Questions

1. Which type of network topology is most often found within a data center?

A. Point-to-Multipoint
B. Spine-Leaf
C. Three-Tier
D. Collapsed Core

2. Which of the following is an advantage of a Cloud Design versus an On-Premise design?

A. You don’t need to purchase physical servers.

B. You can better control the user experience.
C. You can better meet compliance requirements.
D. You don’t need to be concerned with redundancy.

3. What is the full-duplex bandwidth capacity of a Cisco Nexus 7000 Series switch with 18
slots (2 Supervisor Engine Slots and 16 I/O Slots), given that the inter-slot switching
capacity is 550 Gbps?

A. 8800 Gbps
B. 9350 Gbps
C. 18.7 Tbps
D. 19.8 Tbps

4. The “5 Nines of Availability” refers to what?

A. Limiting a network’s downtime to no more than 5 minutes per year

B. Having 99.9 percent uptime for 99 percent of a network’s components
C. Limiting a network’s downtime to no more than 30 seconds per year
D. Having 99 percent uptime for 99.9 percent of a network’s components

5. What is the role of an Active Virtual Gateway (AVG)?

A. An AVG responds to ARP queries with the MAC address of the Master gateway.
B. An AVG responds to different ARP queries with the MAC addresses of AVFs.
C. An AVG responds to different ARP queries with the MAC address of the Backup gateway.
D. An AVG responds to ARP queries with the MAC address of the Standby gateway.
6. Stateful Switchover (SSO) is often used in conjunction with which feature to prevent
packets from being dropped when a router fails over from one of its route processors to
another?

A. Reverse Path Forwarding (RPF)

B. Embedded Event Manager (EEM)
C. Multilayer Switching (MLS)
D. Nonstop Forwarding (NSF)
Questions and Answers

1. Which type of network topology is most often found within a data center?

A. Point-to-Multipoint
B. Spine-Leaf
C. Three-Tier
D. Collapsed Core

Answer: B
Explanation: Data centers commonly use a Spine-Leaf design, where a leaf switch connects to
multiple spine switches, such that the leaf switch can reach any other leaf switch by transiting a
single spine switch. A Point-to-Multipoint design is commonly found in older wide area
networks using Frame Relay or ATM. A Three-Tier architecture is commonly found in enterprise
networks and consists of the Access, Building Distribution, and Core layers. A Collapsed Core
design is commonly found in small to medium sized networks, where the Building Distribution
and Core layers found in an enterprise network design are consolidated into a “collapsed core.”

Video Reference: 1.1.1 Tier 2 vs. Tier 3 Designs

2. Which of the following is an advantage of a Cloud Design versus an On-Premise design?

A. You don’t need to purchase physical servers.

B. You can better control the user experience.
C. You can better meet compliance requirements.
D. You don’t need to be concerned with redundancy.

Answer: A
Explanation: With a Cloud Design, you don’t need to purchase physical servers. Instead, you can
pay the cloud provider for your actual usage of virtual servers they host. However, an On-
Premise design usually lets you have better control of the end-user experience and allows you
more flexibility in meeting compliance requirements. Also, even though you might have your
servers hosted by a cloud provider, you still need to be concerned with redundancy, and
perhaps have duplicate servers in the cloud, along with a virtual load-balancer to distribute the
load between those servers, while providing redundancy.

Video Reference: 1.1.2 On-Premise vs. Cloud Designs

3. What is the full-duplex bandwidth capacity of a Cisco Nexus 7000 Series switch with 18
slots (2 Supervisor Engine Slots and 16 I/O Slots), given that the inter-slot switching
capacity is 550 Gbps?

A. 8800 Gbps
B. 9350 Gbps
 C. 18.7 Tbps
D. 19.8 Tbps

Answer: C
Explanation: To calculate a switch’s bandwidth capacity (not factoring in full-duplex
communication), use the formula:

Switch BW Capacity = (Inter-slot Switching Capacity * Number of I/O Slots) + [(Number of SE

Modules * Inter-slot Switching Capacity) / 2]

Note that the inter-slot switching capacity of a supervisor engine (SE) is half that of an I/O
module, hence the division by 2 at the end of the formula.

Switch BW Capacity = (550 Gbps * 16) + [(2 * 550 Gbps) / 2]

Switch BW Capacity = (8800 Gbps) + 550 Gbps
Switch BW Capacity = 9350 Gbps

To factor in full-duplex communication, we multiply by 2.

Full Duplex Switch BW Capacity = (9350 Gbps) * 2

Full Duplex Switch BW Capacity = 18.7 Tbps

Video Reference: 1.1.3 Fabric Capacity Planning

4. The “5 Nines of Availability” refers to what?

A. Limiting a network’s downtime to no more than 5 minutes per year

B. Having 99.9 percent uptime for 99 percent of a network’s components
C. Limiting a network’s downtime to no more than 30 seconds per year
D. Having 99 percent uptime for 99.9 percent of a network’s components

Answer: A
Explanation: The “5 Nines of Availability” refers to keeping a network operational 99.999
percent of the time. That translates to approximately 5 minutes of downtime per year. The “6
Nines of Availability” refers to keeping a network operational 99.9999 percent of the time,
which translates to approximately 30 seconds of downtime per year.

Video Reference: 1.1.4 Redundant Design

5. What is the role of an Active Virtual Gateway (AVG)?

A. An AVG responds to ARP queries with the MAC address of the Master gateway.
B. An AVG responds to different ARP queries with the MAC addresses of AVFs.
C. An AVG responds to different ARP queries with the MAC address of the Backup gateway.
 D. An AVG responds to ARP queries with the MAC address of the Standby gateway.

Answer: B
Explanation: An Active Virtual Gateway (AVG) is a type of gateway used by Gateway Load
Balancing Protocol (GLBP). GLBP is unique among the First Hop Redundancy Protocols (FHRPs)
in that instead of having a single gateway service all traffic from a subnet, it load balances the
traffic across as many as four Active Virtual Forwarders (AVFs). An AVG accomplishes this by
responding to ARP queries (for a default gateway’s virtual IP address) with different MAC
addresses (i.e. the MAC addresses of the AVFs in a GLBP group).

Video Reference: 1.1.5 First Hop Redundancy Protocols (FHRPs)

6. Stateful Switchover (SSO) is often used in conjunction with which feature to prevent
packets from being dropped when a router fails over from one of its route processors to
another?

A. Reverse Path Forwarding (RPF)

B. Embedded Event Manager (EEM)
C. Multilayer Switching (MLS)
D. Nonstop Forwarding (NSF)

Answer: D
Explanation: Stateful Switchover (SSO) allows a router with two route processors to fail over
from its primary route processor to its backup route processor without dropping routing
protocol neighborships with other routers. However, the backup route processor might drop
packets while it constructs an IP routing table. To prevent those initial packet drops after the
failover, a feature called Nonstop Forwarding (NSF) could be used. NSF allows the IP routing
information maintained by Cisco Express Forwarding (CEF) in the primary route processor to
remain in memory and be used by the backup route processor. This allows the backup route
processor to immediately have IP forwarding information after a failover.

Video Reference: 1.1.6 Stateful Switchover (SSO)