What is an advantage of using OTV as compared to VPLS for data center redundancy?

A. prevents loops on point-to-point links

B. provides head-end replication

C. uses a proactive MAC advertisement

D. provides full-mesh connectivity

What are two functions of a Network Services Orchestrator in an NFV environment? (Choose two.)

A. It operates at the resource-facing services layer and provides overall lifecycle management at the network service level.

B. It provides an API-based northbound interface for transparent integration with systems that operate at the resource-facing services layer.

C. It provides a standards-based southbound interface for transparent integration with systems that operate at the customer-facing services layer.

D. It provides a standards-based northbound interface for transparent integration with systems that operate at the customer-facing services layer.

E. It operates at the customer-facing services layer and provides the management interface for the virtual network devices.

An engineer must logically partition two Cisco Nexus 7000 Series Switches into two environments called Test_1 and Production_1. The environments must use only F2-Series line cards and be limited to a maximum of 265 port-channels. Which Cisco Nexus feature must be used?

A. vPC

B. VDC

C. vFC

D. VRF

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 Ethernet adapter policies must be selected to resolve the issue?

A. Receive Checksum Offload field set to DisabledTCP Segmentation Offload field set to DisabledTransmit Queues field: 32 -Ring Size field: 256

B. Receive Checksum Offload field set to EnabledTCP Segmentation Offload field set to DisabledTransmit Queues field: 64 -Ring Size field: 128

C. Receive Checksum Offload field set to EnabledTCP Segmentation Offload field set to EnabledTransmit Queues field: 128 -Ring Size field: 64

D. Receive Checksum Offload field set to DisabledTCP Segmentation Offload field set to EnabledTransmit Queues field: 256 -Ring Size field: 128

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

A. Use a software-based iSCSI adapter on the client side.

B. Enable iSCSI port binding on the initiator device.

C. Configure the size of the payload in each frame to MTU 9000.

D. Set the size of the payload in each frame to MTU 1500.

E. Minimize the number of hops between the storage and the hosts.

A cloud service provider is managing day-2 operations of over 200 blade servers installed in the Cisco UCS environment. This pool of network resources is providing virtual networks to their customers. To successfully operate this environment, frequent changes to vNICs and other operational policies are required across multiple UCS domains. The operations team must streamline these repetitive tasks. Which orchestration tool must be used to meet this requirement?

A. Cisco ACI Multisite Orchestrator

B. Cisco DNA Center

C. Cisco UCS Director

D. Cisco UCS Manager

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

A. HyperFlex Edge support

B. encryption offload cards

C. dedicated compute nodes

D. fabric interconnects

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

A. Layer 3 path for monitoring purposes

B. Layer 2 path for server traffic

C. Layer 2 path for a vPC peer link

D. Layer 3 path for vPC keepalive packets

E. Layer 3 path for server traffic

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 connect 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?

A. UCS: Qty four 802.1q trunks from each IOM to each fabric interconnectStorage: Qty two Fibre Channel links from each SAN controller to each fabric interconnect

B. UCS: four-port back-to-back PortChannel between IOM and fabric interconnectStorage: two-port SAN-PortChannel from each SAN controller to each fabric interconnect

C. UCS: two-port PortChannel from each IOM to each fabric interconnectStorage: Qty four Fibre Channel links from each SAN controller to each fabric interconnect

D. UCS: four-port PortChannel from each IOM to each fabric interconnectStorage: four-port SAN-PortChannel from each SAN controller to each fabric interconnect

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

A. Cisco Prime Infrastructure

B. Cisco Network Assurance

C. Cisco UCS Director

D. Cisco Cloud Center

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. UCS B200

B. Gigabit Ethernet Switch

C. Fabric Interconnect 6300

D. HX240c

E. HX220c

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. Ansible

B. SaltStack

C. Puppet

D. Nornir

Which type of Cisco Intersight workflow input controls the availability of other specific workflow inputs during the execution of a workflow?

A. Parameter Set rule

B. String Object Selector

C. Progressive Disclosure rule

D. conditional operation

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Which two automation requirements are met when Puppet is used? (Choose two.)

A. Enable clients to pull changes without installing an agent.

B. Enable clients to pull changes to configuration files.

C. Enable one-off infrastructure changes to be performed manually.

D. Immediately push configuration updates to servers.

E. Provide support for writing new modules in Python.

Which two vSphere features must be included in the design of a Cisco HyperFlex systems stretched cluster? (Choose two.)

A. HA

B. VSS

C. FT

D. VDP

E. DRS

A network engineer must design a data center network with four Cisco Nexus 7706 switches. The switches will be installed in primary and secondary data centers in vPC domains. The two data centers must be connected via Layer 2 links and provide the maximum throughput, redundancy, and avoid port-blocking spanning-tree design.
Which deployment model meets these requirements?

A. dual-sided single vPC

B. single-sided dual vPC

C. dual-sided dual vPC

D. single-sided single vPC

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 9250i Series Switches. The network engineer decided to enable QoS to prioritize replication traffic. Which QoS model must be used to resolve the performance issues?

A. Resource Reservation Protocol

B. weighted round robin

C. differentiated services

D. strict priority queuing

An engineer must design a multitenant solution using Cisco 7709 switches. The solution must support separate routing instances, separate spanning tree domains, and separate firewalls for each tenant.
Which solution meets these requirements?

A. vPC

B. VDC

C. CFS

D. VRF

Which two methods mitigate congestion in a SAN network? (Choose two.)

A. Configure ER_RDY to allow splitting of each ISL between switches into separate virtual links.

B. Use the port-monitor command to detect slow drain devices.

C. Configure the port channel to enable individual buffer-to-buffer credits.

D. Configure the port monitor to allow categorization of a specific device as slow.

E. Configure the flow control for the FC to use R_RDY.

Which element is the main functional component of the architecture that separates the internal fabric and the external network that connects sites when VXLAN
EVPN is deployed multisite?

A. border leaf

B. service leaf

C. border gateway

D. service gateway

An engineer must connect a new storage appliance to a Cisco UCS domain.
•	The storage array must be directly attached to Cisco UCS fabric interconnects.
•	Connectivity between UCS and SAN must use 10 Gigabit Ethernet.
•	The solution should use lossless QoS system class.
•	Network and storage traffic must traverse different uplinks.
Which port types must be used between the fabric interconnect and the storage appliance?

A. FCoE storage port -appliance port

B. FcoE uplink port -Ethernet uplink port

C. Fibre Channel storage port -appliance port

D. Fibre Channel storage port -Ethernet uplink port

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

A. Secondary

B. Initial

C. Updating

D. Primary

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A Cisco UCS chassis that has two IOMs is discovered. The chassis discovery policy creates a fabric port channel. What is the result of this policy?

A. Cisco UCS Manager creates two separate fabric port channels.

B. Cisco UCS Manager creates a single fabric port channel.

C. The port channel is disabled until an administrator enables it manually.

D. Each uplink that connects an IOM is configured as a discrete link.

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

A. initial

B. permanent

C. updating

D. temporary

E. connected

A customer needs a design for a new data center network that meets these requirements:
•	Logically partition the environment into separate security domains.
•	Cut costs related to purchasing additional equipment.
•	Separate routing processes, TCAM, QoS tables, and data planes.
Which technology must be used?

A. VLAN

B. vPC

C. VDC

D. VRF

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An engineer must design a solution to support a customer's rapidly growing online business. After consulting with the customer, the engineer determined:
•	VXLAN multipod will provide the most optimal Layer 3 transport between web server clusters.
•	Devices should be multihomed in an active/active configuration using LACP.
•	No FEX or virtual switching is needed.
•	vPC will be implemented to maximize throughput and provide redundancy for web server clusters.
Which feature must the engineer select to support this design?

A. vPC+

B. single-sided vPC

C. enhanced vPC

D. double-sided vPC

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?

A. peer-switch

B. peer-gateway

C. map-server

D. hsrp preempt

Which feature provides a sandbox to convert NX-OS CLI commands to REST-based scripts on Cisco Nexus 7700 Series Switches?

A. NX-API

B. Postman

C. Bash shell

D. Guest shell

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 for driver support. The customer must provision additional interfaces later for expandability. Which feature of Cisco UCS Manager meets these requirements?

A. Updating vNIC Template

B. Initial Service Profile Template

C. Updating Service Profile Template

D. Initial vNIC Template

Which mode must be enabled on a Cisco UCS Fabric Interconnect to connect directly to a storage array?

A. NPIV mode

B. FC end-host mode

C. NPV mode

D. FC switching mode

An engineer must use OTV for Layer 2 connectivity between data centers to support virtual machine mobility 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 reports high bandwidth utilization on site A and wants to optimize the outbound traffic flows to use a local DC exit point.
Which feature must be used to meet these requirements?

A. data group

B. FHRP filter

C. ARP filter

D. control group

An engineer must connect an existing Cisco UCS Fabric Interconnect to an IP-based storage array. The connection must be a port 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. network

B. uplink

C. server

D. appliance

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?

A. VXLAN EVPN

B. FabricPath

C. FHRP

D. VPLS

An engineer must interconnect two geographically separated data centers. The service provider 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 two sites requires a line-rate throughput regardless of the packet size and speed.
Which solution meets these requirements?

A. L2TPv2

B. IPsec

C. MACsec

D. L2TPv3

What influences the number of ISLs that are required between Cisco MDS Series switches?

A. FCoE protocol

B. type of storage

C. end-to-end oversubscription ratio

D. N Port virtualization

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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. The servers have duplicate names.

B. The source disk is thick provisioned.

C. Virtual machines are in suspended state.

D. The node has insufficient data storage space.

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What must be the default gateway of the servers in EPG Web?

A. subnet address of BD1

B. subnet address of L3Out

C. subnet address of BD2

D. NAT appliance

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?

A. Implement FCoE traffic on VLAN 10 and data traffic on VLAN 99.

B. Implement host-facing FCoE ports as spanning-tree port type edge.

C. Configure the FCoE VLAN in the VSAN database before including it in the trunk port.

D. Configure the FCoE VLAN traffic on a separate interface from any other VLANs that traverse the network.

An engineer is designing a data center that uses FCIP. How is QoS configured in this environment?

A. A separate DSCP value and CoPP must be configured for all FCIP traffic and another for all of the FCIP in the data connection.

B. A separate DSCP value must be configured for all FCIP VSAN traffic.

C. A separate DSCP value and priority queuing must be configured for all FCIP traffic.

D. Two separate DSCP values must be configured, one of all of the FCIP frames in the control TCP connection and another for all of the FCIP frames in the data connection.

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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. dynamic port pinning

B. end host mode

C. static PIN grouping

D. N-Port ID virtualization

E. priority flow control

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?

A. linear ordered

B. cross match

C. round robin

D. network mesh

What is an advantage of Cisco HyperFlex Edge as compared to Cisco HyperFlex Standard Clusters?

A. Cisco Intersight automatically creates an invisible cloud witness.

B. Cisco UCS 5108 Blade Server chassis provides SEEPROM connectivity to solve split-brain scenarios.

C. Cisco UCS Manager provides service profile portability across nodes.

D. Cisco HyperFlex Edge provides native container support through the KVM hypervisor.

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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?

A. All the VDC have the same out-of-band IP address.

B. Each VDC has a dedicated out-of-band Ethernet management port.

C. Each VDC has a unique out-of-band IP address from the same IP subnet.

D. Each VDC has a unique out-of-band IP address from different IP subnets among VDCs.

The user traffic destined to all web servers located in the data center must pass first through a set of firewalls for deep packet inspection. A network architect must design the Cisco Intelligent Traffic Director (ITD) deployment that meets these requirements:
•	The firewalls are connected to a set of two Cisco Nexus switches to provide stateful handling of traffic.
•	The ITD service is provided for inside and outside segments of the firewall.
Which ITD deployment mode must be implemented to meet these requirements?

A. server vPC deployment mode

B. sandwich deployment mode

C. one-arm deployment mode

D. server load-balancing deployment mode