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Practise Cisco DCCOR / CCNP Data Center Core 350-601 Compute practice questions — original exam-style scenarios with answer choices, explanations, and analysis of common mistakes.

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20 questionsDomain: Compute
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What the exam tests

What to know about Compute

Compute questions test whether you can apply the concept in context, not just recognise a definition.

How the topic appears in realistic exam-style scenarios.

Which detail in the question changes the correct answer.

How to eliminate plausible but wrong options.

How to connect the question back to the wider exam objective.

Watch out for

Common Compute exam traps

  • ▸Answering from memory before reading the full scenario.
  • ▸Missing a constraint such as cost, availability, security, scope or command context.
  • ▸Choosing a broad answer when the question asks for the most specific fix.
  • ▸Ignoring why the wrong options are tempting.

Practice set

Compute questions

20 questions · select your answer, then reveal the explanation

Question 1hardmultiple choice
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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
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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
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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
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Which TWO statements correctly describe the use of Cisco UCS Manager service profiles for server deployment?

Question 5hardmulti select
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Which THREE components are required to configure a Cisco UCS Direct-attached storage environment using SAS expanders?

Question 6mediummultiple choice
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Which TWO are valid methods to configure a Cisco UCS service profile for stateless computing? (Choose two.)

Question 16mediummulti select
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Which THREE are benefits of using Cisco UCS Manager to manage compute resources? (Choose three.)

Question 17mediummultiple choice
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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
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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
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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?

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Frequently asked questions

What does the 350-601 exam test about Compute?
Compute questions test whether you can apply the concept in context, not just recognise a definition.
How should I use these practice questions?
Select your answer before revealing the explanation. Then read why each option is right or wrong — this active recall approach builds retention far faster than re-reading notes.
Can I practise just Compute questions in a focused session?
Yes — the session launcher on this page draws every question from the Compute domain. Use a 10-question session first to gauge your baseline, then move to 20 or 30 once the weak spots are clear.
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