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 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?
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 engineer is deploying a Fabric Interconnect within a data center SAN over a Fiber Channel link in end-host mode. The hosts are connected through multiple vHBAs, each of which has been hard-pinned to a specific Fibre Channel uplink. What happens to the vHBAs if the Fibre Channel uplink port fails?
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?
What is a design consideration when implementing FSPF?
Refer to the exhibit. A network engineer must improve high availability within the given UCS infrastructure The engineer configured central nodes A and B in cluster mode to ensure that traffic fails over in the case of a network outage. Which type of redundancy will the cluster configuration provide?
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?
Refer to the exhibit A Cisco engineer is configuring Cisco Nexus 7000 Series Switches. To simplify initial configuration verification and vPC+/HSRP troubleshooting, the engineer configures the primary vPC+ peer device with the FHRP active router highest priority. The primary FHRP device responds to ARP requests, even though the secondary vPC+ device also forwards the data traffic. Which configuration enables the Layer 3 connectivity from each vPC* peer device?
When planning to deploy a load-balancing service as a managed node, which ACI configuration must be included?
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 enterprise is experiencing transmission errors and excessive deploys over their WAN when backing up user workstations. A systems architect decided to resolve the problems by centralizing data storage and processing to within the confines of the data center. Which technology is most suitable to mitigate the issues?
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 AI/ML team is designing a fraud-detection model for an online banking application. The platform must process a high volume of transaction data, retrain the model frequently, and perform inference in real time as transactions occur. The data center must provide low-latency connectivity between compute resources and scale as the data volume grows. Which compute solution is most appropriate?
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?
Which statement describes differences between training and inference in AI learning models?
Refer to the exhibit.
The Cisco Nexus Series Switch with hostname Nexus! is the default gateway for server A and server B Both servers must have reachability to the internet; however, server A internet traffic must pass through the firewall for deep packet inspection. Also, the firewall must inspect any communication between server A and server B. Which solution must be applied to separate the data plane path for server A and server B?
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?
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 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?
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?
A company runs mission -critical infrastructure in a single data center. Due to business growth It plans to open more data center in the coming years. A network engineer is asked to recommend a network technology for data center interconnection that allows scalability and seamless VM mobility while providing maximum security and fault isolation between data center. Which technology must be used 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?
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 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 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 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 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 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 multicast rendezvous point redundancy mode is valid for Bidirectional PIM?
An engineer manages hundreds of Cisco Nexus Series and 9000 Series Switches that are installed at several data centers and wants to use one of the built-in automation tools of the Cisco NX-OS Guest Shell to automate daily activities. The engineer requires a tool that uses imperative language, has extensive support, and is object-oriented. Which automation tool should be used to meet these requirements?
Which feature provides a sandbox to convert NX-OS CLI commands to REST-based scripts on Cisco Nexus 7700 Series Switches?
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?
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?
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?
An engineer must configure an interface for managing and orchestrating a Cisco Nexus device. The interface must be operational if the data and control planes crash, support IPv4 and IPv6 addressing, and have been access to its own VRF instance. Which interface should be used to meet these requirements?
Which type fields can an engineer use to identify an iSCSI participant? (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?
What should be implemented on a Cisco Nexus 9300 Series Switch to reduce oversubscription between switches within a Fibre Channel fabric?
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.)
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?
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 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?
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?
Refer to the exhibit.
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?
A company is planning to improve the segmentation of its data center network to isolate traffic of different clients across various parts of the facility. The solution must be highly scalable and provide flexible traffic isolation for a growing number of clients. Which action must be taken to best meet the 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 architect proposes a distinct Fibre Channel fabric to be used for a Cisco UCS blade server that hosts critical applications. Which action should be implemented for the fibre Channel traffic from the vHBA of this service to pass through the I/O module in the Cisco chassis to a specified uplink Fibre Channel port?
Which authentication software natively runs within the CLI of Cisco NX-OS devices?
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?
A customer deploys 32 virtualization hosts in a Cisco UCS domain. All hosts run in the same cluster and have Identical hardware specifications. The operating system requires that all firmware is consistent across the hosts (or driver support. The customer must provision additional interfaces later for expandability. Which feature of Cisco UCS Manager meets these requirements?
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?
Which factor determines the choice of platform designing a Cisco HyperFlex infrastructure to support computer-aided design applications?
A SAN fabric is built between a pair of Cisco MDS 9000 Series Switches. The requirement is for the ISL to use the VSAN ID to toward traffic from multiple VSANs across the same physical link. Additionally, the Fibre Channel trace feature must be supported. Which ISL interface parameters are required to meet these requirements?
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.)
Drag the requirements from the left onto the correct policy types on the right.
Drag and drop the technologies from the left onto the correct descriptions on the right.
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?
Which two naming formats identify target or initiator iSCSI nodes? (Choose two.)
An engineer must configure an interface for managing and orchestrating a Cisco Nexus device. The interface must be operational if the data and control planes crash, support IPv4 and IPv6 addressing, and have been access to its own VRF instance. Which interface should be used to meet these requirements?
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?
Which Cisco HyperFlex feature provides virtual machine-level cost scaling for desktop virtualization growth?
A network consultant proposes that the configuration of the Cisco UCS servers be based on service templates to facilitate the UCS infrastructure operation. The service profiles must remain connected to the template and be modified when the template settings are changed.
Which configuration meets these requirements?
Which Fibre Channel SAN topology is simple to architect, implement, maintain, and troubleshoot?
Refer to the exhibit.
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?
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?
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 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?
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 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 must design a Cisco HyperFlex solution based on these requirements:
• two clusters in the main data center consisting of five HyperFlex nodes
• one edge node tor the remote branch
• cluster nodes that use one rack unit of space
Which two devices should be used in the remote branch cluster for this design? (Choose two.)
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?
Refer to the exhibit. Two Cisco Nexus 9000 Series Switches exchange OSPF routing information with R1. Which action accomplishes this goal?
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?
Refer to the exhibit. Two Cisco Nexus 9000 Series Switches exchange OSPF routing information with R1. Which action accomplishes this goal?
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 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. A corporation uses Cisco ACI to provide data-center network services. Server 1 runs a high-traffic web application, and Server 2 runs a database. The networking team will install a load balancer connected to leaf S3. For security and service-policy reasons, all traffic from Server 1 to Server 2 must be redirected through the load balancer. The solution must minimize network hops and must not require changes to the existing routing table. Which action must the team take to configure service insertion?
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 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 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.)
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?
Refer to the exhibit.
An engineer must deploy a SAN that meets these criteria:
•The upstream director switch must be configured to minimize the number of issued domain IDs
•The access switch must aggregate multiple locally connected ports not a single uplink that shares the same domain ID as the upstream switch.
Drag and drop the port types from the right onto the boxes on the left to create a SAN topology that meets these requirements Not all port types are used Port types are used more than once
A data center with high traffic demand is experiencing insufficient link throughput, congestion, and performance degradation. A network engineer has already enabled Priority Flow Control and jumbo frames on all data-center network devices, but further improvement is required. The solution must follow IEEE 802.1AX and IEEE 802.3ad principles. Which action must the engineer take?
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 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?
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?
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?
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.)
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