QUESTION NO: 1
Which SAN extension topology is a low-latency, cost-effective, high-bandwidth solution that is suitable only within a limited geographical area?
A. FCIP
B. DWDM
C. CWDM
D. SONET/SDH
Answer: C


QUESTION NO: 2
Your Cisco MDS 9509 configuration requires 2000 watts of power and is configured with two 2500W power supplies. If 110V power is provided to the switch, in which power mode does the switch operate?
A. The director will operate in redundant mode only.
B. The director will operate in combined mode only
C. The director will operate in redundant mode or combined mode
D. The director cannot operate with 110V power
Answer: B


QUESTION NO: 3
Which two kinds of applications require sustained throughput and are sensitive to latency? (Choose two.)
A. synchronous replication
B. asynchronous replication
C. OLTP
D. tape backup
E.
F. mail
Answer: A,D
QUESTION NO: 4

Which of the following designs would provide your customer with the highest performance and port utilization?
A. multi-tier design
B. collapsed core design
C. corE.edge design
D. singlE.tier design
Answer: B


QUESTION NO: 5
Refer to the exhibit.

A customer plans to add a tape backup subsystem to its existing storage network. In which location should the customer place the tape backup device in order to provide the best performance during backup and recovery?
A. A
B. B
C. C
D. D

Answer: B


QUESTION NO: 6
Refer to the exhibit.

You are designing a new SAN. The existing SAN uses eight 32-port 2-Gbps Fibre Channel switches. Two of the switches are deployed as core switches, and the remaining six switches are deployed as edge switches. Each edge switch has two ISLs to each of the two core switches. The disk array has twelve 2-Gbps Fibre Channel ports. Each of the 84 servers has a dual-port 1-Gbps Fibre Channel HBA. Which Cisco MDS 9000 configuration would improve performance?
A. two Cisco MDS 9216 switches, with two 48-port Fibre Channel line cards in each switch
B. two Cisco MDS 9506 switches, with three 32-port Fibre Channel line cards in each switch
C. two Cisco MDS 9506 switches, with one 16-port Fibre Channel line card and two 48-port Fibre Channel line cards in each switch
D. two Cisco MDS 9513 switches, with two 48-port Fibre Channel line cards in each switch
Answer: C


QUESTION NO: 7
How does RolE.Based Access Control (RBAC) enhance manageability in an environment with VSANs?
A. limits operator errors by isolating user management domains within a large physical infrastructure

B. specifies port membership to a specific VSAN
C. configures security options for host ports that are assigned to a VSAN
D. configures VSAN membership for specific trunk ports
Answer: A


QUESTION NO: 8
Which three of these Cisco storage and networking devices are optimized for use in FCIP SAN Extension implementations? (Choose three.
A. MDS 92161 Multilayer Fabric Switch
B. IPS-8
C. MDS 9120 Multilayer Fabric Switch
D. MDS 9140 Multilayer Fabric Switch
E. MPS-14/2
F. ssm
Answer: A,B,E
QUESTION NO: 9
Which statement is true concerning the Cisco MDS switch when operating in native interop mode?
A. The MDS switch can interoperate with Non-MDS switches that are certified by SNIA.
B. The MDS switch can interoperate with Non-MDS switches that support "MDS Native" mode.
C. The MDS switch can interoperate with Non-MDS switches that properly adhere to FibreChannel switch standards.
D. The MDS switch cannot interoperate with Non-MDS switches.
Answer: C


QUESTION NO: 10
Which two items are necessary when implementing a highly available SAN design? (Choose two.)
A. redundant hardware
B. localized data backups
C. real-time fabric monitoring
D. nondisruptive upgrades
E. traffic engineering and QoS

Answer: A,D
QUESTION NO: 11
Refer to the exhibit.

Your customer has an existing SAN with eight edge switches and two core switches. In your detailed assessment, which metric will help you convince the customer to consider an alternative, more highly available topology?
A. SFP characteristics .
B. total port count
C. cost of edge switch devices
D. total versus usable ports for end devices

Answer: D


QUESTION NO: 12
Which two of these statements correctly identify how Cisco MDS Series switches increase the overall resiliency of SAN extension? (Choose two.)
A. VSANs and IVR eliminate the potential disruption of a WAN failure.
B. VSANs and IVR increase reliability by combining control traffic and data traffic over the WAN.
C. Parallel tunnels and PortChannels prevent any VSAN or IVR in the local fabric from failing.

D. PortChannels and VSANs can be used with FCIP to provide enD.to-end redundancy and load balancing.
E. Recovery at the PortChannel level, instead of at the FSPF routing level, is non-disruptive.
Answer: D,E
QUESTION NO: 13
Refer to the exhibit.A customer is using an 18/4-Port Multiservice Module in his data center to provide FCIP connectivity to 20 remote sites. The 18/4 MSM has encountered connectivity problems at four of the remote sites. After investigating, the customer's network administrator found that the 18/4 MSM is sending 2300-byte packets, but the receiving switches at the four remote sites do not support jumbo frames. What should you do? Select the best response.

A. Disable packet shaping on the 18/4 MSM.
B. Reduce the minimum retransmit timeout.
C. Disable jumbo frames on the 18/4 MSM.
D. Enable Path MTU Discovery.

Answer: D


QUESTION NO: 14
Which three Fibre Channel switch features are unique to Cisco's MDS 9000 Series switches? (Choose three.)

A. LUN Zoning
B. ReaD-Only Zones
C. Internet-Switch Link
D. Fibre Channel Congestion Control
E. FC Link Aggregation
F. FSPF
Answer: A,B,D
QUESTION NO: 15
Which of the following is the recommended design practice for routing from Cisco MDS to remote iSCSI host subnets?
A. configure a default route on the IPS module
B. configure a static route on the IPS module
C. configure a dynamic IP routing protocol on the IPS module
D. place the iSCSI hosts on the same subnet as the IPS module interface

Answer: B


QUESTION NO: 16
What is an advantage of Cisco MDS 9000 Distributed Device Alias Services over Fibre Channel aliases?
A. Persist across switch reboots
B. Stored on the management server, not on the switch
C. Preserved when devices are moved between VSANs
D. Simplify SAN migration operations
Answer: C


QUESTION NO: 17
A customer has recently deployed a number of Cisco MDS 9509 Multilayer Directors in a new data center. At the time of deployment, it was discovered that 110V AC power circuits had been installed instead of the high-voltage 220V AC circuits that had been ordered. The customer decided to install one of the directors and use the 110V AC circuit. The MDS 9509 is configured with two 2500W AC power supplies. The power supplies are configured in redundant mode.
What is the redundant power capacity of the MDS 9509 in this scenario?

A. 1300
B. 2500
C. 2600
D. 5000
Answer: A


QUESTION NO: 18
A government agency data center that is used for tax processing is located in an earthquake fault zone. A backup data center, located 300 km away, is linked to the main data center over an OC.3 connection. Which of the following provides the best solution to extend the SAN for business continuance and for support of their IP applications?
A. synchronous replication using FCIP
B. iSCSI
C. FCIP and asynchronous replication
D. dark fiber connectivity and use of synchronous replication over FC
Answer: C


QUESTION NO: 19
A customer has two data centers connected by dark fiber and also has a requirement for synchronous data replication between the data centers. If the data centers are 48 km apart, what is the most cost effective solution?
A. CWDM
B. IVR
C. FSPF
D. DWDM
E. Native FC
Answer: A


QUESTION NO: 20
What is the principal cost advantage of a collapsed core SAN design compared to a core-edge design if each connects the same number of host and storage ports?
A. fewer hops for a given exchange

B. fewer long-wave SFPs
C. fewer ISL connections
D. fewer domains on the domain list
E. fewer director-class switches
Answer: C


QUESTION NO: 21
Your customer uses a custom changE.management application. The customer wants running configuration files from Cisco MDS 9000 switches to be saved automatically to an FTP server every night. How can this be accomplished?
A. The customer must purchase Fabric Manager Server to set up automated jobs.
B. The customer must purchase the Enterprise license to enable Batch Job Automation.
C. The customer can use the CFS feature to distribute a command job to each switch in the fabric.
D. The customer can use the CLI Command Scheduler to set up automated jobs.
Answer: D


QUESTION NO: 22
What is the best mechanism to use to isolate backup traffic from other mission-critical traffic?
A. VSANs
B. zones
C. QoS
D. IVR
Answer: A


QUESTION NO: 23
A customer would like to deploy a low-cost solution to implement an asynchronous database.replication application across a distance of 100 kilometers. Select the lowest-cost solution that will meet the requirements.
A. CWDM
B. DWDM
C. FCIP
D. SONET/SDH

Answer: C


QUESTION NO: 24
Your SAN environment requires redundant fabrics with redundant connectivity for 40 database hosts at 2 Gbps of throughput per host. Which two of these configurations are possible? (Choose two.)
A. two 48-port line cards
B. four 48-port line cards
C. four 32-port line cards
D. six 16-portline cards
E. two 32-port line cards and two 16-port line cards
Answer: B,D
QUESTION NO: 25
Which Cisco MDS feature alleviates a head.of.line blocking condition when occasional bursts of traffic exceed the capacity of an end device to receive data?
A. VOQs
B. VSAN allowed list
C. FCC
D. QoS
Answer: A


QUESTION NO: 26
Your customer has a number of data storage requirements:
* servers are not responsible for volume management or data migration storage is provisioned in real time legacy and heterogeneous storage assets can be consolidated and fully utilized data can be protected using simplified snapshot and replication techniques data can be assigned to different classes easily
Which solution would meet these requirements?
A. VSANs
B. Wide-Area Application Services (WAAS)

C. fabric-based virtualization
D. LUN zoning
E. host-based virtualization
Answer: C


QUESTION NO: 27
A customer has 12 hosts, each capable of a sustained I/O rate of 75 MBps. The customer wants to connect these hosts to the fabric with a 32-port line card. For optimal performance what is the maximum number of hosts that should be connected to any four-port, host-optimized quad?
A. one
B. two
C. three
D. four
Answer: C


QUESTION NO: 28
Which Cisco MDS 9500 Series feature addresses the customer requirement for five nines (99.999-percent) availability?
A. active and standby FC line cards
B. virtual output queuing (VOQ)
C. SSM card is installed in the switch
D. nondisruptive software upgrades
E. redundant fan cards
Answer: D

QUESTION NO: 29
What are three benefits of storage consolidation? (Choose three.)
A. management costs are reduced, since fewer people are needed to administer the common management applications
B. bandwidth demands on the network are reduced
C. corporate data is more accessible
D. Fibre Channel is no longer needed to transport traffic

E. existing disk space is utilized more effectively
Answer: A,C,E
QUESTION NO: 30
A customer has deployed a number of Cisco MDS 9509 Multilayer Directors in its data center. Some of the directors were deployed with a pair of 4000W AC power supplies and some were deployed with a pair of 2500W AC power supplies, depending on their locations within the data center. The customer has a pool of spare 4000W power supplies. The power supplies to some of the directors have been configured in combined mode in order to support line card configuration.
One of the 2500W power supplies to an MDS 9509 configured in combined mode fails. The administrator has no additional 2500W power supplies as spare. The administrator replaces the failed 2500W power supply with a 4000W power supply.
What will be the combineD.mode power capacity of the MDS 9509 running on 220V AC power?
A. 1300
B. 2500
C. 5000
D. 6500

Answer: C


QUESTION NO: 31
What are two MDS features that increase the efficiency of a multiple switch Fibre Channel fabric? (Choose two.)
A. Port Channel
B. CDP
C. FCP
D. FCC
E. cup
Answer: A,D
QUESTION NO: 32
Which SFP and mediA.type combination should you recommend for a high-speed 10-kilometer link between two Cisco MDS switches?

A. 4-Gbps-LW, LC SFP, 50/125-micron multi-mode media
B. 4-Gbps-LW, LC SFP, 62.5/125-micron multi-mode media
C. 4-Gbps-LW, LC SFP, 9/125-micron singlE.mode media
D. 4-Gbps-LW, LC SFP, 50/125-micron singlE.mode media

Answer: C


QUESTION NO: 33
What effect does VSAN technology have on typical capacity planning for a storage network?
A. Because of the complete isolation of VSANs, more ports are required in a VSAN environment than in a non-VSAN environment.
B. When capacity planning where VSANs will be implemented, each VSAN must be capacity planned independently of all other VSANs.
C. VSANs are over provisioned separately to provide for capacity growth.
D. Unused ports can easily be redeployed for other applications in other VSANs.
Answer: D


QUESTION NO: 34
Which three solutions would be suitable for data replication between two data centers separated by 450 km? (Choose three.)
A. FCIP over routed IP network
B. FCIP over SONET/SDH
C. ISCSI over SONET/SDH
D. CWDM
E. DWDM
F. dark fiber
Answer: A,B,E
QUESTION NO: 35
Your customer has implemented an IPS-8 for FCIP connectivity to remote sites. How can this customer prevent unauthorized hosts from connecting to the Cisco MDS 9000 fabric through the FCIP interfaces?
A. Configure RADIUS authentication

B. Configure IPSec encryption on the IPS-8
C. Configure IP ACLs on the IPS-8
D. Configure fabric binding on the IPS-8

Answer: C


QUESTION NO: 36
What are two ways of preventing unauthorized hosts from connecting to the management interface of a Cisco MDS 9000 Family switch? (Choose two.)
A. use SNMPv3 only
B. configure IP ACLs
C. configure management VSANs
D. use digital certificates
E. implement RBAC
Answer: B,D
QUESTION NO: 37
A customer is concerned about the security of its SAN. It wants to prevent unauthorized hosts and switches from connecting to the SAN fabric. Which technology should be enabled on the Cisco MDS 9000 SAN to accommodate this customer requirement?
A. DH-CHAP
B. Auto-Learn
C. rolE.based authorization
D. zones
E. SSH
Answer: A


QUESTION NO: 38
What are three characteristics of OLTP storage traffic? (Choose three.)
A. small I/O size
B. large I/O size
C. sustained throughput
D. bursty throughput

E. latency-sensitive
F. not latency-sensitive
Answer: A,D,E
QUESTION NO: 39
Your customer has implemented an IPS-8 for iSCSI connectivity to workgroup servers. How can this customer prevent unauthorized hosts from connecting to the Cisco MDS 9000 fabric through the iSCSI interfaces?
A. Configure RADIUS authentication
B. Configure IPSec encryption on the IPS-8
C. Configure IP ACLs on the IPS-8
D. Configure fabric binding on the IPS-8

Answer: C


QUESTION NO: 40
Which MDS 9000 feature provides protection against rogue hosts impersonating legitimate hosts?
A. Port mode security
B. DH-CHAP
C. Fabric binding
D. SSH
Answer: B

QUESTION NO: 41
Which of these provides fabric-based virtualization for multiple independent software vendors?
A. Storage Services Module (SSM)
B. Cisco MDS 9000 32-port 1/2-Gbps Fibre Channel module
C. Multiprotocol Services module
D. Cisco MDS 9513 Supervisor 2
Answer: A QUESTION NO: 42


What should you do to allow iSCSI hosts on multiple subnets to connect to a single GigE interface on an IPS module?
A. configure multiple VSANs on the IPS module iSCSI interface
B. configure QoS on the IPS module iSCSI interface
C. configure QoS on the IPS module GigE interface
D. configure VLAN subinterfaces on the IPS module GigE interface
Answer: D


QUESTION NO: 43
What is the definition of fan-in ratio as it applies to SANs?
A. the ratio of host ports that need to access a single storage port
B. the ratio of storage ports to a single host port
C. the amount of aggregate port bandwidth in the path from storage port to host port
D. the amount of aggregate bandwidth of ISLs in the path from host port to storage port
Answer: A


QUESTION NO: 44
Which are two characteristics of the Cisco MDS Series fan modules? (Choose two.)
A. Supervisor modules shut down the fan modules when the air temperature is below a preset threshold.
B. If the Fan Status LED turns red, a fan has failed and the module must be replaced.
C. Fan modules monitor air temperature and shut down if the temperature exceeds a preset threshold.
D. Fan modules do not require the switch to be powered off in order to be replaced.
Answer: B,D
QUESTION NO: 45
Your customer wants to implement a SAN with redundant fabrics supporting 600 device ports. Which two Cisco MDS 9000 Family configurations will meet the customer's needs? (Choose two.)
A. two MDS 9509 switches with redundant Supervisor-1 modules

B. two MDS 9509 switches with redundant Supervisor-2 modules
C. two MDS 9513 switches with redundant Supervisor-1 modules
D. two MDS 9513 switches with redundant Supervisor-2 modules
Answer: B,D

QUESTION NO: 46
Which tool requires the Cisco Fabric Manager Server License in order to operate?
A. Cisco Performance Manager
B. Cisco Fabric Manager
C. Cisco SAN Extension Tuner
D. Cisco Fabric Analyzer

Answer: A
QUESTION NO: 47
Refer to the exhibit.

In this scenario, the total bandwidth requirement is 1500 MBps but there are 100 hosts that each need 15MBps of bandwidth. Which two statements are correct about the topologies shown in the exhibit? (Choose two.)
A. If the iSCSIconfiguration has two IPS-8 modules, it will not be oversubscribed.
B. The Fibre Channel implementation will require 100 HBA ports.

C. iSCSI is the more cost-effective solution with high fan-in ratios.
D. The Fibre Channel implementation is the more cost-effective solution with high fan-in ratios.
E. The Fibre Channel implementation would require two 32-port switching modules in the Cisco MDS switches per fabric.
Answer: A,C

QUESTION NO: 48
What are three advantages of a collapsed-core architecture? (Choose three.)
A. This design provides the most efficient use of ports because no ports are consumed for ISLs.
B. The absence of ISLs significantly decreases reliability and manageability.
C. The absence of any oversubscription increases switch throughput.
D. Since there are fewer available paths over which traffic may travel, FSPF values are higher.
E. Ports can be scaled easily by adding hot-swappable blades without disrupting traffic.
F. The highest performance is achieved by director-class switches, because the high-speed backplane provides low fixed latency between any two ports.
Answer: A,E,F
QUESTION NO: 49 DRAG DROP
Drop
Match the Cisco Value Added feature to the potential issue it would most likely solve.

Answer: Explanation:





QUESTION NO: 50
Select three advantages of using fabric-based storage virtualization instead of host-based virtualization. (Choose three.)
A. offers a single point of management
B. supports heterogeneous storage
C. does not require a host agent
D. insulates the hosts from storage changes
E. provides mirroring
Answer: A,C,D
QUESTION NO: 51
A customer recently deployed a pair of Cisco MDS 9216i Multilayer Fabric Switches to support an ERP application. The MDS 92161 expansion slot is still unused. The customer examined other infrastructure services and applications to determine if they should leverage the SAN storage capacity, and decided that it would be beneficial to attach eight Microsoft Exchange servers to the SAN. Each Microsoft Exchange server generally drives approximately 50 MBps of disk throughput

and has two Fibre Channel host bus adapters. Which line card should be used to support the Microsoft Exchange server SAN connectivity?
A. 16-port Fibre Channel line card
B. 32-port Fibre Channel line card
C. Multiprotocol Services Module line card
D. None; use the IP storage interfaces.

Answer: B


QUESTION NO: 52
What are three key benefits of implementing a SAN using iSCSI? (Choose three.)
A. uses existing IP networking, monitoring, and management infrastructure
B. is more efficient than FC since it requires fewer encapsulations
C. maintains consistent performance over IP networks of varying distances
D. significant capital cost reduction by substituting iSCSI as a transport technology
E. extends existing FC SAN to IP connected hosts
Answer: A,D,E
QUESTION NO: 53
Your customer has 40 servers attached to the edge switch in a corE.edge design. Each server's average throughput is between 22 and 35 MB. How many 4 GB ISLs should be provisioned between the edge and the core, and what will the ISL oversubscription ratio be?
A. 4,20:1
B. 8,5:1
C. 4, 10:1
D. 8, 10:1

Answer: C


QUESTION NO: 54
A customer has a need to synchronously replicate data from the primary data center to a standby data center that is 30 kilometers away. The customer owns the fiber between the two data centers and uses the link for Gigabit Ethernet connectivity today. The Gigabit Ethernet connection is heavily utilized and generally remains at 90-percent utilization. The customer expects that the replication traffic will require approximately 30 MBps, and is looking for a low-cost solution. Which replication solution would you recommend?

A. FCIP
B. CWDM
C. DWDM
D. ISCSI
Answer: B


QUESTION NO: 55
How are Cisco MDS 9000 distributed device aliases synchronized between all switches in the fabric?
A. using the Cisco Fabric Services (CFS) feature
B. using the Fabric Manager Import/Export Alias feature
C. as part of fabric merge events
D. using Fabric Manager Server only
Answer: A
QUESTION NO: 56
Refer to the exhibit.


What port type should be used between the two switches to maximize performance?
A. B
B. E
C. F
D. NL
E. TE
Answer: B


QUESTION NO: 57
Which technology should be used to provide transparent low latency FC transport across a metropolitan area?
A. DWDM
B. FCIP
C. ISCSI

D. IFCP
Answer: A


QUESTION NO: 58
You are implementing an FCIP solution for SAN extension between two data centers using the Cisco MDS 9000 platform. For redundancy, there are two Metro Ethernet paths between the data centers. How can you specify the primary and secondary path for each FCIP tunnel?
A. Configure OSPF routing on the IPS-8
B. Configure EIGRP routing on the IPS-8
C. Configure static routes on the IPS-8
D. Configure QoS on the IPS-8
Answer: C


QUESTION NO: 59
Select three characteristics of the Cisco coarse wave division multiplexing (CWDM) solution. (Choose three.)
A. multiplexes up to eight wavelengths across a single fiber pair
B. supports a maximum connection length of 220 kilometers
C. supports both linear and ring topologies
D. requires OADMs (optical add/drop multiplexers) to aggregate multiple wavelengths across the same fiber pair
E. can be optically amplified to extend the distance characteristics
Answer: A,C,D
QUESTION NO: 60
A customer would like to add Cisco MDS switches to an existing Brocade environment with minimal disruption. The Brocade switches are using PID.0 mode. Which two features will enable the creation of a Cisco-Brocade heterogeneous fabric without restricting the feature set of either switch? (Choose two.)
A. interop mode 1
B. interop mode 2
C. interop mode 3

D. ivr
E. PortChannels
F. CWDM
Answer: B,D

QUESTION NO: 61
In a core-edge SAN implementation, which statement is true about oversubscription?
A. Oversubscription in a core-edge design is implemented by using N_Ports.
B. A core-edge design has manageable oversubscription, but at the cost of used ISL ports.
C. When using a core-edge design, there is only oversubscription when it is implemented in a heterogeneous environment.
D. When using full-rate mode ports, there is no oversubscription in a core-edge implementation.

Answer: B


QUESTION NO: 62
What are three reasons to implement VSANs in a Fibre Channel SAN? (Choose three.)
A. to reduce network infrastructure requirements
B. to increase data security
C. to enable port-channeling
D. to share SAN extension capability using EISLs
Answer: A,B,D
QUESTION NO: 63
Select three common attributes of Gigabit Ethernet compared to Fibre Channel as a storage transport service. (Choose three.)
A. high bandwidth
B. low bandwidth
C. high latency
D. long distance
Answer: B,C,D QUESTION NO: 64



In addition to providing secure computer room access, what three MDS 9000 features can help enhance physical security? (Choose three.)
A. the placement of all unused FC ports in a VSAN set to "deny"
B. the placement of every host in its ownZoneSet that includes its storage devices
C. the use of the port security feature to bindpWWNs and sVVWNs to specific ports
D. the use of DH-CHAP authentication to ensure fabric level security
Answer: A,C,D
QUESTION NO: 65
A customer has 80% of the total storage space directly connected to servers. The storage space needs are growing at 50% per year Given these facts, which solution is recommended?
A. server consolidation
B. storage expansion
C. storage consolidation
D. increase in server capacity

Answer: C


QUESTION NO: 66
A customer has four data centers within corporate headquarters. The company owns its own fiber infrastructure and has laid dark fiber in between each of the four data centers. Each of the data centers has a storage area network that includes application servers, disk arrays, and tape devices. Servers from each of the buildings require access to storage devices in different buildings. The administrator would like to design a highly resilient topology that allows for a single hop from server to storage across data centers. Which SAN topology between the data centers would best fit this requirement?
A. partial mesh
B. core-edge
C. collapsed core
D. full mesh
Answer: D QUESTION NO: 67


Which three applications would be best suited for a SAN rather than a NAS environment? (Choose three.)
A. web content services
B. order entry and inventory tracking
C. enterprise resource planning (ERP)
D. credit card transactions
Answer: B,C,D
QUESTION NO: 68
What MDS 9000 feature provides more efficient SAN utilization by creating hardware-based isolated environments within a single physical SAN infrastructure?
A. VSAN
B. port channel
C. SPAN
D. trunking

Answer: A


QUESTION NO: 69
Which statement is true about LUN zoning in a heterogeneous environment?
A. LUN zoning requires no special configuration on storage arrays.
B. use LUN zoning instead of LUN masking to centralize management in mixed storage environments.
C. LUN masking should be used in all situations.
D. Hardware-enforced LUN zoning helps to ensure that LUNs are accessible by all hosts.
Answer: B

QUESTION NO: 70
What are three causes of host oversubscription? (Choose three.)
A. the operating system
B. the PCI bus limitations

C. the RTO and RPO values
D. the limits on the maximum I/O and bandwidth rate
Answer: A,B,D
QUESTION NO: 71
What technology minimizes the potential for service interruption on SAN extension links?
A. VSANs andlVR
B. FCIP
C. VRRP
D. Port Channeling

Answer: D


QUESTION NO: 72
SAN is short for Storage Area Network. Your SAN environment needs redundant fabrics with redundant connectivity for 40 database hosts at 2 Gbps of throughput each host. Which two configurations are possible? (Choose two.)
A. four 32-port line cards
B. four 48-port line cards
C. two 48-port line cards
D. six 16-port line cards
Answer: B,D

QUESTION NO: 73
What provides storage virtualization from IBM?
A. Storage Services Module (SSM)
B. Caching Services Module (CSM)
C. Cisco MDS 9000 32-port 1/2-Gbps FC Module
D. Advanced Services Module (ASM)
Answer: B QUESTION NO: 74


A customer is designing a SAN to support a new OLTP application. The application requires four UNIX servers. Each server has two 2-Gbps host bus adapters and can burst up to 180 MBps. The disk array for the application has four 2-Gbps Fibre Channel interfaces.
Which solution meets the design requirements of this application in the most cost-effective manner?
A. Two Cisco MDS 9120 Multilayer Fabric Switches
B. Two Cisco MDS 9506 Multilayer Directors, each with one 32-portFibre Channel line card
C. Two Cisco MDS 9216 Multilayer Fabric Switches
D. Two Cisco MDS 9506 Multilayer Directors, each with one 16-portFibre Channel line card
Answer: A


QUESTION NO: 75
Which advantage is of Cisco MDS 9000 Distributed Device Alias Services over Fibre Channel aliases?
A. Simplify SAN migration operations
B. Persist across switch reboots
C. Preserved when devices are moved between VSANs
D. Stored on the management server, not on the switch
Answer: C

QUESTION NO: 76
When designing a SAN. what is considered to be the most significant security threat?
A. WWN Spoofing
B. Management Access
C. FCJD Spoofing
D. Denial of Service attacks
Answer: B
QUESTION NO: 77

Which two will allow a fully loaded Cisco MDS 9509 Multilayer Director to meet the 2190-W requirement? (Choose two.)
A. two 110-V power supplies that are placed into active/standby power mode
B. two 220-V power supplies in redundant mode
c.
two 110-V power supplies that are placed into combined power mode

D.
two 110-V power supplies in redundant mode


Answer: B


QUESTION NO: 78
Which statement best defines storage consolidation?
A. making an enterprise's total storage networking less costly by usingiSCSI
B. making anenterpnse's disk space, servers, and tape libraries highly available to the entire enterprise, often by placing them in a SAN
C. making an enterprise's total disk space highly available by transferring copies of an enterprise's total storage space to an offsite location
D. making an enterprise's total disk space highly available to the entire enterprise, often by placing it in a SAN
Answer: B
QUESTION NO: 79
Refer to the exhibit.


A customer has 12 hosts, each capable of a sustained I/O rate of 150 MB/s. A customer wants to connect these hosts to the fabric with a 44/4-port line card. What is the maximum number of hosts that should be connected to any 12-port port group for optimal performance? Select the best response.
A. 1
B. 4
C. 6
D. 12
Answer: C


QUESTION NO: 80
Refer to the exhibit. Which two types of device would be used for minimum connectivity? (Choose two.)


A. Cisco MDS 9124
B. Cisco MDS 9506
C. Cisco MDS 9509
D. Cisco MDS 9513
E. Cisco MDS 9222i
Answer: A,E
QUESTION NO: 81
Which switches are software-based devices? Select the best response.
A. Cisco Nexus 5010
B. Cisco Nexus 5020
C. Cisco Nexus 1000V
D. Cisco Nexus 2000


Answer: C


QUESTION NO: 82
Which Cisco Nexus switch is used where servers have been deployed with VMware ESX? Select the best response.
A. Cisco Nexus 5010
B. Cisco Nexus 5020
C. Cisco Nexus 2000
D. Cisco Nexus 1000V
Answer: D


QUESTION NO: 83
How many of the 40 fixed 10GE/FCoE/DCE ports on the Cisco Nexus 5020 Switch support 1GE connectivity? Select the best response.
A. none
B. 8
C. 16
D. all of them
Answer: C


QUESTION NO: 84
Which licensing model must be used when deploying either a Cisco Nexus 5010 or 5020 Switch with FC expansion modules that will be used to connect Fibre Channel storage devices? Select the best response.
A. Storage Protocol license
B. Fabric Manager Server license
C. Enterprise license
D. only base software image
Answer: A
QUESTION NO: 85

Refer to the exhibit. What is the traffic path for devices that are attached to the same Cisco Nexus 2000 Fabric Extender? Select the best response.

A. Traffic is always switched by the Cisco Nexus 5000 switch.
B. All traffic is locally switched.
C. The first packet is switched by the Cisco Nexus 5000 switch; all subsequent packets are locally switched.
D. FLOGI is processed by the Cisco Nexus 5000 switch; subsequent traffic is locally processed.
Answer: A
QUESTION NO: 86

How many Cisco Nexus 2000 FEX switches are supported by a single Cisco Nexus 5000 switch? Select the best response.
A. 2
B. 5
C. 9
D. 12

Answer: D


QUESTION NO: 87
What is true regarding the Layer 2 connectivity between the Cisco Nexus 2000 FEX switch and Cisco Nexus 5000 switch? Select the best response.
A. A Cisco Nexus 2000 FEX switch supports only the RSTP protocol.
B. MSTP should be used if multiple VLANs are deployed on a Cisco Nexus 2000 FEX switch.
C. UplinkFast should be used to speed up the Layer 2 convergence in case of an uplink failure.
D. There is no spanning tree between a Cisco Nexus 2000 FEX switch and a Cisco Nexus 5000 switch.
Answer: D


QUESTION NO: 88
In a Cisco Nexus 5000 switch, what is the maximum number of Fibre Channel interfaces that can be installed? Select the best response.
A. 8
B. 16
C. 32
D. 48
Answer: B


QUESTION NO: 89
Which two interoperability modes are supported when attaching to a Brocade switch in native mode? (Choose two.)
A. interop mode 2

B. interop mode 4
C. interop mode 3
D. interop mode auto
E. interop mode 5
Answer: A,C
QUESTION NO: 90
Which two are benefits of using a Cisco Nexus 5000 switch for server LAN and SAN connectivity if FCoE is deployed? (Choose two.)
A. multiple fault domains
B. reduced number of server adapters
C. better storage utilization
D. reduced cabling
E. migration of storage devices fromFibre Channel to FCoE
Answer: B,D

QUESTION NO: 91
What is the benefit of FCoE when compared to iSCSI or FCIP? Select the best response.
A. less overhead, because frames are directly encapsulated in the Ethernet frames
B. uses the same LAN infrastructure for TCP/IP and storage traffic
C. is available on all Cisco MDS and Cisco Nexus switches
D. does not require special network cards to be installed in the servers

Answer: A


QUESTION NO: 92
Why would a SAN administrator configure a Fibre Channel switch to use HBA mode by enabling NPV? Select the best response.
A. to limit domain ID consumption
B. to deploy VSANs towards servers
C. to provide persistent FCID assignment to HP-UX servers
D. to achieve better security in a blade-server environment

Answer: A


QUESTION NO: 93
Which two options can be used by the CFS to distribute the fabric configuration? (Choose two.)
A. IP
B. Fibre Channel
C. FCoE
D. Ethernet
E. iSCSI
Answer: A,B
QUESTION NO: 94
Which license package is required for the FICON functionality? Select the best response.
A. Enterprise package
B. SAN Extension package
C. Mainframe package
D. Storage Services package
E. Storage Protocol package

Answer: C


QUESTION NO: 95
A SAN administrator would like to test FCIP using the existing 18/4-Port Multiservice Module in a Cisco MDS 9500 switch that is currently used for iSCSI connectivity. To test FCIP, the administrator should use the SAN extension over IP package. Which option will allow this test to occur? Select the best response.
A. The appropriate license package is already enclosed with the 18/4 MSM.
B. The 120-day grace period can be used to test the functionality.
C. The license package needs to be purchased.
D. The switch has to be upgraded to a different Cisco NX-OS feature set.
Answer: B QUESTION NO: 96


To operate properly, which two modules require that a Fabric 2 module is installed? (Choose two.)
A. 4/44-port 8-Gb/s module
B. 24-port 8-Gb/s module
C. 48-port 4-Gb/s module
D. 4-port 10-Gb/s module
E. 48-port 8-Gb/s module
Answer: B,E
QUESTION NO: 97
How many port groups capable of sustaining two-way 12.8 Gb/s of bandwidth does a 24 port 8-Gb/s module have? Select the best response.
A. eight port groups
B. six port groups
C. two port groups
D. four port groups

Answer: A


QUESTION NO: 98
Which two modules offer full line rate on all interfaces? (Choose two.)
A. 12-port 4-Gb/s module
B. 4/44-port 8-Gb/s module
C. 48-port 4-Gb/s module
D. 4-port 10-Gb/s module
E. 48-port 8-Gb/s module
Answer: A,D
QUESTION NO: 99
If some ports in a group are not used, what can be done to release the bandwidth resources for that port in the group? Select the best response.

A. Ports should be put in another port group.
B. Ports not used can be placed out of service.
C. Ports should be configured with a low B2B credit number.
D. Priority queuing should be used to dedicate the bandwidth.

Answer: B


QUESTION NO: 100
During the initial set up, what is necessary to use the extended buffer credits? Select the best response.
A. 12-port 4-Gb/s line card must be used.
B. Cisco NX-OS 4.1 must be used.
C. Interface must be configured with TE port type.
D. Enterprise license package must be used
Answer: D


QUESTION NO: 101
During configuration, how are challenges with NPIV deployment addressed? Select the best response.
A. sharing the same HBA by multiple virtual machines
B. virtualizing the storage device
C. disruptive server replacements
D. primary and backup storage device connectivity
Answer: A


QUESTION NO: 102
An organization has just realized that the data stored on disk array servers is accessible to unauthorized users. What should be done to secure the data immediately? Select the best response.
A. IPsec
B. SME
C. RBAC
D. FC-SP

Answer: B


QUESTION NO: 103
Which component of the Cisco MDS 9509 director switch can fail and the switch will continue to run without downtime? Select the best response.
A. power supply
B. fan tray
C. supervisor
D. crossbar
Answer: B


QUESTION NO: 104
What is the prerequisite for accessibility, when a customer has a Cisco MDS 92222i switch deployed in two different locations with the mgmt0 port located in the management VLAN? Select the best response.
A. ACLs should be properly configured.
B. IP routes in management network should point to the remote location.
C. RADIUS server should be authenticating the Cisco MDS switches.
D. Each Cisco MDS switch should have individual VSANs.
Answer: B
QUESTION NO: 105
Refer to the exhibit.


A customer has a redundant topology with 108 servers, 6 storage arrays, and 1 tape library. The servers and tape library each have 2 x 8-Gb/s connectivity to the SAN and the storage arrays each have 4 x 8-Gb/s connectivity. The servers all require an equal amount of bandwidth and the storage arrays must have full line rate speeds with each connection to the SAN. According to this topology, which are the most effective connectivity line cards? Select the best response.
A. 2 x 24-port 8-Gbps cards and 3 x 48-port 8-Gb/s cards
B. 4 x 24-port 8-Gbps cards and 6 x 48-port 8-Gb/s cards
C. 2 x 24-port 8-Gbps cards and 6 x 48-port 8-Gb/s cards
D. 4 x 24 port 8-Gbps cards and 3 x 48-port 8-Gb/s cards
Answer: B
QUESTION NO: 106
Refer to the exhibit.


A customer has a mixed environment consisting of a mainframe server and storage pair; a second storage array and a tape library dedicated to open systems, and a set of Windows and UNIX servers. What would be the minimum workable logical configuration that would allow these devices to coexist on a single pair of Cisco MDS director switches? Select the best response.
A. single VSAN and one zone for each server type (three zones total)
B. two VSANs and one zone for each server type (three zones total)
C. three VSANs, default zone policy set to "allow" and Inter-VSAN Routing for storage sharing
D. two VSANs and one zone for each initiator-target connection (149 zones total)
Answer: B
QUESTION NO: 107
Refer to the exhibit.


A customer has 6 OLTP database servers, 6 data-mining database servers, 6 video streaming servers, 6 mail servers, and 12 file servers. All servers have dual 8-Gbps host bus adapters for redundancy and all will connect to the same pair of Cisco MDS 9513 directors. What would be the most cost-effective way of connecting the servers to the directors, while still maintaining their bandwidth requirements? The assumption is that the OLTP and mail servers will utilize 50% of the bandwidth, data-mining and video streaming servers will utilize 100% of the bandwidth, and file servers will utilize 25% of the bandwidth. Choose the best combination of line cards. Select the best response.

A. 1 x 48-port 8-Gb/s FC switching module
B. 2 x 24-port 8-Gb/s FC switching module
C. 1 x 24-port 8-Gb/s FC switching module, 1 x 48-port 8-Gb/s FC switching module
D. 1 x 24-port 8-Gb/s FC switching module, 1 x 4/44-port 8-Gb/s FC switching module
Answer: C


QUESTION NO: 108
A customer is adopting the Cisco MDS switches in their environment with a goal that they will eventually replace the existing Brocade switches. While the two switch types will coexist, they have to use standards-based interoperability mode because of the storage-vendor support requirements. Which settings will have to be used within certain values for this interoperability mode to function? Select the best response.
A. Only two VSANs can be used.
B. Domain IDs between 97 and 127 must be used.
C. Only port-based zoning can be used.
D. Fabric can have a maximum of three switches
Answer: B
QUESTION NO: 109
Refer to the exhibit.

A. interop mode 1
B. interop mode 2
C. interop mode 3

D. interop mode 4
Answer: C


QUESTION NO: 110
Refer to the exhibit.

Due to past acquisitions and mergers, a customer has an extremely mixed environment that contains Cisco, Brocade, and McData Fibre Channel switches. The switches are all interconnected and VSANs are used to keep them all running in native mode. A customer just purchased a new enterprise tape library, which is to be shared by the different departments. How can this be achieved most efficiently? Select the best response.
A. Create a zone with a library and all servers that need access to it.
B. Use Inter-VSAN Routing to grant access to the devices that need access to the library.
C. Connect the library physically to different switches so that servers can have direct access.
D. Use persistent FC-ID functionality to map the library to the proper servers.
Answer: B
QUESTION NO: 111
On a Cisco MDS, which command would enable interop 2 mode? Select the best response.

A. MDS #vsan 200 interop 2
B. MDS (config)# interop 2
C. MDS (config)# vsan 200 interop 2
D. MDS (config-vsan-db)# vsan 200 interop 2

Answer: D


QUESTION NO: 112
Refer to the exhibit.

A customer has two SAN environments that he wants to join together. Before doing this, the customer examines the zoning information on both border switches. What will happen when the switches are connected together? Select the best response.
A. Zones will merge, since there are no conflicting entries.
B. Zones will merge, even though there are conflicting entries.
C. Zones will not merge until the conflicting entries are resolved.
D. Zones will not merge until one of the switches has its zoning configuration cleared.
Answer: C


QUESTION NO: 113
Refer to the exhibit.


A customer has four Cisco MDS directors connected into a single SAN. Each of the switches has three VSANs configured that span the whole SAN. Domain IDs are statically configured on all the directors for each of the VSANs. Will this topology work? Select the best response.
A. No, because domain IDs are repeating in different VSANs.
B. No, because domain IDs are repeating within the blue VSAN.
C. Yes, because domain IDs do not have to be unique.
D. Yes, because domain IDs can be dynamically changed by the switches.
Answer: B


QUESTION NO: 114
What command would you execute to change the domain ID on a Cisco MDS switch? Select the best response.
A. mds(config)# fcdomain domain 3 static vsan 1 mds(config)# fcdomain restart disruptive vsan 1
B. mds(config)# fcdomain domain 3 static vsan 1 mds(config)# fcdomain vsan 1 restart
C. mds(config)# vsan 1 mds(config-vsan-db)# fcdomain domain 3 static mds(configvsan-db)# fcdomain restart disruptive
D. mds(config-vsan-db)# fcdomain domain 3 static vsan 1 mds(config-vsan-db)# fcdomain restart vsan 1

Answer: A


QUESTION NO: 115
Refer to the exhibit.

A customer has two separate SAN topologies. One is using Brocade switches and the other is using McData switches. At the present time these implementations need to remain intact, but they need to start sharing the resources between them. Which option is the best way to do that? Select the best response.
A. Simply connectMcData and Brocade switches together.
B. Add a Cisco MDS switch and use Inter-VSAN Routing to connect shared devices.
C. This is not possible without putting Brocade andMcData into interop modes.
D. Add two Cisco MDS switches and use FCIP connectivity to bridge incompatible SANs.
Answer: B


QUESTION NO: 116
What are two recommended ways for protecting the management access to a Cisco MDS switch? (Choose two.)
A. Use ACLs.
B. Use only console cable.
C. Use Telnet access.
D. Use management VLAN.
E. Use management VSAN.
Answer: A,D
QUESTION NO: 117
Refer to the exhibit.


What is the proper procedure to replace existing Fibre Channel switches with Cisco MDS switches to ensure minimum downtime? Select the best response.
A. Shut down the whole environment and replace all the switches.
B. Shut down one fabric at a time and replace only the shut down switches.
C. Shut down individual switches and replace them one at a time.
D. Bring in Cisco switches and unplug storage and servers from the old switches and plug them into the Cisco switches.
Answer: B


QUESTION NO: 118
A customer wants to connect a McData switch to your Cisco MDS SAN. Which interop mode would you choose to maintain the maximum feature set on both sides of the SAN? Select the best response.
A. interop mode 1
B. interop mode 2
C. interop mode 3
D. interop mode 4
Answer: D
QUESTION NO: 119
Refer to the exhibit.


A customer has two sites with separate SAN setups and Brocade switches. The customer is considering using the sites for disaster recovery purposes and needs to connect them. The sites are about 150 km apart. The bandwidth required is estimated to be less than 800 Mb/s.What is the most cost-effective solution? Select the best response.
A. Connect the Brocade switches directly withFibre Channel links and set the maximum amount of BB_Credits.
B. Use DWDM connectivity, available from the localtelco provider.
C. Add Cisco MDS 9222i switches and use FCIP connectivity between the two sites.
D. Add Cisco MDS 9124 switches and connect them directly with optical links by taking advantage of their extended amount ofBB_Credits.
Answer: C


QUESTION NO: 120
A customer recently deployed four Cisco MDS 9222i Multilayer Fabric Switches, two at each location. The locations are approximately 150 km apart. The customer will use the FCIP connectivity for backup to the remote site. The backup server generally requires approximately 6 Gb/s of throughput to keep tapes streaming and has two 8-Gb/s Fibre Channel host bus adapters. How should the inter-site connectivity be accomplished? Select the best response.
A. 1 x 8-Gb/s FC port on each switch over a dark-fiber connection
B. 2 x 2-Gb/sFCoE connections on each switch
C. 3 x 1-Gb/sFCoE connections on each switch with Port-Channel and encryption
D. 6 x 1-Gb/sFCoE connections on each switch with Port-Channel
Answer: D


QUESTION NO: 121
Which option should be used to ensure the lowest possible downtime during the migration process? Select the best response.

A. SDV
B. FlexAttach
C. NPIV
D. SAN Extension
Answer: A


QUESTION NO: 122
When connecting two Fibre Channel networks across an IP network, what tool would aid in setting up the proper WAN parameters? Select the best response.
A. SAN Extension Tuner
B. Switch Health Analysis
C. End-to-end Connectivity Analysis
D. Fabric Analysis
Answer: A


QUESTION NO: 123
A customer is about to deploy a primary and secondary data center using the service provider's network to connect the data center's IP and Fibre Channel networks to connect the SAN island with FCIP tunnels. What should the service provider's equipment support to maximize the FCIP throughput with minimum overhead? Select the best response.
A. FCoE
B. jumbo frames
C. FC read/write acceleration
D. ExtendedBB_Credits
Answer: B


QUESTION NO: 124
The 18/4 MSM module uses the FCIP with standard Ethernet MTU size of 1518 bytes. What happens when larger Fibre Channel frames are received by the MDS switch? Select the best response.
A. Fibre Channel frames larger than 1500 bytes are discarded.
B. Ethernet MTU is dynamically adjusted to theFibre Channel frame size.

C. A second FCIP session is opened to adjust to the largeFibre Channel frames.
D. FC frames are fragmented to accommodate the Ethernet frame size.
Answer: D


QUESTION NO: 125
Refer to the exhibit.

A customer wants to deploy an FCIP-based connectivity to three remote sites. To achieve that, 18/4 MSMs at a central site and on each of the remote sites are connected through a single Layer 2 Ethernet connection through an Ethernet switched network. To follow the IP addressing scheme, the FCIP sessions must be in separate IP subnets. What should be used to allow such a deployment? Select the best response.
A. The 18/4 MSM should have a loopback interface.
B. The 18/4 MSM should be replaced with an IPS-8 at the central side.
C. VLANs are deployed with threesubinterfaces on the 18/4 MSM.
D. A deflate compression should be used with FCIP.
Answer: C


QUESTION NO: 126
What is one benefit of using VLANs with an FCIP deployment? Select the best response.
A. Different IP subnets can be used for different FCIP sessions through a single GE interface.
B. The 18/4 MSM can route between VLANs, thus providing inter-FCIP connectivity.
C. IP subnet can be reused across different FCIP sessions.
D. FCIP andiSCSI can be deployed in different VLANs.

Answer: A


QUESTION NO: 127
An IPS module is connected through a single GE interface to an Ethernet network where the iSCSI-attached servers reside. The servers are configured with different IP subnets. What would allow the servers to be connected to the Fibre Channel targets via a single GE interface with minimum disruption? Select the best response.
A. dynamic routing on MDS
B. VLANs andsubinterfaces
C. three loopback addresses on MDS
D. additional router installed between MDS and servers
Answer: B


QUESTION NO: 128
When an IPFC is used to deploy in-band management, what is the equivalent of the VLAN management interface? Select the best response.
A. VSAN interface
B. subinterface
C. FCIP interface
D. BVI interface
Answer: A


QUESTION NO: 129
How are VLANs configured on a trunk link between a LAN switch and an 18/4 MSM attached to an MDS? Select the best response.
A. via FCIP interfaces
B. via loopback interfaces
C. viasubinterfaces
D. viaiSCSI interfaces
Answer: C QUESTION NO: 130


A customer has implemented an 18/4 MSM for FCIP connectivity to remote sites. How can this customer prevent unauthorized hosts from connecting to the Cisco MDS 9000 fabric through the FCIP interfaces? Select the best response.
A. Configure RADIUS authentication.
B. ConfigureIPsec encryption on the 18/4 MSM.
C. Configure IP ACLs on the 18/4 MSM.
D. Configure fabric binding on the 18/4 MSM.
Answer: C


QUESTION NO: 131
Refer to the exhibit. You are designing a new SAN. The existing SAN uses eight 32-port 4-Gb/s Fibre Channel switches. Two of the switches are deployed as core switches, and six switches are deployed as edge switches. Each edge switch has four ISLs to one of the two core switches. The disk array has twelve 4-Gb/s Fibre Channel ports. Each of the 84 servers has two 2-Gb/s HBA ports each. Which Cisco MDS 9000 configuration would improve performance? Select the best response.

A. Two Cisco MDS 9222i switches, with 48-port 1/2/4-Gb/sFibre Channel line cards in each switch
B. two Cisco MDS 9506 switches, with one 44/4-port 1/2/4/8-Gb/sFibre Channel line card in each switch
C. two Cisco MDS 9506 switches, with one 12-port 1/2/4-Gb/sFibre Channel line card and one 48-port 1/2/4/8-Gb/s Fibre Channel line card in each switch
D. two Cisco MDS 9513 switches, with two 48-port 1/2/4-Gb/sFibre Channel line cards in each switch

Answer: C