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

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. head-end replication

B. PIM sparse mode

C. PIM dense mode

D. ingress replication

Which type of encoding is used on 8-Gbps links as compared to 10-Gbps links?

A. 8-Gbps links use 64B/66B encoding, and 10-Gbps links use 8B/10B encoding.

B. 8-Gbps links use 8B/10B encoding, and 10-Gbps links use 64B/66B encoding.

C. 8-Gbps links and 10-Gbps links use 8B/10B encoding.

D. 8-Gbps links and 10-Gbps links use 64B/66B encoding.

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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.

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.

A company data center requires a new disaster recovery solution to host critical services. The solution can sustain several hours of data loss because the services are routinely backed up to an offsite location. Also, the disaster recovery solution must provide 24-hour availability. Due to the strict policy requirements, the company wants to retain complete control of when the failover process occurs.
Which solution meets these requirements?

A. hot standby

B. warm standby

C. cold standby

D. active/active

A network engineer must create a Fibre Channel fabric QoS design for an existing data center. The solution must provide relative bandwidth guarantees to application traffic, control latency, and prioritize application traffic.
Which mechanism must be deployed to support these requirements?

A. traffic policing

B. traffic shaping

C. traffic remarking

D. traffic classification

An engineer is building a data center network with VXLAN EVPN. The requirement is to use multicast for the broadcast, unknown unicast, and multicast replication.
Which two VNI to multicast group mapping methods must be used to meet these requirements? (Choose two.)

A. many NVE to one multicast group

B. one VNI to one multicast group

C. many VNI to one multicast group

D. one NVE to many multicast groups

E. many VNI to many multicast groups

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?

A. single switch with multiple links

B. at least two VSANs across the fabric

C. at least two FC zone sets with multiple zones

D. single VSAN across the fabric

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

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.

An engineer is configuring Fibre Channel policies in a service profile template. The requirement is to set the default vHBA behavior policy as part of the deployment. The Cisco UCS Manager must also create the required vHBA type based on the adapter installed on the server and associated with the service profile. Which action meets the requirements?

A. Configure the Windows settings profile.

B. Enable the HW Inherit settings.

C. Set the dynamic-uuid identity.

D. Apply the Linux settings profile.

Which technology enables Layer 2 extension between remote data center sites?

A. FCIP

B. GRE

C. DMVPN

D. OTV

An engineer is implementing a Cisco UCS environment The requirements for the solution are for the MAC addresses to be learned only on the server-facing ports. The use of the Spanning Tree Protocol must be avoided. Also, the engineer must have deterministic traffic handling from blades to uplink ports.
Which two settings must be selected to meet these requirements? (Choose two.)

A. end-host mode

B. dynamic pinning

C. NPIV mode

D. static pinning

E. switching mode

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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

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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

What are two reasons to select OTV as the DCI solution to connect multisite topologies? (Choose two.)

A. It propagates hosts reachability without support of traffic flooding.

B. Layer 3 failures do not propagate beyond the OTV edge device.

C. It extends the spanning tree between data centers.

D. It is an open standard.

E. It constrains HSRP hello messages to each data center.

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

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.

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.

An engineer wants to eliminate the manual process of checking the system hardware and firmware against a specified hardware compatibility tool. The tool must be able to manage an extensive list of devices including Cisco HyperFlex, MDS, and Nexus switches. The tool must manage hardware in multiple data centers so it should be deployed on public cloud infrastructure.
Which tool meets these requirements?

A. Cisco Tetration

B. Cisco Data Center Network Manager

C. Cisco UCS Director

D. Cisco Intersight

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 plane 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?

A. EoMPLS

B. OTV

C. EVPN

D. VXLAN

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Server 1 fails to connect to the storage array over the Storage Area Network (SAN) of the Cisco MDS 9000 Series Switch. The requirements are to redesign the storage network and keep these considerations in mind:
•	The traffic from each of the servers must be redundant and isolated.
•	The design must tolerate hardware and software failures and upgrades of SAN fabric devices.
Which action must be taken to meet these requirements?

A. Enable NPV and F-Port-channel on ports that face Server 1 on the Fibre Channel switch to create redundant paths.

B. Create a SAN port channel that faces the storage device to sustain a link failure.

C. Add an additional supervisor to the Fibre Channel switch to support nondisruptive upgrades.

D. Place an additional Fibre Channel switch to create two physically independent storage fabrics.

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.

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The security team created a new security policy that requires certain types of traffic to be subject to deep packet inspection. The traffic types are:
•	internet traffic to application servers
•	internet traffic to corporate users
•	partner network traffic to application servers
•	partner network traffic to corporate users
Where must the next-generation firewalls be inserted to implement the new policy?

A. inline insertion between the user network switch cluster and the core cluster

B. inline insertion between the edge router cluster and the core switch cluster

C. one-armed insertion from the core switch cluster

D. one-armed insertion from the ACI border leaf cluster

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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

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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An engineer must design a DNS service available to multiple network zones as a shared service. The network zones are deployed as VRFs within the data center network and no firewall is available for communication between VRFs.
Which protocol is needed to implement the shared services?

A. BGP

B. OSPF

C. ISIS

D. VXLAN

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

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An engineer is experiencing performance issues on a Cisco UCS blade server. The B-Series blade server contains four CPUs, most of which are idle. The engineer notices that the CPU is suffering from too many requests sent by the NIC. Additionally, the number of queues appears to be insufficient and only a single CPU is processing the network traffic.
Which policy must be used to alleviate these issues?

A. LAN connectivity

B. dynamic vNIC connection

C. Ethernet adapter

D. vNIC placement

Which two configurations allow for routing traffic between two VDCs? (Choose two.)

A. Connect the VDCs to an external Layer 3 device.

B. Cross-connect the ports between the VDCs.

C. Create VRF-aware software infrastructure interfaces.

D. Create a policy map in the default VDC that routes traffic between the VDCs.

E. Create interfaces in the VDC that can be accessed by another VDC.

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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.)

A. mgmt0 interface

B. SSH protocol

C. SNMP

D. SVI interface

E. Telnet protocol

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

Which Ethernet to Cisco Fabric Interconnect connectivity configuration is supported when FCoE is implemented?

A. VSS that has unified uplinks

B. Ethernet and unified ports on the same port channel

C. vPC that has unified uplinks

D. cross-connections with pinning

Which type of port should be used on a Cisco Nexus 7700 Switch for OOB management that uses Layer 3 and supports authentication and encryption?

A. management

B. console

C. Ethernet

D. CMP

An engineer must design a Cisco HyperFlex solution to support a virtualized environment in a single data center location. The design must consider these customer requirements:
•	a large-scale cluster with eight or more nodes
•	distributed high-performance file system for virtualized servers
•	high fault tolerance to multiple node failures
Which action meets these objectives?

A. Configure data destaging and deduplication.

B. Implement a replication factor of four.

C. Enable logical availability zones.

D. Create multiple datastores for storage of VM.

Which multicast rendezvous point redundancy mode is valid for Bidirectional PIM?

A. Embedded RP

B. Phantom RP

C. MSDP

D. PIM anycast RP

A network architect designs a high-availability architecture for the Cisco UCS Fabric Interconnects that are installed in a data center. The architecture must support clustering and redundancy.
Which architecture meets these requirements?

A. dual connections from port L1 to L1 and one connection from port L1 to L1 with twinax cables

B. dual connections from port L1 to L2 and one connection from port L2 to L1 with twinax cables

C. dual connections from port L1 to L2 and one connection from port L2 to L1 with Ethernet cables

D. dual connections from port L1 to L1 and one connection from port L2 to L2 with Ethernet cables

An engineer deploys LISP VM mobility. Which feature is configured on the interfaces that have VM mobility enabled?

A. IP redirects

B. flow control

C. proxy ARP

D. HSRP

A network administrator must create a redundant vHBA for the mission-critical virtual machines (VMs) installed on a Cisco UCS Fabric Interconnect blade server. The VMs access multiple datastores using VSAN55 and VSAN95. The datastore on which the VMs are hosted must be accessible if any of the uplinks goes offline. Which action meets these requirements?

A. Attach VSAN55 to vHBA1 and VSAN95 to vHBA2.

B. Assign VSAN55 and VSAN95 to vHBA1 and vHBA2.

C. Enable failover for the vHBA with VSAN55 and VSAN95 enabled.

D. Configure load-balancing for vHBAs with VSAN55 and VSAN95 attached.

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?

A. BFD

B. HSRP

C. NSF

D. ISSU

A network architect proposes a distinct Fibre Channel fabric to be used for a Cisco UCS blade server that hosts critical applications.
Which action should be implemented for the Fibre Channel traffic from the vHBA of this server to pass through the I/O Module in the Cisco UCS chassis to a specified uplink Fibre Channel port?

A. Update the applied global QoS policy.

B. Update the applied Fibre Channel adapter policy.

C. Enable Persistent Binding in the vHBA policy.

D. Include a SAN pin group in the vHBA policy.