Implementing Cisco Data Center AI Infrastructure (DCAI) v1.0
Question 1
A large-scale retail store manages many compute resources spread across branch offices, which enables AI workloads to be processed on-premises. Each workload and site location requires specific OS installation and configuration. To simplify management, configuration, and deployment of the workloads, a Cisco Intersight feature must be used that enables workload deployment at scale. Which feature must be used to accomplish this functionality?
- A. domain management
- B. server management
- C. fleet management
- D. chassis management
Answer : C
Question 2
Which IP-based storage transport supports flow control between directly connected devices?
- A. NVMe/TCP
- B. iSCSI
- C. NVMe/RoCE
- D. Fibre Channel
Answer : C
Question 3
An engineer must configure dynamic load balancing (DLB) on a Cisco Nexus 9000 Series Switch AI fabric using a CLI. Which configuration must be implemented for only the odd-numbered interfaces?
- A. Under the relevant interface-level configuration, add the keyword dlb-interface.
- B. Create a QoS policy that enables DLB and apply that policy to the relevant interfaces.
- C. Create a DLB hardware profile and include the list of desired interfaces.
- D. Exclude the desired interfaces from DLB with the interface level configuration of no dlb-interface.
Answer : A
Question 4
To support growing AI workload requirements, a regional medical practice is adding new X9516 X-Fabric module, UCS PCI Mezz cards, and UCS X580p PCIe nodes to their existing X-Series chassis. Which two administrative actions must be taken before the X-Fabric module is added to the chassis? (Choose two.)
- A. Power down all IFMs in the chassis.
- B. Disconnect cabling between IFMs and fabric interconnects.
- C. Power down all blades that would connect to the X-Fabric modules.
- D. Install UCS PCI Mezzanine cards in X-Series blades.
- E. Disconnect device connector.
Answer : CD
Question 5
An end customer plans to deploy an AI fabric in a new data center. Their engineers are more familiar with CLI-based networks and require the capability to automate standardized configuration templates and monitor flows for the fabric. Which data center automation tool meets the requirements?
- A. Digital Network Architecture Center
- B. Intersight
- C. HyperFabric
- D. Nexus Dashboard
Answer : D
Question 6
A data center administrator for a medium-sized manufacturing facility uses Intersight to perform unattended operating system installation on already discovered X-Series servers with server profiles assigned. Which set of prerequisites must be met for installing an operating system on a server in Cisco Mode?
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A.
configuring a firmware policy
adding an operating system configuration file to the software repository -
B.
adding an OS image to the software repository
adding an operating system configuration file to the software repository -
C.
adding an OS image to the software repository
adding a server configuration utility to the software repository -
D.
configuring a virtual KVM policy
adding a server configuration utility to the software repository
Answer : B
Question 7
DRAG DROP -
An engineer must configure vNIC templates for a UCS X-Series deployment. Drag and drop the policy types from the left onto the corresponding configuration settings on the right. Not all options are used.
Answer : 
Question 8
A customer uses Cisco AI Products within Intersight and observes packet drops for RoCEv2 traffic. Which System QoS policy configuration must be deployed to ensure that RoCEv2 traffic is classified as lossless?
- A. Disable Platinum system class.
- B. Enable all QoS system classes.
- C. Disable Gold system class.
- D. Enable Platinum class and uncheck Allow Packet Drops.
Answer : D
Question 9
A nationwide grocery chain has deployed Unified Edge to all its locations. Each store has 10 or more surveillance cameras that write approximately 1 Gb per hour. The surveillance retention policy requires maintaining 2 weeks of recording per camera. Which type of cost-effective centralized storage solution must be evaluated with Unified Edge devices to adhere to this policy?
- A. IP-based shared storage
- B. Fibre Channel shared storage
- C. Infiniband shared storage
- D. local storage
Answer : A
Question 10
An engineer is deploying a Cisco AI POD environment to support large-scale AI workloads. The solution must provide a software-defined storage platform with a Disaggregated Shared-Everything architecture, allow compute nodes to run on Cisco UCS C225 M8 servers managed through Cisco Intersight, and deliver exabyte-scale, all-flash performance with integrated high-speed RDMA and GPU Direct Storage capabilities. Which solution meets the requirements?
- A. NetApp All-Flash FAS (AFF)
- B. Pure Storage FlashBlade
- C. Local NVMe SSDs within each GPU server
- D. VAST Data Universal Storage
Answer : D
Question 11
A national law firm is deploying a RAG solution for their legal research team to more efficiently use their 50 TB of confidential data and documents when preparing new contracts and briefs. They decided on a UCS X-Series chassis equipped with four GPUs and six X210c servers. Which storage solution fits this deployment?
- A. IP-based storage array
- B. local storage in a JBOD configuration
- C. tape storage
- D. local storage in a RAID 5 configuration
Answer : A
Question 12
DRAG DROP -
Refer to the exhibit. When a new AI backend network that supports Cisco UCS-based GPU servers with NVIDIA Connect-X network adapters is benchmarked, the traffic distribution observed has unacceptable variability across the interfaces. Drag and drop the code snippets from the bottom onto the boxes in the code to configure the switch to resolve the issue.
Answer : 
Question 13
A network team is configuring quality of service (QoS) for RoCEv2 traffic on a VXLAN fabric. The team must ensure that congestion notification packets (CNP) generated by storage targets are never dropped in the network, as these packets are critical for congestion control feedback. How must CNP packets be handled in the QoS configuration to ensure reliable delivery?
- A. Apply traffic shaping to CNP packets to prevent them from causing additional congestion.
- B. Classify CNP packets to a high-priority queue using their DSCP marking.
- C. Configure CNP packets to use the same queue as regular RoCEv2 data traffic.
- D. Enable Priority Flow Control specifically for CNP packets on a dedicated CoS value.
Answer : B
Question 14
A network architect designs connectivity for a new Cisco AI POD operating in Intersight Managed Mode. To ensure high availability and aggregate bandwidth for external network traffic, a port channel must be established using multiple 100 GbE uplink ports on the fabric interconnects to connect to the upstream core switch infrastructure. Which specific policy, applied through the domain profile, must be modified to define and configure this port channel on the fabric interconnects for the desired uplink connectivity?
- A. LAN connectivity policy
- B. port policy
- C. network connectivity policy
- D. Ethernet network group
Answer : B
Question 15
Which type of Cisco Intersight profile, when deployed to fabric interconnects, includes the configuration settings for ports, VLANs, and VSANs?
- A. Unified Edge profiles
- B. UCS Chassis profiles
- C. UCS Domain profiles
- D. UCS Server profiles
Answer : C