Cisco 300-610 Designing Cisco Data Center Infrastructure for Traditional and AI Workloads v1.2 (DCID 300-610) Exam Practice Test
Designing Cisco Data Center Infrastructure for Traditional and AI Workloads v1.2 (DCID 300-610) Questions and Answers
A small company hosts several critical applications on bare-metal servers connected via iSCSI protocol to shared JBOD storage. One of the critical applications is experiencing latency issues, which the engineering team suspects is due to incorrect prioritization for iSCSI traffic. An engineer must update the network QoS settings to prioritize iSCSI traffic with these requirements:
iSCSI traffic must be prioritized.
The solution must be able to differentiate between different types of iSCSI traffic.
The solution must be scalable because iSCSI traffic is expected to increase in the future.
The solution must not disrupt other traffic.
Which two configurations must the engineer apply to the devices on the network to meet the requirements? (Choose two.)
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 network engineering team at a large corporation operates a critical data center with stringent business requirements for network reliability and high availability. EIGRP is used as an interior routing protocol. The team is planning to implement a robust new redundancy strategy that minimizes downtime and maximizes network uptime. According to the requirements, business services can tolerate 3 seconds for failover performance. The solution must be based on RFC 2281. Which action must the team take as part of the implementation?
Which two statements describe Ethernet switching mode on Cisco UCS 6100 Series Fabric Interconnects? (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 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?
Drag the requirements from the left onto the correct policy types on the right.
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?
A customer needs a design for a new network VLANs must be dynamically provisioned based on the information received from connected hosts No Layer 2 or Layer 3 configuration must be performed on the related switch ports. Which feature must be used?
A storage engineer requires a solution that achieves multiple paths between a server and storage array. The design must support complete traffic isolation and support a 50% growth in the next year. Which FCoE solution meets 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?
An engineer must choose the World Wide Port Name for the Cisco UCS Fibre Channel virtual host bus adapter.
Which identifier must be used?
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?
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?
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. 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?
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 working for a private data center with an employee ID 4947.57 424 designs a storage area network solution The requirement is to apply QoS to ensure that Fibre Channel data traffic for latency-sensitive applications receives higher pnonty over throughput-intensive applications that are used for data warehousing Which two attributes must be used to identify and set the Fibre Channel traffic classes? (Choose two )
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?
A network engineer must create a Fibre Channel fabric QoS design for an existing data center. The solution must provide relative bandwidth guarantees to application traffic, control latency, and prioritize application traffic.
Which mechanism must be deployed to support these requirements?
Which multicast rendezvous point redundancy mode is valid for Bidirectional PIM?
Drag and drop the technologies from the left onto the correct descriptions on the right.
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 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 orchestration tool should be used for the management and analytics of servers across multiple sites?
A customer connects a high-speed Fibre Channel storage array to a Cisco MDS 9000 Series Switch using an 8 Gbps interface.
Which action guarantees line rate traffic processing on the interface?
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?
What must be configured in Cisco Intersight when Enum is selected as the data typo in a workflow input?
What are two reasons to select OTV as the DCI solution to connect multisite topologies? (Choose two.)
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?
Refer to the exhibit.
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)
A network architect designs a high-availability architecture for the Cisco UCS Fabric interconnects that installed in a data center. The architecture must support clustering and redundancy. Which architecture meets these requirements?
An engineer 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?
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?
A network engineer is connecting a backup server to the network shown. The server has three available physical Ethernet interfaces: two 1-Gbps interfaces and one 10-Gbps interface. All devices support virtual port channels (vPCs). The engineer must minimize backup time, eliminate any single point of failure in the server’s data-center connectivity, and configure the interfaces in an active/passive arrangement. Which deployment model must the engineer use?
Options:
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?
Refer to the exhibit.
A Cisco engineer is configuring a next-generation Cisco HyperFlex HX data platform with 2 x Cisco UCS 6248UP fabric interconnects. 8 x Cisco HX-Series HX240c-M4SX servers, plus 8 x Cisco UCS B200-M4 blade servers Cisco UCS 5108 blade chassis, and Cisco UCS 2204XP fabric extenders The solution is configured with HX Release 4 5(2a) using VMware ESXi 7 0 U2 After the engineer migrates all customer VMs to the new solution platform, the engineer decides to create HX Native snapshots for all the VMs The engineer performs the operation and notices that some of the VMs are not creating snapshots. What is the most probable reason that the HX Native snapshots are not created?
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)
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?
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?
An engineer must design a solution based on Cisco Nexus 7709 Switches. The solution must connect test and development network segments and separate the enterprise applications from the production network. The network security team requires routing instances and the IP stack to be completely separated from each other and for traffic between the environments to undergo a deep packet inspection. The development team also requests the ability to allocate additional physical interfaces from the Cisco Nexus 7709 device in each environment.
Which solution 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 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?
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?
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?
An engineer must design a multitenant solution using Cisco 7709 switches. The solution must support separate routing instances, separate spanning tree domains, and separate firewalls for each tenant. Which solution meets these requirements?
Which authentication software natively runs within the CLI of Cisco NX-OS devices?
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 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?
A network architect must design a large-scale Cisco SAN topology. The customer has a limited budget, so a design that provides use of resources is required. To support this requirement, the architect to share array ports, ISL, and line card bandwidth. The customer has also presented these additional considerations:
The customers plans to expand the network by 10% over the next two years.
The customer’s policy requires physically separated infrastructure to support high availability.
Which solution should be used to meet these requirements?
Drag and drop the data center technologies from the left onto the correct descriptions on the right. Not all technologies are used.
Drag the appropriate from the left onto the current UDLD modes of operation on the right.
Refer to the exhibit.
What must be the default gateway of the servers in EPG Web?
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.)
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A data center uses Cisco Nexus 7000 Series Switch and contains two tenants, tenant A and tenant B.
Tenant A uses IP addresses in the 10.2.30.41/24 to 10.2.30.64/24 range.
Tenant B uses IP addresses in the 10.2.30.120/24 to 10.2.30.192/24 range.
The engineer must implement a solution that
Isolates the traffic for each tenant as separate routing data and control planes.
Physically partitions the Cisco Nexus device into separate multiple logical devices with separate management, failure domain isolation, and resource management.
Which two technologies meet these requirements? (Choose two.)
An international corporation migrates its primary and secondary data centers to Cisco ACI. The new architecture must include a disaster recovery solution for critical applications in the primary data center with these requirements:
The secondary data center hosts dedicated workloads, which must remain isolated from the primary data center.
Critical applications must have both Layer 3 and Layer 2 connectivity between data centers.
The ACI policy must be consistent across the data centers.
Flooding between the data centers must be restricted to specific VLANs.
Which solution must be used to accomplish these goals?
An engineer needs to configure multiple network devices using Ansible Device passwords must meet these requirements:
be stored securely
not be visible as plaintext
be available to Ansible playbooks for executing scripts
Which solution must the engineer choose?
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.
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?
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 build a VXLAN flood-and-learned network. The customer requires the solution to be based on the IETF documented practice in RFC 7348. The solution must use broadcast, unknown unicast, and multicast (BUM) and include the efficient BUM and short BUM replication modes that use only shared trees. Which technology meets these requirements?
Which feature provides a sandbox to convert NX-OS CLI commands to REST-based scripts on Cisco Nexus 7700 Series Switches?
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 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?
Which two types of service profile templates does Cisco UCS support? (Choose two.)
A set of virtual machines must be live migrated from a data center to a disaster recovery site. The data center and disaster recovery sites are connected through an Inter-Pod Network topology. The gateway address of the virtual machine is the same across the data center and disaster recovery. Which Cisco Nexus feature supports this requirement?
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.
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 company’s data center is currently running on a traditional SAN architecture with Cisco UCS C200 M5 Blade Servers, producing 1000 IOPS The SAN is becoming a performance bottleneck, so management decided to implement a new solution to provide better performance and scalability. The preferred solution must meet these requirements:
•Provide at least 10x the performance of the current SAN
•Provide up to 100 Gbps of throughput per node
•Be easily scalable to meet the future needs of the enterprise
Which solution must the company deploy to meet the requirements9
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?
A customer requires a tool to manage Cisco network hardware. The solution must use secure communication using a secure network protocol, support the use of declarative language to manage the state of resources, and periodically pull changes to the controlled nodes. Which tool meets these requirements?
An engineer 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?
What is an advantage of Cisco HyperFlex Edge as compared to Cisco HyperFlex Standard Clusters?
An organization has deployed a high-performance full-mesh SAN using Cisco MDS 9000 Series Switches. The system must store data on disk media with no rotational latency. To optimize the SAN design, data must be striped with a single parity block, and the fabric must dynamically select the best available paths to storage. Which design meets the requirements?
Refer to the exhibit.
The FCoE packets fail to be forwarded through the switch. What is the minimum MTU QoS requirement for the FCoE to work?
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?
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 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?
Which two automation requirements can be met by using Puppet? (Choose two.)
A customer must deploy a new Cisco HyperFlex stretched cluster solution to ensure virtual server availability in case the data center fails. The current network environment provides multiple geographic locations. Which action must be taken to meet these objectives?
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?
An engineer must complete vNIC and vHBA allocations for 16 new servers. All servers currently have the same requirements, but the company wants to be prepared for a future update to add additional vNICs and vHBAs to servers 14, 15, and 16 only. The engineer decided to use service profile templates to complete the task. Which approach must the engineer take?
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 programming model is vendor-agnostic and combines operational and configuration data in the same container?
A network consultant evaluates the Cisco UCS Fabric Interconnect SAN configuration, which must meet these requirements:
All traffic must pass over the upstream device for switching and domain IDs must be preserved in the fabric.
Each server should be pinned to one designated upstream interface and for the traffic to pass through the pinned port.
Which Fabric Interconnect SAN operational mode meets 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 network engineer must select a high availability feature for their data center. The solution must ensure network resilience, reduce network instability for Layer 3 routing protocols, and meet these requirements:
The device must notify its neighbors when the control plane is undergoing a restart.
The solution must suppress routing flaps in case of stateful switchovers.
Which solution must be implemented?
A network engineer is configuring an Ethernet Adapter Policy for a server in Cisco UCS. The CPU must process all large TCP packets, and network receive processing must be distributed across available processors whenever possible. How must the policy be configured?