350-601 Compute — All Questions With Answers

An engineer is deploying a new UCS chassis with two Fabric Interconnects. The design requires that server traffic can fail over to the secondary FI if the primary FI fails, without requiring any changes to the server's network configuration. Which technology must be enabled on the uplink ports of the Fabric Interconnects to the upstream switches to ensure transparent failover of server traffic?

Question 2mediummultiple choice

A UCS administrator notices that a service profile associated with a vNIC template that uses 'fabric failover' is not failing over to the secondary Fabric Interconnect when the primary link goes down. The vNIC template is set to 'fabric failover' enabled, and both Fabric Interconnects are in the same VLAN. What is the most likely cause?

Question 3easymultiple choice

An engineer is configuring a UCS server profile for a database application that requires low latency. The server will use a Cisco UCS VIC 1340 adapter. Which vNIC placement policy should be selected to minimize latency?

Question 4mediummulti select

Which TWO statements correctly describe the use of Cisco UCS Manager service profiles for server deployment?

Question 5hardmulti select

Which THREE components are required to configure a Cisco UCS Direct-attached storage environment using SAS expanders?

Question 6mediummultiple choice

Refer to the exhibit. A UCS administrator has configured vNIC templates as shown. Both Fabric Interconnects have identical uplink configurations. The vNIC templates have 'Failover: Enabled'. However, when Fabric Interconnect A fails, servers using vNIC-A do not fail over to Fabric Interconnect B. What is the most likely cause?

Exhibit

Fabric Interconnect A - Ethernet Uplink Configuration
interface Ethernet1/1
 switchport mode trunk
 switchport trunk allowed vlan 10,20,30
 spanning-tree port type edge trunk
 no shutdown

Fabric Interconnect B - Ethernet Uplink Configuration
interface Ethernet1/1
 switchport mode trunk
 switchport trunk allowed vlan 10,20,30
 spanning-tree port type edge trunk
 no shutdown

UCS Manager vNIC Template Config
vNIC Name: vNIC-A
 Fabric ID: A
 VLANs: 10 (Native), 20, 30
 Failover: Enabled

vNIC Name: vNIC-B
 Fabric ID: B
 VLANs: 10 (Native), 20, 30
 Failover: Enabled

Question 7hardmultiple choice

Refer to the exhibit. A server with vNIC eth0 is experiencing packet drops on its Ethernet interface. The server is sending jumbo frames (MTU 9000) on VLAN 100. The QoS system class 'Class-Platinum' has an MTU of 9216 and is configured with 'Drop'. The vNIC is not assigned to any QoS policy. What is the most likely reason for the drops?

Exhibit

UCS Manager > Service Profile > vNIC List
vNIC Name: eth0
 Fabric ID: A
 Adapter Policy: Windows
 MTU: 9000
 VLAN: 100 (Native)

UCS Manager > LAN > LAN Cloud > QoS System Class
Class-FC: No Drop, MTU 9216, Weight 10
Class-Platinum: Drop, MTU 9216, Weight 30
Class-Gold: Drop, MTU 1500, Weight 20
Class-Silver: Drop, MTU 1500, Weight 10
Class-Bronze: Drop, MTU 1500, Weight 5

Question 8mediummultiple choice

A company is deploying a new Cisco UCS Mini with a single Fabric Interconnect 6324. They need to connect to an existing Fibre Channel SAN. Which action is required to enable Fibre Channel connectivity?

Question 9easymultiple choice

A UCS administrator needs to deploy 20 identical servers with the same firmware, BIOS, and boot order. Which approach is the most efficient?

Question 10mediummultiple choice

A data center engineer is deploying a new application on Cisco UCS Manager. The application requires consistent low-latency access to storage. The engineer decides to use SAN boot from a Fibre Channel SAN. Which configuration change is necessary on the UCS service profile to enable SAN boot?

Question 11easymultiple choice

An engineer is troubleshooting a Cisco UCS B-Series blade that fails to boot. The service profile is associated and the boot policy is set to 'SAN Boot'. The storage administrator confirms the LUN is properly mapped to the WWPN. Which check should the engineer perform first?

Question 12hardmultiple choice

A company is deploying a Cisco UCS Mini in a remote office. They need to support both VMware vSphere and Microsoft Hyper-V on the same UCS domain. What is the best practice for deploying compute resources for both hypervisors?

Question 13mediummultiple choice

A Cisco UCS Manager administrator notices that a newly provisioned service profile is showing 'Config Error' for the vNIC. The vNIC is configured to use a dynamic MAC address from a pool that has no free addresses. What is the correct remediation?

Question 14easymultiple choice

A data center engineer is planning a Cisco UCS deployment for a virtualized environment. The requirement is to maximize performance for virtual machine traffic while minimizing latency. Which feature should be enabled on the UCS Manager to offload packet processing from the host CPU?

Question 15hardmulti select

Which TWO are valid methods to configure a Cisco UCS service profile for stateless computing? (Choose two.)

Question 16mediummulti select

Which THREE are benefits of using Cisco UCS Manager to manage compute resources? (Choose three.)

Question 17mediummultiple choice

Refer to the exhibit. An administrator updates template-B but its associated profile SP2 shows 'unassigned'. The administrator wants SP2 to reflect the changes. What should be done first?

Exhibit

Refer to the exhibit.

UCS-A /org # show service-profile

Name           Assoc-State    Oper-SrcTempl
-------------- -------------- --------------
SP1            associated     template-A
SP2            unassigned     template-B
SP3            associated     template-A
SP4            associated     template-C

UCS-A /org # show service-profile template

Name            Type      Oper-State
--------------- --------- -----------
template-A      initial   enabled
template-B      updating  enabled
template-C      initial   enabled

Question 18mediummultiple choice

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A data center engineer notices that a UCS B-Series blade server is failing to boot from a SAN LUN that is correctly mapped to the server's WWPN. The SAN switch shows that the LUN is accessible and the zone is configured correctly. The UCS Manager shows the server's vNIC is associated with a vHBA that has the correct WWPN, but the server's BIOS does not list the Fibre Channel boot target. Which configuration is most likely missing?

Question 19hardmultiple choice

Refer to the exhibit. An engineer applies this QoS policy to a Cisco Nexus 9000 switch in a data center. After applying the policy, storage traffic (iSCSI) is experiencing high latency and occasional drops. The engineer verifies that the iSCSI traffic is not matching the 'BulkData' class. What is the most likely cause of the issue?

Exhibit

Refer to the exhibit.

<config>
  <system>
    <qos>
      <class-map name="BulkData">
        <match qos-group="5"/>
      </class-map>
      <policy-map name="DataCenter">
        <class name="BulkData">
          <set qos-group="5"/>
          <bandwidth percent="30"/>
        </class>
        <class class-default>
          <bandwidth percent="70"/>
        </class>
      </policy-map>
    </qos>
  </system>
</config>

Question 20mediummultiple choice

A financial services firm has deployed Cisco UCS C-Series rack servers running VMware vSphere 7.0. They use Cisco Intersight for management. Recently, a critical application server (Server-A) became unresponsive. The Intersight dashboard shows the server's health status as 'Warning' with a firmware compliance alert: the server's Cisco Integrated Management Controller (CIMC) firmware version is 4.0(1a), while the Intersight firmware baseline is 4.2(1c). The server is running ESXi 7.0u2 on a local datastore. The storage is provided by a Cisco MDS switch via Fibre Channel. The server has two 10GbE uplinks to the fabric interconnect. The engineer notices that the vCenter Server cannot communicate with Server-A, and all VMs on that host are isolated. The engineer suspects the issue is related to the firmware mismatch. What is the most appropriate first step to resolve this issue while minimizing downtime?

Question 21hardmultiple choice

A large enterprise is using Cisco UCS Manager to manage a chassis with 8 B-Series blades. The environment uses a combination of Ethernet and Fibre Channel traffic. The UCS fabric interconnect (FI) is configured in end-host mode with two uplinks to the core network. Recently, the engineering team deployed a new service profile for a high-performance computing workload that requires 40Gbps Ethernet per vNIC and 16Gbps Fibre Channel per vHBA. The server has two vNICs and two vHBAs. After deployment, the server's OS shows only 10Gbps connectivity on each vNIC. The engineer checks UCS Manager and sees that the vNIC templates are set to '10 Gbps' and the vHBA templates are set to '16 Gbps' but the actual link speed for vNICs is only 10Gbps. The fabric interconnect ports are configured as 40Gbps uplinks. The engineer has verified that the server adapter supports 40Gbps. What is the most likely cause of the speed mismatch?

Question 22mediumdrag order

Order the steps to configure FCoE on a Cisco Nexus switch with NPV mode.

Drag steps to the numbered slots on the right, or tap a step then tap a slot.

Steps

Order

1Step 1

2Step 2

3Step 3

4Step 4

5Step 5

Question 23mediumdrag order

Order the steps for troubleshooting a Fibre Channel link that is not coming up.

Drag steps to the numbered slots on the right, or tap a step then tap a slot.

Steps

Order

1Step 1

2Step 2

3Step 3

4Step 4

5Step 5

Question 24mediummatching

Match each Cisco UCS component to its function.

Drag a concept onto its matching description — or click a concept then click the description.

Concepts

Matches

Unified I/O and management for server chassis

Connects blade servers to fabric interconnects

Virtual interface card supporting multiple adapters

Out-of-band management controller for UCS servers

Enclosure that houses blade servers and IOMs

Question 25mediummatching

Match each Cisco MDS FC switch feature to its purpose.

Drag a concept onto its matching description — or click a concept then click the description.

Concepts

Matches

Virtual SAN for isolating Fibre Channel traffic

Access control between initiators and targets

Routing protocol for Fibre Channel fabric

Fibre Channel over IP for remote connectivity

Inter-VSAN routing for selective communication

Question 26easymultiple choice

A data center administrator needs to deploy a new blade server in a Cisco UCS chassis. The server must automatically inherit the correct service profile based on its slot location. Which feature should be configured?

Question 27mediummultiple choice

An engineer is troubleshooting a UCS B-Series server that fails to boot from SAN. The SAN boot LUN is correctly zoned and presented. The service profile has WWPNs configured. What is a likely cause?

Question 28hardmultiple choice

A UCS domain has two fabric interconnects in end-host mode. The engineer needs to implement a policy that ensures all traffic from a specific vNIC is load-balanced across both uplinks to the upstream switches. Which type of policy should be used?

Question 29easymultiple choice

Refer to the exhibit. The blade server is unassociated. Which action is required to assign a service profile to this server?

Exhibit

UCS# scope org /
UCS /org # show server 2
Server 2:
  Name: bladesrv-2
  Assoc State: unassociated
  Chassis ID: 1
  Slot ID: 2
  Fabric: A
  PID: UCSB-B200-M3
  Available Memory: 65536 MB
  Number of CPUs: 2
  CPU Cores: 12
  Adapter Policy: Linux
  ...

Question 30mediummultiple choice

Refer to the exhibit. An administrator notices the blade firmware is outdated. What is the recommended first step to update the blade firmware?

Exhibit

UCS# show firmware version
Firmware:
  Management: 4.0(4c)
  System: 4.0(4c)
  Kernel: 4.0(4c)
  Fabric Interconnect A: 4.0(4c)
  Fabric Interconnect B: 4.0(4c)
  IOM A1: 4.0(4c)
  IOM A2: 4.0(4c)
  IOM B1: 4.0(4c)
  IOM B2: 4.0(4c)
  All blades: 3.2(3a) (outdated)

Question 31hardmultiple choice

Refer to the exhibit. A UCS manager profile is configured with two vNICs on separate fabrics. The server is failing to communicate with the default gateway on VLAN 100. Both vNICs are up. What is the most likely issue?

Exhibit

{
  "Name": "Web-Server-Profile",
  "UUID": "00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000001",
  "Vnics": [
    {
      "Name": "vNIC-A",
      "Fabric": "A",
      "Vlan": "100",
      "MacPool": "mac-pool-1",
      "Mtu": 1500
    },
    {
      "Name": "vNIC-B",
      "Fabric": "B",
      "Vlan": "100",
      "MacPool": "mac-pool-1",
      "Mtu": 1500
    }
  ],
  "SanBoot": null,
  "BootPolicy": "boot-policy-1"
}

Question 32easymultiple choice

A Cisco UCS C-Series rack server requires remote management with KVM and virtual media. Which feature must be enabled?

Question 33mediummultiple choice

An engineer is designing a UCS Mini deployment for a remote office. The chassis will contain four blade servers. Each server needs two 10GbE connections for data and one 1GbE for management. What is the minimum number of fabric interconnects required?

Question 34hardmultiple choice

A UCS domain is experiencing intermittent storage connectivity. The storage admin confirms the SAN is properly zoned and the VSANs are configured. The UCS admin finds that the host interface (HBAs) are showing 'Link Down' intermittently. Which of the following is a likely cause?

Question 35mediummulti select

A UCS administrator must ensure that a service profile can be updated without disrupting production traffic. Which two configuration options support this requirement? (Choose two.)

Question 36hardmulti select

An engineer is configuring a UCS server for VMware ESXi. The service profile must support NPIV for virtual machine SAN connectivity. Which two conditions must be met? (Choose two.)

Question 37easymulti select

Which three components are required to boot a UCS blade server from SAN? (Choose three.)

Question 38easymultiple choice

An administrator needs to reset the CIMC password on a Cisco UCS C-Series server without physical access. Which method can be used?

Question 39mediummultiple choice

A UCS domain is configured with multiple service profile templates. An engineer wants to ensure that when a template is updated, all associated service profiles are automatically updated. Which property must be enabled in the template?

Question 40hardmultiple choice

In a Cisco HyperFlex cluster, the management plane uses vCenter, but the data plane uses which protocol to replicate data across nodes?

Question 41mediummultiple choice

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A company recently deployed Cisco UCS B-Series blades with a single Fabric Interconnect. During a maintenance window, the Fabric Interconnect must be upgraded. Which action ensures minimal disruption to running workloads?

Question 42hardmultiple choice

An engineer notices that a UCS server with a service profile using a QoS policy for FC traffic experiences excessive latency during heavy workloads. The Fibre Channel fabric is configured for lossless operation. Which design issue is most likely causing the latency?

Question 43easymultiple choice

A UCS administrator needs to ensure that server boot order always starts from the local disk if available, and falls back to a SAN LUN if local disk fails. Which boot policy setting should be used?

Question 44hardmultiple choice

During a capacity planning review, an engineer notices that a UCS domain with 8 blades (each with 16 cores) is using 70% CPU average. The environment runs VDI workloads. Each VM requires 2 vCPUs and 4 GB RAM. The hypervisor uses 1:1 CPU oversubscription. How many additional VMs can be deployed before reaching 100% CPU utilization?

Question 45mediummultiple choice

An engineer needs to deploy a new UCS C-Series standalone server in a remote branch without local IT staff. Which technology allows remote firmware upgrade and hardware monitoring without requiring a dedicated management IP?

Question 46easymultiple choice

A UCS domain has two Fabric Interconnects in end-host mode. Which statement about server-side traffic is true?

Question 47hardmultiple choice

A UCS administrator is deploying a 3-node HyperFlex cluster with vSphere. Each node has a single vNIC for management and two vNICs for storage data traffic. During the cluster creation, the storage vNIC MTU must be configured. What is the recommended MTU value for the storage data vNICs in HyperFlex?

Question 48mediummultiple choice

An engineer has configured a service profile with a WWPN pool that has exhausted its assigned range. The server boots from SAN. What happens when the server is associated?

Question 49easymultiple choice

Which feature in UCS Manager allows centralized management of firmware policies across multiple chassis without creating a separate policy for each chassis?

Question 50mediummulti select

Which TWO statements about Cisco UCS service profiles are correct? (Choose TWO.)

Question 51hardmulti select

Which THREE factors should be considered when determining the number of upstream Ethernet uplinks from a UCS Fabric Interconnect to the core network? (Choose THREE.)

Question 52mediummulti select

An engineer is troubleshooting a UCS B-Series blade that fails to boot from SAN. Which TWO actions should be verified first? (Choose TWO.)

Question 53hardmultiple choice

Refer to the exhibit. An engineer notices intermittent packet loss on interface Ethernet 1/1 of the Fabric Interconnect. Based on the transceiver statistics shown, which condition is the most likely cause?

Exhibit

<pre>
UCS-FI-6454# show interface Ethernet 1/1 transceiver properties

Ethernet1/1:
    Transceiver Type: SFP-10G-SR
    Vendor: CISCO
    Part Number: SFP-10G-SR-S
    Serial Number: FCI1234567
    Temperature: 45.6 C
    Voltage: 3.31 V
    Current: 7.0 mA
    Transmit Power: -2.1 dBm
    Receive Power: -12.5 dBm
    High Alarm: 3.5 dBm
    Low Alarm: -18.0 dBm
    High Warning: 2.0 dBm
    Low Warning: -15.0 dBm
</pre>

Question 54mediummultiple choice

Refer to the exhibit. A UCS administrator applies a service profile with this boot policy to a blade. The blade boots from the SAN LUN successfully. However, after a reboot due to a firmware update, the blade boots from the local disk instead of the SAN. What is the most likely reason?

Exhibit

<pre>
! Service profile boot policy configuration
boot-order:
    boot-device:
      - name: 'local-disk'
        device-type: 'local-disk'
      - name: 'san-target'
        device-type: 'san'
        wwnn: '20:00:00:25:b5:00:00:01'
        wwpn: '20:00:00:25:b5:00:00:02'
        lun: '0'
    reboot-on-update: 'true'
</pre>

Question 55mediummultiple choice

Refer to the exhibit. A UCS B-Series blade shows a failed power supply. The blade is currently running. Which action should the engineer take to replace the power supply without causing service disruption?

Exhibit

<pre>
UCS-B-230-M4# show server environment
Server Temperature: 42 C
CPU1 Temperature: 65 C
CPU2 Temperature: 68 C
Ambient Temperature: 25 C
Fan Speed: 8000 RPM
Power Supply 1: 450 W, Status: OK
Power Supply 2: 450 W, Status: Failed
</pre>

Question 56easymulti select

A storage administrator reports that a Cisco UCS domain is not booting from the Fibre Channel SAN. The boot policy is correctly configured and the vHBA is associated. Which two alignment issues could cause this problem? (Choose two.)

Question 57mediummultiple choice

An organization is deploying Cisco UCS and needs to ensure that server personality is maintained even after a new server is added to the chassis. Which policy should be configured to achieve this?

Question 58hardmultiple choice

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During a UCS firmware upgrade, the upgrade fails on a few servers in a chassis. The administrators notice that the management plane is still responsive, but the data plane is disrupted. What is the most likely cause?

Question 59easymultiple choice

A network engineer needs to create a consistent QoS policy for all servers in a UCS service profile template. Which policy must be attached to the template to ensure uniform traffic management?

Question 60mediummultiple choice

In a Cisco HyperFlex cluster, a new ESXi host is being added. The host is discovered, but the cluster health status shows 'Degraded'. What should be the first troubleshooting step?

Question 61hardmultiple choice

A CCNP engineer is troubleshooting a UCS environment where a server is stuck in 'Discovery: In Progress' state. The chassis has been power-cycled, but the issue persists. FEX fabric port is configured correctly. What is the most likely cause?

Question 62easymultiple choice

An enterprise requires that all virtual machines using a specific service profile must have the same MAC address pool. Which policy should be configured on the service profile template?

Question 63mediummultiple choice

A data center administrator reports that traffic from a specific UCS server is not flowing through the expected Fabric Interconnect (FI) A. The pin group is configured, but traffic is still sent to FI B. What should the administrator check?

Question 64hardmultiple choice

A Cisco UCS upgrade from release 3.1(1) to 4.0(4) is planned. The current release has a known issue that affects NVRAM backup. What is the best practice to avoid an outage during this upgrade?

Question 65mediummulti select

Which TWO options are correct regarding Cisco UCS server profiles? (Select TWO.)

Question 66hardmulti select

Which THREE conditions must be met before a UCS Fabric Interconnect can be part of a port channel? (Select THREE.)

Question 67easymulti select

Which TWO are important considerations when using Cisco UCS Central for multi-domain management? (Select TWO.)

Question 68mediummultiple choice

Refer to the exhibit. The server in slot 2 is associated and working. A new server is inserted into slot 1, but after 30 minutes it remains in 'Unassigned' state. What is the most likely reason?

Exhibit

Refer to the exhibit.

UCS-A# show inventory chassis 1
Chassis: 1
  Overall Status: OK
  Power Supply: 1: OK, 2: OK
  Fan Modules: 1: OK, 2: OK, 3: OK
  Server Slots:
    1: Unassigned
    2: OK
    3: OK
    4: Unassigned
   FEX Fabric Status: Fabric A: Up, Fabric B: Up
  Firmware Version: 4.0(4)

UCS-A# show server inventory chassis 1 server 2
Server 1/2:
  Overall Status: OK
  Discovery: Complete
  Memory: 256 GB
  Cores: 16
  Adapters: 1: VIC 1340
  Service Profile: ESXi-Host2
  State: Associated
  Association Time: 2023-03-15 09:21:00
  Serial Number: FCH2123VXYZ

Question 69hardmultiple choice

Refer to the exhibit. A UCS domain shows a 'Major' NVRAM backup failure alarm in Intersight. What is the best immediate action?

Exhibit

Refer to the exhibit.

Intersight API response (partial):
{
  "Results": [
    {
      "Moid": "5f6d8e2b1c3d4e5f6a7b8c9d",
      "Name": "UCS-Domain-1",
      "Version": "4.1(2a)",
      "ConnectionStatus": "Connected",
      "DeviceModel": "UCS-FI-6348",
      "State": "Operational",
      "Alarms": [
        {"Severity": "Major", "Description": "NVRAM backup failure"}
      ]
    }
  ]
}

Question 70easymultiple choice

Refer to the exhibit. The Fabric Interconnect cannot ping its default gateway. The management interface is configured and up. What is the most likely cause?

Exhibit

Refer to the exhibit.

UCS-A# show running-config interface mgmt 0
Building configuration...
Current configuration: 130 bytes
!
interface mgmt 0
  description Management Interface
  ip address 10.1.1.100 255.255.255.0
  no shutdown
end

UCS-A# ping 10.1.1.1
PING 10.1.1.1 (10.1.1.1) 56(84) bytes of data.
From 10.1.1.100 icmp_seq=1 Destination Host Unreachable
From 10.1.1.100 icmp_seq=2 Destination Host Unreachable
--- 10.1.1.1 ping statistics ---
2 packets transmitted, 0 received, +2 errors, 100% packet loss

Question 71mediummultiple choice

A data center administrator is troubleshooting slow storage performance on a UCS B-Series blade server. The server is connected to a Cisco UCS 6300 Series Fabric Interconnect and uses local SAS drives. The administrator checks the UCS Manager and sees that the storage adapter has a driver version that is not recommended. What is the most likely impact of using a non-recommended driver version?

Question 72easymultiple choice

A network engineer is designing a Cisco HyperFlex cluster for a virtualized environment. The cluster will run VDI workloads. Which storage policy should be selected to ensure that all VMs have the highest possible performance while maintaining data redundancy?

Question 73hardmultiple choice

A UCS Manager administrator is deploying a service profile for a boot-from-SAN environment. The SAN switch is configured with NPV mode. The administrator notices that the WWPN of the vHBA in the service profile is not being recognized by the SAN switch. What is the most likely cause?

Question 74mediummultiple choice

A company is deploying a new Cisco UCS Mini. They need to ensure that the chassis can be managed from either fabric interconnect. What configuration is required to achieve this?

Question 75hardmultiple choice

A UCS administrator notices that a server in a UCS domain is not booting from SAN after a firmware upgrade. The service profile shows the correct WWPN and boot policy. The SAN switch sees the initiator login. However, the storage array does not see any initiator attempts. What is the most likely issue?

Question 76easymultiple choice

A Cisco Intersight managed UCS domain has a policy that requires all firmware updates to be applied within 30 days of release. An engineer needs to check compliance for a specific server. Which Intersight feature should be used?

Question 77mediummultiple choice

A data center engineer is configuring a Cisco UCS C-Series server with a hardware RAID controller. The server will host a critical database. The RAID controller supports RAID 0, 1, 5, 6, and 10. Which RAID level should be chosen to provide the best combination of performance and fault tolerance?

Question 78mediummultiple choice

A UCS administrator needs to update the firmware on a UCS 5108 chassis that contains eight B-Series blades. The firmware update must be performed with minimal downtime. Which update method should be used?

Question 79hardmultiple choice

A Cisco HyperFlex cluster is experiencing performance issues during peak hours. The cluster uses a 4-node all-flash configuration. The engineer notices that the vSphere DRS cluster is heavily imbalanced. Which HyperFlex feature should be used to improve performance by balancing the storage load across nodes?

Question 80easymulti select

A UCS administrator is configuring a service profile for a VMware ESXi host. Which TWO of the following configuration items must be included to enable Fibre Channel SAN boot?

Question 81mediummulti select

A company is planning to deploy Cisco Intersight to manage a hybrid environment including on-premises UCS domains and AWS EC2 instances. Which THREE of the following are required components for integrating AWS with Intersight?

Question 82hardmulti select

A UCS domain is configured with two fabric interconnects in end-host mode. The engineer needs to ensure that traffic from a specific VLAN is load-balanced across both uplinks to the upstream network. Which THREE of the following are valid methods to achieve load balancing on the uplink ports?

Question 83mediummultiple choice

An engineer notices that after a reboot of one UCS fabric interconnect (FI-A), the server traffic fails over to FI-B but never fails back to FI-A even after FI-A is fully operational. Which configuration change would ensure automatic failback?

Question 84easymultiple choice

Which best practice should be followed when creating a UCS service profile template for stateless computing?

Question 85hardmultiple choice

A data center engineer is designing a UCS Manager solution that requires VLAN segmentation across multiple fabric interconnects. The network team requires that each VLAN is assigned a unique native VLAN ID per fabric. Which pool configuration supports this requirement?

Question 86mediummultiple choice

A UCS C-Series rack server with a boot from SAN policy fails to discover the LUN during POST. The HBA is correctly zoned with the storage array. Which step should be taken to troubleshoot the issue?

Question 87easymultiple choice

Which statement describes how firmware management works for UCS B-Series blade servers?

Question 88hardmultiple choice

An organization deploys compute resources using both UCS B-Series blades and C-Series rack servers. The network uses Cisco ACI. Which approach ensures consistent connectivity policies across both compute types?

Question 89mediummultiple choice

A UCS B-Series blade server shows high CPU latency when processing network I/O. The engineer suspects a bottleneck in the I/O subsystem. Which metric in UCS Manager should be examined first?

Question 90easymulti select

Which TWO UCS components are part of the unified fabric architecture?

Question 91mediummulti select

Which THREE of the following are valid UCS Manager RBAC roles?

Question 92hardmulti select

Which TWO troubleshooting steps should be taken when a UCS blade server fails to discover during the initial discovery process?

Question 93mediummultiple choice

You are a data center engineer at a financial company. The production environment uses UCS B-Series blades with fabric interconnects in a clustered configuration. One of the blades (blade 3) is running a critical trading application. The server is associated with a service profile that boots from SAN using a single HBA path. During a routine network upgrade, the storage administrator reports that LUN 0 on the primary storage array is no longer accessible from blade 3. The server is still powered on, but the application is unresponsive. You check UCS Manager and see that the vHBA for blade 3 is in an 'Unavailable' state. The fabric interconnect ports show no errors. The storage array logs show that the target port is active. Which action should you take to restore connectivity with minimal downtime?

Question 94hardmultiple choice

You manage a UCS domain with two fabric interconnects (FI-A and FI-B) in an cluster. The domain contains 8 blade servers. After a power failure, both FIs come back online, but the cluster experiences a split-brain situation where both FIs claim to be primary. The subordinate FI (FI-B) shows all blades as 'Discovery' state. You suspect configuration mismatch. You have console access to both FIs. Which recovery procedure should be performed to restore a stable cluster?

Question 95easymultiple choice

A startup company is deploying a new web application on UCS B-Series blades. They want to use PXE boot for rapid provisioning. The network team has configured a DHCP server and a PXE server on the same VLAN as the UCS service profiles. The system administrator creates a service profile for a blade and sets the boot policy to 'PXE' as the first boot device, and local disk as second. However, when the blade powers on, it boots from the local disk instead of PXE. The PXE server logs show no request from the blade's MAC address. The DHCP server logs show no activity. The fabric interconnect is configured with a default VLAN. What is the most likely cause?

Question 96mediummultiple choice

A UCS B-Series blade server (blade 5) has been running a database application for months. Recently, the storage team upgraded the SAN firmware. Since then, the blade experiences intermittent 'SCSI command timeout' errors in the system logs. The application performance degrades periodically. You check the UCS Manager performance data and see that the vHBA statistics show a high number of 'Link Reset' events. The storage array logs show no errors. The fibre channel cables are new. Which step should you take to resolve the issue?

Question 97hardmultiple choice

Your company integrates UCS B-Series blades with VMware vSphere using UCS Manager and vCenter. You have configured a UCS service profile with a boot policy that boots from SAN. The virtual infrastructure administrator reports that a new ESXi host (blade 6) fails to meet host profile compliance for the 'Boot Device' policy. The host profile requires the boot LUN to be set to 'VMware LUN' but the UCS boot policy uses a generic 'SAN Target' setting. The ESXi host boots and runs, but compliance checks fail. You cannot modify the host profile because it is managed by a separate team. Which action should you take to resolve the compliance failure while maintaining boot functionality?

Question 98mediummulti select

An engineer is configuring a Cisco UCS Manager deployment. The goal is to enforce the organization's security policy by limiting administrative access based on job roles. Which two actions should the engineer take? (Select two.)

Question 99easymultiple choice

An organization has deployed a Cisco UCS B-Series blade server with a Fabric Interconnect pair. The administrator is tasked with deploying a new server for a critical application. The administrator creates a service profile from an existing template that includes vNIC, vHBA, and storage policies. The blade is located in chassis 2, slot 1. The administrator attempts to associate the profile with this blade but fails with the error: 'No suitable compute resource available.' The administrator verifies that the blade's firmware is updated, that the blade is not already associated with another profile, and that it has sufficient memory and CPU. What is the most likely cause?

Question 100mediummultiple choice

A data center engineer is using Cisco Intersight to manage a hybrid infrastructure that includes UCS servers and HyperFlex clusters. The engineer needs to deploy a new server profile to a UCS domain that is claimed in Intersight. The profile includes a firmware policy that specifies version 4.1(3c) for the motherboard and 5.0(3a) for the storage controller. The target server is a C-Series rack mount server currently running firmware version 4.0(2a) on the motherboard. After deploying the profile, the server goes into a 'Pending' state and does not become 'Selectable'. The engineer checks the UCS Manager and sees that the server is in 'Discovery Failed' state. The engineer has verified that network connectivity is fine and the CIMC is accessible. What should the engineer do to resolve this?

Question 101hardmultiple choice

A large enterprise runs a Cisco HyperFlex cluster with three nodes, managed through Intersight. After a planned maintenance window, the administrator notices that one of the nodes is in a 'Degraded' state and the cluster is running in 'Read-Only' mode. The administrator checks the Intersight dashboard and sees that the node's disk status shows 'Missing' for one of the SSDs. The administrator also notices that the node's IP address is reachable and the ESXi host is still operational. The administrator reviews the cluster health and sees no other alerts. What is the most likely root cause and the recommended action to restore full cluster health?

Question 102mediummulti select

A data center engineer is configuring VLANs in a Cisco UCS domain. Which TWO statements are true regarding VLAN configuration?

Question 103hardmultiple choice

Refer to the exhibit. An engineer is creating a service profile template in Cisco UCSM. What is the effect of setting the vnet to 'VM_Network' for vNIC_A?

Exhibit

Refer to the exhibit.

UCSM-A# scope org root
UCSM-A /org # create service-profile-template SP_Template
UCSM-A /org/service-profile-template # set vnic-order order-type user-defined
UCSM-A /org/service-profile-template* # create vnic vNIC_A
UCSM-A /org/service-profile-template*/vnic # set vnet VM_Network
UCSM-A /org/service-profile-template*/vnic # set fabric a
UCSM-A /org/service-profile-template*/vnic # set addr-pool derived
UCSM-A /org/service-profile-template*/vnic # set mtu 1500
UCSM-A /org/service-profile-template*/vnic # commit-buffer
UCSM-A /org/service-profile-template* # show profile detail

Question 104easymultiple choice