NS0-175 Cisco and NetApp FlexPod Design Specialist Questions and Answers

You have designed a FlexPod configuration with VXLAN configured on Cisco Nexus 9000 Series switches operating in NX-OS mode.

Which two statements are true in this scenario? (Choose two.)

A customer has a workload that requires an extremely dense deployment of CPU cores. For this workload, they have chosen to deploy servers that use AMD EPYC processors.

Which Cisco UCS server product would you use to satisfy this workload demand?

You are designing a FlexPod solution that requires 100GbE connectivity between all components.

In this scenario, what are two NetApp Controller types that would satisfy the requirement? (Choose two.)

You are asked to evaluate SaaS-based monitoring solutions for your FlexPod environment. Other than being SaaS-delivered, selection criteria include full lifecycle management, environment automation, and the ability to monitor third-party storage that is salted for retirement.

In this scenario, which product satisfies the requirements?

A customer has reviewed the latest vSphere CVD and asks you if they can use their older Cisco servers in the new FlexPod solution and still have supported configuration.

Which statement is true in this scenario?

You are sizing a FlexPod Datacenter solution for multitenancy use.

What are two important platform scaling considerations in this scenario? (Choose two.)

A customer wants to deploy a FlexPod Datacenter solution in a limited amount of rack space. After planning for the networking and storage devices required for the deployment, they realize they have six rack units of space remaining. They need to install as many servers as possible in this available rack space.

In this scenario, which solution allows them to accomplish their objective?

Your customer wants to change from local boot to SAN boot for the compute layer.

What must be present on the network layer to meet the customer’s design change?

An administrator is designing a FlexPod solution with NetApp ONTAP 9.7 software with a logical separation of data for each department.

In this scenario, which two components must be part of the design? (Choose two.)

A customer with a FlexPod Datacenter solution wants to enable user access on UCS Manager.

In this scenario, which three authentication methods would be configured? (Choose three.)

A customer wants a FlexPod solution that is designed for high performance applications and that will support 32 Gbps Fibre Channel block storage.

In this scenario, which two components should you recommend to the customer? (Choose two.)

A customer wants to replace their Cisco UCS 6248UP with the current Cisco UCS 6454. They are currently using six 16 Gbit uplinks per Fabric Interconnect for FC and do not want to change the speed and number of ports used.

In this scenario, what is the minimum number of unified ports that must be configured for FC for a comparable configuration?

A customer is unhappy with their current data center infrastructure. They want to purchase a FlexPod system to replace it. The customer asks you to help them understand the benefits of Solution Support to determine which support model would suit them best.

In this scenario, which three statements are correct? (Choose three.)

You are asked to design a new FlexPod solution that will host VMware virtual machines using NFS datastores, file services using SMB, and NFS-mounted home directories. You need to ensure that the network traffic of these three use cases are isolated?

In this scenario, which supported end-to-end network topology would be used to accomplish this task?

A customer wants to deploy a FlexPod Datacenter solution that supports a secure multitenant design with VMware vSphere 6.x as the hypervisor. The customer wants to ensure that virtual machines are encrypted in transit and at rest and restricted to their specified tenant.

Which component should the customer use to implement this capability?