300-610 Designing Cisco Data Center Infrastructure for Traditional and AI Workloads v1.2 (DCID 300-610) Questions and Answers
A large financial institution hosts all customer data in a critical data center with a single physical location Top management is concerned about the risk of a single-site failure. Dot budget is also an issue, so the network engineering team is working to implement a cost-effective redundancy strategy with a second data center. The new data center must use a three-tier design Identical to the existing data center. Business requirements dictate that all data must always be accessible from anywhere in the world, even It a single site fails. The team purchased two Cisco Nexus 7700 Series Switches and four Catalyst 8000 Series Routers. Which action must the team take to accomplish the goal?
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?
A Cisco engineer is developing a custom application that can run natively in Cisco NX-OS on Nexus 9000 and Nexus 3000 platforms For the NX-SDK application to run the engineer enables the NX-SDK feature on the device Then the NX-SDK is imported into the application via an import nx_sdk_py statement. The engineer creates custom CLI commands and defines custom CLI command syntax within the sdkThread function When CLI commands originate from an NX-SDK application what class is this?
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?
When planning to deploy a load-balancing service as a managed node, which ACI configuration must be included?
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?
What are two characteristics of VRF-Lite on the Cisco NX-OS platform? (Choose two.)
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What must be the default gateway of the servers in EPG Web?
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Fiber links are provisioned directly between the spine and leaf switches in the given LAN topology A/30 prefix has been configured over each fiber link to provide underlay connectivity for a VXLAN network. The network-engineering team must update the network configuration to provide the shortest possible convergence time if a fiber link is cut. Which action must the team take to meet the requirement?
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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 company is planning to improve the segmentation of its data center network to isolate traffic of different clients across various parts of the facility. The solution must be highly scalable and provide flexible traffic isolation for a growing number of clients. Which action must be taken to best meet the requirements?
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?
Drag and drop the SAN components from the left onto the correct design considerations on the right.
Which set of actions ensures that the Cisco UCS network configuration contains the required VLAN settings and that those settings are consistently applied through the service profile templates?
An engineer is installing a Cisco Nexus 7000 Series Switch with F2-Series I/O Module. The company ' s strict security policy requires that the port be in-band. The engineer must also keep these
considerations in mind:
The customer ' s security requirements mandate the use of a secure management mechanism that supports authentication and encryption.
The port should support management over IP.
Which port type must be used to meet these requirements?
A network engineer is designing a Cisco Hyperflex infrastructure. The Infrastructure will be connected to an external SAN fiber channel array and must support Microsoft clustering.
Which storage connectivity method must be used to meet these requirements?
A network architect designs a high-availability architecture for the Cisco UCS Fabric interconnects that installed in a data center. The architecture must support clustering and redundancy. Which architecture meets these requirements?
A customer is deploying a SAN based on Cisco MDS 9000 Series Switches. Each Inter-Switch Link must carry multiple VSANs at the same time. The access switch must share the same domain ID as the director switch to reduce the number of domain IDs needed in the fabric Drag and drop the operational port types from the right onto the boxes on the left to create a topology that meets these requirements. Not all port types are used. Port types are used more than once.
What must be configured in Cisco Intersight when Enum is selected as the data typo in a workflow input?
Which two features are provided by deploying an OOB management network in a Cisco Nexus data center? (Choose two.)
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?
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?
An end user is experiencing network latency when accessing a database in a disaster recovery site. The monitoring team concluded that the database was writing simultaneously to the storage arrays on the primary and disaster recovery sites.
Which design resolves this issue?
Refer to the exhibit. An engineer working for a service provider with an employee ID: 4800:35-849 must perform the mapping of Fibre Channel LUN targets lo the indicated iSCSI virtual target. Which configuration shows the requited mapping?
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A network engineer needs to design Layer 2 connectivity for a subnet between two data centers using VXLAN with Cisco Nexus switches. The engineer must ensure seamless host mobility and optimal first-hop routing. Which gateway MAC attribute must be synchronized across both data centers?
Which statement describes differences between training and inference in AI learning models?
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.)
An engineer Installs a B-Series server in a Cisco UCS chassis that contains a pair of UCS-IOM-2208XP I/O modules. The full bandwidth of the I/O module must be utilized. Which two elements should be used in this environment? (Choose two.)
Which Fibre Channel SAN topology is simple to architect, implement, maintain, and troubleshoot?
An engineer must connect an existing Cisco Fabric Interconnect to an IP-based storage array. The connection be a 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?
Drag and drop the technologies from the left onto the correct descriptions on the right.
A network consultant proposes that the configuration of the Cisco UCS servers be based on service templates to facilitate the UCS infrastructure operation. The service profiles must remain connected to the template and be modified when the template settings are changed.
Which configuration meets 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?
An AI/ML team is designing a fraud-detection model for an online banking application. The platform must process a high volume of transaction data, retrain the model frequently, and perform inference in real time as transactions occur. The data center must provide low-latency connectivity between compute resources and scale as the data volume grows. Which compute solution is most appropriate?
A midsize company recently deployed a Cisco UCS environment with a vSAN datastore to support its virtualized data center infrastructure. After monitoring the environment for several months, the network engineering team is concerned about potential performance degradation caused by competing traffic between management vNICs and vSAN over shared physical adapters. The team also wants a standardized approach to vNIC/vHBA placement across all blade servers to simplify maintenance, preserve consistency, and minimize configuration errors. Which two actions must the team take to achieve these goals? (Choose two.)
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?
Refer to the exhibit. A corporation uses Cisco ACI to provide data-center network services. Server 1 runs a high-traffic web application, and Server 2 runs a database. The networking team will install a load balancer connected to leaf S3. For security and service-policy reasons, all traffic from Server 1 to Server 2 must be redirected through the load balancer. The solution must minimize network hops and must not require changes to the existing routing table. Which action must the team take to configure service insertion?
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?
An architect is designing a VXLAN solution for a client with limited experience in complex deployments and has recommended using Cisco Nexus Dashboard Fabric Controller (NDFC) to automate the configuration and management of the solution. NDFC will manage a dual-site production data center environment by using physical appliances in active-active high-availability mode. Which NDFC deployment model must the architect select?
Which factor determines the choice of platform designing a Cisco HyperFlex infrastructure to support computer-aided design applications?
What are two functions of a Network Services Orchestrator in an NFV environment? (Choose two.)
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A system administrator needs a solution to manage random packet drops between two Cisco UCS C240 M4 servers The servers are connected to a pair of Cisco Nexus 7009 switches using 10G fibre interfaces Both servers are generating too many east-west traffic flows from TCP-based applications which causes significant latency that impacts the customer Also the transfer of files from Server-1 to Server-2 larger than 10 GB results in multiple retransmits Which design solution resolves this issue?
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A Cisco engineer is configuring Cisco Nexus 7000 Series Switches To simplify initial configuration verification and vPC+/HSRP troubleshooting, the engineer configures the primary vPC+ peer device with the FHRP active router highest priority The primary FHRP device responds to ARP requests, even though the secondary vPC+ device also forwards the data traffic Which configuration enables the Layer 3 connectivity from each vPC+ peer device?
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 is implementing a Cisco UCS environment. The system must aggregate all vNICs into a single policy and consistently enforce node disassociation across the cluster. Which two UCS policies meet these requirements? (Choose two.)
An engineer finishes the initial set up of a VXLAN EVPN network. The engineer is asked to plan for 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 solution must be used to meet these requirements? (Choose two)
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?
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?
Which feature must be configured to connect a classical Ethernet network to a data center network so that the data center network appears to be one large switch.
What is the disadvantage of asynchronous storage replication as compared to synchronous storage replication in a disaster recovery design?
The network infrastructure team is beginning to automate routine tasks within the Cisco ACI fabric and is searching for the appropriate solution The solution must not require any additional software installed on the Cisco APIC Networking team members lack automation experience and prefer to use a tool that does not require in-depth programming knowledge Finally configuration within the Cisco ACI fabric is rarely modified or removed Which solution must the team choose?
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?
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?
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A customer must ensure that the interface on a switch has enough resources to sustain the line rate traffic during peak load.
Which action meets this requirement?
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?
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?
Which Python library must be used to parse the following data structure?
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An engineer must choose the World Wide Port Name for the Cisco UCS Fibre Channel virtual host bus adapter.
Which identifier must be used?
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 company owns a large-scale compute infrastructure that consists of over 1000 servers and virtual machines. The operational complexity continues to grow with additional policies and servers added to the environment. An infrastructure engineer is looking for an automation tool to reduce the operational complexity of configuring complex infrastructure. Because of the strict security requirements, the tool must be agentless, use the secure shell for transport, and be extendable using existing Python modules. Which tool meets these requirements?
Which two configuration methods can be used to deploy QoS to Cisco MDS Series switches? (Choose two.)
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A cloud provider service provider deployed three geographically separated Cisco ACI data centers. One of the customers needs to host a clustered application that is spread across the three data centers. The cluster nodes that host the application need a layer 2 topology to communicate with each other. Which Cisco ACI topology design meets these requirements?
An engineer must implement a WWPN pool for the vHBA template inside the Cisco UCS Manager. The template is used to connect a Cisco UCS B-Series blade to an external storage array.
Which addressing sequence accomplishes this goal?
Refer to the exhibit. A Cisco engineer is configuring a Cisco UCS integrated infrastructure for SAP HANA that consists of 8 x Cisco UCS B/C480-M5 servers for SAP HAN A and 4 x Cisco UCS C240-M5 C-Series rack mount servers for storage. The rack servers are equipped with Cisco VIC 1225T. The engineer plans to install RHEL8. but the boot process is interrupted at installation because the iSCSl LUNs are not recognized by the VIC adapter. After proper Investigation, the engineer concludes that the initiator and target configuration that is programmed on the primary ISCSl VNIC to the operating system Is missing. What is the reason for the issue?
An engineer requires a solution that achieves Ethernet traffic forwarding on all available paths from the hosts to the Cisco Nexus Fabric Extender and from the Fabric Extenders to the Cisco Nexus 5000 Series Switches. The NIC teaming from the Fabric Extender to a server should use an LACP EtherChannel. Which solution should be implemented to meet these requirements?
A customer asks an engineer to develop a framework to configure Cisco services that will be used to replace process of manual device configuration. 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 HTTPS transport.
• The support stall has limited shell scripting knowledge, so the scripts should be easy to read and write and be serf-documenting.
Which two solutions should be used to meet these requirements? (Choose two.)
A company has several data centers around the world that must be interconnected over Layer2. The service provider supports MPLS services to all the locations. The proposed solution must be vendor agnostic and scalable enough to support the rapid growth of the company. Which data center technology is recommended to achieve this goal?
An engineer is designing a Cisco 7000 Series disaster recovery site using the data center interconnect solution to provide gateway redundancy and needs to ensure that devices use gateways in their own data centers. Which design approach should be used to accomplish this goal?
An engineer must design a solution with storage reachability between too physical servers and a storage array. The storage array connectivity is to a SAN switch that Is limited to 46 ports. Which topology meets the requirements without adding more MOS switches?
Refer to the exhibit During a synchronization of port rotes, a device receives a proposal message on one of its ports that is selected as the new root port. The logs show that Rapid PVST+forced all other ports to synchronize with the new loot information. The engineer analyzes the port stales and concludes that the device is synchronized with superior root information received on the root port, and all other ports are synchronized. What happens to a designated port that is in the forwarding state and is not configured as an edge port, if Rapid PVST+ forces it to synchronize with new root information?
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 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?
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?
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?
Company A has engaged a network architect to design a robust redundancy strategy for its primary data center. The company wants an active-active configuration within the primary data center and a disaster-recovery site that can take over operations after a major disruption. The company has these requirements:
The solution must provide high availability and minimize downtime.
Data must remain synchronized and consistent between the primary and disaster-recovery sites.
The recovery time objective (RTO) must be less than four hours, and the recovery point objective (RPO) must not exceed 15 minutes.
The network solution must follow RFC 7348 principles.
Which solution meets the requirements?
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?
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.)
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?
Which orchestration tool must be used to manage VXLAN fabrics and includes a built-in dashboard and real-time network health summary for managed devices?
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A customer runs an Online Transaction Processing (OLTP) application on Server1. The application generates a small number of transactions and requires low storage latency. Server2 is a backup server that performs backups twice a day During the backup window, the OLTP application experiences high-latency spikes that affect the application performance The customer must meet these requirements
•Maintain consistent low I/O latency for the OLTP server.
•Guarantee I/O throughput for the OLTP server during backup time
•Allow the customer to keep the existing hardware.
Which action must be taken to meet these requirements?
A network administrator must simplify and optimize the VRF architecture in a Cisco ACI fabric. The current deployment contains multiple tenants, each with its own network stack, and uses VRF leaking for inter-tenant communication. The large number of tenants and leaked routes is causing the switches to approach their prefix-capacity limits. Which solution should the engineer recommend?
Refer to the exhibit. An engineer builds a data center network design using EVPN technology. Within the design, the fabric acts as a gateway. Traffic from host X to host Y must pass through the Cisco ASA firewall for deep packet inspection and increased security. Which firewall deployment must the engineer choose to accomplish this goal?
Which two statements describe Ethernet switching mode on Cisco UCS 6100 Series Fabric Interconnects? (Choose two.)
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An engineer must deploy a SAN that meets these criteria:
•The upstream director switch must be configured to minimize the number of issued domain IDs
•The access switch must aggregate multiple locally connected ports not a single uplink that shares the same domain ID as the upstream switch.
Drag and drop the port types from the right onto the boxes on the left to create a SAN topology that meets these requirements Not all port types are used Port types are used more than once
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