Friday, 11 August 2017

C2150-210 IBM Security Identity Governance Fundamentals V5.1

Test information:
Number of questions: 47
Time allowed in minutes: 90
Required passing score: 58%
Languages: English, French, Latin American Spanish, Portuguese (Brazil)

Related certifications:
IBM Certified Associate - Security Identity Governance V5.1

Certifications (13%)
Define certification dataset and campaign�
Define signoff options
Define supervisor and reviewer activities
Define notification configuration�

Role Management (9%)
Define role structure
Publish role and define visibility
Consolidate role

Role Mining (15%)
Load Access Optimizer data
Create Role Mining session
Analyse statistics charts to identify candidate role
Analyse assignment map to identify candidate role
Analyse entitlement and user coverage to identify candidate role�
Leverage candidate role in IAG warehouse

Role Maintanence and Health (6%)
Identify unused roles
Retire role
Setup Role Certification campaign

Reporting (13%)
Identify standard report
Customize report layout
Configure scope visibility
customize query and add filter criteria
configure authorization to report for selected users

Separation of Duties (17%)
Define Business Activities
Define SoD Policy
Define Technical Transformation
Analyse Risk Violations
Define Mitigation Controls
Setup Risk Violation Certification Campaign

Installation (9%)
Prepare database server and schema
Configure virtual machine
Install virtual appliance
Configure database connections

Enterprise Integration (4%)
Identity ISIM and ISIG integration options
Identify supported connectors

ISIG Authorization Model (9%)
Define functional authorization for ISIG users
Restrict the data portion for a functional authorization
Define and use Attribute Groups

Access Request Management (9%)
Identify common process activities
Identify UI customization options
Review access request status

IBM Certified Associate - Security Identity Governance V5.1
Job Role Description / Target Audience
An IBM Certified Associate - Security Identity Governance V5.1 is an individual with entry level knowledge and experience with IBM Security Identity Governance V5.1 . This individual is knowledgeable about the fundamental concepts of IBM Security Identity Governance V5.1 through hands on experience. The associate should have an in-depth knowledge of the basic to intermediate tasks required in day-to-day use of IBM Security Identity Governance V5.1 . The individual should be able to complete these tasks with little to not assistance from documentation, peers or support.

Key Areas of Competency
IBM Security Identity Governance UI from an admin and end user perspective
Identify the key ISIG features
Understand the benefits of using ISIG for identity and access governance.

Recommended Prerequisite Skills
Working end user knowledge of IBM Security Identity Governance V5.1
Understand Identity Governance, Risk and Compliance (GRC) infrastructure such as audit, reporting, access
review, and certification.
Experience with role modeling and role mining
Experience with role healthcare and maintenance.
Understand the ISIG entitlement model and how to leverage it to build target application authorization models.
Understand the ISIG authorization model and access governance responsibilities.
Experience performing an RFP in the access governance space.
Understand business activity-based separation of duties modeling for better business and auditor readability.
Understand typical functionality of access request workflows such as manager approvals.

Requirements
This certification requires 1 test(s).


Tuesday, 8 August 2017

70-773 Analyzing Big Data with Microsoft R

Exam 70-773
Analyzing Big Data with Microsoft R


Published: January 3, 2017
Languages: English
Audiences: Data scientists
Technology Microsoft R Server, SQL R Services
Credit toward certification: MCP, MCSE

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Read and explore big data
Read data with R Server
Read supported data file formats, such as text files, SAS, and SPSS; convert data to XDF format; identify trade-offs between XDF and flat text files; read data through Open Database Connectivity (ODBC) data sources; read in files from other file systems; use an internal data frame as a data source; process data from sources that cannot be read natively by R Server
Summarize data
Compute crosstabs and univariate statistics, choose when to use rxCrossTabs versus rxCube, integrate with open source technologies by using packages such as dplyrXdf, use group by functionality, create complex formulas to perform multiple tasks in one pass through the data, extract quantiles by using rxQuantile
Visualize data
Visualize in-memory data with base plotting functions and ggplot2; create custom visualizations with rxSummary and rxCube; visualize data with rxHistogram and rxLinePlot, including faceted plots

Process big data
Process data with rxDataStep
Subset rows of data, modify and create columns by using the Transforms argument, choose when to use on-the-fly transformations versus in-data transform trade-offs, handle missing values through filtering or replacement, generate a data frame or an XDF file, process dates (POSIXct, POSIXlt)
Perform complex transforms that use transform functions
Define a transform function; reshape data by using a transform function; use open source packages, such as lubridate; pass in values by using transformVars and transformEnvir; use internal .rx variables and functions for tasks, including cross-chunk communication
Manage data sets
Sort data in various orders, such as ascending and descending; use rxSort deduplication to remove duplicate values; merge data sources using rxMerge(); merge options and types; identify when alternatives to rxSort and rxMerge should be used
Process text using RML packages
Create features using RML functions, such as featurizeText(); create indicator variables and arrays using RML functions, such as categorical() and categoricalHash(); perform feature selection using RML functions

Build predictive models with ScaleR
Estimate linear models
Use rxLinMod, rxGlm, and rxLogit to estimate linear models; set the family for a generalized linear model by using functions such as rxTweedie; process data on the fly by using the appropriate arguments and functions, such as the F function and Transforms argument; weight observations through frequency or probability weights; choose between different types of automatic variable selections, such as greedy searches, repeated scoring, and byproduct of training; identify the impact of missing values during automatic variable selection
Build and use partitioning models
Use rxDTree, rxDForest, and rxBTrees to build partitioning models; adjust the weighting of false positives and misses by using loss; select parameters that affect bias and variance, such as pruning, learning rate, and tree depth; use as.rpart to interact with open source ecosystems
Generate predictions and residuals
Use rxPredict to generate predictions; perform parallel scoring using rxExec; generate different types of predictions, such as link and response scores for GLM, response, prob, and vote for rxDForest; generate different types of residuals, such as Usual, Pearson, and DBM
Evaluate models and tuning parameters
Summarize estimated models; run arbitrary code out of process, such as parallel parameter tuning by using rxExec; evaluate tree models by using RevoTreeView and rxVarImpPlot; calculate model evaluation metrics by using built-in functions; calculate model evaluation metrics and visualizations by using custom code, such as mean absolute percentage error and precision recall curves
Create additional models using RML packages
Build and use a One-Class Support Vector Machine, build and use linear and logistic regressions that use L1 and L2 regularization, build and use a decision tree by using FastTree, use FastTree as a recommender with ranking loss (NDCG), build and use a simple three-layer feed-forward neural network

Use R Server in different environments
Use different compute contexts to run R Server effectively
Change the compute context (rxHadoopMR, rxSpark, rxLocalseq, and rxLocalParallel); identify which compute context to use for different tasks; use different data source objects, depending on the context (RxOdbcData and RxTextData); identify and use appropriate data sources for different data sources and compute contexts (HDFS and SQL Server); debug processes across different compute contexts; identify use cases for RevoPemaR
Optimize tasks by using local compute contexts
Identify and execute tasks that can be run only in the local compute context, identify tasks that are more efficient to run in the local compute context, choose between rxLocalseq and rxLocalParallel, profile across different compute contexts
Perform in-database analytics by using SQL Server
Choose when to perform in-database versus out-of-database computations, identify limitations of in-database computations, use in-database versus out-of-database compute contexts appropriately, use stored procedures for data processing steps, serialize objects and write back to binary fields in a table, write tables, configure R to optimize SQL Server ( chunksize, numtasks, and computecontext), effectively communicate performance properties to SQL administrators and architects (SQL Server Profiler)
Implement analysis workflows in the Hadoop ecosystem and Spark
Use appropriate R Server functions in Spark; integrate with Hive, Pig, and Hadoop MapReduce; integrate with the Spark ecosystem of tools, such as SparklyR and SparkR; profile and tune across different compute contexts; use doRSR for parallelizing code that was written using open source foreach
Deploy predictive models to SQL Server and Azure Machine Learning
Deploy predictive models to SQL Server as a stored procedure, deploy an arbitrary function to Azure Machine Learning by using the AzureML R package, identify when to use DeployR

Question No : 1

Note: This question Is part of a series of questions that use the same or similar answer choice. An answer choice may be correct for more than one question in the series. Each question is independent of the other questions in this series. Information and details provided In a question apply only to that question. You need to evaluate the significance of coefficient that are produced by using a model that
was estimated already.

Which function should you use?

A. rxPredict
B. rxLogit
C. Summary
D. rxLinMod
E. rxTweedie
F. stepAic
G. rxTransform
H. rxDataStep

Answer: D

Explanation: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/r-server/r/how-to-revoscaler-linear-model

Question No : 2
You need to build a model that looks at the probability of an outcome. You must regulate between L1 and L2. Which classification method should you use?

A. Two-Class Neural Network
B. Two-Class Support Vector Machine
C. Two-Class Decision Forest
D. Two-Class Logistic Regression

Answer: A

Wednesday, 2 August 2017

C2090-730 DB2 9 Family Fundamentals

Test information:
Number of questions: 64
Time allowed in minutes: 90
Required passing score: 59%
Languages: English, Japanese

Related certifications:
IBM Certified Application Developer - DB2 9.7 for Linux, Unix and Windows
IBM Certified Database Administrator - DB2 9.7 for Linux, Unix and Windows
IBM Certified Advanced Deployment Professional - Tivoli Service Management Solutions 2008
IBM Certified Advanced Database Administrator - DB2 9.7 for Linux, UNIX and Windows
IBM Certified Database Associate -- DB2 9 Fundamentals
IBM Certified Database Administrator - DB2 9 DBA for z/OS
IBM Certified Database Administrator - DB2 10.1 for Linux, UNIX, and Windows
IBM Certified Solution Designer -- DB2 Business Intelligence V8
IBM Certified Database Administrator - DB2 10 for z/OS
IBM Certified Solution Developer - DB2 9.5 SQL Procedure Developer
IBM Certified Solution Developer - DB2 9.7 SQL Procedure
IBM Certified Application Developer - DB2 9
IBM Certified Advanced Database Administrator - DB2 10.1 for Linux UNIX and Windows
IBM Certified Database Administrator - DB2 10.5 DBA for LUW Upgrade from DB2 10.1
IBM Certified System Administrator - DB2 9 for z/OS
IBM Certified System Administrator - DB2 10 for z/OS

This Database Associate is an entry level DBA or a user of any of the DB2 family of products. This individual is knowledgeable about the fundamental concepts of DB2 9 through either hands on experience or formal and informal education. The database associate should have an in-depth knowledge of the basic to intermediate tasks required in day-to-day administration, basic SQL (Structured Query Language), understand how DB2 9 is packaged and installed, understand how to create databases and database objects, and have a basic knowledge of database security and transaction isolation.

Section 1 - Planning (14%)
Knowledge of restricting data access
Knowledge of the features or functions available in DB2 tools (just tools that come with product - distributed +space - i.e., control center, configuration advisor, configuration assistant, command line processor)
Knowledge database workloads (OLTP vs warehousing)
Knowledge of non-relational data concepts (extenders)
Knowledge of XML data implications (non-shreading)

Section 2 - Security (11%)
Knowledge of DB2 products (client, server, etc.)
Knowledge of different privileges and authorities
Knowledge of encryption options (data and network)
Given a DDL SQL statement, knowledge to identify results (grant/revoke/connect statements)

Section 3 - Working with Databases and Database Objects (17%)
Ability to identify and connect to DB2 servers and databases
Ability to identify DB2 objects
Knowledge of basic characteristics and properties of DB2 objects
Given a DDL SQL statement, knowledge to identify results (ability to create objects)

Section 4 - Working with DB2 Data using SQL (23.5%)
Given a DML SQL statement, knowledge to identify results
Ability to use SQL to SELECT data from tables
Ability to use SQL to SORT or GROUP data
Ability to use SQL to UPDATE, DELETE, or INSERT data
Knowledge of transactions (i.e., commit/rollback and transaction boundaries)
Ability to call a procedure or invoke a user defined function
Given an XQuery statement, knowledge to identify results

Section 5 - Working with DB2 Tables, Views and Indexes (23.5%)
Ability to demonstrate usage of DB2 data types
Given a situation, ability to create table
Knowledge to identify when referential integrity should be used
Knowledge to identify methods of data constraint
Knowledge to identify characteristics of a table, view or index
Knowledge to identify when triggers should be used
Knowledge of schemas
Knowledge of data type options for storing XML data

Section 6 - Data Concurrency (11%)
Knowledge to identify factors that influence locking
Ability to list objects on which locks can be obtained
Knowledge to identify characteristics of DB2 locks
Given a situation, knowledge to identify the isolation levels that should be used

QUESTION 1
Which of the following is the lowest cost DB2 product that can be legally installed on a Windows server that has 2CPUs?

A. DB2 Everyplace
B. DB2 Express Edition
C. DB2 Workgroup Server Edition
D. DB2 Enterprise Server Edition

Answer: B


QUESTION 2
Which of the following products is allowed to access other DB2 servers, but cannot accept requests from otherremote clients?

A. DB2 Personal Edition
B. DB2 Workgroup Server Edition
C. DB2 Enterprise Server Edition
D. DB2 Data Warehouse Edition

Answer: A


QUESTION 3
A client application on z/OS must access a DB2 database on a Solaris Server. At a minimum, which of the following products must be installed on the Solaris workstation?

A. DB2 Connect Enterprise Edition
B. DB2 Workgroup Server Edition
C. DB2 Workgroup Server Edition and DB2 Connect Enterprise Edition
D. DB2 Enterprise Server Edition and DB2 Connect Enterprise Edition

Answer: D


QUESTION 4
Which of the following is the lowest cost DB2 product that can be legally installed on an HP-UX server?

A. DB2 Express-C
B. DB2 Express
C. DB2 Personal Edition
D. DB2 Enterprise Server Edition

Answer: D


QUESTION 5
Which of the following products must be installed on an AIX server in order to build an application for AIX that will access a DB2 for z/OS database?

A. DB2 Enterprise Server Edition
B. DB2 Personal Developer's Edition
C. DB2 UniversalDeveloper's Edition
D. DB2 Universal Database Enterprise Edition and DB2 Connect Enterprise Edition

Answer: C

Saturday, 29 July 2017

C2090-645 IBM Cognos 10 BI Multidimensional Author

Test information:
Number of questions: 57
Time allowed in minutes: 60
Required passing score: 75%
Languages: English, Japanese

Related certifications:
IBM Certified Designer - Cognos 10 BI Multidimensional Reports
IBM Certified Solution Expert - Cognos BI

The Cognos 10 BI Multidimensional Author Exam covers key concepts, technologies, and functionality of the Cognos products. In preparation for an exam, we recommend a combination of training and hands-on experience, and a detailed review of product documentation.

Dimensional Data Components (28%)
Distinguish between relational, DMR, and dimensional data sources
Identify dimensional data items and expressions
Define multidimensional data structure components
Describe the importance of report context
Identify the default measure of a report
Describe default members and their purpose
Describe what a MUN is and identify the impact of using the wrong MUN
Describe what a set is
Describe what a tuple is

Focus Reports (14%)
Distinguish between dimensional and relational filtering styles
Identify techniques to focus data using the dimensional style
Interpret data that is focused based on members
Interpret data that is filtered based on measure values
Describe the purpose of a slicer

Drilling in Reports (14%)
Describe default drill-down behavior
Describe default drill-up behavior
Describe cases for advanced drilling configuration
Appraise reports generated with calculations that are preserved during drilling
Describe how member sets work

Drill-through Access (8%)
Identify supported drill-through data item combinations
Set-up drill-through access
Describe a conformed dimension

Calculations and Dimensional Functions (36%)
Describe the use of arithmetic operations in queries
Analyze the use of dimensional functions in queries
Examine coercion
Apply prompts to focus reports
Compose complex expressions that combine and reuse existing expressions

QUESTION 1
To display all individual campaigns in a crosstab report, a report author could use the expression set([TrailChef Campaign],[EverGlow Campaign],[Course Pro Campaign]). Instead, the report author decides to use the parent member of the campaigns in the set expression "children([All Campaigns])". Which statement is true about the method that was used?

A. In the future, when a campaign is deleted or new ones are added, the report author must modify the expression.
B. In the future, when a campaign is deleted or new ones are added, the unmodified expression will be valid.
C. The report author should not have used the method chosen, as the first method is best
in this situation.
D. To be accurate, the report author should avoid using a set expression.

Answer: B


QUESTION 2
Which of the following statements is correct about the order function?

A. The currentMeasure function must be used with the order function as the sort by criterion.
B. It arranges members of all sets in the report by ascending or descending values.
C. Optional parameters allow the author to order the members of a hierarchy without regard of their level.
D. It arranges members of a set alphabetically by ascending or descending captions.

Answer: C

QUESTION 3
A report author is working with an OLAP data source. The report author creates a query that uses a caption function on a member and applies a string function. What is a possible consequence of this action?

A. Using these dimensional methods will not work with an OLAP data source.
B. The mapped string values will not pass through to the target report.
C. There is nothing wrong with this approach.
D. Mixing dimensional styles and relational styles in a single query can create unexpected results.

Answer: D

QUESTION 4
When must a report author use the caption function?

A. As the first parameter of the roleValue function.
B. To return the display name for the specified business key.
C. To see the string display name for the specified element.
D. To pass the returned value to a drill-through target report, this expects a matching string as a parameter value.

Answer: D

QUESTION 5
Instead of prompting the user to select any countries in Europe, the report author wants to constrain the user to select one or more countries from the Northern Europe region. What kind of prompt should be used and how can this be achieved?

A. This is not possible because a prompt must always be populated with all members of a level.
B. Create a multi-select value prompt. Populate it using an expression on the [Northern Europe] member to retrieve its children on the country level.
C. Generate a prompt by creating an expression with a parameter on the crosstab edge: children([Northern Europe]->?Country?
D. Create a tree prompt, and populate it using an expression on the [Northern Europe]
member to retrieve its children at the country level.

Answer: B

Monday, 24 July 2017

C2090-632 IBM Cognos 10 BI Metadata Model Developer

Test information:
Number of questions: 53
Time allowed in minutes: 60
Required passing score: 71%
Languages: English, French, Japanese

Related certifications:
IBM Certified Advanced Developer - Risk Information Governance for BI
IBM Certified Solution Expert - Cognos BI
IBM Certified Developer - Cognos 10 BI Metadata Models
IBM Certified Solution Expert - Cognos 8 BI Migration

The Cognos 10 BI Metadata Model Developer exam covers key concepts, technologies, and functionality of the Cognos products. In preparation for an exam, we recommend a combination of training and hands-on experience, and a detailed review of product documentation.

Common Data Structures and Traps (16%)
Identify Common Data Structures
Identify different data traps

Framework Manager Basics (16%)
Identify the different model types that can be published from Framework Manager
Define the purpose of Framework Manager
Create a project
Identify recommendations for preparing metadata

Predictable Results (16%)
Identify recommendations to achieve predictable results
Describe why and how to implement a time dimension
Identify techniques for creating intuitive business views

Security (9%)
Describe the Cognos 10 security environment
Describe how to implement security on models and packages

Project Management and Maintenance (5%)
Identify techniques for managing Framework Manager projects
Identify techniques for managing Framework Manager packages

Query Subject Types (9%)
Identify different query subject types and uses

Generated SQL and Complex Queries (17%)
Identify SQL Generation in Complex Queries
Identify aggregated result sets for multi-fact queries
Identify aggregations in Report Studio SQL

Optimization and Tuning (5%)
Describe the performance impact of queries

Advanced Techniques (7%)
Describe how to leverage user defined functions
Describe how to resolve a recursive relationship
Identify considerations for drill-through values and managing MUNs

QUESTION 1
Which of the following is correct regarding the Cognos 10 security environment?

A. Cognos 10 must be configured to use only one authentication provider at a time.
B. To perform authentication of users, a connection to the Cognos namespace must be defined.
C. In Framework Manager, object security is implemented by defining access to objects for users, groups and roles defined in the authentication providers.
D. In Framework Manager, object security is implemented by defining access to objects for groups and roles (of which users are members), not individual users.

Answer: C


QUESTION 2
In Framework Manager, which of the following statements is correct when working with a multi-lingual project?

A. The design language can be changed at any point.
B. A project language cannot be deleted once defined in Framework Manager.
C. A language must be added to the project before it can be published with a package.
D. When a new language is added to a project, all locales for that language are added as well.

Answer: C


QUESTION 3
The groups and roles defined in the Cognos namespace can be used to assign access rights to which of the following Framework Manager objects?

A. Query items.
B. Data sources.
C. Relationships.
D. Parameter maps.

Answer: A


QUESTION 4
What must a modeler consider when modeling for drill-through between multiple data sources?

A. Drill-through values must be cast.
B. Drill-through values must be conformed.
C. Drill-through values must be consolidated.
D. Drill-through values must be identifiers.

Answer: B

Tuesday, 18 July 2017

C2090-620 IBM Cognos 10 BI Author

Test information:
Number of questions: 50
Time allowed in minutes: 60
Required passing score: 74%
Languages: English, French, German, Japanese, Spanish Castilian

If your job role includes building reports using relational data models, as well as enhancing, customizing, and managing professional reports, then you may consider adding this certification to your professional portfolio.

The Cognos 10 BI Author exam covers key concepts, technologies, and functionality of the Cognos products. In preparation for an exam, we recommend a combination of training and hands-on experience, and a detailed review of product documentation.

Create reports (14%)
Describe how to create list, crosstab, and repeater reports
Present data graphically

Focus reports (12%)
Describe how to focus reports using filters
Describe how to focus reports using prompts

Enhance reports (44%)
Describe the use of calculations in reports
Identify techniques to enhance layout and content
Describe how to customize reports with conditional formatting
Identify steps to set-up Drill-through Access

Create reports using the query model (18%)
Identify the purpose and components of the query model
Describe how to create the query model
Describe techniques used in the query model that determine how data is aggregated
Identify the effects on the query model(s) of creating a master/detail relationship in the report layout

Setup reports for bursting (6%)
Describe the function of the settings required to distribute reports through bursting

Manage events using agents (6%)
Describe the use of Event Studio in Cognos 8 BI

IBM Certified Designer - Cognos 10 BI Reports

Job Role Description / Target Audience
The professional report author is responsible for building reports using relational data models, as well as enhancing, customizing, and managing professional reports. This individual is new to Report Authoring and will be able to participate as an effective team member.

To achieve the IBM Certified Designer - Cognos 10 BI Reports certification, candidates must possess the skills identified under Recommended Prerequisite Skills, if any, and pass one (1) exam.

Click the test link below to see the overview, objectives, and test preparation recommendations.

Recommended Prerequisite Skills
Prior to your preparation for this associate-level certification, the following knowledge and skills are recommended and assumed:

Experience using Windows operating system and a web browser
Knowledge of XML

QUESTION 1
In Report Studio, which chart lets the report author plot a third measure?

A. Area
B. Bubble
C. Scatter
D. Progressive Column

Answer: B


QUESTION 2
An author wants to create a report that displays certain list columns depending on the user's prompt selection. What property of the list column must the author define to create this variable?

A. Text source variable
B. String variable
C. Style variable
D. Render variable

Answer: D


QUESTION 3
An author creates a report in Report Studio. The report contains a parameter for the Product line query item. The author wants to let users drill through to this report from a variety of reports created using the GO Data Warehouse (query) package. To ensure that this target report contains data for the appropriate products, the author wants to limit the report cells that users can drill through from in source reports. What must the author do when creating the drill-through definition?

A. Set the Product line query item as the target of the drill-through definition.
B. Set the Product line query item as the scope of the drill-through definition.
C. Add a parameter for the Product line query to the drill-through definition.
D. Delete all data items except for the Product line query item from the drill-through definition.

Answer: B


QUESTION 4
Which statement about the tabular data retrieved by Report Studio queries is true?

A. Tabular data includes a column for each data item in the query. No grouping is applied to the tabular data.
B. Tabular data includes a column for each data item in the query. Grouping applied in the report layout is also applied to the tabular data.
C. Tabular data can only include columns for data items that appear in the layout. No grouping is applied to the tabular data.
D. Tabular data includes a column for each data item that appears in both the query and the layout. Grouping applied in the report layout is also applied to the tabular data.

Answer: A


QUESTION 5
In Report Studio, what is a baseline?

A. A value in a list report that other values are compared against.
B. A constant value that represents the x-axis in a chart.
C. A constant value drawn on a chart to indicate major divisions in the data.
D. A break point that keeps part of a report stationary while the user scrolls.

Answer: C

Monday, 5 June 2017

300-180 DCIT Troubleshooting Cisco Data Center Infrastructure

300-180 DCIT
Troubleshooting Cisco Data Center Infrastructure

Exam Number 300-180 DCIT
Associated Certifications CCNP Data Center
Duration 90 minutes (60-70 questions)
Available Languages English
Register Pearson VUE
This exam tests a candidate’s knowledge of data center infrastructure design pertaining to deployment requirements and options for network connectivity, infrastructure, storage network, compute connectivity, and compute resource parameters.
Exam Description
The Troubleshooting Cisco Data Center Infrastructure (DCIT) exam (300-180) is a 90-minute, 60–70 question assessment. This exam is one of the exams associated with the CCNP Data Center Certification. This exam tests a candidate’s knowledge of troubleshooting Cisco data center infrastructure including data network protocols, network virtualization and automation, Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI), storage, compute platforms, and management and operations. The course, Troubleshooting Cisco Data Center Infrastructure v6 (DCIT), helps candidates to prepare for this exam because the content is aligned with the exam topics.
The following topics are general guidelines for the content likely to be included on the exam. However, other related topics may also appear on any specific delivery of the exam. In order to better reflect the contents of the exam and for clarity purposes, the guidelines below may change at any time without notice.
1.0 Troubleshooting Data Network Protocols 26%

1.1 Troubleshoot data center protocols
1.1.a VPC
1.1.b Fabric path
1.1.b [i] Segment ID
1.1.b [ii] Distributed gateway, anycast HSRP
1.1.b [iii] MBGP
1.1.b [iv] vPC+
1.1.c VXLAN
1.1.c [i] Distributed gateway
1.1.c [ii] MBGP EVPN
1.1.c [iii] VPC
1.1.d OTV
1.1.e LISP
1.2 Troubleshoot routing protocols
1.2.a OSPFv2, OSPFv3
1.2.b IS-IS
1.2.c PIM
1.2.d FHRP
1.2.d [i] HSRP
1.2.d [ii] VRRP
1.3 Troubleshoot switching protocols
1.3.a STP
1.3.b LACP/port channel
1.3.c FEX, VNTAG
2.0 Troubleshooting Network Virtualization and Automation 13%

2.1 Troubleshoot logical device separation
2.1.a VDC
2.1.b VRF
2.2 Troubleshoot virtual switching technologies
2.3 Troubleshoot configuration profiles
2.3.a Auto-config
2.3.b Port profiles
2.3.c Configuration synchronization
3.0 Troubleshooting Application Centric Infrastructure 13%

3.1 Troubleshoot fabric discovery process
3.2 Troubleshoot VMM domain integration
3.3 Troubleshoot tenant-based policies
3.3.a EPGs
3.3.a [i] Pathing
3.3.a [ii] Domains
3.3.b Contracts
3.3.b [i] Consumer
3.3.b [ii] Providers
3.3.b [iii] Inter-tenant
3.3.c Private networks
3.3.c [i] Enforced/unenforced
3.3.d Bridge domains
3.3.d [i] Unknown unicast settings
3.3.d [ii] ARP settings
3.3.d [iii] Unicast routing
3.4 Troubleshoot external network integration
3.4.a External bridge network
3.4.b External routed network
3.5 Troubleshoot packet flow
3.5.a Unicast
3.5.b Multicast
3.5.c Broadcast
3.5.d Endpoint database
3.6 Troubleshoot security domains and role mapping
3.6.a AAA
3.6.b RBAC
4.0 Troubleshooting Data Center Storage 17%

4.1 Troubleshoot Fibre Channel
4.1.a Switched fabric initialization
4.1.b Fibre Channel buffer credit starvation
4.1.c FCID
4.2 Troubleshoot Fibre Channel protocol services
4.2.a Zoning
4.2.b FCNS
4.2.c VSAN
4.2.d FSPF
4.3 Troubleshoot FCoE
4.3.a Storage VDC
4.3.b FIP
4.3.c FCoE topologies
4.3.d DCB
4.4 Troubleshoot boot from SAN
4.4.a FCoE / Fibre Channel
4.4.b iSCSI
4.4.c Multipath
4.5 Troubleshoot FCoE/FC interface parameters
4.5.a Dedicated and shared mode
4.5.b Port types
4.5.c Port channels, ISL
4.6 Troubleshoot SAN technologies
4.6.a Fabric redundancy
4.6.b NPV, NPIV, FCF
5.0 Troubleshooting Data Center Compute Platforms 21%

5.1 Troubleshoot Cisco computing platforms
5.1.a Stand-alone computing
5.1.b Chassis/blade
5.1.c Modular / server cartridges
5.1.d Server integration
5.2 Troubleshoot hardware interoperability
5.2.a Converged Network Adapters / port expanders
5.2.b Firmware
5.2.c I/O modules / FEX
5.2.d Fabric interconnects
5.3 Troubleshoot packet flow from server to the fabric
5.4 Troubleshoot server abstraction technologies
5.4.a Service profiles
5.4.a [i] Pools
5.4.a [ii] Policies
5.4.a [ii] 1 Connectivity
5.4.a [ii] 2 Placement policy
5.4.a [ii] 3 Remote boot policies
6.0 Troubleshooting Data Center Management and Operations 10%

6.1 Troubleshoot firmware upgrades, packages, and interoperability
6.2 Troubleshoot integration of centralized management
6.3 Troubleshooting data center LAN and SAN security
6.3.a Troubleshoot fabric binding and port security
6.3.b Troubleshoot AAA and RBAC
6.3.c Troubleshoot first-hop security
6.3.c [i] Dynamic ARP inspections
6.3.c [ii] DHCP snooping
6.3.c [iii] Unicast RPF
6.3.c [iv] MACsec
6.3.c [v] Port security
6.3.d Troubleshoot CoPP
6.3.e Troubleshoot ACLs
6.4 Troubleshoot data center compute security
6.4.a Troubleshoot AAA and RBAC
6.4.b Troubleshoot key management

QUESTION 1 – (Topic 1)
You have a Cisco UCS Fabric Interconnect in Fibre Channel end-host mode.
You must check whether all of the Fibre Channel targets are available through the
fabric interconnect at VSAN 200. Which command must you use?
A. show npvflogi-table
B. show flogi-table
C. show flogi database
D. show zoneset active VSAN 200
Answer: A

QUESTION 2 – (Topic 1)
A customer is troubleshooting QoS in a Cisco UCS domain due to high packet drops in the network.
The customer has configured the vNIC and associated QoS policy, and changed the MTU from 1000 to 1200. Packet drops still exist. What is the cause of this issue?
A. The MTU specified here must be greater than the MTU specified in the associated QoS system class.
If this MTU value is less than the MTU value in the QoS system class, packets may be dropped during data transmission.
B. The MTU specified here must be equal to or less than the MTU specified in the associated QoS system class.
If this MTU value exceeds the MTU value in the QoS system class, packets may be dropped during data transmission.
C. The MTU specified here must be less than the MTU specified in the associated QoS system policy.
If this MTU value exceeds the MTU value in the QoS system policy, packets may be not be dropped during data transmission.
D. The MTU must be optimized and should be changed to fc with the CLI command set mtu fc.
Answer: B

QUESTION 3 – (Topic 1)
When a service profile is disassociated from a server, what happens to the identity and
connectivity information for the server?
A. It is cleared and set to the default that was setup initially by the first configuration.
B. It is maintained and can be reused.
C. It is reset to factory defaults.
D. It uses master service profile parameters.
E. It takes parameters of other servers in the service profile.
Answer: C

QUESTION 4 – (Topic 1)
What should you do when you see faults during the initial setup and discovery process?
A. Take note and address the faults.
B. You can safely ignore these faults.
C. Log them and try to address the first one.
D. Reboot until the error messages go away.
Answer: B

QUESTION 5 – (Topic 1)
How long are the LED states saved after a blade is removed from a Cisco UCS chassis?
A. 1 minute
B. 5 minutes
C. 10 minutes
D. 30 minutes
E. 60 minutes
Answer: C