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350-601 Implementing Cisco Data Center Core Technologies (DCCOR)

350-601 DCCOR

Certifications: CCNP Data Center, CCIE Data Center, Cisco Certified Specialist - Data Center Core

Duration: 120 minutes



This test tests your knowledge of implementing core data center technologies, including:

- Network

- Compute

- Storage network

- Automation

- Security



Exam Description

The Implementing and Operating Cisco Data Center Core Technologies v1.0 (DCCOR 350-601) test is a 120-minute test associated with the CCNP Data Center, Cisco Certified Specialist - Data Center Core, and CCIE Data Center certifications. This test tests a candidate's knowledge of implementing core data center technologies including network, compute, storage network, automation, and security. The course, Implementing and Operating Cisco Data Center Core Technologies, helps candidates to prepare for this exam.



25% 1.0 Network

1.1 Apply routing protocols

1.1.a OSPFv2, OSPFv3

1.1.b MP-BGP

1.1.c PIM

1.1.d FHRP

1.2 Apply switching protocols such as RSTP+, LACP and vPC

1.3 Apply overlay protocols such as VXLAN EVPN and OTV

1.4 Apply ACI concepts

1.4.a Fabric setup

1.4.b Access policies

1.4.c VMM

1.4.d Tenant policies

1.5 Analyze packet flow (unicast, multicast, and broadcast)

1.6 Analyze Cloud service and deployment models (NIST 800-145)

1.7 Describe software updates and their impacts

1.7.a Disruptive / nondisruptive

1.7.b EPLD

1.7.c Patches

1.8 Implement network configuration management

1.9 Implement infrastructure monitoring such as NetFlow and SPAN

1.10 Explain network assurance concepts such as streaming telemetry

25% 2.0 Compute

2.1 Implement Cisco Unified Compute System Rack Servers

2.2 Implement Cisco Unified Compute System Blade Chassis

2.2.a Initial setup

2.2.b Infrastructure management

2.2.c Network management (VLANs, pools and policies, templates, QoS)

2.2.d Storage management (SAN connectivity, Fibre Channel zoning, VSANs, WWN pools, SAN policies, templates)

2.2.e Server management (Server pools and boot policies)

2.3 Explain HyperFlex Infrastructure Concepts and benefits (Edge and Hybrid Architecture vs all-flash)

2.4 Describe firmware and software updates and their impacts on B-Series and C-Series servers

2.5 Implement compute configuration management (Backup and restore)

2.6 Implement infrastructure monitoring such as SPAN and Intersight

20% 3.0 Storage Network

3.1 Implement Fibre Channel

3.1.a Switch fabric initialization

3.1.b Port channels

3.1.c FCID

3.1.d CFS

3.1.e Zoning

3.1.f FCNS

3.1.g Device alias

3.1.h NPV and NPIV

3.1.i VSAN

3.2 Implement FCoE Unified Fabric (FIP and DCB)

3.3 Describe NFS and NAS concepts

3.4 Describe software updates and their impacts (Disruptive/nondisruptive and EPLD)

3.5 Implement infrastructure monitoring

15% 4.0 Automation

4.1 Implement automation and scripting tools

4.1.a EEM

4.1.b Scheduler

4.1.c Bash Shell and Guest Shell for NX-OS

4.1.d REST API

4.1.e JSON and XML encodings

4.2 Evaluate automation and orchestration technologies

4.2.a Ansible

4.2.b Puppet

4.2.c Python

4.2.d POAP

4.2.e DCNM

4.2.f UCSD

4.2.g PowerShell

15% 5.0 Security

5.1 Apply network security

5.1.a AAA and RBAC

5.1.b ACI contracts and microsegmentation

5.1.c First-hop security features such as dynamic ARP inspection (DAI), DHCP snooping, and port security

5.1.d CoPP

5.2 Apply compute security

5.2.a AAA and RBAC

5.2.b Keychain authentication

5.3 Apply storage security

5.3.a AAA and RBAC

5.3.b Port security

5.3.c Fabric binding
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Question: 73
The Cisco Nexus switch Generic Online Diagnostics policy for a PortLoopback test requires 10 consecutive failures to error disable the port. The customer wants to change it to 5 consecutive failures.
Which configuration applies the changes for module 1 only?
A. Option A
B. Option B
C. Option C
D. Option D
Answer: D
Explanation:
“mod all” is incorrect. “mod 1test” is incorrect. “publish event” is incorrect.
“mod 1 test” is correct. It is with “policy-default”.
https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/switches/datacenter/nexus7000/sw/system-management/guide/b_Cisco_Nexus_7000_Series_NX-OS_System_Management_Configuration_Guide-
RI/configuring_online_diagnostics.html
https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/switches/datacenter/nexus9000/sw/93x/system-management/bcisco-nexus-9000-series-nx-os-system-management-configuration-guide-93x/b-cisco-nexus-9000-
seriesnx-os-system-management-configuration-guide-93x_chapter_011010.html
https://www.ciscolive.com/c/dam/r/ciscolive/us/docs/2017/pdf/BRKDCN-3234.pdf
Question: 74
An engineer is configuring a backup operation on the existing Cisco UCS environment using a logical configuration.
Which configuration is expected to be saved by using this backup type?
A. systems
B. roles
C. service profiles
D. servers
Answer: C
Explanation:
https://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/unified_computing/ucs/sw/gui/config/guide/141/UCSM_GUI_Configuration_Guide_141_chapter43.html
Question: 75
A Cisco UCS C-Series server is installed at a data center. The server should be managed by the Cisco UCS Manager by using a single cable for management and data traffic.
Which configuration should be applied after the Physical connection is established?
A. UCS-A# scope server 1
UCS-A /server# scope cimc
UCS-A /server/cimc # scope mgmt-conn sideband
UCS-A /server/cimc # mgmt-conn-state enabled
UCS-A /server/cimc/mgmt-conn* # commit-buffer
B. UCS-A# scope chassis 1
UCS-A /chassis# scope cimc
UCS-A /chassis/cimc # scope mgmt-conn sideband
UCS-A /chassis/cimc/mgmt-conn # mgmt-conn-state enabled
UCS-A /chassis/cimc/mgmt-conn* # commit-buffer
C. UCS-A# scope chassis 1
UCS-A /chassis# scope cimc
UCS-A /chassis /cimc # set mgmt-conn-state enabled
UCS-A /chassis /cimc/mgmt-conn* # commit-buffer
D. UCS-A# scope server 1
UCS-A /server# scope cimc
UCS-A /server/cimc # scope mgmt-conn sideband
UCS-A /server/cimc/mgmt-conn #set mgmt-conn-state enabled
UCS-A /server/cimc/mgmt-conn* # commit-buffer
Answer: D
Explanation:
Example
UCS-A# scope server 1
UCS-A /server # scope cimc
UCS-A /server/cimc # scope mgm
UCS-A /server/cimc # scope mgmt-conn
UCS-A /server/cimc # scope mgmt-conn sideband
UCS-A /server/cimc/mgmt-conn # set mgmt-conn-state enabled
UCS-A /server/cimc/mgmt-conn* # commit-buffer
UCS-A /server/cimc/mgmt-conn
https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/unified_computing/ucs/c-series_integration/ucsm3-1/b_C-Series-Integration_UCSM3-1/b_C-Series-Integration_UCSM3-1_chapter_010.html
Question: 76
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.)
A. Option A
B. Option B
C. Option C
D. Option D
E. Option E
Answer: A,E
Explanation:
https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/products/collateral/switches/nexus-5000-series-switches/white-paper-c11-733022.html
The information to be sent is regarding dropped packets only.
Question: 77
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)
A. write
B. verify
C. commit
D. checkpoint
E. apply
Answer: BC
Explanation:
https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/switches/datacenter/nexus9000/sw/6-x/system_management/configuration/guide/b_Cisco_Nexus_9000_Series_NX-
OS_System_Management_Configuration_Guide/sm_7sessionmgr.html
https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/switches/datacenter/nexus5000/sw/configuration/guide/cli/CLIConfigurationGuide/sm_rollback.html
Question: 78
Question: 79
DRAG DROP
An engineer must shut down the Ethernet 1/2 interface when the Ethernet 4/5 interface state is down.
Drag and drop the CLI commands from the bottom onto the blanks in the exhibit to implement this EEM. Not all commands are used.
Answer:
Question: 80
A host EPG Client wants to talk to a webserver in EGP Web. A contract with default settings is defined between EPG Client and EPG Web, which allows TCP communication initiated by the client
toward the webserver with TCP destination port 80.
Which statement is true?
A. If EPG Web is made a preferred group member, a contract between EPG Client and EPG Web is no longer required for the host in EPG Client to reach the webserver in EPG Web.
B. If vzAny is configured to consume and provide a "deny all" contract, traffic between EPG Client and EPG Web is no longer allowed.
C. The host in EPG Client is allowed to connect to TCP destination port 80 on the webserver in EPG Web.
The webserver will not be allowed to initiate a separate TCP connection to a host port with TCP source port 80.
D. The host in EPG Client is allowed to connect to TCP destination port 80 on the webserver in EPG Web.
The webserver is allowed to initiate a separate TCP connection to a host port with TCP source port 80.
Answer: D
Explanation:
Apply Both Direction and Reverse Filter Port in the subject for the filter. These two options are by default enabled…This means that if the provider EPG initiates traffic toward the consumer EPG, the
Cisco ACI fabric allows it for any destination ports if the source port is 80.
https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/switches/datacenter/aci/apic/sw/1-x/Operating_ACI/guide/b_Cisco_Operating_ACI/b_Cisco_Operating_ACI_chapter_01000.html
Reverse filter and apply in both directions is default.
If a filter allows traffic from any consumer port to a provider port (e.g. 8888), if reverse port filtering is enabled and the contract is applied both directions (say for TCP traffic), either the consumer or
the provider can initiate communication. The provider could open up a TCP socket to the consumer using port 8888, whether the provider or consumer sent traffic first.
https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/switches/datacenter/aci/apic/sw/1-x/Operating_ACI/guide/b_Cisco_Operating_ACI/b_Cisco_Operating_ACI_chapter_01000.html
Question: 81
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?
A. Option A
B. Option B
C. Option C
D. Option D
Answer: B
Explanation:
Question: 82
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? (Choose two.)
A. Service Profile Compute (Is-compute)
B. Ext LAN Config (ext-lan-security)
C. Service Profile Network Policy (Is-network-policy)
D. Service Profile Config (Is-config)
E. Ext LAN Policy (ext-lan-policy)
Answer: B,E
Explanation:
https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/unified_computing/ucs/ucs-manager/Reference-Docs/Privileges/4-1/b-UCSM-Privileges-4_1.pdf
NTP can be configured only with EXT LAN Security.
VLAN can be added using the following privileges:
– Ext Lan Config (ext-lan-config)
– Ext Lan Policy (ext-lan-policy)
service profiles will add VLANs to vNICs only if they are configured to UCS manager. So service profile is not valid solution.
Question: 83
Which storage protocol reduces file locks by using leasing?
A. CIFS
B. NFS 4
C. NFS 3
D. SMB
Answer: D
Explanation:
https://www.ciscolive.com/c/dam/r/ciscolive/apjc/docs/2016/pdf/BRKCOM-1211.pdf
Question: 84
An engineer creates a service profile in Cisco UCS Manager and must assign a policy that reboots blades when changes are applied. The changes must be applied only after user acknowledgment.
Which two policies must be configured to meet these requirements? (Choose two.)
A. Boot Policy
B. Global Policy
C. Power Control Policy
D. Maintenance Policy
E. Reboot Policy
Answer: D, E
Explanation:
https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/unified_computing/ucs/ucs-manager/GUI-User-Guides/Admin-Management/3-
1/b_Cisco_UCS_Admin_Mgmt_Guide_3_1/b_Cisco_UCS_Admin_Mgmt_Guide_3_1_chapter_01011.html
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Best CompTIA certifications

CompTIA is a nonprofit trade association made up of more than 2,000 member organizations and 3,000 business partners. The organization’s vendor-neutral certification program is one of the best recognized in the IT industry. Since CompTIA developed its A+ credential in 1993, it has issued more than two million certifications.

CompTIA certifications are grouped by skill set and focus on the real-world skills IT professionals need. Armed with these credentials, you can demonstrate that you know how to manage and support IT infrastructure. 

Best Oracle certifications 

A longtime leader in database software, Oracle also offers cloud solutions, servers, engineered systems, storage, and more. The company has more than 430,000 customers in 175 countries. 

Today, Oracle’s training program offers six certification levels that span 16 product categories with more than 200 individual credentials. Considering the depth and breadth of this program — and the number of Oracle customers — it’s no surprise that Oracle certifications are highly sought after. 

Vendor-specific certifications address a particular vendor’s hardware and software. For example, you can pursue Oracle certifications and Dell certifications to become an expert in those companies’ environments.

Best business continuity and disaster recovery certifications

Business continuity and disaster recovery keep systems running and data available in the event of interruptions or faults. These programs bring systems back to normal operation after a disaster has occurred.

Business continuity and disaster recovery certifications are seeing a healthy uptrend as new cloud-based tools grow in popularity. While business continuity planning and disaster recovery planning have always been essential, they’re becoming more critical than ever — and IT certifications are following suit.

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Partnering for Sustainability: Cisco's Collaborative Approach

NORTHAMPTON, MA / ACCESSWIRE / January 3, 2024 / Cisco Systems Inc.
By Stacy Betts

Embracing sustainability and reducing our environmental footprint has been a longstanding priority at Cisco. For almost two decades, Cisco has set transparent, publicly declared objectives as benchmarks, diligently tracking our progress and holding ourselves accountable. Additionally, we've developed comprehensive programs to empower customers to achieve their sustainability goals.

We understand that sustainability is a collaborative effort, and success requires leveraging our extensive partner network. Collaboration is essential, and it's through working with our partners that we foster innovation and gain support across the value chain. To this end, Cisco has developed several sustainability-focused programs that enable partners to offer customers end-to-end solutions designed with sustainability in mind, while also enhancing deal profitability.

Net zero by 2040

Cisco has embarked on an ambitious journey towards sustainability, aiming to achieve net-zero status by the year 2040. This goal has not been mere words but supported by continuous improvement and innovation across our entire business landscape. Our primary focus has been on delivering tangible, data-validated advancements that lead us closer to the realization of all our sustainability goals, ultimately culminating in our net-zero goal.

These efforts have not gone unnoticed. The approval of our net-zero goal by Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi) stands as a testament to the robustness of our plan, the allocation of resources, and the soundness of our strategic approach. This validation confirms our determination to truly meet these targets, helping to forge a path towards a more sustainable future.

As for our partners, whether you are just starting this journey or already investing, there are four key Cisco programs to consider, through which we work together to meet our sustainability objectives.

Earn Your Cisco Environmental Sustainability Specialization

Launched in 2022, the Environmental Sustainability Specialization (ESS) equips partners with Cisco-specific sustainability knowledge. It covers key sustainability terms, the technology behind our Sustainable Solutions, Cisco's commitment to a circular economy, and supporting programs. Only one person in the company needs to complete this training and exam. For others in the partner organization, we have additional efforts to educate partner sellers on these topics. If you're not the one going through formal training, we'll summarize the partner programs you should leverage in this blog.

Leverage the Cisco Takeback & Reuse Program Plus Incentive

Cisco's Takeback and Reuse program is integral to CEO Chuck Robbins' commitment to reclaim 100% of customer gear at no cost while providing partners with discount incentives. This program is an important step towards a circular economy, ensuring the responsible end-of-life management of returned equipment, with a remarkable 99.9% material recycling or reuse success rate.

Partners benefit from this initiative through a stackable discount of up to 7% on Refresh deals, applied to new equipment when replacing older gear. To learn more, visit our Takeback and Reuse Program page. Please note that this incentive is exclusively available to partners with ESS certification and program enrollment, so ensure your company is specialized to take advantage of it.

Strategically Position Cisco Refresh

With Takeback products, we seize the opportunity to remanufacture gear based on their life stage, making them available through the Cisco Refresh program. This refurbished gear supports the circular economy, meeting rigorous quality and performance standards, and is readily available with no lead times. It's cost-effective and environmentally friendly, and has a lower carbon impact than purchasing newly manufactured products. Explore available products on the Cisco Refresh list - the more we take back, the more we can offer!

Utilize Cisco Green Pay

Cisco Green Pay, through Cisco Capital, offers a flexible payment plan for solutions designed with sustainability in mind, covering hardware, software, and services with a set contract term. At term's end, Cisco reclaims the hardware to support the circular economy, helping support a more sustainable lifecycle. Cisco's ownership guarantees gear return, providing a consistent refresh cycle and benefits akin to the Takeback program. All of this is offered to the customer, requiring minimal effort from partners. Plus, customers receive a 5% discount when opting for Green Pay.

Let's Get Started Helping the Planet Together!

Ready to begin? First, become specialized under the ESS and enroll in the Takeback Program. Inform your Cisco team of your interest. We have partner sustainability certified to assist you in integrating sustainability into your sales approach and boosting your confidence in discussing your customers' sustainability goals. Prepare for these conversations by researching your customers' public sustainability goals on their websites.

Although we've made progress in reaching our sustainability goals, we recognize that much more work needs to be done to ensure that people and ecosystems can thrive together on a livable planet. There's no time like the present to get started.

For further information, visit our Environmental Sustainability Products and Solutions webpage or consult your Cisco team for specialist guidance.

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Millions still haven’t patched Terrapin SSH protocol vulnerability
Millions still haven’t patched Terrapin SSH protocol vulnerability
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Roughly 11 million Internet-exposed servers remain susceptible to a recently discovered vulnerability that allows attackers with a foothold inside affected networks. Once they're in, attackers compromise the integrity of SSH sessions that form the lynchpin for admins to securely connect to computers inside the cloud and other sensitive environments.

Terrapin, as the vulnerability has been named, came to light two weeks ago in a research paper published by academic researchers. Tracked as CVE-2023-48795, the attack the researchers devised works when attackers have an adversary-in-the-middle attack (also abbreviated as AitM and known as man-in-the-middle or MitM), such as when they’re positioned on the same local network and can secretly intercept communications and assume the identity of both the recipient and the sender.

In those instances, Terrapin allows attackers to alter or corrupt information transmitted in the SSH data stream during the handshake—the earliest connection stage, when the two parties negotiate the encryption parameters they will use to establish a secure connection. As such, Terrapin represents the first practical cryptographic attack targeting the integrity of the SSH protocol itself. It works by targeting BPP (Binary Packet Protocol), which is designed to ensure AitMs can’t add or drop messages exchanged during the handshake. This prefix truncation attack works when implementations support either the "ChaCha20-Poly1305" or "CBC with Encrypt-then-MAC," cipher modes, which, at the time the paper was published, was found in 77 percent of SSH servers.

Internet-wide scans performed Tuesday, the last day such data was available at the time of reporting, revealed that more than 11 million IP addresses exposing an SSH server remained vulnerable to Terrapin. Nearly a third of those addresses, 3.3 million, resided in the US, followed by China, Russia, Germany, Russia and Singapore. All of the unpatched implementations tracked by Shadowserver supported the required cipher modes.

Tree map for CVE-2023-48795.
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World map of countries unpatched against CVE-2023-48795.
Enlarge / World map of countries unpatched against CVE-2023-48795.
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Only 53 of the vulnerable instances relied on implementations of AsyncSSH, the only app currently known to be seriously affected by Terrapin. Two vulnerabilities the researchers discovered in AsyncSSH allowed Terrapin to (1) downgrade security extensions that organizations to replace the extension information message sent by the server, letting the attacker control its content or (2) control the remote end of an SSH client session by either injecting or removing packets or emulating the shell established. AsyncSSH has patched those two vulnerabilities, tracked as CVE-2023-46445 and CVE-2023-46446, in addition to CVE-2023-48795, the Terrapin vulnerability affecting the SSH protocol. It appears the overwhelming majority of AsyncSSH users have installed the patches.

The requirement of an AitM position and the lack of currently known practical attacks made possible by Terrapin are important mitigating factors that some critics say have been lost in some news coverage. That said, at this stage, there are few good reasons not to have patched the protocol flaw by now, since patches became widely available about one to two weeks ago.

“The attack requires quite a bit of complexity in that MitM is necessary, so that will limit practical application to more targeted attacks in our view,” Piotr Kijewski, a Shadowserer researcher, wrote in an email to Ars. “So unlikely to have this mass-exploited. Still, the sheer mass of vulnerable instances suggests this vulnerability will be with us for years to come and that in itself makes it attractive in some specific cases.”