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Which Cisco product meets the LAN extension cryptography requirement in OTV over Dark Fiber scenario?
A. IronPort
B. Cisco TrustSec
C. VSG
D. Zone-Based Firewall
You have a Cisco UCS B-Series Blade Server chassis connected, which has four 10-Gbps connections to Cisco UCS Fabric Interconnect A. You plan to deploy a blade that has ESXi installed. You must provide a dedicated 10-Gbps uplink to the blade. Which two actions should you perform? (Choose two.)
A. Configure a port channel between the Fabric Interconnect and the IOM.
B. Implement a QoS policy that has a policy bandwidth and assign the policy to a server profile.
C. Configure static pining to the uplink port in the server profile.
D. Configure dynamic pinning to the uplink port in the server profile.
E. Configure a vPC between the Fabric Interconnect and the IOM.
Which statement accurately describes Ethernet switching mode on a Cisco UCS Fabric Interconnect?
A. VTP is enabled on the Fabric Interconnect
B. PVST+ runs on the Fabric Interconnect
C. The uplink ports are placed in a Rapid PVST+ edge trunk state
D. The vNICs can be configured for failover
Refer to the exhibit. Which two descriptions of the configuration are true? (Choose two.)
A. The STP is disabled on the vPC peer device.
B. The device is a secondary vPC device.
C. The device is a primary vPC device.
D. There are 55 vPC domains configured on the device.
E. The device is configured to act as an active gateway for packets destined for the MAC address of the peer device.
Which two items represent features of VM-FEX with Cisco Nexus 5500? (Choose two)
A. Software packet switching
B. Hardware packet switching
C. 802.1 Q
D. VN-Tag (802.1 Qbh)
E. Feature rich
F. Higher performance
Which two options are common switching protocols that are used in the data center? (Choose two.)
A. Frame Relay
B. MPLS
C. Ethernet
D. FDDI
E. APPN/APPI
Which two options are supported on Cisco UCS Fabric Interconnects that use native Fibre Channel connectivity? (Choose two.)
A. iSCSI
B. NFS
C. DAS
D. SAN
E. iFCP
Which NHRP features active and standby virtual gateways?
A. GLBP
B. VRRP
C. HSRP
D. SSO
E. NSF
Which two Cisco MDS 9500 line cards support SME? (Choose two.)
A. Cisco MDS 9000 Family Storage Services Module
B. Cisco MDS 9000 Family Multiprotocol Services Module
C. Cisco MDS 9000 Family 8-Gbps Advanced Fibre Channel Switching Module
D. Cisco MDS 9000 Family IP Storage Services Module
E. Cisco MDS 9000 Family Storage Processor Node
F. Cisco MDS 9000 Family Multiservices Module
You deploy new server infrastructure by using a Cisco UCS platform. Which two design options can you use to increase the redundancy of the new compute solution? (Choose two.)
A. a 10-Gb uplink port
B. a pin vNIC in the server profile to a specific Fabric Interconnect node that has failover disabled
C. an uplink port in a port channel configuration
D. static pinning at the server ports
E. more than one server port to connect the Cisco UCS B-Series blade IOM
Refer to the exhibit. Which four options are Cisco best practices that should be included or implemented in the design for resiliency, deterministic behavior, and fast convergence in case of link failures? (Choose four.)
A. Add additional OSPF adjacency between N7K-1 and N7K-2 via dedicated Layer 3 link.
B. Configure vPC peer-gateway in the vPC domain between N7K-1 and N7K-2.
C. Use point-to-point OSPF adjacencies.
D. Place the primary FHRP role on N7K-1.
E. Configure Layer 3 port channels between all N7K devices.
F. N7K-3 and N7K-4 must be the OSPF designated routers.
G. Place the primary FHRP role on N7K-2.
H. All OSPF adjacencies should be between loopback interfaces.
You are designing a data center that will use Cisco Unified Fabric. You must select a switch for the access layer. The switch must support 10-Gbps optical connections. Which type of Cisco Nexus switch must you select?
A. 2248TP
B. 7010
C. 1000V
D. 9000
E. 5548UP
LISP provides which capability?
A. host connectivity redundancy
B. physical host mobility
C. VM mobility
D. VXLAN mobility
Which two options are requirements to implement the Route Health Injection feature in a data center? (Choose two.)
A. a Layer 2 connection between the service chassis and the aggregation switch
B. firewall services enabled on a Cisco Catalyst 6500 Series Switch
C. a routing protocol configured between the service chassis and the aggregation switch
D. integrated services enabled on a Cisco Nexus 5000 Series Switch
E. integrated services enabled on a Cisco Catalyst 6500 Series Switch
If you are connecting a Cisco UCS Fabric Interconnect in its default mode to a SAN, what is the operating mode?
A. trunk
B. NPIV mode
C. switching
D. NPV mode
Scenario - Review topology and screenshots, and then answer questions that validate your knowledge of Cisco Nexus Switches.Instructions - To access the multiple-choice questions, click on the numbered boxes on the left of the top panel. Review the Exhibit associated with the question. There are four multiple-choice questions with this task. Be sure to answer all four questions before selecting the Next button
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Refer to the figure in Exhibit 3. You have configured both pairs of Cisco Nexus 7000 Switches for OTV redundancy between data centers. Which of the following OTV configuration elements will prevent the Overlay interface from forwarding traffic if it is not configured?
A. restart otv-isis
B. otv stp-synchronization
C. otv site-identifier
D. otv vpn-name
Which use case requires a design that contains multiple VRF instances in a VDC?
A. Provide VRF-aware services to all Layer 3 interfaces.
B. Provide a route policy for incoming packets.
C. Provide routing updates between Layer 3 interfaces.
D. Provide Layer 3 isolation within a VDC.
Which three items represent features of Cisco Virtual Port Channels? (Choose three.)
A. Single control plane
B. Dual control planes
C. vPC appears as one switch to downstream switches
D. vPC appears as two switches to downstream switch
E. Etherchannel protocols include Static, LACP
F. channel protocols include Static, PAgP, PAgP+, LACP
You have many servers that connect by using EtherChannels. Which two design options increase high availability? (Choose two.)
A. LISP protocol
B. Cisco Nexus vPCs
C. IS-IS routing protocol
D. Cisco Catalyst 6500 Series VSS
E. Cisco Catalyst 3750X Series
F. STP
Which option accurately describes updating vNICs templates?
A. can be used to automate the configuration of STP
B. requires that the same VLANs be enabled on all service profiles and Cisco UCS Fabric Interconnects
C. requires that STP be enabled on all service profiles and Cisco UCS Fabric Interconnects
D. can be used to add or remove VLANs from all of the associated service profiles
Which three options are features of the Cisco Prime Data Center Network Manager? (Choose three.)
A. SAN inventory
B. security rules and objects views
C. device groups and scoping
D. HTTPS connections to devices
E. authentication services
F. inventory and performance views
DRAG DROP - Drag the solution on the left to the appropriate business requirement on the right, such that the solution solves the requirement. Select and Place:
Which two options are benefits of credit-based flow control in a Fibre Channel network? (Choose two.)
A. sends credit to all of the switches in a SAN zone
B. increases the credit limit when the buffer overruns
C. maximizes performance under high loads
D. prevents the loss of frames due to buffer overruns
E. provides automatic buffer scaling under high loads
You are sizing the aggregation layer for a data center. Which two factors influence the size of the TCAM table space on the aggregation data center switches? (Choose two.)
A. the QoS policies
B. the configured VLANs
C. the configured OSPF networks
D. the configured security access control list policies
E. the configured OSPF processes
Which option is an advantage of utilizing hypervisor technology within a Cisco Unified Fabric data center environment?
A. distributed load processing
B. availability of blade versus rack-mountable servers
C. reduced power and cooling requirements
D. integrating the virtual machines into the access layer
Which two options are reasons to use Layer 3 routing to segment a data center instead of Layer 2 switching? (Choose two.)
A. limit the scope of Spanning Tree Protocol
B. simplify design
C. ease of routing protocol configuration
D. limit the scope of broadcast flooding
E. cost
Which statement describes an interconnect link between an FCoE NPV switch and an FCF switch?
A. The interconnect must use port type NP on the FCoE switch.
B. The interconnect must use port type VNP on the FCoE switch.
C. The interconnect must use port type E on the FCoE switch.
D. The FCoE switch must create the tunnel interface and bind to the physical interconnect.
You use Cisco UCS Central to manage Cisco UCS. Which statement accurately describes how local and global policies are applied?
A. A local policy is applied by using Cisco UCS Central, and a global policy is applied by using Cisco UCS Director.
B. A local policy is applied by using Cisco UCS Manager, and a global policy is applied by using Cisco UCS Central.
C. A local policy is applied by using Cisco UCS Director, and a global policy is applied by using Cisco UCS Central.
D. A local policy is applied by using Cisco UCS Central, and a global policy is applied by using Cisco UCS Manager.
Which statement about FCoE is true?
A. FCoE is not supported on any Nexus 2000 Series Fabric Extenders.
B. Not a single FCoE VLAN can map to multiple VSANs.
C. Inter-switch FCoE links can be configured to carry multiple VSANs.
D. FCoE does not support NPV/NPIV mode.
Refer to the exhibit. Which two descriptions of the purpose of the L1-L2 links between FI A and FI B are true? (Choose two.)
A. synchronizes the configuration information
B. provides a vPC peer link between the fabric interconnects
C. allows each fabric interconnect to monitor the status of the other fabric interconnect continuously
D. provides an alternate data path if an upstream link fails
E. migrates VIFs from FI A to FI B if FI A fails
You are designing a large-scale, multitenant data center. Which two features provide each tenant with the ability to manage its own IP services at the aggregation layer? (Choose two.)
A. Cisco Nexus 7000 Series OTV
B. Cisco Nexus 7000 Series RBAC
C. Cisco ASA VRF tables
D. Cisco Nexus 7000 Series VDCs
E. Cisco ASA security contexts
Which two functionalities are provided for each context by using multiple context mode on a Cisco ASA firewall? (Choose two.)
A. separate administration
B. separate IPsec VPN configurations
C. separate security policies
D. different dynamic routing protocols
E. separate SSL VPN configurations
Cisco FabricPath is implemented in a data center. You plan to implement anycast HSRP. What is an advantage of anycast HSRP as compared to HSRPv2?
A. Up to four HSRP gateways can forward traffic simultaneously.
B. HSRP gateways use BFD for faster failure detection.
C. An HSRP group can be secured by using MD5.
D. Up to six HSRP gateways can forward traffic simultaneously.
Which action must occur before an N Port can exchange data with other N Ports?
A. The N Port must log in to its target F Port.
B. The N Port must log in to its attached F Port.
C. The F Port must log in to its target N Port.
D. The F Port must log in to its attached F Port.
Which three control plane operations are used by vPC? (Choose three.)
A. ARP cache
B. MAC address learning
C. CGMP snooping
D. LACP
E. BPDUs
Which three elements form a 24-bit Fibre Channel address? (Choose three.)
A. switch ID
B. domain ID
C. AS number
D. port ID
E. area ID
F. bridge ID
You are designing the access layer. Which three pinning configurations for a FEX port are valid? (Choose three.)
A. to one uplink port channel
B. to one physical uplink
C. to four uplink port channels
D. to four physical uplinks
E. to eight uplink port channels
F. to six physical uplinks
Which two statements about how universal ports are converted from Ethernet to Fibre Channel ports are true? (Choose two.)
A. Fibre Channel ports should be configured consecutively from the last port of a module.
B. Port type changes become effective immediately after configuration.
C. Fibre Channel ports should be configured consecutively from the first port of a module.
D. Port type changes become effective only after reloading the switch.
E. Fibre Channel ports may be assigned to any available port without regard to switch location.
Which components share a physical interface in a VDC deployment?
A. two VDCs for Ethernet traffic
B. storage VDC for FCoE traffic and a VDC for Ethernet traffic
C. two storage VDCs for FCoE traffic
D. interface VLAN and a VDC
Layer 2 forwarding of multicast traffic with vPC is based on which modified protocol?
A. CGMP
B. PIM SS
C. Auto-RP
D. IGMP snooping
E. Destination-based trees
Which five options are Cisco UCS hardware components? (Choose five.)
A. UCS Manager
B. Nexus 1000v
C. Fabric Interconnect
D. Cisco IMC
E. Fabric Extender or IOM
F. Blade Server Chassis
G. Server Adapter
H. VM-FEX
Which two actions are performed at the aggregation layer? (Choose two.)
A. route summarization
B. fast convergence
C. packet filtering
D. traffic classification
E. port security
What are two benefits of a service insertion that is mediated through the Cisco APIC instead of the classical Ethernet model? (Choose two.)
A. provides Layer 5 service insertion capability
B. provides Layer 7 service insertion capability
C. provide policies that can manage the network and service appliances
D. can automate the service insertion
E. provides built-in services, such as Cisco ACE Web Application Firewall and ADC
Which two options are benefits of implementing Cisco FabricPath? (Choose two.)
A. All links between FabricPath switches are active.
B. The MAC addresses of servers are learned by all FabricPath switches.
C. Layer 2 protocols are used for loop avoidance.
D. MAC learning is conversation-based.
E. Segmentation is provided at Layer 3.
Which two types of connections can be used to build data center interconnects via vPC? (Choose two.)
A. company-owned DWDM
B. service provider MPLS
C. service provider IP
D. service provider DWDM
E. service provider VPLS
You are designing a fabric interconnect and Cisco UCS blade chassis solution for a client. The solution includes two vHBA interfaces per server in the blade chassis. Which two requirements for the servers to boot successfully are true? (Choose two.)
A. On the server side, the amount of WWPNs must equal to the number of the vHBA interfaces multiplied by two.
B. On the server side, the amount of WWPNs must equal to the number of the vHBA interfaces.
C. On the server side, the amount of WWNNs must equal to the number of the vHBA interfaces.
D. On the server side, each server must be allocated one WWPN.
E. On the server side, each server must be allocated one WWNN.
Scenario - Review topology and screenshots, and then answer questions that validate your knowledge of Cisco Nexus Switches.Instructions - To access the multiple-choice questions, click on the numbered boxes on the left of the top panel. Review the Exhibit associated with the question. There are four multiple-choice questions with this task. Be sure to answer all four questions before selecting the Next button
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Refer to the figure in Exhibit 3. Which item is uniquely required when OTV is configured to use a Unicast Control Pane?
A. ASM
B. Join Interface
C. Adjacency Server
D. Enable Classical Ethernet MAC learning on Edge Interfaces.
When you configure FCIP, which two types of acceleration can you enable to maximize WAN link utilization? (Choose two.)
A. SCSI write
B. link
C. SCSI tape
D. WAN
E. IP
What is the default CoS value for FCoE packets on a storage VDC?
A. 1
B. 2
C. 3
D. 5
E. 7
Which statement about VLANs configured in FabricPath mode on a Cisco Nexus 7000 switch is true?
A. They use classical MAC learning by default.
B. FabricPath VLANs requires 802.1Q trunks for forwarding.
C. VLANs configured for FabricPath can exist only on F-Series line cards.
D. The forwarding engine uses any M-Series line cards present in the switch for MAC proxy forwarding.
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