D-PSC-DS-23 Exam Questions

Which Isilon tool can be run from the cluster to display Isilon statistics such as CPU activity?

What is a correct statement concerning InsightIQ, excluding FSA?

A customer has two Isilon clusters in an Active-Passive setup. The customer has latency sensitive media editing workflows. Most of the media editing work occurs prior to broadcasti...

During initial configuration of a PowerScale cluster, OneFS creates a network using the default internal network interface without a failover option. What is the default back-end n...

How are clients, L1 cache, L2 cache, and disks interconnected?

Which type(s) of data is predominately associated with home directories and file shares?

A customer has two PowerScale clusters. Cluster1 has eight H700 nodes, and Cluster2 has twelve A300 nodes. The customer wants to monitor real-time performance data of both clusters...

A customer has a 2 GB file that is tiered to the cloud by CloudPools. The Isilon cluster is running OneFS 8.1.2. Approximately how many cloud data objects will be created for this...

Which feature will provide data immutability without the ability for the administrator to delete the files under any condition?

What method does the MediaScan job leverage to locate and clear media-level errors?

One of your customers is interested in a PowerScale Gen6 solution. They have provided basic solution requirements, but their security policies do not allow them to perform detailed...

Which Isilon Gen 6 node models can use only L3 cache?

A large hospital organization is looking for a vendor neutral archive solution for their imaging data. When proposing an Isilon solution, which benefits should be discussed?

A potential customer has a requirement for 4 PB of usable capacity to store media files. Their data center has limited physical space, so efficient use of that space is important....

Where does SmartCache stage its write cache?

Following Dell best practices, at what capacity consumption should an organization begin the process of ordering more nodes to add to a cluster?

What are characteristics of the streaming data access pattern on a PowerScale Gen6 cluster?

Which SmartConnect policies are used for workloads that have short lived connections such as HTTP and FTP?

When a Gen 6 Isilon cluster receives a file to be stored, which node(s) performs the FEC calculation?

By default, which method is used by Isilon OneFS for SSDs?

In an NFSv3 only environment, what is the recommended limit for active NFSv3 connections, per Isilon node?

A large manufacturing company is an existing Isilon customer with a cluster consisting of four NL400 nodes with 4TB drives. The cluster is using N+2:1 protection level and the file...

You have received a critical task that requires immediate analysis of system performance. Captured data will later be processed by MiTrend, but a current assessment is not availabl...

You are sizing a PowerScale Gen6 cluster for a small organization that is concerned about the availability of the journal during an extended power outage. What is a consideration w...

What is the sector size of an Isilon 8 TB drive?

A European Sports TV network is considering Isilon for their Media Edit Storage for their editing workloads. They are also considering Isilon for near-line media archiving. The net...

Your customer's site uses an old X-Series cluster, and they are interested in consolidating their two primary workflows. iostat shows that one of the applications is sensitive to l...

A customer has 1,000 at 2 KB files, 5,000 at 4 KB files, and 4,000 at 7 KB files. They want to know the total amount of space on disk with a requested protection level of N+2d:1n....

When installing nodes into a Dell EMC rack, which node type requires the use of a Titan-HD rack?

Which data access pattern uses moderate prefetching?

A customer wants to replace a legacy storage environment used for high definition video editing. Each workstation connecting to the shared storage needs to sustain 650 MB/s of sing...

Which tool is used to perform a cluster-wide kernel configuration change on an Isilon Gen 6 cluster?

A new customer is interested in an Isilon Gen 6 solution to replace their sprawling and outdated Linux environment. Which client tool should you use to establish an estimate of the...

We have been engaged by a research hospital to help upgrade their Isilon installation. They currently have 12 previous generation Isilon nodes with 200TB of capacity and run on a 1...

Where does Endurant Cache stage its write cache?

What is an accurate statement concerning shared journals on node pairs?

What must be configured on a PowerScale in order to store only the customer presentation PPT and PDF files on the cluster and the external repository?

What is the behavior of the Isilon time and date settings and what is the best practice?

A large manufacturing company is an existing Isilon customer with a cluster consisting of four NL400 nodes with 4TB drives. The cluster is using N+2:1 protection level and the file...

In an 18 node Isilon cluster with the default protection setting, what is the layout of a 128 KB file?

There is a requirement to use dynamic link aggregation to maximize throughput and resiliency on a new Isilon cluster servicing SMB and NFS data. What is the recommended configurati...

Which three external authentication providers can be configured with Dell PowerScale? (Select 3)

When sizing an Isilon cluster for high connection count environments and high streaming I/O rates, which configurable node option is recommended?

Which type of interface is used in Isilon hardware nodes for back-end interconnect?

An Isilon customer is experiencing less than expected performance and poor space utilization with their cluster. They are using the X400 nodes with an N+2d:1n protection policy to...

You are designing a backup solution using an NDMP redirector and throttler. What is the default threshold percentage of CPU resources that the throttler limits NDMP to?

A Media and Entertainment company is considering changing from 2K resolution to 4K resolution. They will continue to use the DNxHD 220 codec. Assuming everything else stays the sam...

Which license is a prerequisite for enabling CloudPools?

What is the minimum size and the maximum size, respectively, of a single pre-Gen 6 node pool?

Which OneFS feature enables you to host multiple tenants from mutually untrusting AD authentication environments from the same DNS namespace?