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1. What restricts a tenant’s access to a specific group of object buckets in a software-defined storage environment?

Availability zone

Retention quotas

Namespace

Erasure coding

2. Which data archiving component scans primary storage to find the files that meet the archiving policy?

Archive storage

Archive database server

Archive agent

Archive stub file

3. A company plans to deploy a new application in their environment. The new application requires 2 TB of storage space. During peak workloads, the application is expected to generate 4500 IOPS with a typical I/O size of 4 KB. The capacity of each available disk drive is 250 GB. In addition, the maximum number of IOPS a drive can perform at with a 70% utilization is 90 IOPS.

What is the minimum number of disk drives needed to meet the application's capacity and performance requirements for a RAID 0 configuration?

4. What accurately describes the seek time of a disk drive?

Time taken to position the read/write head over the correct track

Time taken by the platter to position the data under the read/write head

Time taken to read a block of data from the platter

Time taken by the controller to service an I/O from the application

5. What is an accurate statement about a virtual tape library?

Legacy backup software can be used without additional modules or changes

Portability of physical tapes tooffsite locations is supported

Only sequential data access for both backup and recovery is supported

Regular maintenance tasks associated with a physical tape drive are required

6. If a company has experienced a passive attack on its IT infrastructure, how is the company's security impacted?

Access to services is denied.

Availability of data is affected.

Information privacy is compromised.

Data is altered by an unauthorized user.

7. A Fibre Channel switch has eight ports and all ports must be operational 24 hours 7 days.

However, a failure of Port 5 occurs on a particular week as follows:

- Monday = 11 AM to 3 PM

- Thursday = 6 AM to 11 AM

- Saturday = 11 AM to 4 PM

What is the availability of Port 5 in that week?

91.6%

94.6%

95%

90%

8. What does the "variability" characteristic of big data signify?

Importance in obtaining the right information from data at all possible contexts

Cost-effectiveness and business value obtained from massive volumes of data

Diversity in the formats and types of data generated from various sources

mportance in the quality of data gathered from a number of sources

9. What is an accurate statement regarding virtual LANs?

Supports Fibre Channel network transport data security

Supports one or more logical L ANS operating over a single physical LAN

Provides hardware level connectivity and maintains physical L AN transport paths

Provides software level connectivity and maintains physical LAN transport paths

10. In a __________ cloud deployment model, cloud resources are owned, operated, and maintained by a business.

Public

Private

Hybrid

Community

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11. In an FC SAN environment, an administrator wants to ensure that a particular switch port cannot function as an E_Port and cannot be used to create an interswitch link.

Which security mechanism should the administrator use?

Port type locking

Port binding

Persistent port disable

Fabric binding

12. What is an accurate statement about a fabric-provided MAC address (FPMA) used in an FCoE SAN?

FCoE switches provide MAC addresses to VN_Ports during node login

FC switches provide MAC addresses to VE_Ports dynamically during discovery

Compute systems provide MAC addresses to the VF_Ports on FCoE switches

Both VF_Ports and VE_Ports obtain MAC addresses from FC switches

13. Which technology decouples the OS, applications, and user state from a physical compute system?

Application virtualization

Storage virtualization

Thin client virtualization

Desktop virtualization

14. What is an accurate statement about a virtual desktop infrastructure?

Each user is provided a dedicated desktop VM with its own operating system and applications

Operating system and applications hosted on a client system are shared by multiple users

Each user has an individual desktop session on the remote compute system in which applications execute

Operating system and applications on the remote desktop are downloaded on the client for local execution

15. What is an advantage of performing capacity monitoring in a storage infrastructure environment?

Automatically identifying configuration changes to the storage infrastructure elements

Rapidly identifying component failures that may lead to storage unavailability

Efficiently tracking unauthorized access to the storage infrastructure elements

Proactively preventing service outages due to the lack of storage space

16. What is an accurate statement about the function of an archiving server?

Enables the ability to configure policies for archiving data

Installs agentson the archiving storage device

Scans the data that can bearchived on application servers

Creates stub files on an archiving storage device

17. What information is available in a capacity planning report for storage infrastructure?

number of units of storage available, used and the cost

current and historic information about the utilization of storage, file systems, and ports

equipment purchase dates, licenses, lease status, and maintenance records

current and historical performance information about IT components and operations

18. What accurately describes hypervisor-based continuous data protection?

Virtual appliance is running on a hypervisor.

Journal is stored in a virtual machine.

Virtual appliance runs on a storage system.

Replica volumes are created in the hypervisor.

19. An organization is planning to secure the connection between the data center and cloud while performing data backup and replication.

Which security control mechanism will help organization to achieve the desired security?

ldentity and Access management

Intrusion Detection and Prevention

Firewall

Virtual Private Network

20. An organization plans to deploy a new application in their environment. The new application requires 2 TB of storage space. During peak workloads, the application is expected to generate 9800 IOPS with a typical I/O size of 4 KB.

The capacity of each available disk drive is 250 GB. The maximum number of IOPS a drive can perform at with 70 percent utilization is 90 IOPS.

What is the minimum number of disk drives needed to meet the application’s capacity and performance requirements given a RAID 0 configuration?

110

140

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21. Which type of storage device does the “X” represent in the exhibit?

Object-based

Block-based

File-based

Unified-based

22. What are the essential components of an object in an object-based storage system?

File path, object ID, data, and filename

Object ID, metadata, file path, and LUN ID

Data, user-defined attributes, metadata, and object ID

LUN ID, data, object ID, and user-defined attributes

23. Which fabric service distributes SW-RSCNs to the other switches in a Fibre Channel SAN?

Fabric controller

Fabric login server

Name server

Fabric management server

24. What accurately describes an attack surface in an IT infrastructure?

Various entry points that can be used to launch an attack

Series of steps that must be followed in order to complete an attack

Amount of effort required to exploit a vulnerability in the infrastructure

Process of identifying the system components under attack

25. Which compute system component enables dynamic extension of file system capacity and efficient storage management?

Logical Unit Number

Logical Unit Number Masking

Logical Volume Manager

Virtual Memory Manager

26. What is an advantage of performing incremental backups compared to cumulative backups for the same data?

Requires more time to perform data backup

Storage capacity needed for backups is significantly reduced

Requires more storage capacity for backup

Reduces restore time but requires a maximum of two copies

27. Which capability is provided by software-defined networking?

Ability to combine both data plane and control plane functions on a single physical network component

A single control point to the entire network infrastructure enabling policy-based network management

Ability to automatically create application programming interfaces for centralized management

A single self-contained package with integrated hardware and software components

28. Which data center characteristic ensures that data is stored and retrieved exactly as it was received?

Data integrity

Security

Scalability

Manageability

29. What specialized replication technique enables moving data between storage systems within a data center, between data centers, and between the data center and the cloud?

Data deduplication

Data migration

Data backup

Data archiving

30. Which Dell EMC product provides a software-defined platform that supports both block and file storage services?

XtremIO

PowerMax

FAST VP

VPLEX

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31. A company is using an intrusion detection and prevention system (IDPS) to scan and analyze intrusion events.

Which IDPS technique uses a database that contains known attack patterns?

Role-based

Profile-based

Signature-based

Anomaly-based

32. Which data protection solution provides the ability to select a backup technology based on demand?

Agent-Based backup

Cloud-Based backup

File-Based backup

Image-Based backup

33. Which layer of the OSI model provides the functional and procedural methods to transfer data between network entities?

Data link

Presentation

Session

Application

34. Which cloud service model provides the highest level of control over operating systems, applications, and storage?

Platform as a Service (PaaS)

Software as a Service (SaaS)

Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)

Function as a Service (FaaS)

35. What is a characteristic of an FC-AL implementation?

Devices can be added and removed dynamically without any impact

Supports connectivity up to 15 million nodes

Requires at least one connectivity device

Reserves one address for connecting an FC-SW port

36. In a NAS environment, which file system provides a public or open variation of the Server Message Block (SMB) protocol and uses the TCP/IP protocol?

Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS)

New Technology File System (NTFS)

Common Internet File System (CIFS)

Network File System (NFS)

37. What is the purpose of monitoring capacity in a storage infrastructure?

Tracking the amount of storage infrastructure resources used and available

Evaluating utilization of components and identifying bottlenecks

Tracking configuration changes to the storage infrastructure elements

Identifying component failures that may lead to service unavailability

38. What is used to implement a fully functional SAN?

IPFC

iSCSI

VXLAN

FCIP

39. Which product provides an organization with the power to search and analyze vast amounts of data in one place and helps administrators to discover suspicious event trends?

Dell InTrust

Dell Change Auditor

VMware AppDefense

VMware AirWatch

40. Based on the exhibit, which type of storage does the “X” represent?

File-based

Block-based

Object-based

Unified-based

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41. Which three parameters define information availability in a modern data center environment?

Reliability - Accessibility - Timeliness

Capacity - Availability - Security

Confidentiality - Integrity - Availability

Reliability - Integrity - Performance

42. Which type of Fibre Channel (FC) ports do “X” and “Y” represent in the graphic?

X is an E_Port and Y is an N_Port

X is an F_Port and Y is an F_Port

X is an N_Port and Y is an E_Port

X is an N_Port and Y is an N_Port

43. Which operation is performed by a scale-out NAS cluster when clients send data to the cluster?

Data is divided and stored on multiple nodes in parallel

Data is consolidated into a block and then stored on the NAS head

Data is evenly distributed to every file system in the cluster

NAS file system and cluster grow dynamically to store the data

44. What is an advantage of deploying a purpose-built, disk-based backup appliance in a data center environment?

Eliminate the need for performing source-based deduplication.

Convert the capital expenditure to an operational expenditure.

Lower the recovery time objective of an organization.

Retain the fixed content for longer periods in the data center.

45. An institution has made the decision to exit a client relationship due to anti-money laundering concerns. Prior to starting the close out process, the institution receives a written request from a law enforcement agency to keep the account open. The client is the subject of an ongoing investigation and law enforcement wants the institution to continue to monitor the account and report any suspicious activity.

What is primary consideration the institution should keep in mind when deciding whether to agree to this request?

The anticipated cost of complying with the law enforcement request

The number of suspicious transaction reports previously filed on the client

The fact that the institution has a solid record in complying with law enforcement requests

Whether the institution can continue to meet its regulatory obligations with the accounts open

46. Which functionality is provided by a process login in a Fibre Channel (FC) SAN environment?

Exchanges service relevant parameters between an N_port and an N_port

Establishes a connection to the fabric between an N_port and an F_port

Exchange ULP-related parameters between two N_ports

Establishes a session that occurs between two E_ports

47. Which logical components are required in compute systems?

Operating system Deduplicating file system RAID LUN manager Device drivers

Operating system File system RAID LUN manager Device drivers

Operating system File system Logical volume manager Device drivers

Operating system Deduplicating File system Logical volume manager Device drivers

48. A company's Finance department needs 200 GB of storage for their business applications. A LUN is created with 200 GB and RAID 1 is configured to support the applications.

If the cost of storage per GB is $2, what is the chargeback cost to the department for application storage?

$ 200

$ 400

$ 800

$ 1500

49. What happens when a write request to a valid page is received in a solid-state drive?

Requested page is electrically erased and the write continues with the erased page

Requested page is overwritten by the new page

Requested page is marked invalid and the write continues with an available empty page

Write request is queued until the requested page is erased

50. An organization wants to use an application for their business communication. However, they do not have the skills or the time to deploy and manage an application in-house.

Which recommended cloud service model will meet their requirement?

Infrastructure as a Service

Database as a Service

Software as a Service

Platform as a Service

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51. Which type of fabric topology does the exhibit represent?

Full mesh

Partial mesh

Single core-edge

Dual core-edge

52. What are the components of an intelligent storage system? (Choose two)

RAID Controllers

HTTP Protocols

Cache Memory

Wireless Adapters

53. What is an accurate statement about three-way NDMP backup in a NAS environment?

Backup device can be shared among multiple NAS heads

Each NAS head should have a dedicated backup device

Backup data traverses at least three NAS heads before reaching the backup device

Backup is performed only when three or more NAS heads are present

54. Which technique prevents compute systems from gaining unauthorized access to storage volumes in a shared storage environment?

Fabric binding

Zoning

Concatenating metaLUNs

LUN masking

55. Which lossless Ethernet functionality helps Converged Enhanced Ethernet (CEE) devices to convey and configure their features with the other CEE devices in the network?

Data center bridging exchange protocol

Enhanced transmission selection

Priority-based flow control

Congestion notification

56. To improve performance, which EMC product allows a PCIe flash card to be deployed in a compute system?

XtremSF

XtremCache

ScaleIO

XtremIO

57. In which scenarios is FCIP most beneficial? (Choose two)

Connecting isolated SANs over long distances

High-performance, low-latency environments

Local data center connectivity

Connecting SANs over an IP network

58. A Fibre Channel switch has eight ports and all ports must be operational from 8 AM to 8 PM, Monday through Friday.

However, a failure of Port 2 occurs on a particular week as follows:

- Monday = 10 AM to 12 PM

- Wednesday = 4 PM to 9 PM

- Thursday = 4 PM to 7 PM

- Friday = 3 PM to 6 PM

- Saturday = 9 AM to 1 PM

What is the availability of Port 2 in that week?

70%

71.6%

78.3%

80%

59. What is the effect of implementing link aggregation in an FC SAN environment?

Distributes network traffic over ISLs that ensures even ISL utilization

Yields higher throughput by combing two parallel ISLs into a single physical ISL

Saves bandwidth by restricting traffic to a specific potentially congested ISL

Improves ISL utilization by increasing network traffic on a specific ISL

60. What accurately describes an object-based storage device (OSD)?

One object can be placed inside another object

Objects are created based on the name and location of the file

Objects exist at the same level in the address space

Numerous objects can be stored in a single namespace

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61. Under the IaaS model, which elements are managed by the provider?

Applications Data OS

Applications Middleware Runtime

Data Servers Networking

Virtualization Servers Networking

62. Which storage management function ensures that the services and service levels are delivered per SLAs?

Infrastructure discovery management

Portfolio management

Financial management

Operation management

63. What is the correct sequence of steps that need to be performed in storage system-based synchronous remote replication?

64. What is a benefit of using a purpose-build NAS solution vs. general purpose file servers?

provides more efficient object sharing across Windows and Linux users

provides more efficient file sharing across Windows and Linux users

provides higher compute security and efficient file sharing across Windows and Linux users

provides higher network security and efficient object sharing across Windows and Linux users

65. A customer has a requirement to perform a backup each night. However, the customer has a limited amount of time for backups to run on week nights, Monday through Friday evenings.

Which backup granularity type is recommended to meet the backup window for those nights?

Incremental

Cumulative

Full

Differential

66. To authenticate a user using OpenID authentication control, what are the correct sequence of steps?

67. What accurately describes the flow control mechanism in an FC SAN?

Both transmitting and receiving ports agree on the number of buffers available during port login

Negotiation occurs between an E_Port and an F_Port, and between two N_Ports

Credit value is incremented when a frame is transmitted and decremented upon receiving a response

Receiver Ready (R_RDY) is sent from the receiving port if available credits reach zero

68. Which of the following are key characteristics of Big Data? (Choose two)

Variety

Velocity

Veracity

Vulnerability

69. Which iSCSI host connectivity option is recommended in a CPU-intensive application environment?

NIC with software-based iSCSI initiator

TCP offload engine

iSCSI HBA

Converged Network Adapter

70. What is an accurate statement about the Network File System (NFS) protocol?

Provides a set of remote procedure calls to access a remote file system

Uses the server message block protocol to provide file locking capability

Translates block I/O requests from a file system into object-level requests

Automatically scales the file systems on clients as the workload increases

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71. In an object-based storage system, which elements are associated with an object?

Metadata, object ID, attributes, and file path

Metadata, LUN ID, data, and object ID

Object ID, attributes, LUN ID, and file path

Metadata, object ID, data, and attributes

72. Based on the exhibit, what does the "X" represent in the FCIP tunnel configuration?

E_port

EX_port

F_port

VE_port

73. A service provider is offering cloud services to Enterprise P and Enterprise Q.

Which cloud deployment model does the exhibit represent?

Externally-hosted private cloud

On-premise community cloud

Public cloud

Externally-hosted community cloud

74. Which process is represented in the graphic?

Concatenation

Partitioning

Striping

Shredding

75. What is a key advantage of cloning a virtual machine (VM)?

Ability to run new VMs simultaneously with the same IP address.

Reduces the time required to create multiple copies of a V

Improves the performance of an existing VM and new VMs.

Eliminates the need to create multiple snapshots for a V

76. In a Fibre Channel SAN environment, what does the term "N_Port" refer to?

A node port that connects an end device to a switch

A switch port that connects to another switch

A port on a storage device

A port on a host bus adapter

77. An organization wants to protect data from accidental deletion, application crashes, data corruption, and disaster.

Which solution should the organization adopt?

Storage tiering

Thin provisioning

Data archiving

Data backup

78. An organization has several virtual machines (VMs) deployed in their data center. The VM files are stored on a block-based storage system. The applications on the VMs are impacted during VM backup because the backup agents on the VMs are consuming a large amount of resources.

Which alternate backup solution is recommended to address this issue?

Image-based backup

Three-way NDMP backup

Two-way NDMP backup

Target-based deduplication backup

79. An organization performs a full back up of its data every week. However, they are experiencing long backup windows and high network bandwidth consumption during the backup process.

Which type of deduplication should be deployed to reduce the backup window and network bandwidth consumption?

Source-based

Target-based

Inline

File-based target

80. What is an accurate statement about three-way NDMP backup in a NAS environment?

Backup data is sent directly from NAS to the backup device

Backup data is sent to the backup device through the application servers

A dedicated backup device is required for each NAS

All NAS systems should have the same operating environment

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81. Which of the following are key fault tolerance techniques? (Choose two)

RAID

Data deduplication

Load balancing

Data archiving

82. What is an accurate statement about an FCoE environment?

FC Forwarder must split an FC frame into two or more FCoE frames based on the Ethertype

FCoE controller sends RSCNs to all nodes to provide access control

FCoE ASIC encapsulates FCoE frames into FC frames based on FC-to-FCoE mapping

FCoE network must be configured to support jumbo frames for optimal performance

83. What is the time taken by the platter of a hard disk drive to position data under the read/write head?

Data transfer rate

Rotational latency

Disk service time

Seek time

84. What is an accurate statement about the application streaming technique of application virtualization?

Application is downloaded in portions on the client for local execution

Application executes remotely and its user interface is transmitted to the client

Application executes on the client without the use of a locally-installed agent

Application is converted into a standalone package that directly executes on the client

85. Refer to the exhibit.

What type of Fibre Channel port does the “X” represent?

N_port

F_port

E_port

NL_port

86. Which technology combines NAND flash memory into a hard disk drive and is a single, integrated device incorporating both types of storage?

Solid-state drive

Dual drive

Fibre Channel drive

Solid-state hybrid drive

87. What triggers an appropriate workflow upon receiving a service provisioning or management request?

Alerts

Orchestrated operations

Recovery time objective

Infrastructure discovery

88. Why is it important for organizations to implement a backup solution in a data center environment?

Improve the integrity of critical data

Ensure the availability of production data

Minimize the cost of data protection

Reduce redundant data in a production environment

89. Which process groups multiple physical drives and presents them to a compute system as a single logical volume?

Concatenation

Partitioning

Striping

Orchestration

90. What is a benefit of source-based deduplication over target-based deduplication?

Backup data can be retained longer

Only unique data is sent over the network to be backed up

Backup processing is offloaded from the backup client

Less backup data is stored on the backup server

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91. A Fibre Channel switch has eight ports and all ports must be operational 24x7.

However, a failure of Port 5 occurs on a particular week as follows:

- Monday = 11 AM to 12 PM

- Thursday = 7 AM to 11 AM

- Saturday = 11 AM to 1 PM

What is the availability of Port 5 in that week?

93%

94.1%

95.8%

97%

92. What is an accurate statement about the Do-It-Yourself approach for building modern Infrastructure?

Utilizes preconfigured preinstalled and prepackaged vendor ready solutions

Combines the datacenter components into a single standalone computing platform managed by software

Utilizes products and services from the vendors that provide specific functions with more configuration options

Combines datacenter components into a distributed infrastructure platform managed by software

93. What does the "X" represent in the graphic?

E_port

F_port

G_port

N_port

94. Which of the following are characteristics of block storage? (Choose two)

Accessible via SMB and NFS

Treated as an independent disk drive

Accessed as raw storage volumes

Best suited for unstructured data

95. What is an accurate statement about Zoning?

FC switch ports, FC HBA ports, and storage ports should not be members of multiple zones

Nodes that are distributed across multiple switches in a switched fabric may also be grouped into the same zone

Increases the amount of fabric-management traffic within a zone by sending RSCNs to all nodes in a fabric

Multiple zone sets may be defined in a fabric and all zone sets must be active at a time

96. What is an accurate statement about VLANs and VSANs in an FCoE environment with an existing FC SAN?

A dedicated VLAN must be configured for each VSAN

VLANs configured for VSANs must carry regular LAN traffic

Default VLAN must map to all VSANs defined in the FCoE switch

A minimum of four VLANs must be created to isolate VSAN traffic

97. What is determined based on the recovery point objective in an asynchronous remote replication?

Size of the buffer

Size of the replica

Response time

Location of the source

98. What is an accurate statement about full volume replication?

Target device is at least as large as the source device

Target device requires only a fraction of the space used by the source device

Target device is accessible only after the replication session starts

Target and source devices should be on different storage arrays

99. What is a benefit of link aggregation?

Optimizes fabric performance by distributing network traffic across ISLs.

Improves ISL utilization by increasing the network traffic on a specific IS

Yields a higher throughput by combining two parallel ISLs into a single physical IS

Saves bandwidth by restricting traffic to a specific potentially congested IS

100. A user lost access to a key VM due to a hardware failure. A proxy server regularly takes PIT snapshots of the VM to protect the data.

What type of data protection method is this called?

Image-based

Backup as a service

Agent-based

Local replication

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101. Which component sends the restore metadata to the backup server during a recovery operation?

Storage node

Backup device

Application node

Backup agent

102. Which method does an intrusion detection and prevention system (IDPS) use to identify intrusions by scanning and analyzing events to detect if they are statistically different from normal events?

Anomaly-based

Signature-based

Profile-based

Device-based

103. What creates a large-scale SAN without storage systems and uses local storage of existing compute systems?

Compute-based SA

Software-defined compute.

Storage-based SA

Software-defined network.

104. What is true about software defined architecture?

Uses only converged and hyper-converged infrastructures to offer services to companies

Provides a unified management platform for centralized monitoring and administration

Supports only central management of private cloud resources using a pre-defined policy

Provides decentralized, manual, and policy-driven IT resource management

105. What are the functions of the storage node in a backup architecture?

Responsible for organizing client data and sending data to a backup device

Manages backup operations and gathers data that must backup

Organizes backup data and sends the data to the client device

Manages backup operations and maintains the backup catalog

106. Which cloud computing characteristic enables multi-tenancy and abstracts the location of provided resources?

Resource pooling

Measured service

Rapid elasticity

Broad network access

107. What is a benefit of a storage area network (SAN)?

Enables compute systems across locations to access shared storage

Ensures secure data transmission using only channel technologies

Ensures high response times without the protocol overhead

Enables consolidation of control and data planes in a single system

108. Refer to the Exhibit:

What type of process, when performed on data, would produce the result shown?

Migration

Deduplication

Replication

Archive

109. Which file system provides a streaming interface using the MapReduce framework?

CIFS

HDFS

NFS

NTFS

110. What is an accurate statement about OpenID control?

Enables an organization to use authentication services from an identity provider

Enables initiators and targets to authenticate each other by using a shared secret code

Provides strong authentication for client-server applications by using secret-key cryptography

Allows a client to access protected resources from a resource server on behalf of a resource owner

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111. Which statement describes the purpose of containers?

Provides hypervisor level virtualization to simply resource allocation

Provides portable application support to mainframe applications

Isolates applications to reduce CPU utilization

Bundles an application with required software libraries to run anywhere

112. In Fibre Channel SAN, what does link aggregation help achieve?

Decreasing bandwidth

Reducing redundancy

Increasing availability and performance

Simplifying management

113. What is the goal of a business continuity solution?

Reduce the amount of investment in protecting an organization's business-related data.

Avoid a disaster in a data protection environment to control the loss of data.

Ensure information availability that is required to conduct vital business operations.

Eliminate security threats in a data protection environment for continuous access to data.

114. What is an accurate statement about bridged iSCSI connectivity?

An iSCSI target provides both FCIP and iSCSI ports

An iSCSI initiator is connected to an FC target over an FCIP network

Both the iSCSI initiator and iSCSI target create virtual FC links with an iSNS server

An iSCSI initiator is configured with the gateway’s IP address as its target

115. What is a function of the FC-1 layer of the Fibre Channel (FC) protocol stack?

Defines data encoding

Provides FC addressing

Defines the physical interface

Maps upper layer protocols to FC layers

116. What is an accurate statement about a Converged Network Adapter (CNA)?

Physical adapter that provides the functionality of both a standard NIC and an FC HBA in a single device

Physical adapter that provides the functionality of both a standard NIC and an iSCSI HBA in a single device

Physical adapter that provides the functionality of only a standard HBA in a single device

Physical adapter that provides the functionality of only a standard NIC in a single device

117. In which stage of the business continuity planning lifecycle does an organization identify critical business processes and assign recovery priorities?

Analyzing

Establishing objectives

Designing and developing

Implementing

118. A company is planning to perform a cloud-based backup. They want to send their data over a public network to a cloud backup device.

Which security control mechanism helps to protect the data from an attacker?

Multi-factor authentication

Demilitarized zone

Data shredding

Encryption

119. What is an accurate statement about OAuth security control?

Allows a client to access protected resources from a resource server on behalf of a resource owner

Provides strong authentication for client-server applications by using secret-key cryptography

Enables initiators and targets to authenticate each other by using a shared secret code

Enables an organization to use authentication services from an identity provider

120. Which principle enables the creation of a consistent replica of an online database?

Copy on first write

Copy on first access

Redirect on write

Dependent write I/O

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121. What type of technology is used in SSD devices to provide non-volatile data storage?

Static RAM

Dynamic RAM memory

Flash memory

Programmable read-only memory

122. What accurately describes an Incident in a storage infrastructure?

Unknown root cause of one or more disruptions to service.

Any event that may lead to the disruption of a service.

Support request to help access an IT resource.

Any event that may create a change in correcting a known error.

123. What is an accurate statement about unstructured data?

Created using only specific client devices and consumes large volumes of storage space

Difficult to extract information from data using traditional applications and requires considerable resources

Organized in rows and columns within named tables to efficiently store and manage data

Created only using a specific tool and needs a relational database to store the data

124. What describes an advantage of the changed block tracking backup technique?

Increase backup device performance

Enable restoration to any point-in-time

Eliminate the need for data deduplication

Reduce the backup window

125. Which data access method enables a compute system to access a file system that resides on a storage system?

File-based

Block-based

Object-based

Sector-based

126. What is true about synchronous remote replication?

Supports replication across geographically distributed data centers without impacting response time

Provides near zero RPO where the target is identical to the source

Provides the capability to replicate deduplicate data without impacting the target storage system

Supports locality of reference to conserve link bandwidth

127. What is an advantage of performing cumulative backups compared to incremental backups for the same data?

Facilitates faster restores

Facilitates faster backups

Reduces the storage space required for backups

Eliminates the need for full backups

128. An organization is planning to adopt pre-integrated systems to deploy compute, network, storage, and management functions as a single engineered solution.

Which approach should the organization adopt?

DIY approach

Vendor ready solutions

DCaaS solution

Service based approach

129. Why is it important for organizations to accelerate their digital transformation efforts?

Avoid virtualizing the IT resources across data centers to minimize the utilization

Develop and deploy modern applications using only public cloud resources

Maintain a competitive advantage in a digital environment

Adopt modern digital products to significantly reduce CAPEX and OPEX

130. What is the measure of system or component reliability and is usually expressed in hours?

Mean time to repair

Mean time between restores

Mean time between failures

Mean time to restart

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131. Which component of a software-defined storage (SDS) environment manages and provisions storage?

SDS controller

REST API

SDS web service

Storage agent

132. In a RAID 1 configuration, what is the result of a single drive failure?

Data loss

No data loss, but performance is degraded

Total system failure

No impact on data or performance

133. Which layer of the OSI reference model is responsible for logical addressing and routing?

Data Link

Session

Network

Transport

134. In the context of backup operations, what does the term 'granularity' refer to?

The size of the backup

The frequency of the backup

The level of detail at which data can be restored

The speed of the backup process

135. What type of migration is used to move VMs from one compute system to another without downtime or service disruption?

Appliance based migration

Hypervisor based migration

Storage based migration

SAN based migration

136. Which factor has contributed to the growth of digital data?

Proliferation of applications and smart devices

Consolidation of infrastructure elements

Deduplication of the existing data

Adoption of storage virtualization technologies

137. What is a function of the orchestration layer in a data center infrastructure?

Provides workflows for automated execution of management tasks

Aggregates physical infrastructurecomponents into resource pools

Measures the consumption of IT resources byvarious services

Decouples an operating environment from the underlying hardware

138. What is determined by the amount of space configured for the journal in continuous data protection (CDP) replication?

Length of time required to recover the data

Length of time the recovery points can go back

Amount of data that can be restored to a specific point

Amount of space the source and replica volumes require

139. A system has three components, and all three components need to be operational from 8 AM to 5 PM; Monday to Friday.

During a particular week, failure of component 3 occurred as follows:

Monday = 7 AM to 11 AM

Tuesday = No failure

Wednesday = 4 PM to 7 PM

Thursday = No failure

Friday = 12 PM to 2 PM

Saturday = 5 AM to 8 AM

Sunday = 6 PM to 9 PM

What is the availability of component 3 for this week?

84.2%

86.6%

90.8%

92.4%

140. What is a benefit of using content addressed storage (CAS) as an archival solution?

Ensures content authenticity and integrity

Supports location independence using different content IDs for an object

Provides the ability to perform production operations on the CAS

Enables modification of archived data

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141. What is an accurate statement about variable prefetching?

Many blocks that have recently been written to storage by the compute system are retrieved and placed in cache.

Many non-contiguous blocks that are not currently required can be retrieved from cache in advance.

Storage system prefetches data in multiples of the original I/O request size from the compute system.

Storage system prefetches many non-contiguous blocks of data, with varied sizes, from cache.

142. Which of the following are common topologies used in FC SAN? (Choose two)

Point-to-Point

Mesh

Ring

Arbitrated Loop

143. What is a benefit of using a Scale-Out NAS system vs. general purpose file servers?

For high performance and security NAS supports only NFS protocol

NAS servers are pooled into a cluster of independent NAS nodes

File system grows dynamically as nodes are added to the NAS cluster

For high performance and security NAS supports only CIFS protocol

144. In a copy on first access (CoFA) technique, when is data copied from the source to the target?

All writes are issued to a location on the source

All writes are issued to a location on the target

A read or write is issued for the first time to a location on the target

A read is issued for the first time from a location on the source

145. If an attacker installs malware on an end-user's computer, which type of attack does this represent?

Man-in-the-middle

Phishing

Denial-of-Service

Keystroke logging

146. Which cloud computing characteristic enables consumers to use cloud services on heterogeneous thin or thick client platforms?

Resource pooling

High availability

On-demand self-service

Broad network access

147. What is a benefit of deploying a Defense in Depth strategy?

Provides additional time for organizations to detect and respond to an attack

Eliminates the attack vector from the IT infrastructure

Eliminates the attack surface from the IT infrastructure

Enables organizations to deploy a unified security solution

148. What role does an Intrusion Detection System (IDS) play in protecting a storage infrastructure?

Encrypts data at rest

Monitors network traffic for suspicious activity

Provides physical security to storage devices

Manages user access rights

149. What is a feature of a business continuity solution?

Reduces investment costs associated with protecting information vital to business continuance

Reduces security threats to vital business information stored in remote data protection systems

Maintains availability of information vital to business continuance

Maintains availability and security structure of information vital to business continuance

150. Which performance feature does an intelligent storage system provide?

RAID 4 data protection

End-to-end SAS storage connectivity

Automated storage tiering

End-to-end NVMe/IB storage connectivity

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151. An organization plans to deploy a deduplication solution by retaining their legacy backup application. They are concerned about the application servers’ performance and a long backup window during backups.

Which deduplication solution(s) should be recommended to the organization?

Post-process

Source-based global deduplication

Variable-length segment and source-based

Fixed-length block and source-based

152. Which data center management process involves collating and presenting the utilization of resources?

Reporting

Provisioning

Planning

Maintenance

153. What is an accurate statement about Challenge Handshake Authentication Protocol (CHAP) control?

Enables initiators and targets to authenticate each other by using a shared secret code

Provides strong authentication for client-server applications by using secret-key cryptography

Allows a client to access protected resources from a resource server on behalf of a resource owner

Enables an organization to use authentication services from an identity provider

154. What maps the logical path of a file system to its physical path in a file-level virtualization implementation?

Global namespace

Remote procedure call

Distributed file system

Cache coherency

155. What is the lowest to highest order of I/O performance among there storage devices?

SCM -->SSD-->DRAM-->SATA

SSD-->SCM-->SATA-->DRAM

DRAM-->SCM-->SSD-->SATA

SATA-->SSD-->SCM-->DRAM

156. What describes an incident in a storage infrastructure?

Unknown root cause of one or more disruptions to service

Support request to help access an IT resource

Any action that may impact the functionality of the system

Any event that prevents ions of known errors

157. A start-up company with a limited budget is planning to adopt a hybrid cloud solution for their operations. The company has business-critical applications that serve customers and have strict service levels. In addition, the company has less critical applications such as backup and archive.

Which hybrid cloud strategy should be recommended to the company?

Deploy the business-critical applications on an externally-hosted private cloud. Deploy the less critical applications on a public cloud.

Deploy the business-critical applications on an on-premise private cloud. Deploy the less critical applications on an externally-hosted private cloud.

Deploy the business-critical applications on an on-premise private cloud. Deploy the less critical applications on a public cloud.

Deploy the business-critical applications on an externally-hosted private cloud. Deploy the less critical applications on an on-premise private cloud.

158. What does a domain ID represent in Fibre Channel (FC) addressing?

Unique number provided to a group of switch ports

Unique number provided to each port within a switch

Unique number provided to a group of switches

Unique number provided to each switch in the fabric

159. An organization performs a full back up every Sunday and incremental back ups on the remaining days at 9:00 AM. However, at 10 PM on Friday, a data corruption occurs that requires a data restoration from the backup copies.

How many backup copies are required to perform this restoration?

160. What is the function of MapReduce in big data analytics?

Provide a central repository of integrated data gathered from multiple different sources

Provide either a proprietary or an open-source distributed file system for client access

Enable the distribution of computations across multiple compute systems for parallel processing

Identify and map a specific compute node to run big data computations

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161. Which environment is represented in the exhibit?

Write-back cache

Write-through cache

Read miss

Read hit

162. What is an accurate statement about a virtual machine (VM) clone?

VM clone is deleted automatically when the parent VM powers down

Provides the capability to restore VM data to any point-in-time

VM clone is assigned a separate network identity

Changes made to the VM clone always affects the parent VM

163. What is the role of access control in a storage infrastructure?

It prevents unauthorized physical access to storage devices

It encrypts data stored on the devices

It manages who has the permission to access and modify data

It monitors network traffic for suspicious activity

164. Which security control allows a client to access protected resources from a resource server on behalf of a resource owner?

Zoning

OAuth

OpenID

LUN Masking

165. What is an accurate statement about an integrated NAS controller?

Contains a specialized operating system dedicated to file serving

Stripes data across multiple NAS systems for data protection

Abstracts and pools NAS controllers across multiple NAS systems

Contains an FC Forwarder that is optimized for file sharing functions

166. What is an impact of a Denial-of-Service attack?

Privileges are intentionally misused to compromise data security

User’s credentials are eavesdropped by the attacker

Computing resources are exhausted and made unavailable to users

User’s accounts and data are compromised by malicious insiders

167. What improves the performance of multi-threaded large block I/O workloads on a solid state drive?

Parallel I/O channels

I/O coalescing

Native command queuing

High capacity RAM cache

168. Which Dell EMC product creates a server and IP-based SAN from direct-attached server storage to deliver flexible and scalable performance and capacity on demand?

PowerMax

VxFlex OS

ViPR Controller

XtremIO

169. Which environment is represented in the graphic?

Read miss

Read hit

Cache write-back

Cache write-through

170. Which Converged Network Adapter (CNA) component encapsulates Fibre Channel (FC) frames into Ethernet frames?

PCIe Bus

Fibre Channel HBA

Fibre Channel Forwarder

FCoE ASIC

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171. What is a benefit of backing up data to a disk library?

Provides improved backup and recovery performance

Provides built-in portability to meet offsite requirements

Supports the shoe shining effect for improved backup performance

Pre-configured and dedicated appliance is only used for backups

172. An organization wants to deploy a VM storage migration solution into their data center environment.

What is the result of deploying this type of solution?

Enables VMs to continue functioning when source data becomes unavailable

Improves the application security of migrated VMs

Enables efficient management of capacity across storage systems

Reduces overall storage capacity requirements

173. Which of the following are key components of an intelligent storage system?

(Choose two)

Central Processing Unit (CPU)

Tape Drives

Storage Controller

Floppy Disk

174. An organization has an iSCSI storage system accessed by 20 compute systems running a hypervisor over a physical Ethernet network. The network enables the transfer of compute-to-compute, compute-to-storage, and management traffic.

The compute systems host several virtual machines that are accessed by 31 user groups. In addition, the network has two Ethernet core switches in an active/passive configuration and three edge switches that connect all the compute systems. Multiple VLAN trunk links exist between the core and the edge switches.

However, recently the user groups are experiencing performance issues due to excessive utilization of the core switch and the trunk links.

What can be implemented to minimize the performance issues?

Switch aggregation

VLAN tagging

Self-forming network

Discovery domain

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