Free 300-610 Sample Questions — Designing Cisco Data Center Infrastructure (DCID)

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Question 1

A network engineer needs to design a highly available data center to meet these requirements: • ensure network resilience • reduce network instability for Layer 3 gateway devices • provide interoperability in multivendor environments • support IPv4 and IPv6 address families Which FHRP meets these requirements?

  • A. HSRP
  • B. HSRPv2
  • C. VRRPv3
  • D. VRRP
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Correct Answer:
C. VRRPv3
Question 2

A storage administrator receives reports of network delays when database software attempts to access the storage array. The virtual machines that host the database software are installed on different rack servers connected to the Cisco UCS Fabric Interconnect domain. The existing SAN switches are connected to the Fabric Interconnects using two 8 Gb port-channel interfaces to connect the storage array. The storage administrator has decided to deploy iSCSI storage with four 10 Gbps interfaces connected to the Cisco UCS Fabric Interconnects. Which deployment type resolves the problems with storage contention?

  • A. iSCSI storage with Cisco UCS Fabric Interconnect in the virtual port-channel mode
  • B. iSCSI storage with Cisco UCS Fabric Interconnect using an appliance port
  • C. iSCSI storage appliance on Cisco UCS Fabric Interconnect uplink trunk port
  • D. iSCSI storage appliance on Cisco UCS Fabric Interconnect in the storage end-host mode
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Correct Answer:
B. iSCSI storage with Cisco UCS Fabric Interconnect using an appliance port
Question 3

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
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Correct Answer:
B. end host mode
Question 4

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
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Correct Answer:
C. differentiated services
Question 5

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?

  • A. Cisco UCS Fabric Interconnect in switch mode with dual uplinks distributed evenly to the upstream switches
  • B. Cisco UCS Fabric Interconnect in switch mode with a single uplink toward each upstream switch to eliminate any change to the STP domain size
  • C. Cisco UCS Fabric Interconnect in end host mode with a single uplink toward each upstream switch to eliminate any change to the STP domain size
  • D. Cisco UCS Fabric Interconnect in end host mode with dual uplinks distributed evenly to the upstream switches
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Correct Answer:
D. Cisco UCS Fabric Interconnect in end host mode with dual uplinks distributed evenly to the upstream switches
Question 6

An engineer must build a VXLAN flood-and-learn network. The customer requires the solution to be based on the IETF documented practice in RFC 7348. The solution must use broadcast, unknown unicast, and multicast (BUM) and include the efficient BUM and short BUM replication modes that use only shared trees. Which technology meets these requirements?

  • A. MVPN
  • B. PIM sparse mode
  • C. PIM SSM
  • D. Bidirectional PIM
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Correct Answer:
D. Bidirectional PIM
Question 7

An engineer designs a Cisco UCS solution that must provide guaranteed and deterministic bandwidth to a specific server in the environment. The solution must apply to network and storage traffic of C-Series and B-Series servers. Which solution should be included to meet these requirements?

  • A. Pin the vNICs and the vHBAs of the service profile to dedicated uplink ports
  • B. Pin the IOM ports of the service profile to dedicated server ports
  • C. Pin the server ports of the service profile to dedicated uplink ports
  • D. Pin the vNICs and vHBAs of the service profile to dedicated server ports
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Correct Answer:
A. Pin the vNICs and the vHBAs of the service profile to dedicated uplink ports
Question 8

A SAN fabric is built between a pair of Cisco MDS 9000 Series Switches. The requirement is for the ISL to use the VSAN ID to forward traffic from multiple VSANs across the same physical link. Additionally, the Fibre Channel trace feature must be supported. Which ISL interface parameters are required to meet these requirements?

  • A. switchport mode TE switchport mode trunk vsan
  • B. switchport mode TE switchport mode trunk
  • C. switchport mode E switchport mode trunk vsan
  • D. switchport mode E switchport mode trunk
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Correct Answer:
A. switchport mode TE switchport mode trunk vsan
Question 9

A client in a commercial building installs a Cisco blade server in the multitenant Cisco UCS blade infrastructure. To cut operating costs, the client's data center is shared with other organizations. The client asks an engineer to prevent third parties from accessing their equipment and from accessing BIOS-related information when booting a server. Which two policies must be used to meet these requirements? (Choose two.)

  • A. post error pause
  • B. CDN control
  • C. ASPM support
  • D. front panel lockout
  • E. quiet boot
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Correct Answer:
  • D. front panel lockout
  • E. quiet boot
Question 10

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?

  • A. Define the service graph model as network policy mode
  • B. Deploy the firewalls in routed mode with PBR
  • C. Deploy the firewalls in transparent mode
  • D. Define the service graph model as service policy mode
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Correct Answer:
A. Define the service graph model as network policy mode
Question 11

An engineer needs to design a network solution for a client-server farm that uses a pair of Cisco Nexus 9000 Series Switches that are configured with vPCs. Each server must connect to both switches by using two network interfaces, and the switches must always initiate the negotiation with the server. Which mode should be enabled to ensure that traffic is forwarded from the server to a data center network?

  • A. auto PAgP
  • B. active LACP
  • C. auto LACP
  • D. desirable PAgP
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Correct Answer:
B. active LACP
Question 12

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. software iSCSI adapter
  • B. storage binding
  • C. uplink pinning
  • D. system VLAN
  • E. hardware iSCSI NIC
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Correct Answer:
  • A. software iSCSI adapter
  • C. uplink pinning
Question 13

A company must introduce a scalable network automation tool to deploy, configure, and manage thousands of network devices and servers. The company servers already have been security-hardened and must not have any additional software installed on them. The security policy mandates the use of a secure communication protocol that supports authentication and encryption for managing the servers. Which two automation tools must be used to meet these requirements? (Choose two.)

  • A. Ansible
  • B. CFEngine
  • C. SaltStack
  • D. Chef
  • E. Puppet
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Correct Answer:
  • A. Ansible
  • C. SaltStack
Question 14

An engineer finishes the initial set up of a VXLAN EVPN network. The engineer is asked to plan for external connectivity that supports redundancy and extends multiple virtual routing and forwarding domains. The requirement is to use the same default gateway addressing across all leaf switches that belong to the VXLAN network. Which two solutions must be used to meet these requirements? (Choose two.)

  • A. Distributed Anycast Gateway
  • B. VRF-Lite
  • C. Inter-Site Network
  • D. DC Interconnect
  • E. Spanning Tree Protocol
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Correct Answer:
  • A. Distributed Anycast Gateway
  • B. VRF-Lite
Question 15

A network design must include a solution to run CLI commands remotely on Cisco Nexus 9000 Series Switches. The customer's security policy requires secure login credentials and an encrypted underlying transport. The command output will be processed rising tools that support XML or JSON encoding. Which two components should be included in the design? (Choose two.)

  • A. NX-API
  • B. HTTPS
  • C. HTTP
  • D. Bash shell
  • E. SSH
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Correct Answer:
  • A. NX-API
  • B. HTTPS
Question 16

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.)

  • A. One, two, four and eight links are supported to be used between each IOM and fabric interconnect
  • B. IOM A is connected to the fabric interconnect that is acting as fabric A, and IOM B is connected to the fabric interconnect that is acting as fabric B
  • C. Any combination of one to eight links is supported to be used between each IOM and fabric interconnect
  • D. The IOMs are connected with multiple straight and cross-connect links toward a pair of nonclustered fabric interconnects
  • E. Straight and cross-connect links should be used between the IOMs and fabric interconnects to offer higher availability
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Correct Answer:
  • A. One, two, four and eight links are supported to be used between each IOM and fabric interconnect
  • B. IOM A is connected to the fabric interconnect that is acting as fabric A, and IOM B is connected to the fabric interconnect that is acting as fabric B
Question 17

A customer must deploy a new Cisco HyperFlex stretched cluster solution to ensure virtual server availability in case the data center fails. The current network environment provides multiple geographic locations. Which action must be taken to meet these objectives?

  • A. Place an independent witness component at a third site
  • B. Deploy the stretch cluster sites to be within the distance of 300 miles apart
  • C. Configure the cluster with the maximum data replication factor
  • D. Implement the round trip time latency between the sites to be lower than 20 ms
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Correct Answer:
A. Place an independent witness component at a third site
Question 18

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
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Correct Answer:
  • B. Gigabit Ethernet Switch
  • E. HX220c
Question 19

An engineer seeks a solution to retrieve routing information from Cisco Nexus switches. The data must be exported to a web application in a JSON or XML data format for monitoring and must be encrypted during transmission. The solution must not require extensive knowledge to support and should be simple to implement. Which technology accomplishes these goals?

  • A. streaming telemetry
  • B. Cisco Tetration
  • C. NX-API
  • D. Python scripts
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Correct Answer:
C. NX-API
Question 20

What is a design consideration when implementing FSPF?

  • A. Routes are based on the domain ID
  • B. Routes are based on the distance vector protocol
  • C. FSPF runs only on F Ports
  • D. FSPF runs on a per-chassis basis
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Correct Answer:
A. Routes are based on the domain ID

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