300-610 Designing Cisco Data Center Infrastructure for Traditional and AI Workloads Questions and Answers
Which multicast rendezvous point redundancy mode is valid for Bidirectional PIM?
Which two types of service profile templates does Cisco UCS support? (Choose two.)
An architect is designing a storage solution for a Cisco UCS server infrastructure with these requirements:
• identical deployment of servers
• can add vHBAs to a group of servers
• configuration of servers stays synchronized
Which solution meets 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.)
An architect needs vendor-agnostic technology to orchestrate and automate a customer network with scripts. The technology must support running ad-hoc scripts from the CLI and support a deployment of scripts based on a large, readily available set of support libraries. Which technology must the architect choose?
A network administrator must create a redundant vHBA for the mission-critical virtual m a chines (VMs) installed on a Cisco UCS Fabric Interconnect blade server. The VMs access multiple datastores using VSAN55 and VSAN95. The datastore on which the VMs are hosted must be accessible if any of the uplinks goes offline. Which action meets these requirements?
An engineer is designing a disaster recovery solution. In the event of a node failure, the solution should either direct all of the traffic to another node, or load-balance the traffic across the remaining nodes. Which solution should be implemented in the design?
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?
What are two functions of a Network Services Orchestrator in an NFV environment? (Choose two.)
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?
What can be implemented on Cisco Nexus 5600 Series Switches for link redundancy within a Fibre Channel fabric?
A data center uses Cisco Nexus 7000 Series Switch and contains two tenants, tenant A and tenant B.
Tenant A uses IP addresses in the 10.2.30.41/24 to 10.2.30.64/24 range.
Tenant B uses IP addresses in the 10.2.30.120/24 to 10.2.30.192/24 range.
The engineer must implement a solution that
Isolates the traffic for each tenant as separate routing data and control planes.
Physically partitions the Cisco Nexus device into separate multiple logical d e vices with separate management, failure domain isolation, and resource manag e ment.
Which two technologies meet these requirements? (Choose two.)
An engineer must design a multitenant solution using Cisco 7709 switches. The solution must support separate routing instances, separate spanning tree domains, and separate firewalls for each tenant. Which solution meets these requirements?
What must be configured in Cisco Intersight when Enum is selected as the data typo in a workflow input?
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.)

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?
What is an advantage of using OTV as compared to VPLS for data center redundancy?
An engineer must secure the payload traversing across the DCI. The solution must support confidentially and integrity and it must be open standard. The solution must encrypt Ethernet frames regardless of the upper layer protocol used. Which technology must be used to support these requirements?
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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 high-availability setup for iSCSI is designed with the host running ISCSI software. Each storage port on the MDS exports the same two Fibre Channel target ports with different ISCSI target names. In this design, how many ISCSI session are created from the host so that recovery occurs if any component fails?
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.)

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 default route must be advertised into the VXLAN fabric for internet access. The engineer must use a static route because the edge firewall does not support any dynamic routing protocol. Which two features must the engineer use to allow learning and withdrawing of the default route without any manual intervention? (Choose two)
An engineer must interconnect customer data centers by using a 10-Gbps. unicast-only, Layer 3 circuit The requirement is to stretch the Layer 2 connection over the tunnel isolate STP traffic and create more than two million logical network segments Much solution meets these requirements?
When booting from iSCSI while using multipathing, which type of address must be the same on both boot vNICs?
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 i n terconnects? (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?
An engineer must develop a Python tool to automate software upgrades of both data center and non-data center devices. All devices offer a RESTful API and require a JSON or XML payload Vendor-specific libraries must be avoided. Which library must the engineer choose?
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
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?
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 requir e ments? (Choose two.)
A network architect designs the iSCSI-based storage area network solution. The iSCSI data s tore 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 rel i ance on network failures.
Which feature must be deployed to meet these requirements?
Which authentication software natively runs within the CLI of Cisco NX-OS devices?
Which vNIC/vHBA Placement policy should be selected in Cisco UCS Manager to ensure that only dynamic and static vNICs and vHBAs are explicitly assigned to the policy?
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An engineer must assign multiple Fibre Channel IDs to a single port channel. Which two features must be enabled this goal? (Choose two.)
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?
Which type fields can an engineer use to identify an iSCSI participant? (Choose two.)
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?
An organization deploys Cisco UCS-X Series servers in the data center. The deployment must have optimal BIOS configuration to maximize performance for memory-intensive applications. The organization must set the BIOS options to achieve low-latency operation and enhanced memory bandwidth. Which BIOS tuning option on Cisco UCS-X Series servers is needed for memory-intensive workloads?
An engineer must design a VXLAN EVPN network. The solution should optimize broadcast, unknown unicast, and multicast (BUM) and short BUM replication, and use PIM anycast RP. Which solution should be included in the design?
A 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?
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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 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?
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.)
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A Cisco engineer is configuring a next-generation Cisco HyperFlex HX data platform with 2 x Cisco UCS 6248UP fabric interconnects. 8 x Cisco HX-Series HX240c-M4SX servers, plus 8 x Cisco UCS B200-M4 blade servers Cisco UCS 5108 blade chassis, and Cisco UCS 2204XP fabric extenders The solution is configured with HX Release 4 5(2a) using VMware ESXi 7 0 U2 After the engineer migrates all customer VMs to the new solution platform, the engineer decides to create HX Native snapshots for all the VMs The engineer performs the operation and notices that some of the VMs are not creating snapshots. What is the most probable reason that the HX Native snapshots are not created?
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?
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?
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?
What are two advantages of using Cisco vPC as compared to traditional access layer designs? (Choose two.)
An engineer must design a DNS service available to multiple network zones as a shared se r vice. The network zones are deployed as VRFs within the data center network and no firewall is available for communication between VRFs.
Which protocol is needed to implement the shared services?
A 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 engineer must design a Cisco HyperFlex solution to support a virtualized environment in a single data center location. The design must consider these customer requirements:
a large-scale cluster with eight or more nodes
distributed high-performance file system for virtualized servers
high fault tolerance to multiple node failures
Which action meets these objectives?
A 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 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 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 tu n nel and a pair of Cisco MDS 9250 Series Switches. The network engineer decided to enable QoS to prioritize replication traffic. Which QoS model must be used to resolve the perfo r mance issues?
An engineer must build a VXLAN flood-and-learned 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?
What is the disadvantage of asynchronous storage replication as compared to synchronous storage replication in a disaster recovery design?
Which two features are provided by deploying an OOB management network in a Cisco Nexus data center? (Choose two.)
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 develops a framework for automatic repetitive tasks needed to manage a Cisco Nexus 9000 Series Switch. 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 HTTP transport.
• The automation team is familiar with parsing messages encoded in XML or JSON format.
Which solution meets 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 needs a design for a new network VLANs must be dynamically provisioned based on the information received from connected hosts No Layer 2 or Layer 3 configuration must be performed on the related switch ports. Which feature must be used?
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 eng i neer 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 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?
The data center aggregation layer that uses IPv4 and IPv6 address space must act as a redundant Layer 3 gateway The solution must support a minimum of 240 virtual groups for an interface The data center aggregation layer hosts network devices from different vendors Which FHRP solution meets these requirements?
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?
Which Cisco HyperFlex feature provides virtual machine-level cost scaling for desktop virtualization growth?
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?
What should be implemented on a Cisco Nexus 9300 Series Switch to reduce oversubscription between switches within a Fibre Channel fabric?
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?
A customer is evaluating a new disaster-recovery solution for their SAN, which is used for noncritical CRM purposes. The SAN is frequently backed up locally at the customer ' s existing single location, and several hours of data loss can be sustained. The customer wants to retain complete control of the failover process to a separate physical location. Which type of DR is most suitable for the customer?
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?
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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?
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?
Which Cisco HyperFlex feature provides virtual machine cost scaling for desktop virtualization growth?
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Server 1 fails to connect to the storage array over the Storage Area Network (SAN) of the Cisco NDS 9000 Series Switch. The requirements are to redesign the storage network and keep these considerations in mind:
The traffic from each of the server must be redundant and isolated.
The design must tolerate hardware and software failures and upgrades of SAN fabric devices.
Which action must be taken to meet these requirements?



