300-610 Questions and Answers

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 company has several data centers around the world that must be interconnected over Layer2. The service provider supports MPLS services to all the locations. The proposed solution must be vendor agnostic and scalable enough to support the rapid growth of the company. Which data center technology is recommended to achieve this goal?

A customer must install a new Hyperflex Stretched cluster in two sites. Low latency and predictable high performance are the top priorities for this setup due to the extensive usage of data-intensive applications across the cluster. Which HyperFlex storage solution is recommended to meet these requirements?

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 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?

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’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

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?

What is an advantage of Cisco HyperFlex Edge as compared to Cisco HyperFlex Standard Clusters?

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?

A customer is deploying a SAN based on Cisco MDS 9000 Series Switches. Each Inter-Switch Link must carry multiple VSANs at the same time. The access switch must share the same domain ID as the director switch to reduce the number of domain IDs needed in the fabric Drag and drop the operational port types from the right onto the boxes on the left to create a topology that meets these requirements. Not all port types are used. Port types are used more than once.

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

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?

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

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 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?

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?

The user traffic destined to all web servers located in the data center must pass first through a set of firewalls for deep packet inspection. A network architect must design the Cisco Intelligent Traffic Director (ITD) deployment that meets these requirements:

The firewalls are connected to a set of two Cisco Nexus switches to provide stateful handling of traffic.

The ITD service is provided for inside and outside segments of the firewall.

Which ITD deployment mode must be implemented to meet these requirements?

To help automate the vHBA configuration process, a network engineer is configuring vHBA template pairs on UCS The engineer is creating primary and secondary templates to define how vHBAs on a server connect to the SAN. Which fact about the template pair should the engineer consider for Its potential impact on service7

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?

Which two configurations allow for routing traffic between two VDCs? (Choose two.)

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.)

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?

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

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

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?

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?

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.)

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

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 is implementing management access to a Cisco Nexus platform. The customer requires a solution that provides isolation between the data and control planes. In addition to management that uses encryption and authentication. The customer will manage the device using both IPv4 and IPv6. Which two components should be used to meet these requirements (Choose two.)

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

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 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

Refer to the exhibit.

The security team created a new security policy that requires certain types of traffic to be subject to deep packet inspection The traffic types are

•internet traffic to application servers

•internet traffic to corporate users

•partner network traffic to application servers

•partner network traffic to corporate users

Where must the next-generation firewalls be inserted to implement the new policy?

An engineer must connect a Cisco UCS Fabric Interconnect to a storage array using a Fibre Channel protocol. The SAN must be directly connected to the UCS fabric interconnects using ports 1/1 and 1/2. Which fabric interconnect configuration must be used?

A 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?

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?

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

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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B)

C)

D)

A network engineer is using a Cisco UCS environment connected to a Fibre Channel storage array. The Cisco UCS environment must be connected to an existing SAN network, and several Cisco MDS 9000 Series Switches must be added to increase storage density. The solution must not exhaust the SAN network from the list of available domain IDs after connecting Also, most of the SAN traffic must be mapped from the Cisco UCS blades to a specific group of the fabric interconnect ports Which two features must be deployed to meet these requirements? (Choose

two.)

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

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?

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.

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?

A network engineer is connecting a backup server to the given network The server has three available physical Ethernet interfaces - dual 1Gbps interfaces, plus a single 10Gbps interface - and all devices support virtual port channels The engineer must minimize backup time from hosts on the network, with a mandate for no single point of failure connectivity within the data center and the interfaces either active or passive Which deployment model must the engineer use?

A)

B)

C)

D)

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 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?

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

An ACI deployment must:

Which VRF configuration must be used?

Refer to the exhibit.

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

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?

Drag and drop the Cisco Nexus 7000 Series Switch resources from the left onto the correct groups on the right.

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?

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 failure occurs on the network between two BFD and OSPF neighbors. Drag and drop the protocol actions from the left into the correct order on the right.

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. 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 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?

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

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 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?

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 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.)

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

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?

Which type of Cisco Intersight workflow input controls the availability of other specific workflow inputs during the execution of a workflow?

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 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?

A midsize corporation with significant data-storage requirements is planning to deploy RFC 3720-based technology in its data center to provide efficient and reliable block-level storage access to servers The corporation requires a robust solution with optimal performance, load-balancing, and fault tolerance. The solution must use multiple network paths to optimize bandwidth usage and provide redundancy LACP has already been enabled on the data-center switches Which two actions must be taken to accomplish the goal? (Choose two.)

Implement VLAN tagging in accordance with the IEEE 802.10 standard to segregate iSCSI traffic from other data-center traffic

An engineer 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.)