Cisco 642-354 CSNSS Certification Exam

Cisco Storage Network Support Specialist Exam 642-354... Continue Below To Cisco CSNSS 642-354 Certification Exam Information and Cisco Articles. The real Cisco CSNSS 642-354 Certification Exam has a duration of a 75 minutes and 65 - 75 questions to complete.

The Cisco Storage Networking Support Specialist CSNSS 642-354 exam validates an individual's knowledge of installing, configuring, and troubleshooting Cisco storage products to maintain a highly scalable, efficient, high performing storage networking environment. A Cisco Certified Storage Networking Support Specialist professional understands how to deploy and optimize the features and benefits of the Cisco MDS 9000 Series Multilayer Directors and Switches, Cisco MDS 9509 Director Switch, Cisco 9216 Fabric Switch, and Cisco MDS 9120 products to provide fast and accurate resolution to network installation and customer service issues. All these objectives are designated from the Cisco.com website. Please note that the CSNSS 642-354 exam topics and objectives may change without notice, since technologies are always changing.

CSNSS 642-354 Exam Objectives:

Explain Storage Networking and Position Support

• Describe key technologies for Storage networking
• Describe market drivers and Solutions for Cisco Storage networking products
• Identify the Cisco Storage networking Products
• Position Cisco SAN networking solutions as a component of Cisco's End to End Networking Strategy and describe its benefits
• Describe how Cisco Service and Support programs extend the value proposition
• Describe multiprotocol features of the MDS 9000 Family
• Present key software features of MDS
• Describe ISCSI protocol
• Describe FCIP protocol
• Describe ESCON/FICON

Positioning Storage Consolidation

• Explain the value of storage consolidation technology
• Identify the IT business needs and probing questions for storage consolidation
• Identify the business needs and ROI opportunities for storage consolidation
• Identify key product MDS differentiators with respect to the competition

Positioning Business Continuance

• Understand the correlation between business continuance methodologies and the application they support
• Identify the advantages of SAN Backup
• Understand Asynchronous backup strengths and limitations as well as the products that support this methodology
• Understand Synchronous backup strengths and limitations as well as the products that support this methodology

Positioning the MDS 9000 Series

• Describe MDS network services multiprotocol architecture
• Describe MDS application services architecture
• Describe VSAN
• Identify the benefits of a VSAN
• Define zoning
• Identify the limitations of zoning
• Identify the security features resulting from VSAN
• Identify the management capabilities resulting from VSAN
• Describe MDS management services architecture
• Benefit of a collapsed infrastructure
• Position consolidation and Business Continuance solution with respect to Intelligent Network Services
• Identify the characteristics of CLI in the Fabric Manager
• Identify the characteristics of GUI in the Fabric Manager

Positioning the ONS 15540, 15501, and 15530

• Identify the multiple technologies (DWDM, CWDM, FCIP, FCoSONET) used for SAN Extension and understand their limitations
• Identify the appropriate Cisco Product with the SAN Extension technology(ies) supported
• Understand FCIP as a SAN Extension solution and the Cisco Products that support it
• Understand the roles of each product in the ONS 15500 family and identify their distinguishing features
• Understand product positioning of Cisco optical products

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