NS0-173 Cisco and NetApp FlexPod Design Specialist Exam

NS0-173 Cisco and NetApp FlexPod Design Specialist Exam

Cisco and NetApp flexPod certification
You are proficient in designing and installing FlexPod® solutions for a variety of business workloads. FlexPod solutions speed the deployment of infrastructure and business-critical applications while reducing cost, complexity, and risk.

NetApp offers two Cisco® and NetApp® FlexPod certifications: FlexPod Design Specialist and FlexPod Implementation and Administration Specialist.

FlexPod logos and certificates will be granted to those individuals who successfully pass either of the following:

Cisco and NetApp FlexPod Design (NS0-173) certification exam.
Cisco and NetApp FlexPod Implementation and Administration (NS0-174) certification exam.

These exams are available in both English and Simplified Chinese.

Take your exam
NS0-173 exam includes 60 test questions, with an allotted time of 60 minutes to complete. In countries where English is not the native language, candidates for whom English is not their first language will be granted a 30-minute extension to the allotted examination completion time.

This exam is available in both English and Simplified Chinese.

The NS0-173 exam covers the following topics:

Compute
Hardware components
Configuration
High availability
SAN Boot
UCS Manager

Networking
Hardware components
Configuration
High availability
SAN Boot

Storage
Hardware components
Configuration
High availability
SAN Boot

Virtualization
Hypervisor Solutions
SAN Boot

Design, Management, and Orchestration Tools

QUESTION 1
Your customer has a FlexPod configuration with a 4-node NetApp AFF A300 storage cluster that uses only NSE drives.
Which two solutions allow the customer to expand the current storage system? (Choose two.)

A. a two-node AFF A200 with a 3.8 TB NSE SSD
B. a DS224C with twenty-four 3.8 TB SSDs
C. a DS4246 with twenty-four 6 TB NL-SAS HDDs
D. a two-node FAS8200 with a 4 TB NL-SAS HDD

Correct Answer: BD

QUESTION 2
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

Correct Answer: C

QUESTION 3
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.

Correct Answer: C

QUESTION 4
A customer has installed FlexPod and verified that all wiring connections are correct. However, the customer
cannot see any FC LUNs from the NetApp AFF systems.
In this scenario, which three configuration elements should the customer verify? (Choose three.)

A. FC zoning
B. igroup configuration
C. ALUA settings
D. FC portsets
E. MTU configuration

Correct Answer: BDE