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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?
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 data center with over 4000 VLANs must be stretched lo a disaster recovery site. The solution must support the migration of virtual machines to a disaster recovery site. To support the scalability of the solution, the internal fabric of the main site must be from the DCI network. The connecting network infrastructure uses a 10 Gbps link with PIM ASM supported, which will be replaced with a different overlay in the next 12 months. The solution must support head-end replication for broadcast, unknown unicast, and multicast traffic. Which solution must be used to meet these requirements?
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?
A storage administrator receives reports of network delays when database software attempts to access the storage array. The virtual machines that host the database software are installed on different rack servers connected to the Cisco UCS Fabric Interconnect domain. The existing SAN switches are connected to the Fabric Interconnects using two 8 Gb port-channel interfaces to connect the storage array. The storage administrator has decided to deploy iSCSI storage with four 10 Gbps interfaces connected to the Cisco UCS Fabric Interconnects.
Which deployment type resolves the problems with storage contention?
Which orchestration tool should be used for the management and analytics of servers across multiple sites?
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?
Drag and drop the SAN components from the left onto the correct design considerations on the right.
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 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 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.)
An engineer deploys LISP VM mobility. Which feature is configured on the interfaces that have VM mobility enabled?
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 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 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?
A network design must include a solution to run CLI commands remotely on Cisco Nexus 9000 Series Switches. The customer's security policy requires secure login credentials and an encrypted underlying transport. The command output will be processed using tools that support XML or JSON encoding. Which two components should be included in the design? (Choose two.)
Drag and drop the feature descriptions from the left onto the correct UCS Fabric Interconnect modes on the right.
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?
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?
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?
When planning to deploy a load-balancing service as a managed node, which ACI configuration must be included?
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)
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?
An engineer must deploy a Cisco HyperFlex system at two data centers. For redundancy reasons, the setup must achieve data protection in case of an entire site failure. The data must be available on both sites at all times to keep the recovery time objective to a minimum.
Which Cisco HyperFlex deployment model meets these requirements?
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?
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 factor determines the choice of platform designing a Cisco HyperFlex infrastructure to support computer-aided design applications?
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 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?
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?
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 design the compute portion of a data center environment. The environment includes:
* direct-attach Fibre Channel storage array with four 32 G Fibre Channel ports per controller
* Cisco UCS B-series servers equipped with Cisco UCS IOM 2408 Fabric Extenders
* Cisco 6454 Fabric Interconnects
The fabric interconnects conned to the LAN via 100G ports, the SAN via 32 G Fibre Channel ports, and the IOM 2408 via 10 G ports. Which storage connectivity strategy must the engineer choose?
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 high-availability setup for iSCSI is designed with the host running ISCSI software. Each storage port on the MDS exports the same two Fibre Channel target ports with different ISCSI target names. In this design, how many ISCSI session are created from the host so that recovery occurs if any component fails?
Drag and drop the technologies from the left onto the correct descriptions on the right.
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.)
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?
What must be configured in Cisco Intersight when Enum is selected as the data typo in a workflow input?
Drag and drop the configurations from the left onto the correct policies on the right.
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.)
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 seeks a solution to retrieve routing information from Cisco Nexus switches. The data must be exported to a web application in a JSON or XML data format for monitoring and must be encrypted during transmission. The solution must not require extensive knowledge to support and should be simple to implement.
Which technology accomplishes these goals?
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 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.)
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 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 approach splits a pair of clustered fabric interconnects into two standalone devices?
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.
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?
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?
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?
A Cisco engineer is discussing a data center design scenario that consists of 24 Cisco UCS B200M6 Wade servers. 2 Cisco UCS 6454 Fabric Interconnects, and 3 Cisco UCS 5108 server chassis In the proposed configuration, the server links, which are vNICs on the blades, are associated with a single uplink port Server-to-server Layer 2 traffic is locally switched, server-to-network traffic goes out on its pinned uplink port, and each server MAC address must be learned before traffic can be forwarded to it Which feature stipulates that traffic is forwarded to a server only if it is received on a pinned uplink port for this server?
An engineer 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 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.
Drag the requirements from the left onto the correct policy types on the right.
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 Cisco UCS instance has four interfaces on a UCS VIC. Where on the fabric interconnect does each interface terminate?
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.)
An engineer must connect a storage array directly to an existing Cisco UCS Fabric Interconnect. The customer requires a solution that provides IP-based storage that does not need to be connected through an external switch Also, the operations team wants to have the ability to have direct access to the files stored on the storage array from their Linux hosts. Which storage technology meets these requirements?
An engineer must choose the World Wide Port Name for the Cisco UCS Fibre Channel virtual host bus adapter.
Which identifier must be used?
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?
A network administrator must create a redundant vHBA for the mission-critical virtual machines (VMs) installed on a Cisco UCS Fabric Interconnect blade server. The VMs access multiple datastores using VSAN55 and VSAN95. The datastore on which the VMs are hosted must be accessible if any of the uplinks goes offline. Which action meets these requirements?
A 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?
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?
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 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 is designing a Cisco 7000 Series disaster recovery site using the data center interconnect solution to provide gateway redundancy and needs to ensure that devices use gateways in their own data centers. Which design approach should be used to accomplish this goal?
A network engineer needs to configure a high availability feature for a data center that uses a Cisco Nexus 7700 Series Switch that is configured with dual supervisors. The feature must meet these requirements:
• Network resilience must be ensured.
• Network instability for Layer 3 external routing protocols must be reduced.
• Neighbors must be notified when the control plane is restarting.
• Traffic must still be forwarded to peers while neighbor relationships arc restarting.
What should be used to meet these requirements?
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.)
An engineer needs an orchestration and monitoring tool that should be used for managing the storage networks and VXLAN fabrics. The tool should also allow support built-in dashboard and real-time health summary for managed devices. Which tool meets these requirements?
An engineer must 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?
What influences the number of ISLs that are required between Cisco MDS Series switches?
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?
A company owns a large-scale compute infrastructure that consists of over 1000 servers and virtual machines. The operational complexity continues to grow with additional policies and servers added to the environment. An infrastructure engineer is looking for an automation tool to reduce the operational complexity of configuring complex infrastructure. Because of the strict security requirements, the tool must be agentless, use the secure shell for transport, and be extendable using existing Python modules. Which tool meets these requirements?
TESTED 16 Jun 2025
