Refer to the exhibit. A Cisco engineer is configuring a PBR in a Cisco ACI data center scenario and plans to insert a transparent firewall. The APIC release is 4.1. the Cisco ACI fabric is configured to be the gateway for the servers and for the PBR node, and the Layer 4/ Layer 7 devices are deployed as Layer 1/ Layer 2 mode in the physical domain. Layer 1/Layer 2 PBR node interfaces arc also configured to be in a bridge domain and not in an L30ut. What is required for the consumer and provider connectors of the Layer 1/Layer 2 device for this scenario to work?
A network consultant evaluates the Ethernet Adapter Policy configuration to be applied to the Cisco UCS blade servers. The policy must minimize latency and increase throughput for sensitive applications. The solution must increase the CPU data cache hit rate to meet these requirements Which policy is required?
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?
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?
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.)
When planning to deploy a load-balancing service as a managed node, which ACI configuration must be included?
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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?
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 a design consideration when implementing FSPF?
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 company needs a solution to virtualize their legacy desktop computers. The solution must be highly resilient and able to withstand the loss of a data center site. Each compute node requires a minimum of 20 disk drives.
Which solution meets these requirements?
An engineer must design a Cisco UCS environment that will connection to a storage area network. The solution must include support for these conditions:
• connectivity to the existing 10 Gigabit Ethernet network
• booting the server infrastructure from the network
• integration with the existing Fibre Channel storage arrays
• lossless data transfer
Which solution should be used to meet these requirements?
Which technology enables Layer 2 extension between remote data center sites?
An engineer must design a Cisco UCS environment for a customer The design requires the most efficient use of available bandwidth with active-active uplinks The upstream Cisco Nexus 9000 Series Switch must automatically initiate the port-channel connectivity to the fabric interconnects Which configuration must the engineer choose to meet these requirements?
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)
An engineer is designing a Multichassis EtherChannel topology in which two switches must appear as a single device to a third downstream switch? Which two technologies meet this requirement? (Choose two.)
An engineer is implementing a storage area network where an NPV is used. The engineer notices that the servers in a storage farm are experiencing heavy traffic contention. The engineer needs to migrate traffic from heavily loaded server interfaces to interfaces with less load. When the new links are deployed, the existing traffic is not rebalanced as expected. Which feature must be used to meet these requirements?
A company must introduce a scalable network automation tool to deploy, configure, and manage thousands of network device and service. The company servers already have been security-hardened and must not have any additional software installed on team. The security policy mandates the use of a secure communication protocol that support authentication and encryption for managing the servers. Which two automation tools must be used to meet these requirements? (Choose two.)
An engineer must design a solution to divide the workload across two different data centers and achieve redundancy in case of the failure of either data center Which solution must the engineer choose?
A customer connects a high-speed Fibre Channel storage array to a Cisco MDS 9000 Series Switch using an 8 Gbps interface.
Which action guarantees line rate traffic processing on the interface?
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?
Refer to the exhibit. A network engineer must improve high availability within the given UCS infrastructure The engineer configured central nodes A and B in cluster mode to ensure that traffic fails over in the case of a network outage. Which type of redundancy will the cluster configuration provide?
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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?
An engineer must configure a new maintenance policy that will apply to multiple Cisco UCS domains The policy must be available for use by service profiles and service profile templates created and managed n either Cisco UCS Manager or Cisco UCS Central Changes to this policy must be allowed only in Cisco UCS Central Which policy type must the engineer select to accomplish these goals?
A network consultant reviews the requirements for the Storage Area Network (SAN) design. The proposed solution must offer a very efficient port usage and eliminate the need for a separate physical layer of switches and their associated ISLs. The design is not expected to require future expansion.
Which SAN topology must be used to meet these requirements?
A customer attaches an additional storage appliance to an existing Cisco UCS domain, which contains 50 virtualization hosts that require fabric failover connectivity on fabric interconnect B. The interfaces are bound to a separate pin group to segregate traffic with a CoS value of 0 Which Cisco UCS Manager feature meets these requirements?
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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?
An engineer must design a solution based on Cisco Nexus 7709 Switches. The solution must connect test and development network segments and separate the enterprise applications from the production network. The network security team requires routing instances and the IP stack to be completely separated from each other and for traffic between the environments to undergo a deep packet inspection. The development team also requests the ability to allocate additional physical interfaces from the Cisco Nexus 7709 device in each environment.
Which solution meets these requirements?
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The Cisco Nexus Series Switch with hostname Nexus! is the default gateway for server A and server B Both servers must have reachability to the internet; however, server A internet traffic must pass through the firewall for deep packet inspection. Also, the firewall must inspect any communication between server A and server B. Which solution must be applied to separate the data plane path for server A and server B?
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?
Refer to the exhibit. A Cisco engineer is configuring a customer scenario with 2 x MDS 9000 switches 24 x UCS B200M6 blade servers. UCS 64S4 Fabric Interconnect in end-host mode and 3 x UCS 5108 server chassis with 2408 Fabric Extenders The engineer installs 6 x SQL Server 2019 on all blades and then notices that there are read and write latencies What is the best way to balance the utilization across the shared ports?
Refer to the exhibit. An engineer needs a solution to extend Fibre Channel traffic between multiple sites. The IPsec tunnels must be used to encrypt and secure the traffic. Which technology must be selected to meet these requirements?
Which Cisco HyperFlex feature provides virtual machine-level cost scaling for desktop virtualization growth?
What are two advantages of using Cisco vPC as compared to traditional access layer designs? (Choose two.)
Which two configuration methods can be used to deploy QoS to Cisco MDS Series switches? (Choose two.)
A networking team must implement a new management solution for the network devices at their organization. The solution must meet these requirements
• It must enable seamless monitoring, configuration, and troubleshooting while ensuring security and reliability.
• It must allow access to devices even if the production network is down.
• It must be easy to use and manage.
The company's budget is limited. Which implementation must the team perform to meet the requirements?
Which feature provides a sandbox to convert NX-OS CLI commands to REST-based scripts on Cisco Nexus 7700 Series Switches?
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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?
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 conned 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?
Refer to the exhibit 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 is using Cisco UCS and wants a network orchestration solution to meet these requirements :
centrally manage compute and storage platforms
reduce the time it takes to detect an outage
easily exchange data with TAC to reduce resolution times
The company does not have in-house knowledge about scripting. Which solution must the company choose?
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 service to pass through the I/O module in the Cisco chassis to a specified uplink Fibre Channel port?
Refer to the exhibit. A Cisco engineer is configuring a data center design scenario with Cisco MDS 90Q0 Series Switches. The cut-through routing mode is chosen for impf oved read operation performance. Each (SCSI host requires access lo storage through the IPS module. First, the engineer configures the TCP tuning parameters as enabled SACK, the maximum bandwidth of 1 Gbps. buffer size of 4096. keepalive timeout at 1s. and enables Path MTU. Then, the engineer must set the OoS of the ISCSI link. What is the maximum QoS value that must be set tor the ISCSI session?
A company has several data centers with hundreds of Cisco UCS blade chassis. A network consultant plans to active Cisco Discovery Protocol to the servers to facilitate Layer 1 troubleshooting. For security reasons, the company wants to restrict the servers from sending different MAC addresses to the fabric interconnect after the MAC address from the first packet is learned. Which two policies be modified to support this design? (Choose two.)
Refer to the exhibit. A customer requires a VXLAN fabric deployment with these requirements:
• DNS must be a shared service.
• Users will not require direct sharing of resources with other users.
• The deployment must use the least configuration intensive approach to achieve route leaking.
Which action must the customer take to meet these criteria?
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?
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 architect must design a large-scale Cisco SAN topology. The customer has a limited budget, so a design that provides use of resources is required. To support this requirement, the architect to share array ports, ISL, and line card bandwidth. The customer has also presented these additional considerations:
The customers plans to expand the network by 10% over the next two years.
The customer’s policy requires physically separated infrastructure to support high availability.
Which solution should be used to meet these requirements?
Which mode must be enabled on a Cisco UCS Fabric Interconnect to connect directly to a storage array?
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.)
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 customer is implementing a business continuity solution for the current data centers The new location must mitigate the impact of a disaster in any existing data centers by providing an acceptable level of service The solution must support
•fully segregated Layer 2 and 3 fault domains
•low or no human intervention for service restoration
•medium to high RPCVRTO for a subset of applications
•asynchronous storage replication for application data
Which disaster recovery solution must the customer select to meet these requirements?
An ACI deployment must:
Which VRF configuration must be used?
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 must deploy a Cisco HyperFlex system at two data centers. For redundancy reasons, the setup must achieve data protection in case of an entire site failure. The data must be available on both sites at all times to keep the recovery time objective to a minimum.
Which Cisco HyperFlex deployment model meets these requirements?
An engineer must configure an interface for managing and orchestrating a Cisco Nexus device. The interface must be operational if the data and control planes crash, support IPv4 and IPv6 addressing, and have been access to its own VRF instance. Which interface should be used to meet these requirements?
Refer to the exhibit. An engineer deployed a VXLAN fabric with this configuration:
• interface VLAN 100 on VTEP1 with no IP address
• interface VLAN 200 on VTEP4 with no IP address
Which set of actions must the engineer take to ensure that host A communicates with host B?
A network engineer is connecting a backup server to the given network The server has three available physical Ethernet interfaces - dual 1Gbps interfaces, plus a single 10Gbps interface - and all devices support virtual port channels The engineer must minimize backup time from hosts on the network, with a mandate for no single point of failure connectivity within the data center and the interfaces either active or passive Which deployment model must the engineer use?
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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 piano 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 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?
Which two types of service profile templates does Cisco UCS support? (Choose two.)
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?
To help automate the vHBA configuration process, a network engineer is configuring vHBA template pairs on UCS. The engineer is creating primary and secondary templates to define how vHBAs on a server connect to the SAN. Which fact about the template pair should the engineer consider for its potential impact on service?
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 using tools that support XML or JSON encoding. Which two components should be included in the design? (Choose two.)
Refer to the exhibit In this scenario a Cisco engineer is building a loop-free topology where a dedicated layer of the vPC domain adjacent to the aggregation layer which also runs vPC Is used to interconnect the two data centers together. The engineer globally configures a vPC domain identifier on both vPC devices where the domain ID is the same on both peer devices. Which action successfully forms the domain?
A client in a commercial building Installs a Cisco blade server in the multitenant Cisco UCS blade Infrastructure. To cut operating costs me client’s data center is shared with other organizations. The client asks an engineer prevent third parties from accessing their equipment and from accessing BlOS-related information when booting a server. Which Two policies must be used to meet these requirements? (Choose two.)
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?
Drag and drop the feature descriptions from the left onto the correct UCS Fabric Interconnect modes on the right.
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.)
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?
Which programming model is vendor-agnostic and combines operational and configuration data in the same container?
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 company runs mission -critical infrastructure in a single data center. Due to business growth It plans to open more data center in the coming years. A network engineer is asked to recommend a network technology for data center interconnection that allows scalability and seamless VM mobility while providing maximum security and fault isolation between data center. Which technology must be used 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.)
An engineer configured the OSPF protocol in the vPC topology. During the catastrophic failure of one of the vPC the member switches, the traffic was routed to a black hole. This route was caused by the long convergence time caused by the delay of the of the vPC member switch reboot. After the failure, the engineer rebooted both switches, but the secondary switch powered on before the primary one. It caused all the vPCs to be shut down due to consistency-check violations. Which two features must be used to prevent these situations from happening in the future? (Choose two.)
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 midsize corporation with significant data-storage requirements is planning to deploy RFC 3720-based technology in its data center to provide efficient and reliable block-level storage access to servers The corporation requires a robust solution with optimal performance, load-balancing, and fault tolerance. The solution must use multiple network paths to optimize bandwidth usage and provide redundancy LACP has already been enabled on the data-center switches Which two actions must be taken to accomplish the goal? (Choose two.)
Implement VLAN tagging in accordance with the IEEE 802.10 standard to segregate iSCSI traffic from other data-center traffic
