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An engineer configured the OSPF protocol in the vPC topology. During the catastrophic failure of one of the vPC the member switches, the traffic was routed to a black hole. This route was caused by the long convergence time caused by the delay of the of the vPC member switch reboot. After the failure, the engineer rebooted both switches, but the secondary switch powered on before the primary one. It caused all the vPCs to be shut down due to consistency-check violations. Which two features must be used to prevent these situations from happening in the future? (Choose two.)
A 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?
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 engineer must choose the World Wide Port Name for the Cisco UCS Fibre Channel virtual host bus adapter.
Which identifier must be used?
A network engineer designs a virtual network in a Cisco UCS Manager. The traffic must be explicitly forwarded from the vNIC on the server to a specific uplink Ethernet port on the Cisco fabric interconnect. Also, the server vNIC must use the same uplink Ethernet port after reboot. Finally, the design requires a OoS policy for remote direct memory access over converged Ethernet (RoCE v2). Which set of design features meets these requirements?
The end users report issues with datastore reachability between the newly installed virtual machines (VMs) and the storage array. The VMs are deployed on a Cisco C-Series server, directly connected with Cisco Nexus 5672UP switches over FCoE VLAN. The data traffic on VLAN 99, which is designated as a native VLAN, reaches its default gateway, but FCoE VLAN 99 fails to access the datastore. Which action resolves the problem?
An 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?
The network engineering team at a large corporation operates a critical data center with stringent business requirements for network reliability and high availability. EIGRP is used as an interior routing protocol. The team is planning to implement a robust new redundancy strategy that minimizes downtime and maximizes network uptime. According to the requirements, business services can tolerate 3 seconds for failover performance. The solution must be based on RFC 2281. Which action must the team take as part of the implementation?
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?
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?
A set of virtual machines must be live migrated from a data center to a disaster recovery site. The data center and disaster recovery sites are connected through an Inter-Pod Network topology. The gateway address of the virtual machine is the same across the data center and disaster recovery. Which Cisco Nexus feature supports this requirement?
An engineer must interconnect two data centers to support the dynamic virtual machine migration. The data centers are currently interconnected using an IPv4 network. However, the data piano encapsulation of the underlay network is expected to change next year. To meet the VM migration requirement, the solution must track MAC route changes, update all other remote devices simultaneously and prevent excessive MAC flapping with broadcast and unicast traffic loops. The company must also use networking equipment from different manufacturers to prevent vendor-locking. Which solution meets these requirements?
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?
Drag and drop the Cisco Nexus 7000 Series Switch resources from the left onto the correct groups on the right.
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?
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 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 for 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 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?
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?
A network engineer is configuring an Ethernet Adapter Policy for a server in Cisco UCS. The CPU must process all large TCP packets, and network receive processing must be distributed across available processors whenever possible. How must the policy be configured?
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 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?
What should be implemented on a Cisco Nexus 9300 Series Switch to reduce oversubscription between switches within a Fibre Channel fabric?
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?
Refer to the exhibit.
The FCoE packets fail to be forwarded through the switch. What is the minimum MTU QoS requirement for the FCoE to work?
Which approach splits a pair of clustered fabric interconnects into two standalone devices?
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?
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 feature provides a sandbox to convert NX-OS CLI commands to REST-based scripts on Cisco Nexus 7700 Series Switches?
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?
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?
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?
A company must implement a multitenant environment for DEV and PROD application teams. The design must support end-to-end route isolation for remote external sites, overlapping IP ranges, and fast, transparent application deployment. Which solution meets the objectives?
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?
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 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 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?
An ACI deployment must:
Only use a proxy for border leaf switches.
Classify incoming traffic on the L3Out.
Immediately update the endpoint database when an endpoint moves between leaf switches.
Which VRF configuration must be used?
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 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 preparing a service profile template for a design, which consists of 20 x UCS B200M6 blade servers 2 x UCS 6454 Fabric Interconnect in End Host Mode, and 3 x UCS 5108 server chassis with 2408 Fabric Extenders The blade servers are equipped with VIC 1480 adapters The engineer does not configure a vNIC/vHBA placement policy in the service profile and the vNICs and vHBAs are assigned to the vCon in a particular order What is the mapping scheme in which Cisco UCS assigns the vCons based on the type of server and the selected virtual slot?
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 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.)
Refer to the exhibit.
An engineer must assign multiple Fibre Channel IDs to a single port channel. Which two features must be enabled this goal? (Choose two.)
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?
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?
To help automate the vHBA configuration process, a network engineer is configuring vHBA template pairs on UCS The engineer is creating primary and secondary templates to define how vHBAs on a server connect to the SAN. Which fact about the template pair should the engineer consider for Its potential impact on service7
Which type of Cisco Intersight workflow input controls the availability of other specific workflow inputs during the execution of a workflow?
An engineer is designing a data center that uses FCIP. How is QoS configured in this environment?
What are two characteristics of VRF-Lite on the Cisco NX-OS platform? (Choose two.)
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?
A network engineer must design a high-performance, lossless Ethernet network to support AI workloads in a data center. The network uses a spine-leaf topology with Cisco Nexus 9000 Series Switches. The design must ensure that critical AI traffic can move seamlessly across the fabric without being dropped due to congestion. The design requirements are:
Prevent packet drops for high-priority AI traffic flows.
Proactively manage and signal congestion to ensure continuous data flow even under heavy load.
Which design approach must be used to meet these requirements?
Refer to the exhibit. A company has three data centers based on different network technologies. The company must provide Layer 2 and Layer 3 connectivity among the sites with these requirements:
VLAN 172 must be extended as shown.
Client A must be able to access the database server.
Client B must be able to communicate with Client A.
Which solution meets the 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?
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 design a Cisco UCS environment that will connection to a storage area network. The solution must include support for these conditions:
• connectivity to the existing 10 Gigabit Ethernet network
• booting the server infrastructure from the network
• integration with the existing Fibre Channel storage arrays
• lossless data transfer
Which solution should be used to meet these requirements?
A company needs a solution to virtualize their legacy desktop computers. The solution must be highly resilient and able to withstand the loss of a data center site. Each compute node requires a minimum of 20 disk drives.
Which solution meets these requirements?
An engineer must interconnect two geographically separated data centers. The service provide offers a Layer 2 metro Ethernet link. The strict security policy requires that the information that is shared between two sites must be sent encrypted. The application deployed between sites requires a line-rate throughput regardless of the packet size and speed. Which solution meets these requirements?
A network architect designs the iSCSI-based storage area network solution. The iSCSI datastore must be designed with high availability, minimal downtime, and no single point of failure. The requirement is to fail over I/O to alternate paths based on SCSI sense codes without reliance on network failures.
Which feature must be deployed to meet these requirements?
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 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?
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 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 secure the payload traversing across the DCI. The solution must support confidentially and integrity and it must be open standard. The solution must encrypt Ethernet frames regardless of the upper layer protocol used. Which technology must be used to support these requirements?
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?
Which type fields can an engineer use to identify an iSCSI participant? (Choose two.)
What are two reasons to select OTV as the DCI solution to connect multisite topologies? (Choose two.)
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 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?
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?
Drag and drop the components from the left onto the descriptions on the right that indicate what occurs to Fibre Channel fabric when that component fails.
An engineer must design a solution based on Cisco Nexus 7709 Switches. The solution must connect test and development network segments and separate the enterprise applications from the production network. The network security team requires routing instances and the IP stack to be completely separated from each other and for traffic between the environments to undergo a deep packet inspection. The development team also requests the ability to allocate additional physical interfaces from the Cisco Nexus 7709 device in each environment.
Which solution meets these requirements?
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?
Refer to the exhibit. Router R1 provides connectivity for Department A. A network engineer must update R1 so that it also supports Department B. Traffic for Department A and Department B must remain separated, and Department B must connect to external networks only through ISP-2. Which action must the engineer take on R1?
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?
A customer connects a high-speed Fibre Channel storage array to a Cisco MDS 9000 Series Switch using an 8 Gbps interface.
Which action guarantees line rate traffic processing on the interface?
A customer requires a tool to manage Cisco network hardware. The solution must use secure communication using a secure network protocol, support the use of declarative language to manage the state of resources, and periodically pull changes to the controlled nodes. Which tool meets these requirements?
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?
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?
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?
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 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.)
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 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?
TESTED 08 Aug 2026
