NS0-173 Online Practice Questions and Answers

A customer wants to deploy a FlexPod solution that involves directly connecting the NetApp AFF storage using the FCoE protocol to the Cisco UCS Fabric Interconnects.

In this scenario, which Cisco UCS Fibre Channel mode would be used to accomplish this task?

A. trunk mode

B. end host mode

C. switching mode

D. access mode

The storage administrator must change the vHBA settings bound to a template associated with a production server.

What happens when the settings are reconfigured in this scenario?

A. The vHBA configuration change does not affect LUN access.

B. The server that is associated with the service profile reboots.

C. The service profile template that is associated with the server is initialized.

D. The vHBA template is deleted from UCS Manager.

You are a data center architect at a service provider. You need to configure a new multi-tenant FlexPod service offering.

Which three UCS Manager features will you need to accomplish this task? (Choose three.)

A. auto discovery

B. role-based access control

C. service profiles

D. virtualization support

E. policies

A customer has deployed a FlexPod Datacenter with Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform. The Cinder storage volumes that are attached to the Nova instances are not available.

Based on the terms of the cooperative support model, which three companies would the customer use to open a support case? (Choose three.)

A. Cisco

B. VMware

C. Microsoft

D. NetApp

E. Red Hat

A customer has a FlexPod Express configuration with a FAS2720 system. The company has opened a new remote location and will purchase a FlexPod Express configuration with a FAS2750 system. The business requires that the data be replicated to the new location.

Which two software applications accomplish this task? (Choose two.)

A. SnapVault

B. SnapRestore

C. SnapMirror

D. FlexCache

A customer is designing a FlexPod Datacenter with Cisco UCS C-Series servers. They intend to manage the solution with Cisco UCS Manager. They want to cable the servers to the Cisco UCS Fabric Interconnects.

In this scenario, which three configurations are supported? (Choose three.)

A. Cluster mode

B. Direct Connect mode

C. SingleConnect mode

D. DualWire Management mode

E. Multipath mode

Which two Unified Computing System capabilities are required to achieve stateless computing? (Choose two.)

A. templates

B. blade servers

C. service profiles

D. boot from SAN

A FlexPod solution has been configured for iSCSI SAN boot with multiple paths between the server and the storage.

In this scenario, how many initiators (IQNs) per server will need to be added in the corresponding igroup in ONTAP?

A. three

B. one

C. four

D. two

Which command would a FlexPod administrator use to determine whether an FC initiator has logged on to the fabric?

A. MDS9148>show fcfwd

B. MDS9148>show fcdomain

C. MDS9148>show fcc

D. MDS9148>show flogi database

An architect is designing a FlexPod environment with Cisco Nexus 5000 switches to SAN boot all of the ESXi hosts over FC.

In this scenario, what should the LUN ID number be?

A. LUN 2

B. LUN 3

C. LUN 0

D. LUN 1

A service provider is designing a FlexPod configuration to host multiple customers in a hybrid cloud environment, where IP address-range conflicts might arise on the shared storage.

Which NetApp feature should be enabled to prevent these conflicts?

A. SVMs

B. broadcast domains

C. IPspaces

D. failover groups

A client has a FlexPod Datacenter solution with four active fabric links in port channel mode established between the Cisco Fabric Interconnects and the IOMs on a Cisco 5108 blade chassis. The blade chassis is fully populated with Cisco UCS B200M5 blades. A worker in the data center inadvertently unplugs the fourth uplink cable from IOM-A while working in the rack.

In this scenario, what happens to the network traffic?

A. Connectivity for servers 3, 4, 7, and 8 all fail over to IOM-B.

B. There is a loss of connectivity for servers 4 and 8.

C. Traffic is load-balanced within IOM-A.

D. Traffic is load-balanced within IOM-B.

A customer has verified physical connectivity on the FlexPod. However, the LUNs are not available on the Cisco UCS server. To make the LUNs visible to the UCS, the customer must enable a switching feature for zoning.

In this scenario, what should the customer do?

A. Enable NPIV on all switches.

B. Enable Spine mode on all the Cisco Nexus 9000 switches.

C. Enable NPV on all switches.

D. Enable the device connector feature in Cisco UCS Manager.

You are configuring a FlexPod system for NAS protocols. You want to ensure that there are multiple paths between the initiators and targets in the solution.

Which two steps will accomplish this task? (Choose two.)

A. Allow the VLANs over the vPC peer link.

B. Configure the VLANs in Cisco UCS Manager as Common/Global.

C. Disable LACP.

D. Configure the VSANs in the Cisco Nexus 5000 switches.

Which port type would you configure when you connect a chassis to the Cisco Fabric Interconnects?

A. Ethernet uplink ports

B. FC storage ports

C. server ports

D. appliance ports