Cisco 300-610 Designing Cisco Data Center Infrastructure for Traditional and AI Workloads Exam Practice Test

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?

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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 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?

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?

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 network engineer needs to design Layer 2 connectivity for a subnet between two data centers using VXLAN with Cisco Nexus switches. The engineer must ensure seamless host mobility and optimal first-hop routing. Which gateway MAC attribute must be synchronized across both data centers?

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?

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 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?

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?

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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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Refer to the exhibit. A Cisco engineer is configuring a data center design scenario with Cisco MDS 90Q0 Series Switches. The cut-through routing mode is chosen for impf oved read operation performance. Each (SCSI host requires access lo storage through the IPS module. First, the engineer configures the TCP tuning parameters as enabled SACK, the maximum bandwidth of 1 Gbps. buffer size of 4096. keepalive timeout at 1s. and enables Path MTU. Then, the engineer must set the OoS of the ISCSI link. What is the maximum QoS value that must be set tor the ISCSI session?

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.)

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Which two naming formats identify target or initiator iSCSI nodes? (Choose two.)

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?

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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?

A customer needs a design for a new data center network that meets these requirements:

Logically partition the environment into separate security domains.

Cut costs related to purchasing additional equipment.

Separate routing processes, TCAM, QoS tables, and data planes.

Which technology must be used?

An engineer is designing a Multichassis EtherChannel topology in which two switches must appear as a single device to a third downstream switch? Which two technologies meet this requirement? (Choose two.)

Which two configuration methods can be used to deploy QoS to Cisco MDS Series switches? (Choose two.)

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?

Where does Cisco UCS handle Fibre Channel traffic failover?

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?

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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?

Which multicast rendezvous point redundancy mode is valid for Bidirectional PIM?

Which orchestration tool provides a graphical interface to manage LAN and SAN fabrics?

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 finishes the initial set up of a VXLAN EVPN network. The engineer is asked to plan for connectivity that supports redundancy and extends multiple virtual routing and forwarding domains. The requirement is to use the same default gateway addressing across all leaf switches that belong to the VXLAN network. Which two solution must be used to meet these requirements? (Choose two)

A company is using Cisco UCS and wants a network orchestration solution to meet these requirements :

centrally manage compute and storage platforms

reduce the time it takes to detect an outage

easily exchange data with TAC to reduce resolution times

The company does not have in-house knowledge about scripting. Which solution must the company choose?

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?

Which Ethernet to Cisco Fabric Interconnect connectivity configuration is supported when FCoE is implemented?

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?

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A default route must be advertised into the VXLAN fabric for internet access. The engineer must use a static route because the edge firewall does not support any dynamic routing protocol. Which two features must the engineer use to allow learning and withdrawing of the default route without any manual intervention? (Choose two)

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?

Which authentication software natively runs within the CLI of Cisco NX-OS devices?

What should be implemented on a Cisco Nexus 9300 Series Switch to reduce oversubscription between switches within a Fibre Channel fabric?

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

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

Drag the requirements from the left onto the correct policy types on the right.

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 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 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?

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.)

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

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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 is implementing a Cisco UCS environment The requirements for the solution are for the MAC addresses to be learned only on the server-facing ports. The use of the Spanning Tree Protocol must be avoided. Also, the engineer must have deterministic traffic handling from blades to uplink ports.

Which two settings must be selected to meet these requirements? (Choose two.)

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.)

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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

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?

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

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?

A database administrator experiences delay when performing storage replication between primary and secondary data centers. The data centers are located 20 kilometers apart and are connected using a 500 Mbps link. The deployment was implemented using an FCIP tunnel and a pair of Cisco MDS 9250 Series Switches. The network engineer decided to enable QoS to prioritize replication traffic. Which QoS model must be used to resolve the performance issues?

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?

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 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 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 needs an orchestration and monitoring tool that should be used for managing the storage networks and VXLAN fabrics. The tool should also allow support built-in dashboard and real-time health summary for managed devices. Which tool meets these requirements?

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.)

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?

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?

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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 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?

An engineer deploys a Cisco UCS environment with the storage array directly attached to the Fabric Interconnects. The operations team mandates that the solution must not require the configuration of Fibre Channel zoning. Which configuration set meets these requirements?

An end user is experiencing network latency when accessing a database in a disaster recovery site. The monitoring team concluded that the database was writing simultaneously to the storage arrays on the primary and disaster recovery sites.

Which design resolves this issue?

What are two characteristics of VRF-Lite on the Cisco NX-OS platform? (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?

A network architect wants to automate data center LAN configuration by use of Kubernetes, aligned with Cisco best practices for underlay and overlay provisioning The automation must be able to operate in high-availability mode with active/active operation between hosts in dual data centers. Which configuration approach must the architect choose?

Which orchestration tool must be used to manage VXLAN fabrics and includes a built-in dashboard and real-time network health summary for managed devices?

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An engineer must assign multiple Fibre Channel IDs to a single port channel. Which two features must be enabled this goal? (Choose two.)

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

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

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 architect is gathering technical requirements tor a large-scale data center with up to 3000 Ethernet ports and 70 ToR switches. The stakeholders agreed that it a ToR switch becomes compromised via its management plane, access to the production data plane must not be possible tram that switch. Which type of management network must the architect recommend in the design?

Refer to the exhibit During a synchronization of port rotes, a device receives a proposal message on one of its ports that is selected as the new root port. The logs show that Rapid PVST+forced all other ports to synchronize with the new loot information. The engineer analyzes the port stales and concludes that the device is synchronized with superior root information received on the root port, and all other ports are synchronized. What happens to a designated port that is in the forwarding state and is not configured as an edge port, if Rapid PVST+ forces it to synchronize with new root information?

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 data center requires a new disaster recovery solution to host critical services. The solution can sustain several hours of data loss because the services are routinely backed up to an offsite location. Also, the disaster recovery solution must provide 24-hour availability. Due to the strict policy requirements, the company wants to retain complete control of when the failover process occurs. Which solution meets 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?

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

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?

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 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?

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?

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