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Which type of Cisco Intersight workflow input controls the availability of other specific workflow inputs during the execution of a workflow?
What are two advantages of using Cisco vPC over traditional access layer designs? (Choose two.)
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?
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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?
Which orchestration tool should be used for the management and analytics of servers across multiple sites?
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?
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?
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 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 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?
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?
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.)
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.)
A midsize company recently deployed a Cisco UCS environment with a vSAN datastore to support its virtualized data center infrastructure. After monitoring the environment for several months, the network engineering team is concerned about potential performance degradation caused by competing traffic between management vNICs and vSAN over shared physical adapters. The team also wants a standardized approach to vNIC/vHBA placement across all blade servers to simplify maintenance, preserve consistency, and minimize configuration errors. Which two actions must the team take to achieve these goals? (Choose two.)
Refer to the exhibit. Two Cisco Nexus 9000 Series Switches exchange OSPF routing information with R1. Which action accomplishes this goal?
Which two vSphere features must be included in the design of a Cisco HyperFlex systems stretched cluster? (Choose two.)
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?
A company is using Cisco UCS and wants a network orchestration solution to meet these requirements :
centrally manage compute and storage platforms
reduce the time it takes to detect an outage
easily exchange data with TAC to reduce resolution times
The company does not have in-house knowledge about scripting. Which solution must the company choose?
A networking team must implement a new management solution for the network devices at their organization. The solution must meet these requirements
• It must enable seamless monitoring, configuration, and troubleshooting while ensuring security and reliability.
• It must allow access to devices even if the production network is down.
• It must be easy to use and manage.
The company ' s budget is limited. Which implementation must the team perform to meet the requirements?
A 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
Drag and drop the feature descriptions from the left onto the correct UCS Fabric Interconnect modes on the right.
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. 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 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 needs to design a network environment in a data center that uses Cisco Nexus 9000 Series Switches The solution must meet these requirements
• interoperate with 802 1D devices
• load-balance spanning-tree traffic
• interoperate with third-party devices
Which spanning-tree protocol meets these requirements?
What influences the number of ISLs that are required between Cisco MDS Series switches?
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.)
An engineer develops a framework for automatic repetitive tasks needed to manage a Cisco Nexus 9000 Series Switch. The engineer plans to use a programmatic interface and must keep these considerations in mind.
•The customer’s environment requires the script to authenticate before executing further actions.
•The customer’s security requirements mandate the use of HTTP transport.
•The automation team is familiar with parsing messages encoded in XML or JSON format.
Which solution meets these requirements?
Which authentication software natively runs within the CLI of Cisco NX-OS devices?
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?
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?
In this data structure, what is the XML terminology for the currency= " usd " code snippet?
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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?
A customer needs a design for a new network VLANs must be dynamically provisioned based on the information received from connected hosts No Layer 2 or Layer 3 configuration must be performed on the related switch ports. Which feature must be used?
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 deploys a Cisco UCS environment with the storage array directly attached to the Fabric Interconnects. The operations team mandates that the solution must not require the configuration of Fibre Channel zoning. Which configuration set meets these requirements?
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?
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?
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?
Which set of actions ensures that the Cisco UCS network configuration contains the required VLAN settings and that those settings are consistently applied through the service profile templates?
Which statement describes differences between training and inference in AI learning models?
An architect must automate routine tasks within a data center The data center exclusively uses Cisco Nexus Series Switches The networking team lacks proper programming knowledge and prefers an automation solution that leverages NXOS commands Any configuration change must use HTTPS for transport due to a security compliance requirement. Which solution must the architect choose?
An engineer must integrate Layer 4 to Layer 7 services within Cisco ACI Fabric. The main requirement is to have a single point of configuration for network elements and firewall policies.
Which action meets these requirements?
Drag and drop the SAN components from the left onto the correct design considerations on the right.
An architect is designing a storage solution for a Cisco UCS server infrastructure with these requirements:
• identical deployment of servers
• can add vHBAs to a group of servers
• configuration of servers stays synchronized
Which solution meets these requirements?
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.
Fiber links are provisioned directly between the spine and leaf switches in the given LAN topology A/30 prefix has been configured over each fiber link to provide underlay connectivity for a VXLAN network. The network-engineering team must update the network configuration to provide the shortest possible convergence time if a fiber link is cut. Which action must the team take to meet the requirement?
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?
Drag the requirements from the left onto the correct policy types on the right.
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?
An engineer must create a Cisco UCS storage disk-group policy that provides high redundancy, fault tolerance, and improved read performance. The configuration must preserve data integrity if any two disks fail, use at least four disks, and maintain two parity blocks. The solution must also use striping to increase read bandwidth. Which RAID level must be selected?
Which two configuration methods can be used to deploy QoS to Cisco MDS Series switches? (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?
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?
An engineer must design a solution to divide the workload across two different data centers and achieve redundancy in case of the failure of either data center Which solution must the engineer choose?
A network engineer is connecting a backup server to the network shown. The server has three available physical Ethernet interfaces: two 1-Gbps interfaces and one 10-Gbps interface. All devices support virtual port channels (vPCs). The engineer must minimize backup time, eliminate any single point of failure in the server’s data-center connectivity, and configure the interfaces in an active/passive arrangement. Which deployment model must the engineer use?
Refer to the exhibit. A Cisco engineer is implementing a customer data center design and must configure Cisco MDS 9000 Series Switches. The configuration has the required IP addresses on each SAN. The requirement is that each FCIP is a separate E(ISL). and the FCIP links must connect to different switches across the two SAN islands. Also, the Fibre Channel traffic is to be load-balanced across the FCIP link. After the engineer configures the FCIP profiles and interfaces they want to enable QoS for the link. Which types of values are needed for the DSCP to mark the IP packets?
An architect is designing a VXLAN solution for a client with limited experience in complex deployments and has recommended using Cisco Nexus Dashboard Fabric Controller (NDFC) to automate the configuration and management of the solution. NDFC will manage a dual-site production data center environment by using physical appliances in active-active high-availability mode. Which NDFC deployment model must the architect select?
An organization has deployed a high-performance full-mesh SAN using Cisco MDS 9000 Series Switches. The system must store data on disk media with no rotational latency. To optimize the SAN design, data must be striped with a single parity block, and the fabric must dynamically select the best available paths to storage. Which design meets the requirements?
A network engineer must design a UCS SAN configuration for vNIC port eth0, which is currently configured directly via the adaptor. The engineer set the Connection Policies option to VMQ and selected a VMQ Connection Policy named Primary-Cluster. What happens to the eth0 running configuration when the configuration is applied?
Which orchestration tool must be used to manage VXLAN fabrics and includes a built-in dashboard and real-time network health summary for managed devices?
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 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?
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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?
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 customer asks an engineer to develop a framework to configure Cisco services that will be used to replace process of manual device configuration. The engineer plans to use a programmatic interface and must keep these considerations in mind:
• The customer ' s environment requires the script to authenticate before executing further actions.
• The customer ' s security requirements mandate the use of HTTPS transport.
• The support stall has limited shell scripting knowledge, so the scripts should be easy to read and write and be serf-documenting.
Which two solutions should be used 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?
A storage engineer requires a solution that achieves multiple paths between a server and storage array. The design must support complete traffic isolation and support a 50% growth in the next year. Which FCoE solution meets these requirements?
Refer to the exhibit. A Cisco engineer is configuring a customer scenario with 2 x MDS 9000 switches 24 x UCS B200M6 blade servers. UCS 64S4 Fabric Interconnect in end-host mode and 3 x UCS 5108 server chassis with 2408 Fabric Extenders The engineer installs 6 x SQL Server 2019 on all blades and then notices that there are read and write latencies What is the best way to balance the utilization across the shared ports?
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 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?
Which programming model is vendor-agnostic and combines operational and configuration data in the same container?
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?
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 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 Cisco engineer is developing a custom application that can run natively in Cisco NX-OS on Nexus 9000 and Nexus 3000 platforms For the NX-SDK application to run the engineer enables the NX-SDK feature on the device Then the NX-SDK is imported into the application via an import nx_sdk_py statement. The engineer creates custom CLI commands and defines custom CLI command syntax within the sdkThread function When CLI commands originate from an NX-SDK application what class is this?
An engineer is configuring a Cisco UCS Service Profile template for an environment that will host Windows servers Some of the servers require access to a Fibre Channel storage network The design requires the server HBA to send the maximum number of commands to a Fibre Channel disk using a single transmission Which action must be taken to meet these requirements?
What are two functions of a Network Services Orchestrator in an NFV environment? (Choose two.)
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 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 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.)
Which mode must be enabled on a Cisco UCS Fabric Interconnect to connect directly to a storage array?
The data center aggregation layer that uses IPv4 and IPv6 address space must act as a redundant Layer 3 gateway The solution must support a minimum of 240 virtual groups for an interface The data center aggregation layer hosts network devices from different vendors Which FHRP solution meets these requirements?
TESTED 20 Aug 2026
