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Cisco 300-610 Exam Syllabus Topics:
| Section | Weight | Objectives |
|---|---|---|
| Network Design | 35% | - Layer 3 connectivity design options
- Management connectivity: in-band, out-of-band - Redundancy and disaster recovery design - Layer 2 connectivity design options
- Device and routing virtualization: VDC, VRF |
| Compute Design | 25% | - Hyperconverged infrastructure design
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| Storage Network Design | 20% | - SAN topology evaluation - FCoE and Fibre Channel interface design
- QoS requirements: Fibre Channel, FCoE, FCIP, iSCSI |
| Automation Design | 20% | - Network orchestration and automation
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Straight Answers About the Cisco 300-610 Exam
The 300-610 exam is Cisco's benchmark for awarding the CCNP Data Center, Cisco Certified Specialist - Data Center Design certification, a credential positioned at the Professional level. It measures whether you can apply the Cisco Designing Cisco Data Center Infrastructure objectives under exam conditions — not whether you recognize them in a textbook. It also connects to a wider certification path that includes CCNP Data Center, Cisco Certified Specialist - Data Center Design, so the effort you invest here keeps paying off. That is exactly why preparation built on realistic questions outperforms passive reading.
The Cisco Designing Cisco Data Center Infrastructure blueprint spans 4 domains, headlined by Network Design (35%), Storage Network Design (20%), and Automation Design (20%). Read the weightings as a budget: the domains carrying more of the score deserve more of your week. The complete topic list lives in the exam topics section above — plan against it, not against guesswork.
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Cisco Designing Cisco Data Center Infrastructure Sample Questions:
A SAN engineer needs to design a Fibre Channel SAN by using Cisco MDS 9000 Series Switches. The solution must meet these requirements:
- ensure storage resilience
- prevent oversubscription
- mitigate congestion on ISL connections
- use virtual links
- support E Ports
Which MDS switch feature should be used to meet these requirements?
- A. Host Bus Adapter Extended Receiver Ready
- B. buffer-to-buffer credits
- C. Extended Receiver Ready
- D. Receiver Ready
Correct Answer: C 🗳️
A network consultant evaluates the Ethernet Adapter Policy configuration to be applied to the Cisco UCS blade servers. The policy must minimize latency and increase throughput for sensitive applications. The solution must increase the CPU data cache hit rate to meet these requirements Which policy is required?
- A. RDMA
- B. ARFS
- C. NVM-e
- D. AIC
Correct Answer: B 🗳️
Refer to the exhibit. A Cisco engineer is configuring an active/active design that consists of Cisco Nexus 7000 Series Switches with Fabric Extenders using a vPC. The desired outcome is to allow the connection of servers/storage/devices to a single FEX, and use the FEX port channels to each parent switch to provide redundancy. The engineer configures FEX and FEX ID to be identical on both sides. During initial tests, an issue occurs with the straight-through FEX and active/active FEX configuration. What is the most probable reason?
- A. Full duplex is disabled for FEX connectivity.
- B. They are not enabled on vPC+ deployments.
- C. FEX-AA is not a supported F-Series module.
- D. They cannot exist on the same ASIC instance.
Correct Answer: D 🗳️
A customer asks an engineer to develop a framework to configure Cisco services that will be used to replace process of manual device configuration. The engineer plans to use a programmatic interface and must keep these considerations in mind:
- The customer's environment requires the script to authenticate before executing further actions.
- The customer's security requirements mandate the use of HTTPS
transport.
- The support stall has limited shell scripting knowledge, so the
scripts should be easy to read and write and be serf-documenting.
Which two solutions should be used to meet these requirements? (Choose two.)
- A. REST calls
- B. domain-based policies
- C. Python scripts
- D. YAML
- E. Bash scripts
Correct Answer: A,C 🗳️
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An architect needs vendor-agnostic technology to orchestrate and automate a customer network with scripts.
The technology must support running ad-hoc scripts from the CLI and support a deployment of scripts based on a large, readily available set of support libraries.
Which technology must the architect choose?
- A. Cisco Intersight
- B. Python
- C. Puppet
- D. Cisco Power Tool
Correct Answer: C 🗳️


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