300-610 Sample Questions Answers

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 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?

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. 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?

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?

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 company must integrate an iSCSI storage solution into its existing production environment. The new iSCSI network must be accessible from a limited set of network segments. The client devices follow a strict network security policy to access critical data from the storage array. Which design steps must be used to meet these requirements?

Refer to the exhibit.

Server 1 fails to connect to the storage array over the Storage Area Network (SAN) of the Cisco NDS 9000 Series Switch. The requirements are to redesign the storage network and keep these considerations in mind:

The traffic from each of the server must be redundant and isolated.

The design must tolerate hardware and software failures and upgrades of SAN fabric devices.

Which action must be taken to meet these requirements?

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

An engineer is expanding an existing ISCSI environment and must choose an addressing scheme. When checking one of the devices, the engineer discovers this target device naming used

{prefix}. 2019-01.com.acme.123:00. ftd0cb21.bcb389458389

Which addressing scheme was used in the environment?

When booting from iSCSI while using multipathing, which type of address must be the same on both boot vNICs?

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?

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?

An engineer must use OTV for layer 2 connectivity between data centers to support virtual machine between the customer sites. To support this requirement, the engineer must ensure the existence of the same default gateway on both sites. Additionally, the operations team report high bandwidth utilization on site A and wants to optimize the outbound traffic flows to use a DC exit point. Which feature must be used to meet these requirement?

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.)

Which statement describes differences between training and inference in AI learning models?

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?

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

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 Cisco UCS chassis with several blade servers, a pair of IOMs, and a pair of Cisco UCS Fabric Interconnects are installed in a data center.

Which two high-availability architectures are recommended between the IOMs and fabric interconnects? (Choose two.)

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 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?

A network architect designs the iSCSI architecture. The requirements are to achieve high performance and a low amount of oversubscription and to minimize latency. Which two actions must be taken to meet these requirements? (Choose two.)

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?

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?

After experiencing traffic disruptions from the failure of a single router, a customer asks an engineer to design a solution that will prevent this from occurring in the future. While examining the customer’s environment, the engineer discovers that the routers are manufactured by a variety of different vendors, and they have varying amounts of CPU and memory resources. Additionally, several of the customer’s applications require the ability to fine-tune the load-balancing parameters between multiple routers. Which solution should be used to meet these requirements?

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

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?

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?

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. An engineer builds a data center network design using EVPN technology. Within the design, the fabric acts as a gateway. Traffic from host X to host Y must pass through the Cisco ASA firewall for deep packet inspection and increased security. Which firewall deployment must the engineer choose to accomplish this goal?

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?

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?

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.)

An engineer must interconnect customer data centers by using a 10-Gbps. unicast-only, Layer 3 circuit The requirement is to stretch the Layer 2 connection over the tunnel isolate STP traffic and create more than two million logical network segments Much solution meets these requirements?

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 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 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.)

When planning to deploy a load-balancing service as a managed node, which ACI configuration must be included?

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?

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?

Refer to the exhibit.

Which template is used when a vHBA template pair is created for a specific server that inherits its attributes from an existing template?

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 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 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?

An engineer must design a VXLAN EVPN network. The solution should optimize broadcast, unknown unicast, and multicast (BUM) and short BUM replication, and use PIM anycast RP. Which solution should be included in the design?

An engineer enables the HSRP feature on a Cisco Nexus 7000 Series Switch. It must be ensured that the switch manages packets that are sent to the local vPC MAC address, remote vPC MAC address, and HSRP virtual MAC address.

Which command accomplishes this goal?

An engineer must configure a new maintenance policy that will apply to multiple Cisco UCS domains The policy must be available for use by service profiles and service profile templates created and managed n either Cisco UCS Manager or Cisco UCS Central Changes to this policy must be allowed only in Cisco UCS Central Which policy type must the engineer select to accomplish these goals?

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?

Which two automation requirements can be met by using Puppet? (Choose two.)

A cloud provider deploys an infrastructure based on Cisco ACI Fabric, Cisco UCS, and Cisco HyperFlex Data Platform. The storage area network will be based on Cisco MDS 9000 Series Switches with Hyper-V, VMware, and KVM used as the virtualization platform. The requirement is to deploy the overall solution by using a robust automation and orchestration tool.

Which tool meets these requirements?

Refer to the exhibit.

A 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 is implementing a Cisco UCS environment. The system must aggregate all vNICs into a single policy and consistently enforce node disassociation across the cluster. Which two UCS policies meet these requirements? (Choose two.)

A company has several data centers with hundreds of Cisco UCS blade chassis. A network consultant plans to active Cisco Discovery Protocol to the servers to facilitate Layer 1 troubleshooting. For security reasons, the company wants to restrict the servers from sending different MAC addresses to the fabric interconnect after the MAC address from the first packet is learned. Which two policies be modified to support this design? (Choose two.)

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

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 two types of service profile templates does Cisco UCS support? (Choose two.)

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?

An engineer working for a private telecommunication company with an employee ID 4419 90 979 is installing a pair of Nexus 7000 Series Switches and must deploy the solution with these requirements

•The environment must be separated for test and production purposes

•The separation should include control, data and management plane with fault domain isolation and improved security

•The test environment needs only F2 series line cards and a maximum of 256 VLANs

Which set of actions meets these requirements?

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?

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?

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

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

An organization deploys Cisco UCS-X Series servers in the data center. The deployment must have optimal BIOS configuration to maximize performance for memory-intensive applications. The organization must set the BIOS options to achieve low-latency operation and enhanced memory bandwidth. Which BIOS tuning option on Cisco UCS-X Series servers is needed for memory-intensive workloads?

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.)

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 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?

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?

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 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 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.)

Refer to the exhibit.

An engineer must connect the four-port Cisco UCS VIC adapter to the fabric extenders. Which connectivity implements a port-channel standalone mode?

A)

B)

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D)

An engineer deploys LISP VM mobility. Which feature is configured on the interfaces that have VM mobility enabled?

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?

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?

The network infrastructure team is beginning to automate routine tasks within the Cisco ACI fabric and is searching for the appropriate solution The solution must not require any additional software installed on the Cisco APIC Networking team members lack automation experience and prefer to use a tool that does not require in-depth programming knowledge Finally configuration within the Cisco ACI fabric is rarely modified or removed Which solution must the team choose?

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

A network consultant evaluates the Ethernet Adapter Policy configuration to be applied to the Cisco UCS blade servers. The policy must minimize latency and increase throughput for sensitive applications. The solution must increase the CPU data cache hit rate to meet these requirements Which policy is required?

The Cisco UCS environment must be connected to an existing SAN network that consists of several Cisco MDS 9000 Series Switches added to increase storage density. The solution must not exhaust the SAN network from the list of available domain IDs after connecting. Most of the SAN traffic must be mapped from the Cisco UCS blades to a specific group of the fabric interconnect ports. Which configuration must be deployed 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.)