Choose two.)
A network engineer designs a Cisco Nexus data center network for a client-server farm using a pair of Nexus 9000 Series. Switches In a vPC setup. Each server connects with two interfaces to both Nexus switches. The Nexus switches must always initiate the negotiation with the server. Which feature should be used in this design to ensure traffic is forwarded from the server to the data center network?
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?
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 network engineer designs a Cisco Nexus data center network for a client-server farm using a pair of Nexus 9000 Series. Switches In a vPC setup. Each server connects with two interfaces to both Nexus switches. The Nexus switches must always initiate the negotiation with the server. Which feature should be used in this design to ensure traffic is forwarded from the server to the data center network?
A company must introduce a scalable network automation tool to deploy, configure, and manage thousands of network device and service. The company servers already have been security-hardened and must not have any additional software installed on team. The security policy mandates the use of a secure communication protocol that support authentication and encryption for managing the servers. Which two automation tools must be used to meet these requirements? (Choose two.)
An ACI deployment must:
Only use a proxy for border leaf switches.
Classify incoming traffic on the L3Out.
Immediately update the endpoint database when an endpoint moves between leaf switches.
Which VRF configuration must be used?
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?
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 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?

Refer to the exhibit. A 4x10G Fibre Channel has been configured between SW1 and SW2 to carry backup traffic sourced to and from the SAN. An engineer noticed that 10G Link 1 is being used more heavily than the other links within the port channel. Which action must the engineer take on the two switches to ensure that the traffic uses all available links between SW1 and SW2?
A Cisco engineer is discussing a data center design scenario that consists of 24 Cisco UCS B200M6 Wade servers. 2 Cisco UCS 6454 Fabric Interconnects, and 3 Cisco UCS 5108 server chassis In the proposed configuration, the server links, which are vNICs on the blades, are associated with a single uplink port Server-to-server Layer 2 traffic is locally switched, server-to-network traffic goes out on its pinned uplink port, and each server MAC address must be learned before traffic can be forwarded to it Which feature stipulates that traffic is forwarded to a server only if it is received on a pinned uplink port for this server?
A midsize company recently deployed a Cisco UCS environment with a vSAN datastore to support its virtualized data center infrastructure. After monitoring the environment for several months, the network engineering team is concerned about potential performance degradation caused by competing traffic between management vNICs and vSAN over shared physical adapters. The team also wants a standardized approach to vNIC/vHBA placement across all blade servers to simplify maintenance, preserve consistency, and minimize configuration errors. Which two actions must the team take to achieve these goals? (Choose two.)
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 must design a DNS service available to multiple network zones as a shared service. The network zones are deployed as VRFs within the data center network and no firewall is available for communication between VRFs.
Which protocol is needed to implement the shared services?
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A cloud provider service provider deployed three geographically separated Cisco ACI data centers. One of the customers needs to host a clustered application that is spread across the three data centers. The cluster nodes that host the application need a layer 2 topology to communicate with each other. Which Cisco ACI topology design 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?

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 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.)
What is the disadvantage of asynchronous storage replication as compared to synchronous storage replication in a disaster recovery design?
A customer is evaluating a new disaster-recovery solution for their SAN, which is used for noncritical CRM purposes. The SAN is frequently backed up locally at the customer ' s existing single location, and several hours of data loss can be sustained. The customer wants to retain complete control of the failover process to a separate physical location. Which type of DR is most suitable for the customer?
An engineer designs a Cisco UCS solution that must provide guaranteed and deterministic bandwidth to a specific server in the environment. The solution must apply to network and storage traffic of C-Series and B-Series servers. Which solution should be included to meet these requirements?
A 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
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The FCoE packets fail to be forwarded through the switch. What is the minimum MTU QoS requirement for the FCoE to work?
When booting from iSCSI while using multipathing, which type of address must be the same on both boot vNICs?
Which Python library must be used to parse the following data structure?
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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 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?
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 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?
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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?
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?
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What must be the default gateway of the servers in EPG Web?
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.)
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?
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?
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?
Which Cisco HyperFlex feature provides virtual machine cost scaling for desktop virtualization growth?
Which vNIC/vHBA Placement policy should be selected in Cisco UCS Manager to ensure that only dynamic and static vNICs and vHBAs are explicitly assigned to the policy?
What is a design consideration when implementing FSPF?
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?
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.
The data center DC1 uses VXLAN technology The company asked a service provider to design another data center called DC2 and stretch EVPN information between the data centers based on the same technology The fabric requires
•endpoint information propagated end-to-end across both data centers
•misconfiguration replicated from DC1 to DC2
Which actions must the design include in DC2 to meet these criteria?
Refer to the exhibit The data center DC1 uses VXLAN technology The company asked a service provider to design another data center called DC2 and stretch EVPN information between the data centers based on the same technology The fabric requires
•endpoint information propagated end-to-end across both data centers
•misconfiguration replicated from DC1 to DC2
Which actions must the design include in DC2 to meet these criteria?
An engineer is expanding an existing ISCSI environment and must choose an addressing scheme. When checking one of the devices, the engineer discovers this target device naming used
{prefix}. 2019-01.com.acme.123:00. ftd0cb21.bcb389458389
Which addressing scheme was used in the environment?

Refer to the exhibit. FCoE is used in the topology between the SAN Storage devices and SAN-Core routers. After noticing traffic drops to hosts accessing SAN-B storage, the engineering team wants to reduce the oversubscription ratio in the topology. Which action must the team take?
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 logically partition two Cisco Nexus 7000 Series Switches into two environments called Test_39919596 and Production_59423879. The environments must use only F2-Series line cards and be limited to a maximum of 265 port-channels. Which Cisco Nexus feature must be used?
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?
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?

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?



