350-601 DCCOR:Implementing and Operating Cisco Data Center Core Technologies
Update:November 11, 2025
Questions and Answers: 128 Q&A
1.
Esxi-server is associated to the blade server. A VLAN added to trunk-a. the VLAN is missing on the vNIC of ESXI-server. Which action should be taken to add the VLAN to the cNIC?
2.
Which two hypervisors does Cisco HyperFlex support?
3.
A DNS server with IP address 192.168.1.1 is deployed in a data center A network engineer must configure a Cisco UCS Fabric Interconnect to use this DNS. Which configuration should be applied?
4.
Which Cisco HyperFlex ability adds compute or storage-only nodes as required?
5.
An engineer needs to install a new package on a Cisco Nexus 9000 Series Switch. What is the impact of running the install commit command on the switch?
6.
A DevOps engineer must design a solution for a Cisco Unified Fabric solution to provision,monitor,and troubleshoot the network infrastructure for a data center based on Cisco NexusSeries Switches.The solution must provide visibility and control of the unified data center.Which solution meets these requirements?
7.
An engineer performs a set of configuration changes for the vPC domain using Session Manager. Which two commands are used to verify the configuration and apply the device changes when no errors are returned? (Choose two)
8.
An engineer needs to monitor ingress traffic that arrives at interface Ethernet 1/3 that belongs to a Cisco Nexus 5600 Series Switch. The traffic analyzer machine located at interface Ethernet 1/5 is already monitoring other production, and the traffic analyzer must not be impacted by the traffic captured from the interface Eth1/3. The operations team allocated a traffic budget for the new monitoring session of 1 Gbps to meet this requirement Which set of commands configures the SPAN session?
9.
An engineer needs to Implement a solution that prevents loops from occurring accidentally by connecting a switch to interface Ethemet1/1. The port Is designated to be used tor host connectivity. What configuration should be implemented?
10.
Configure SPAN.Configure a source session on Cisco UCS Manager.
switch#dir bootflash:
25863680 Sep 2312:02:162020 m9250-s5ek9-kickstart-mz.8.2.1.bin
25864704 Sep 0512:21:262021 m9250-s5ek9-kickstart-mz.8.2.1.bin
25869312 Apr 0112:29:342021 m9250-s5ek9-kickstart-mz.8.2.2.bin
25869312 Apr 1201:55:222021 m9250-s5ek9-kickstart-mz.8.2.2.bin
25947136 Nov 0913:41:432021 m9250-s5ek9-kickstart-mz.8.3.1.bin
25970176 Jan 1714:10:472021 m9250-s5ek9-kickstart-mz.8.3.2.bin
26126848 May 0711:51:202021 m9250-s5ek9-kickstart-mz.8.4.1.bin
[output omitted]
Usage for bootflash://sup-local
1050153904658 bytes used
638636406560 bytes free
11.
An engineer configured an environment that contains the vPC and non-vPC switches. However, it was noticed that the downstream non-vPC switches do not receive the upstream vPC switch peers. Which vPC feature must be implement to ensure that vPC and non-vPC switches receive same STP bridge ID from the upstream vPC switch peers?
12.
An engineer requires a solution to automate the configuration and deployment of remote network devices for a customer. The engineer must keep these considerations in mind:
- The customer's environment is based on industry-accepted standards and requires a solution
that meets these standards.
- The security requirements mandate the use of a secure transport mechanism between the
automation software and target devices such as SSH or TLS.
- The solution must be based on a human-readable and easy to parse format such as XML or
JSON.
Which solution must be used to meet these requirements?
13.
Several production and development database servers exist in the same EPG and IP subnet. The IT security policy is to prevent connections between production and development. Which attribute must be used to assign the servers to different microsegments?
14.
Drag and drop the command snippets from the bottom onto the boxes in the codeto complete a Python script that displays a list of interfaces on a Cisco Nexus 9000 Series Switch usingon-box Python.Not allcommand snippets are used.
15.
An engineer mus upgrade the server firmware for which the service profile s confgured with a host frmware package.Which aton must be taken to accomplish this goal?
16.
An engineer must activate the port-security databaseon a Cisco MDS 9000 Series Switch for VSAN 100,but receives the error shown.Which command completes theconfiguration?
"Error for VSAN 100:Activation not permitted with auto-learn ON"
17.
In a Cisco SAN fabric,UCS fabric interconnects and blades are all monitored by Cisco DCNM.The requirement is for the Cisco UCS manager to be monitored by Cisco DCNM.Which twoconfiguration steps accomplish this goal?(Choose two.)
18.
A network administrator must perform a system upgrade on a Cisco MDS 9000 Series Switch. Due to the recent changes by the security team:
- The AAA server is unreachable.
- All TCP communication between the MDS 9000 Series Switch and AAA servers is disabled.
Which actions must be used to perform the upgrade?
19.
An engineer must implement a Cisco UCS system at a customer site. One of the requirements is to implement SAN boot. The storage system maps the source WWPN to a unique LUN. Which method does Cisco recommend to configure the SAN boot?
20.
In a Cisco SAN fabric,UCS fabric interconnects and blades are allmonitored by Cisco DCNM.The requirement is for the Cisco UCS manager to be monitored by Cisco DCNM.Which twoconfiguration steps accomplish this goal?(Choose two.)
21.
The network team needs permissions to access the Cisco UCS B-Series Servers via the Cisco UCS Manager GUI to configure the network and collect information about faults.Theadministrator wants to assign these permissions to the newly configured user called netops.Which set of tasks must the administrator perform to accomplish these goals?
22.
After a Cisco Nexus 7000 Series Switch chassis replacement, the administrator discovers that all vPC-enabled LACP port channels are reinitialized. The administrator wants to prevent this issue the next time the chassis is replaced. Which two actions must be taken to meet this requirement before the isolated device is reloaded'?(Choose two)
23.
Which solution provides remote and direct file-level access to users and systems?
24.
An engineer needs to implement a solution that will provide telemetry of MDS 9000 switches in a SAN fabric.The solution should use Cisco Data Center Network Manager(DCNM)withSAN Insights feature.Which three steps are required to deploy the solution?(Choose three.)
25.
During a vPC peer switch reload, there is packet loss between the server and the router. Which action must be taken to prevent this behavior during future reloads ?
26.
A Cisco MDS 9000 Series Switch is configured for SAN Analytics and SAN Telemetry Streaming. An engineer must enable analytics for NVMe on interfaces in the range of fc1/1-12. Due to a large amount of traffic generated in the SAN environment, the data must be collected at regular intervals of 60 seconds from ports fc 1-12 and then for ports fc13-24 for the next 60 seconds. Ports in the range fc4/13-14 were already enabled for analytics. Which set of commands must be used to meet these requirements?
27.
Server1 is connected to a Cisco Nexus 9000 Series Switch via a 1-Gb port channel. The storm control is applied to Eth0 device with a zero percent value. What does the switch do to traffic that traverses the switch interfaces during the streaming window that exceeds the bandwidth of the interfaces?
28.
A company plans to deploy a Cisco HyperFlex solution for data-intensive applications and databases.The proposed solution should offer the highest performance with high consistency and low latency. Which Cisco HyperFlex storage configuration should be used?
29.
Which virtualization feature is provided by network-attached storage
30.
Which nonproprietary protocol is used to access a NAS device?
31.
An engineer must tune an FCIP connection over WAN between two Cisco MDS 9000 Series Switches.The customer has determined that default TCP parameters do not function for thelink with 300 ms latency.The TCP profile must:
- Modify the TCP retransmit time to satisfy the WAN latency.
- Set the TCP keepalive timeout to 15 seconds.
- Set the maximum number of TCP retransmissions to 5.
Which command set meets the requirements?
32.
A network engineer must configure a vPC on a pairof isco Nexus switches connected to a thid-party load balancer.The connection must meet these requrements:
- The port channel must be negotiated with the load balancer via an open standards protocol.
- Trafic that is sent directly to the physical MAC address of the other peer switch must be forwarded locally by the receiving switch.
Which command set accomplishes these goals?
33.
Which two components are used by the Cisco Nexus switches telemetry process?(Choose two.)
34.
A network administrator experiences these issues with the network PC1 is experiencing a buffering problem for video applications ,The servers that are connected to SW2 are experiencing packet drops when they connect to the Internet The engineer wants to configure the required traffic capture to investigate the issue further. Which configuration must be implemented to monitor the traffic?

35.
A network automation engineer must configure a Cisco NX-OS RESTAPl on a Cisco 9000 Series Switch with these requirements:
- NX-API REST and the DME database must be enabled.
- The NX-API REST must listen for HTTP traffic on port 83.
- The HTTPS certificate must be uploaded.
Which configuration set must be used to accomplish these goals?
36.
An engineer must configure a named VSAN when the fabric interconnect is in Fibre Channel switch mode. The VSAN must meet these requirements: Named VSAN must be called “VSAN10” VSAN ID must be 10. FCoE ID must be 20. VSAN 10 must be attached to port 2 in slot 1. Which command set configures a VSAN when the fabric interconnect is in Fibre Channel switch mode?
37.
An engineer is implementing traffic monitoring for a server vNIC that is configured with fabric failover enabled. The requirement is for the traffic to be sent to an analyzer even during a failure of one of the fabric interconnects. The analyzer is connected to unconfigured Ethernet ports on both fabric interconnects. Which configuration accomplishes this task?
38.
A network engineer must configure an authentication solution for Cisco UCS with these conditions:
- Two-factor authentication must be enabled for all UCS user authentication.
- All AAA packets must be encrypted and use TCP port 49 to establish communication.
Which set of actions meets these requirements?
39.
An engineer needs to create a new user in the local user database on Cisco UCS Fabric Interconnect. The user needs permissions to change the following configuration inside UCS Manager version 3.1:
- vNIC and vHBA profiles• Fan speed and power redundancy profile of UCS Manager
Which two roles must be assigned to a user to achieve this goal? (Choose two.)
40.
Allogins to a Cisco Nexus 9000Series Switch must pass through the TACACS+server at IP address 192.168.10.10.The confguration must met these requrements:
- The TACACS+server must be used for SSH and Telnet.
- The TACACS+server key must be Cisco123!.
- Management VRF must be used for connectivity.
- The deployment must fail back to local credentials if the TACACS+server fails to respond within 30 seconds.
Drag and drop the code snippets from the right onto the blanks in the code on the lef to complete the configuration.Notall code snippets are used.
41.
An engineer must configure Protocol Independent Multicast on two Cisco Nexus 9000 Series Switches.The engineer must ensure that the chosen rendezvous point (RP)uses a mappingagent and only supports one RP per multicast group.Which type of RP must be used on both switches to meet these requirements?
42.
The network team needs permissions to access the Cisco UCS B-Series Servers via the Cisco UCS Manager GUI to configure the network and collect information about faults.Theadministrator wants to assign these permissions to the newly configured user called netops.Which set of tasks must the administrator perform to accomplish these goals?
43.
Drag and drop the steps on the left onto the order that they must be implemented on the right to recover a fabric interconnect when there is no working image on the bootflash.
Select and Place:

Correct Answer:

Copy the main image files.
Configure the management interfaces.
Install the files.
Boot the kickstart image using TFTP.
Configure the management interfaces.
Boot the kickstart image using TFTP.
Install the files.
Copy the main image files.
44.
An engineer must upgrade the server firmware for which the service profil is confgured with a host frmware package.Which action must e taken to accomplish this goal?
45.
An engineer must configure FCoE between the N9K-A switch and the FCF-A Nexus 9000 core switch. The deployment has these charactristics:
The N9K-A and N9K-B top-of-rack switches share the domain ID of the core switches.
The hosts are equipped with converged network adapters.
The only VSAN that is permitted to traverse port-channel 100 is VSAN 20.
Which configuration completes the FCoE configuration on the N9K-A device?
46.
A new employee must be granted access to add VLANs into an existing Cisco UCS Manager and configure NTP synchronization with date and time zone settings. Which two privileges must be granted to the employee to complete the task?
47.
A DevOps engineer must use Python to manage a Cisco device.The device is in a highly secure DMZ environment.Only trusted Cisco Python libraries can be used.Which solution meetsthe requirements?
48.
An engineer must activate the port-security database on a Cisco MDS 9000 Series Switch for VSAN 100,but receives the error shown.Which command completes theconfiguration?
"Error for VSAN 100:Activation not permitted with auto-learn ON"
49.
The Cisco TACACS+on a Cisco Nexus Series Switch must authenticate any user attempting to access the device and fail overr to the local account if the TACACS+sever becomesunavailable.Which command accomplishes these goals?
50.
An engineer must implement fabric binding on the Cisco MDS 9000 Series Switch for only VSAN 110.Both WWNs must be part of domain 110.The configuration for the active VSAN mustbe compared to the active configuration after the deployment is completed.Drag and drop the code snippets from the bottom onto the blanks in the code on the top to complete theconfiguration.Not all code snippets are used.
51.
A network engineer needs to configure system logging on the MDS switch. The messages must be displayed with the severity level of "warning” and above. For security reasons the users must be logged out of the console after 5 minutes of inactivity Which configuration must be applied to meet these requirements?
52.
A SAN administrator receives reports about latency and response-time issues that impact various applications. The incidents have gradually increased in frequency and severity and have reached a critical state. Which DCNM configuration set identifies the source of the issues?
53.
An engineer must send alltraffic passing through interface fc1/1 on N9K_1 to the monitoring laptop using a SPAN session.This configuration has already beenapplied to Cisco UCS ManagerWhich additional set of actions must be taken to accomplish this goal?
54.
An engineer performs a Cisco UCS C480 MLM5 installation from a Cisco UCS Manager.As a part of the design,the server must perform an iSCSI boot from the storage array.Whichconfiguration must be performed in the SAN settings in the root organization to satisfy that condition?
55.
A network engineer must restore the running configuration on a Cisco Nexus 5000 Series Switch to an existing snapshot called "stable1". The restore procedure should proceed only if no errors occur. Which configuration should be used to accomplish this goal?
56.
Due to a newly announced security advisory, a company has been informed that they must update the configuration of 500 network devices that are deployed in their network. The engineering team must assist the operations team to prepare for this update. The operations team does not have direct access to the network devices and must log in via a Linux server. This is the first time that the team is making a network-wide configuration and must change all devices without first installing additional software on the network devices. The operations team is unfamiliar with automation and scripting technologies. Which automation tool must be used to accomplish this goal?
57.
An engineer is configuring AAA authentication on an MDS 9000 switch. The LDAP server is located under the IP 10.10.2.2. The data sent to the LDAP server should be encrypted. Which command should be used to meet these requirements?
59.
A network architect must redesign a data center on OSPFv2. The network must perform fast reconvergence between directly connected switches. Which two actions must be taken to meet the requirement? (Choose two)
60.
An engineer configures a role for a new user in Cisco UCS Manager. The role should allow the user to configure vHBAs, vNlCs, and server port types. Which role should be assigned to allow the engineer to complete this task?
61.
A customer reports Fibre Channel login requests to a cisco MDS 9000 series Switch from an unauthorized source. The customer requires a feature that will allow all devices already logged in and learned in and learned to be added to the Fibre channel active database. Which two features must be enabled to accomplish this goal? (Choose two.)
62.
An engineer needs to connect Cisco UCS Manager to an external storage array. Due to budget limitations, the engineer must connect a Cisco UCS manager directly Io an FC storage port Which two actions must be taken to complete this connection? (Choose two)
63.
What occurs during a scheduled electronic programmable logic device(EPLD)update of a Cisco fabric switch supervisor module?
64.
A network engineer must determine the cooling requirements for a Cisco UCS C-Series Rack Server. The server with PCle cards is configured with a fan configuration policy. Which configuration should be used for the fan policy of the server?
65.
What is a characteristic of the NFS protocol?
66.
What is a benefit of independent resource scaling in Cisco HyperFlex hybrid architecture?
67.
Which configuration must be used to boot a Cisco UCS C-Series Server using isCSI?
68.
Which component is excluded by default from the host firmware package
69.
An engineer must perform an initial configuration ofVXL AN Tunnel End-Point functionality on the Cisco Nexus 9000 Series platform. All the necessary features are already enabled on the switch. Which configuration set must be used to accomplish this goal?
70.
An engineer is using REST API calls to configure the cisco APIC. Which data structure must be used within a post message to receive a login token?
71.
An engineer must use the Python module in the Guest Shell of the Cisco Nexus 9000 Series Switch to shutdown port Ethernet 1/4. Which command set will accomplish this?
72.
The Cisco Nexus 5600 Series Switch experiences occasional packet drops on interface ethernet 1/16. An engineer wants to implement a SPAN session to investigate the issue further. The network analyzer to which the packets must be directed is located on interface 1/3. The analyzer is limited on disk space available for traffic capture, so the Nexus switch should send only the relevant data. Which two command sets configure the SPAN session that meets these requirements? (Choose two.)
73.
What is the reason the system-fm-vrrp checkpoint was created
74.
Refer to the exhibit.VSAN 2077 has been configured as the primary path.Which configuration must be implemented to allow the Cisco UCS system to enable zoning while the deviceneighbor allows communication using port FC1/24 to the servers?
75.
A network engineer must create an EEM script that saves a copy of the running configuration on bootflash and writes a message to syslog when a user saves the configuration to a Cisco Nexus switch. Which configuration set should be applied to complete this task?
76.
An engineer configures the NetFlow feature on a Cisco NX-OS device. The requirement is to reduce the amount of export data collected by using a sampler. Drag and drop the NetFlow configuration steps from the left onto the implementation needed to meet these requirements on the right. Not all steps are used.
Select and Place:

Correct Answer:

Define a flow record.
Apply a sampler with a flow monitor to the interface.
Enable the NetFlow feature.
Define a flow monitor.
Apply a sampler with a flow record to the interface.
Apply a flow record to the interface.
Define a flow record.
Define a flow monitor.
Enable the NetFlow feature.
Apply a flow record to the interface.
77.
An engineer must configure Protocol Independent Multicast on two Cisco Nexus 9000 Series Switches.The engineer must ensure that the chosen rendezvous point(RP)uses a mappingagent and only supports one RP per multicast group.Which type of RP must be used on both switches to meet these requirements?
78.
Which component becomes unavailable for a maximum of 80 seconds during a nondisruptive Cisco NX-OS upgrade?
79.
A network engineer needs a tool to automate the provisioning of Cisco UCS Service Profiles. The administrator has limited programming knowledge but is skilled with scripting tools. The tool must include existing support for Cisco UCS configuration. Additionally the administrator will eventually use the solution to manage Cisco UCS C-Series Rack Servers. Which tool meets these requirements?
80.
A new user with access privileges in the Finance department moves to a new Admin department. The user must have access privileges to the Admin department data and applications inside the Cisco UCS Manager. Which set of changes must be implemented in Cisco UCS Central for the user to acquire the privileges?
81.
What is a feature of NFS?
82.
n engineer must migrate a Cisco UCS C-Series server from Cisco SingleConnect to direct connect integration mode.The Cisco UCS Manager Rack Server Discovery Policy and Rack Management Connection Policy are set to Immediate and Auto-Acknowledge. Which set of steps accomplishes this task?
84.
Drag and drop the NAS features from the left onto the NAS descriptions on the right. Not all features are used
Select and Place:

ANSWER:
FCoE
Fibre Channel protocol
file-based data storage
UPnP
Ethernet protocol
stripe data and metadata acT05s node
block-bazsed data storage
Ethernet protocol
UPnP
file-based data storage
stripe data and metadata acT05s node
85.
Which type of backup is required to restore a Cisco UCS configuration?
86.
A network administrator must automate the process o pinging al the IP addresses fro the 10.0.0/8 subnet. The subnet is already present in the ARP table of the Cisco Nexus switch Drag and drop the bash commands to generate the desired output. Not all commands are used.

Correct Answer:

87.
The ASA 1 acts as a Layer 3 gateway for all servers.The servers lose the gateway connecuvity when the vPC peer links go down and the vPC keepalive remains up. Which action improves the high availability in the network?
88.
An engineer must confgur aFibe Channel device alias named TEST fora deic attached to por fc19 of a Cisco Nexus Series Swich.Vhich command secompletes the configuration?
89.
What is a feature of EPLD upgrades on a Cisco Nexus 7000 Series Switch
90.
An engineer must create a PowerShell script that leverages the Cisco UCS Manager PowerShell module to submit automated requests to Cisco UCS Manager.The engineer mustautomate the removal of switches from VLANs.Environment variables must provide the VLAN name and switch identifiers.The VLAN must persist when it is removed from the switch port.Which command must the engineer include in the script to accomplish these goals?
91.
Which Cisco UCS firmware reboot policy must be used in the maintenance policy to prevent the server firmware from upgrading automatically and wait for user input before proceeding?
92.
What is the benefit of adding Cisco HyperFlex Hardware Acceleration Cards to a HyperFlex deployment?
93.
Which Cisco UCS component does an infra bundle "A"software upggrade?
94.
An engineer must monitor all LAN traffic on Fabric A from a blade server. Which source should be configured in the test-span monitor session to complete this task?
95.
A customer requires a solution to orchestrate the configuration of storage arrays, firewalls and Cisco ACI networking Additionally the orchestration product must support open automation and a service catalog. Which solution meets these requirements?
96.
An engineer must implement a VXL AN-based data center interconnect. The long-distance transport provided by a service provider is IP-based, supports a maximum MTU of 1554 bytes, and does not support outbound traffic replication. Which action must be taken to build the data center interconnect?
97.
Which two protocols are used by the NFSv4 protocol?(Choose two.)
98.
Refer to the exhibit.A traffic collector virtual machine is installed inside the Cisco UCS server.The collector must monitor traffic that is received on G1/2 with ERSPAN.Which set ofactions must be taken to send the traffic to the traffic collector?
99.
A company is running a pair of cisco Nexus 7706 series switches as part of a data center segment. All network engineers have restricted read-Write access to the core switches. A network engineer must a new FCoE VLAN to allow traffic from services toward FCoE storage. Which set of actions must be taken to meet these requirements?
100.
What are two capabilities of the Cisco Network Assurance Engine? (Choose two.)
101.
Asource is sending a muticas trafic stream t th receiver.How is the mulicast traficexpected to fow through the network when t reaches a vPC peer?
102.
Which two actions should be performed before upgrading the infrastructure and firmware of multiple UCS blades? (Choose two)