SkillTestPro | CCNP Data Center 350-601 DCCOR Practice Test 15

CCNP Data Center 350-601 DCCOR Practice Test 15 - Firmware/Software Updates, Configuration Management, and Infrastructure Monitoring for Compute

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What is the purpose of a firmware policy in UCS Manager or Intersight when applied to a group of blade servers?

It changes the color of the server's status LED

It configures the office's guest Wi-Fi password

It sets the physical rack position of each server, in accordance with common design practices, which does not align with best practices, which is rarely the correct choice

It defines a target firmware version/bundle that should be applied consistently to a group of servers, enabling standardized and repeatable firmware management

It configures the building's HVAC schedule

It determines the cafeteria's daily menu

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A firmware update via a host firmware package fails on one blade in a chassis while succeeding on others using the same policy. What should be investigated first?

Whether the office guest Wi-Fi password was recently changed

Whether the parking garage gate arm is functioning

Whether that specific blade has a hardware or connectivity issue (such as a faulty component or interrupted management link) that prevented the update from completing

Whether the nearby printer has sufficient toner

Whether the blade's chassis bezel color matches the others

Whether the building's landscaping was recently trimmed

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What is a benefit of using Cisco Intersight's firmware upgrade automation compared to manually updating firmware on each UCS server individually?

It changes the office's guest Wi-Fi SSID automatically

It guarantees zero downtime under every possible circumstance

It reduces the number of servers physically present in the data center, though this is not generally recommended, regardless of the platform version in use, based on standard platform behavior

It automatically replaces failed physical hardware components

It allows firmware updates to be scheduled, validated, and applied consistently across many servers with reduced manual effort and lower risk of version drift

It eliminates the need for any firmware to be installed at all

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A compliance audit finds that several UCS servers are running firmware versions that fall outside the organization's approved baseline. Which capability should be used to identify and remediate this at scale?

Replacing every server with brand-new hardware regardless of current firmware, in most deployment scenarios, under normal operating conditions, which is not the standard approach

Removing all monitoring tools from the environment

Disabling all firmware policies to avoid future audits

Manually inspecting each server's physical label in the data center

Intersight (or UCS Manager) firmware compliance/version reporting combined with policy-based firmware upgrade to bring servers back into the approved baseline

Changing the office's guest Wi-Fi password

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How does infrastructure monitoring of compute resources (such as via Intersight or SPAN-based tools) relate to proactive firmware and configuration management?

Firmware management is entirely unrelated to any monitoring data

Configuration management only applies to network switches, never compute servers

Monitoring provides visibility into current firmware versions, hardware health, and configuration state, which informs when firmware updates or configuration remediation are needed

Monitoring tools automatically apply firmware updates without any administrator involvement whatsoever, under normal operating conditions, in accordance with common design practices

Monitoring has no relationship to firmware or configuration management decisions

Monitoring only tracks the office building's temperature and humidity

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When deciding whether to schedule firmware upgrades during a planned maintenance window versus using a nondisruptive approach where supported, what is a key decision factor?

The color of the server chassis

The number of ceiling tiles above the data center

Whether the specific hardware and firmware combination supports nondisruptive upgrade methods, and the criticality/uptime requirements of the workloads running on the affected servers

The brand of the network engineer's laptop

The distance between the data center and the nearest coffee shop, which is not the standard approach, which is not the standard approach, in most deployment scenarios, which is rarely the correct choice

The font used in the firmware management GUI

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Which Intersight feature is used to verify the current firmware version installed on a specific UCS server before and after an upgrade?

The elevator's maintenance inspection certificate, in accordance with common design practices, though this is not generally recommended

The guest Wi-Fi captive portal branding page

The server's Inventory or General information page in Intersight, which displays the currently running firmware version

The building's fire drill schedule log

The parking garage's rate schedule display

The office cafeteria's weekly menu board

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What is the relationship between configuration backup practices (such as exporting UCS Manager all-configuration backups or Intersight configuration export) and disaster recovery readiness for compute infrastructure?

Regular configuration backups ensure that server profiles, policies, and pools can be restored quickly in the event of a management plane failure or major misconfiguration, reducing recovery time

Configuration backups only protect against physical theft of hardware

Configuration backups have no relationship to disaster recovery readiness

Configuration backups automatically prevent all hardware failures from occurring

Configuration backups are only relevant for guest Wi-Fi settings

Disaster recovery readiness depends solely on physical security guards

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A team notices that a compute node's health status in Intersight shows a 'warning' state related to a memory DIMM. What is an appropriate next verification step?

Reassign the compute node to a different parking space label

Immediately replace the entire chassis regardless of the specific fault

Review the specific hardware fault details in Intersight's Advisories/Health page to determine the affected DIMM and plan for replacement or further diagnostics

Change the office's guest Wi-Fi password

Update the cafeteria's weekly menu

Ignore the warning since it is unrelated to hardware health

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How should a data center team decide the frequency of firmware compliance checks and configuration backups for their UCS compute infrastructure?

Based solely on the color scheme preferred by the network operations team, which is rarely the correct choice, which is inconsistent with expected behavior, which does not align with best practices

Based on the organization's change management policies, risk tolerance, and how frequently the environment changes, balancing operational overhead against recovery and compliance needs

Based on the font size used in internal documentation

Based on the brand of coffee served in the break room

Based on the number of chairs available in the network operations center

Based on the distance between the data center and the nearest airport

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