Free Practice Questions for the Cisco CCNP Data Center 300-610 Exam (2026 Updated)
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Refer to the exhibit. An engineer must deploy NEW-VRF-001 in the data center. All hosts require full reachability with all other hosts, no matter on which pod the host deployment occurs. Which set of commands must the engineer include in the deployment?
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 working for a private data center with an employee ID 4947.57 424 designs a storage area network solution The requirement is to apply QoS to ensure that Fibre Channel data traffic for latency-sensitive applications receives higher pnonty over throughput-intensive applications that are used for data warehousing Which two attributes must be used to identify and set the Fibre Channel traffic classes? (Choose two )
A Cisco engineer is discussing a data center design scenario that consists of 24 Cisco UCS B200M6 Wade servers. 2 Cisco UCS 6454 Fabric Interconnects, and 3 Cisco UCS 5108 server chassis In the proposed configuration, the server links, which are vNICs on the blades, are associated with a single uplink port Server-to-server Layer 2 traffic is locally switched, server-to-network traffic goes out on its pinned uplink port, and each server MAC address must be learned before traffic can be forwarded to it Which feature stipulates that traffic is forwarded to a server only if it is received on a pinned uplink port for this server?
An engineer working for a private telecommunication company with an employee id 4298 53 420 must evaluate connectivity to the new data centre location based on Cisco Nexus 7000 Series Switches. The IP connectivity is already supplied by the service provider. The solution must provide a Layer 2 extension and optimize the traffic localization Which technology supports these requirements?
Refer to the exhibit.
The data center DC1 uses VXLAN technology The company asked a service provider to design another data center called DC2 and stretch EVPN information between the data centers based on the same technology The fabric requires
•endpoint information propagated end-to-end across both data centers
•misconfiguration replicated from DC1 to DC2
Which actions must the design include in DC2 to meet these criteria?
Refer to the exhibit The data center DC1 uses VXLAN technology The company asked a service provider to design another data center called DC2 and stretch EVPN information between the data centers based on the same technology The fabric requires
•endpoint information propagated end-to-end across both data centers
•misconfiguration replicated from DC1 to DC2
Which actions must the design include in DC2 to meet these criteria?
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?
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?
Refer to the exhibit.
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?
A network engineer is configuring an Ethernet Adapter Policy for a server in Cisco UCS. The CPU must process all large TCP packets, and network receive processing must be distributed across available processors whenever possible. How must the policy be configured?
A Cisco UCS instance has four interfaces on a UCS VIC. Where on the fabric interconnect does each interface terminate?
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 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.)
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?
Refer to the exhibit Due to power limitations at the customer data center, the engineering team must decommission one of the modular switches in the new design the customer must ensure that the OSPF process is fully protected on the remaining switch and minimize OSPF flapping in case of any module failure. Which solution fulfills the requirements for the new design?
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?
Which two statements describe Ethernet switching mode on Cisco UCS 6100 Series Fabric Interconnects? (Choose two.)
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?
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.
Which authentication software natively runs within the CLI of Cisco NX-OS devices?
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.)
Drag and drop the SAN components from the left onto the correct design considerations on the right.
An engineer is expanding an existing ISCSI environment and must choose an addressing scheme. When checking one of the devices, the engineer discovers this target device naming used
{prefix}. 2019-01.com.acme.123:00. ftd0cb21.bcb389458389
Which addressing scheme was used in the environment?
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 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. 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?
Refer to the exhibit.
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
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?
A Cisco engineer is analyzing a customer environment where dozens of VMs are running on a physical server and UCS chassis are cascaded The setup uses two ISLs in a port channel to the SAN switch (per fabric) The oversubscription from VM to physical SAN port is often 20 (VMs/host) x 72 (9 UCS chassis cascaded = 72 hosts): 2 (ISLs from fabric interconnect to SAN switch port on the NPV core (NPIV enabled switch) This results to 20 x 72 2 per single ISL = 720 VMs per ISL
20 (VMs per host) x 8 (hosts per chassis) x 9 (chassis per port channel to SAN switch) / 2 (ISLs per port channel) = 20 x 8 x 9 / 2 = 720 VMs per SAN F-port What is the best way to resolve possible IOPS bottleneck?
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 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.)
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.)
A network architect needs secure access to the organization’s perimeter routers and firewalls. The administrator must access network devices from a remote location that is reachable from the WAN cloud Which action meets these requirements?
A Cisco engineer is configuring MPLS VPN BGP at a customer site that is connected to the provider site by more than one path MPLS VPN BGP Local Convergence link protection is enabled. After the engineer installs the main forwarding path and the redundant backup path within the BGP, they assign a unique route distinguisher to each VRF table on all PE devices that serve as a backup to the link. What is a prerequisite for this local convergence to work?
An engineer is configuring a Cisco UCS Service Profile template for an environment that will host Windows servers Some of the servers require access to a Fibre Channel storage network The design requires the server HBA to send the maximum number of commands to a Fibre Channel disk using a single transmission Which action must be taken to meet these requirements?
Which mode must be enabled on a Cisco UCS Fabric Interconnect to connect directly to a storage array?
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?
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?
An engineer mistakenly deleted three service profiles in Cisco UCS during a service window and must now initiate a rollback without affecting other parts of the fabric. Which type of backup is most specific to recovering the service profiles?
A network engineer must design a UCS SAN configuration for vNIC port eth0, which is currently configured directly via the adaptor. The engineer set the Connection Policies option to VMQ and selected a VMQ Connection Policy named Primary-Cluster. What happens to the eth0 running configuration when the configuration is applied?
A failure occurs on the network between two BFD and OSPF neighbors. Drag and drop the protocol actions from the left into the correct order on the right.
Which factor determines the choice of platform designing a Cisco HyperFlex infrastructure to support computer-aided design applications?
Refer to the exhibit. A Cisco engineer is planning a data migration job in heterogeneous SANs where the existing and new storage devices for the migration are already connected to the MDS switches. All paths from the SSM to the storage-connected switch are going through the Cisco fabric. The setup is with active/active arrays and multiple LUN sets. What is the best approach to copy the LUN sets to the new location?
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?
A customer must install a new Hyperflex Stretched cluster in two sites. Low latency and predictable high performance are the top priorities for this setup due to the extensive usage of data-intensive applications across the cluster. Which HyperFlex storage solution is recommended to meet these requirements?
Which multicast rendezvous point redundancy mode is valid for Bidirectional PIM?
The Cisco UCS environment must be connected to an existing SAN network that consists of several Cisco MDS 9000 Series Switches added to increase storage density. The solution must not exhaust the SAN network from the list of available domain IDs after connecting. Most of the SAN traffic must be mapped from the Cisco UCS blades to a specific group of the fabric interconnect ports. Which configuration must be deployed to meet these requirements?
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?
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.)
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.)
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?
Refer to the exhibit.
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 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?
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 customer wants to deploy a Layer 2 extension over a transport infrastructure for multiple data centers. The data center technology should support a localized Layer 3 gateway, a separate flooding domain, and STP isolation per data center. Which DCI technology meets these requirements?
Which type fields can an engineer use to identify an iSCSI participant? (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?
Which orchestration tool provides a graphical interface to manage LAN and SAN fabrics?
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Refer to the exhibit. A midsize company runs a traditional iSCSI storage infrastructure on Cisco UCS B200 M6 servers connected to a Cisco MDS 9124 SAN fabric. The infrastructure includes VMware ESXi, and each host creates iSCSI-A and iSCSI-B adapters that associate physical NIC paths with their respective VMkernel ports. Which action must the engineering team take to improve the performance and scalability of the iSCSI storage infrastructure?
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?
An engineer deploys VMware ESXi hypervisor on blade servers. The virtual networking is managed by Cisco Nexus 1000V Series Switches.
Which configuration aligns with Cisco recommended practices for providing high availability and a maximum throughput to the VMware ESXi hosts?
Which two configurations are available by using a service profile template in Cisco UCS Manager? (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?
Drag and drop the components from the left onto the descriptions on the right that indicate what occurs to Fibre Channel fabric when that component fails.
What are two functions of a Network Services Orchestrator in an NFV environment? (Choose two.)
An engineer working for a private data center with an employee ID 4947.57 424 designs a storage area network solution The requirement is to apply QoS to ensure that Fibre Channel data traffic for latency-sensitive applications receives higher pnonty over throughput-intensive applications that are used for data warehousing Which two attributes must be used to identify and set the Fibre Channel traffic classes? (Choose two )
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 tor 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.)
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?
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?
Which Fibre Channel SAN topology is simple to architect, implement, maintain, and troubleshoot?
An engineer must provide Layer 2 adjacency between data centers that are in two locations and separated by a routed network The adjacency must be based on Cisco Nexus 7000 Series Switches The solution must offload learning of host reachability information to the control plane to avoid excessive flood and learn congestion Also the data center in one of the sites experiences a large volume of unknown unicast traffic that the solution must mitigate Which data center interconnect technology meets these requirements?
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?
An enterprise is experiencing transmission errors and excessive deploys over their WAN when backing up user workstations. A systems architect decided to resolve the problems by centralizing data storage and processing to within the confines of the data center. Which technology is most suitable to mitigate the issues?
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?
Which type of Cisco Intersight workflow input controls the availability of other specific workflow inputs during the execution of a workflow?
Which approach splits a pair of clustered fabric interconnects into two standalone devices?
An engineer must connect a Cisco UCS B-Series based system to an existing large storage area network fabric. The deployment must support hardware-based load balancing, prevent Fibre Channel domain ID exhaustion, and enable all blade servers to be in the same VSAN. Which set of actions meets the requirements?
Which two paths are provided by deploying an OOB management network in a data center that uses Cisco Nexus switches? (Choose two.)
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?
Which two naming formats identify target or initiator iSCSI nodes? (Choose two.)
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