Cisco CCDA Cert Guide: Data Center Design
- "Do I Know This Already?" Quiz
- Foundation Topics
- Exam Preparation Tasks
This chapter covers the following subjects:
- Enterprise DC Architectures
- Challenges in the DC
- Enterprise DC Infrastructure
- Virtualization Overview
- Virtualization Technologies
- Network Virtualization Design Considerations
This chapter covers enterprise data center design fundamentals, technology trends, and challenges facing the data center. General data center architecture, components, and design considerations are examined, but detailed data center design is not covered.
This chapter also provides an overview of virtualization, discusses the various virtualization technologies and network virtualization design considerations.
The CCDA candidate can expect plenty of questions related to data center fundamentals, challenges, architecture, and virtualization.
"Do I Know This Already?" Quiz
The "Do I Know This Already?" helps you identify your strengths and deficiencies in this chapter's topics.
The ten-question quiz, derived from the major sections in the "Foundation Topics" portion of the chapter, helps you determine how to spend your limited study time.
Table 4-1 outlines the major topics discussed in this chapter and the "Do I Know This Already?" quiz questions that correspond to those topics.
Table 4-1. Do I Know This Already?" Foundation Topics Section-to-Question Mapping
Foundation Topics Section |
Questions Covered in This Section |
Enterprise DC Overview |
1, 2 |
Challenges in the DC |
3, 4 |
Enterprise DC Infrastructure |
5, 6 |
Virtualization Overview |
7 |
Virtualization Technologies |
8, 9 |
Network Virtualization Design Considerations |
10 |
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What are two methods for implementing unified fabric in the data center over 10Gigabit Ethernet?
- VSS
- FCoE
- iSCSI
- vPC
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What best describes the characteristics of Data Center 3.0 architecture?
- Mainframes
- Consolidation/virtualization/automation
- Distributed client/server computing
- Decentralized computing
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Which of the following data center facility aspects best corresponds with architectural and mechanical specifications?
- Space, load, and power capacity
- PCI, SOX, and HIPPA
- Operating temperature and humidity
- Site access, fire suppression, and security alarms
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Which of the following uses the highest percentage of power within the overall data center power budget?
- Lighting
- Servers and storage
- Network devices
- Data center cooling
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Which data center architecture layer provides Layer 2/Layer 3 physical port density for servers in the data center?
- Data center core
- Data center aggregation
- Data center access
- Data center distribution
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Layer 4 security and application services including server load balancing, Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) offloading, firewalling, and intrusion prevention system (IPS) services are provided by the data center ___________ layer?
- Access
- Routed
- Core
- Aggregation
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Virtualization technologies allow a _________ device to share its resources by acting as multiple versions of itself?
- Software
- Virtual
- Logical
- Physical
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Which of the following are examples of logical isolation techniques in which network segments share the same physical infrastructure? (Select all that apply.)
- VRF
- VLAN
- VSAN
- VSS
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Which of the following are examples of technologies that employ device virtualization or the use of contexts? (Select all that apply.)
- VRF
- ASA
- VLAN
- ACE
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What involves the creation of independent logical network paths over a shared network infrastructure?
- Access control
- Services edge
- Path isolation
- Device context