Cisco Updated 300-620 Exam Questions and Answers by norah

 In a Cisco ACI fabric, the spine switches are typically configured as route reflectors. This is because spine switches are central to the fabric’s architecture and are responsible for interconnecting all the leaf switches, making them ideal for reflecting BGP routes within the fabric. Therefore, the components that should be configured as route reflectors are:

Spine1 (Option A)

Spine2 (Option C)

 In Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI), when a subnet is configured on a bridge domain, the gateway IP address is configured on the leaf switches where the bridge domain of the tenant is present. This configuration allows for localized routing within the fabric, providing efficient east-west traffic handling without requiring traffic to traverse up to the spine nodes unless necessary for north-south routing or policy enforcement.

For a redundant interconnection that routes both unicast and multicast traffic, the L3Out (Layer 3 Outside) implementation in Cisco ACI should include the following:

Redundant Connections: Ensure there are at least two connections from the ACI fabric to the external network for redundancy. These connections should be to different leaf switches if possible.

Routing Protocols: Configure a routing protocol that supports both unicast and multicast routing. OSPF or EIGRP can be used for unicast, and PIM (Protocol Independent Multicast) should be configured for multicast.

Route Redistribution: Set up route redistribution between the ACI fabric and the external network to ensure that routes are shared across both networks.

Multicast Configuration: Enable multicast routing within the ACI fabric and configure the necessary multicast policies.

Contract and Policy Configuration: Define contracts and policies that allow the required unicast and multicast traffic to flow between the ACI fabric and the external network.

References :=

Cisco documentation on configuring L3Outs in ACI

Cisco white paper on ACI Multicast Routing

The correct statement about ACI syslog is that all syslog messages are sent to the destination through APIC1. This centralized approach allows for consistent logging and monitoring across the ACI fabric1.