700-651 Sample Questions & Answers
Building the business case ties with understanding the collaboration landscape and its architecture pillars for the heaviest weight, alongside premises, cloud and hybrid licensing, buying-center use cases and business drivers, and competitive positioning.
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- Question 1Intermediate
Collaboration Solution Architecture · Collaboration Endpoints
A university is looking to equip 20 large lecture halls with video conferencing capabilities. Their primary requirements are high-quality audio that captures both the lecturer and student questions, automatic speaker tracking for the presenter, and dual-screen support for content and remote participants. Which Cisco Room Series endpoint is specifically designed for these large, integrated environments?
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Correct answer: C
The Webex Room Kit EQ is a powerful codec and camera solution designed for large, integrated spaces like lecture halls and auditoriums. It supports multiple cameras (including speaker tracking), advanced audio integration with ceiling microphones, and robust multi-screen configurations, making it the ideal choice to meet the university's specific requirements. The Room Bar is for small-to-medium rooms, and the Desk Pro is a personal device.
- Question 2Advanced
Business Case · Mapping Business Requirements to Solutions
A manufacturing company, DuraForge Industries, is undergoing a major digital transformation. They operate a central headquarters, five large regional production plants, and twenty smaller sales offices. The company's current infrastructure consists of disparate, aging PBX systems at each plant, leading to high maintenance costs, no inter-site dialing, and poor collaboration capabilities for their mobile sales force.
The CIO has a mandate to reduce operational expenditures (OpEx) by 20% over the next three years and improve overall employee productivity. The Head of IT is concerned about the potential loss of control and voice quality issues associated with a full cloud migration, especially for the critical production plants that have limited bandwidth. The VP of Sales needs a solution that provides a unified identity and seamless mobile experience for the sales team, regardless of their location.
Given these conflicting requirements, which solution proposal presents the most balanced and strategic approach for DuraForge Industries?
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Correct answer: B
This is the most strategic option. It directly addresses the IT Head's concerns by keeping critical plant communications on-premises with a modern, centralized CUCM. It satisfies the VP of Sales by moving the more agile sales offices and mobile users to the cloud for a seamless experience. The Cloud-Connected UC bridges the two worlds, providing a unified experience and a clear path to future cloud migration for the plants when ready. This phased approach also helps manage the transition and budget, aligning with the CIO's goals.
- Question 3Intermediate
Business Outcome Features and Benefits · Common Business Approach and Use Cases
A healthcare provider needs to implement a telehealth solution. A key business requirement is to ensure patient data privacy and meet HIPAA compliance standards. When positioning the Cisco collaboration architecture, which feature is most critical to highlight in the business case?
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Correct answer: B
For healthcare and other regulated industries, security and compliance are paramount. Cisco's commitment to security, particularly end-to-end encryption for all data in transit and at rest, is the most critical feature to address HIPAA requirements for protecting patient health information (PHI). While other features are valuable, failing to meet security and compliance standards is a non-starter for this use case.
- Question 4Intermediate
Collaboration Solution Architecture · Customer Lifecycle
During a renewal conversation with a large enterprise customer, the IT Director mentions they are satisfied with their on-premises Cisco Unified CM but are struggling with user adoption of Webex for meetings. Which touchpoint in the Customer Lifecycle model provides the best opportunity to address this and demonstrate value?
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Correct answer: C
The 'Adopt/Implement' phase of the customer lifecycle is specifically focused on driving usage and helping customers realize the value of their investment. Since the customer is struggling with adoption, this is the perfect time to engage with Cisco Customer Success resources or partner services to provide user training, identify specific use cases, and use Control Hub analytics to pinpoint adoption barriers. This proactive approach strengthens the relationship and secures the renewal.
- Question 5Beginner
Simplified Licensing to Drive Sales · Enterprise Agreements
To qualify for a Cisco Enterprise Agreement, a customer must typically meet which minimum requirement?
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Correct answer: A
Cisco Enterprise Agreements for Collaboration typically require a minimum number of knowledge workers to qualify. While the exact number can vary based on promotions and specific terms, the standard baseline entry point is often around 250 users. This ensures the agreement is applied to organizations of a certain scale where the benefits of a unified contract and predictable pricing are most impactful.
- Question 6Intermediate
Competition · Strategies to Address Competition
A competitor is claiming their video conferencing solution is superior because it uses less bandwidth than Webex. How should a Cisco sales specialist respond to this objection?
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Correct answer: B
The best way to handle this objection is to reframe it. Instead of arguing about raw numbers, the specialist should pivot to the business outcome: a high-quality, reliable user experience. Highlighting Webex's ability to adapt to network conditions and leveraging Cisco's deep networking DNA to ensure quality of service turns a potential negative into a key differentiator. It shifts the focus from a single technical spec to the overall value of a resilient, high-performance solution.
- Question 7Intermediate
Collaboration Solution Architecture · Collaboration Pillars
A retail company wants to improve its customer experience by adding video support to its contact center. Customers should be able to escalate from a chat on the company's mobile app to a video call with an agent. Which Cisco product is the core component for enabling this omnichannel experience?
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Correct answer: B
Webex Connect is a Communications Platform as a Service (CPaaS) solution that is integral to the Webex Contact Center. It provides the APIs and tools needed to orchestrate customer journeys across multiple channels, such as escalating a mobile app chat session to a live video call with an agent. It is the key enabler for building such custom, omnichannel workflows.
- Question 8AdvancedSelect 3
Business Case · Collaboration Architecture and Business KPIs
A global logistics company is creating a business case to invest in a new collaboration platform. The CFO is focused on measurable KPIs. Which three metrics from Webex Control Hub would be most compelling to include in the ROI calculation? (Select THREE)
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Correct answers: A, C, E
A CFO is concerned with financial impact. Reduced travel costs, real estate optimization, and displacing costs from other vendors are all hard, quantifiable metrics that directly contribute to ROI. Technical performance metrics like packet loss and administrative metrics like firmware upgrades, while important for IT, do not translate as directly into the financial language that a CFO needs to see in a business case.
- Question 9Intermediate
Simplified Licensing to Drive Sales · Premises Licensing Components
The Cisco Unified Workspace Licensing (CUWL) model for on-premises deployments bundles multiple applications and services per user. Which of the following is typically included in a CUWL Professional license?
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Correct answer: C
CUWL Professional is a comprehensive on-premises user license. It bundles the core calling (Unified CM), voicemail (Unity Connection), instant messaging (IM & Presence), and the soft client (Webex App for on-prem registration) into a single SKU. Contact Center and Webex Meetings are typically licensed separately or through different models like the Flex Plan.
- Question 10Beginner
Simplified Licensing to Drive Sales · Hybrid Licensing Components
True or False: The Cisco Flex Plan allows customers to 'true forward' their license count, meaning they can add new users throughout the year and only pay for the overage at the annual anniversary date, rather than placing multiple mid-term orders.
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Correct answer: A
This statement is true. The 'true forward' mechanism, also known as annual reconciliation, is a key benefit of the Cisco Flex Plan and Enterprise Agreements. It allows organizations to grow and add users beyond their initial commitment without financial penalty or complex mid-year purchase orders. The usage is reconciled once annually, simplifying budget management and procurement.
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