D-PSC-DS-23 Exam Questions

What is appropriate for capturing packets for later analysis of I/O request sizes and randomness on Isilon clusters?

A customer is using Hadoop with direct-attached storage. They are concerned about the cost to build and maintain this infrastructure. What are the benefits of switching to Hadoop w...

A customer has a cluster running with a single access zone and serves multiple internal departments. The clients access the cluster over both SMB and NFS protocols. A department us...

A company requires a cluster for deep archiving of data. Storage density is most important and high performance access is not a requirement. Which node is recommended for this appl...

There is a need to carry out a tech refresh of a PowerScale cluster. Old nodes must be removed because they will soon be at end of service life. What methodology is least disruptiv...

In your second meeting with the customer you ask the following questions about their current unified SAN and NAS platform. "Are you using an application to map users from NFS Expor...

A customer plans to replace an existing array that is supported by the MiTrend Workload Profile Assessment (WPA) service. You receive performance data from the customer and run a W...

What are two output options from the PowerScale cluster events log? (Select 2)

Which authentication providers can be used when configuring PowerScale netgroups?

A PowerScale administrator has a cluster containing four F600 nodes. They must configure FTP connections for anonymous access that requires no authentication. What is the result of...

What should be avoided when designing snapshot schedules?

You are involved with a Proof of Concept where the performance is not what you expect. What can you use to collect process stack information and a listing of process waiting on I/O...

An insurance company is using PowerScale H700 nodes to store their data. A systems administrator conducts a capacity assessment and notices that the available space has decreased s...

How is data moved to the cloud using the CloudPools software module?

What happens to worker threads running on the same node when there is an excessive number of workers running at the same time?

A customer has two Isilon clusters. Cluster 1 has eight H500 nodes and cluster 2 has twelve H500 nodes. The customer needs to be able to monitor real time performance data of the c...

While designing SyncIQ policies for a new cluster, an architect wants to ensure that data is not deleted. What should the architect create?

A company currently has multiple fileservers to provide home directories for its employees. Each department has a separate fileserver. Most corporate users are on Windows clients a...

There is a concern that there are not enough physical switch ports available for the Isilon cluster in a new implementation with SMB and ICAP requirements. What course of action sh...

A customer wants to use their large Gen 6 Isilon cluster for ILM. All of their data is written to and read from a single file pool. They need to use multiple file pools, so slightl...

A large retail customer is using their PowerScale Gen6 cluster to store receipts. The resulting workflow data consists of only small files. What configuration change is recommended...

An eight node F900 PowerScale cluster running OneFS 9.4.0 has a dedicated subnet and IP pool for SMB data traffic. SmartConnect Advanced license is applied. The SMB IP pool consist...

For concurrent I/O, how do SmartCache and Endurant Cache differ?

A company with a PowerScale cluster wants to apply quotas to restrict the amount of storage space used by every department. They want to set a quota to each department that stores...

A telecommunications company has a substantial amount of data. This data is being created by network elements within their environment. The company wants to change the way the netw...

A cluster has user quotas that are configured for home directories with hard limits and advisory limits set. What would be the default setting for calculating user quotas on the cl...

You meet a customer for the first time. They explain that their current environment for NAS does not meet their needs. You want to make sure that Isilon is a good fit for their nee...

You are adding a new node to an existing cluster. What OneFS function should you use to remove the old nodes from the cluster?

Refer to the exhibit. You want to add redundancy to your network configuration, rather than performance. You have configured all interfaces into the default SmartConnect zone. How...

A customer has a 5 node Isilon cluster. The raw capacity of the cluster is 85% used. On average, the cluster has 4,000 users connected during office hours. The average CPU usage is...

What is a consideration when designing access zones?

A customer needs to be able to periodically monitor their node live performance for ongoing operational tasks as well as during problem analysis. You have recommended they use the...

A customer has eight X400 24GB RAM that supports 400 client connections today The customer plans to add 400 more clients in the next few months. They are looking at adding an A-Ser...

Your customer is looking for a storage solution that will be able to store seven million 3 MB files, which are written and seldom accessed. Read and write operations are both compl...

Refer to the Exhibit. What is represented by the information shown?

A customer is inquiring about expanding their primary cluster consisting of six S-Series nodes in order to improve performance. They have a second cluster with 11 X-Series nodes. B...

During a write process in OneFS 8.0, from which cache are blocks copied to disk?

A customer is implementing a new backup strategy for their two PowerScale clusters. The clusters are in a DR configuration. The customer uses SyncIQ to replicate data from the prim...

Refer to Exhibit below. What is represented by the information shown in the exhibit?

A cluster has user quotas configured for user's home directories with hard limits and advisory limits set. What would the default setting be for calculating user quotas on the clus...

Refer to the exhibit. A large hospital chain has approached you to redesign their storage infrastructure. The head of IT believes their requirement is for 60 TB of RAW capacity. Th...

A potential customer requires 800TB of usable capacity to store medical images for their network of health clinics. The IT department has limited staff and currently manages four s...

The security team at a customer site has created a new requirement that in-flight replication traffic must be encrypted end-to-end. The customer is running OneFS 8.2.1 on their clu...

At which level can retention periods be applied with Isilon SmartLock?

You get a call from a customer that has just added 200 user connections to the cluster. They want to know how fast they are writing data with these new users. What tool would you u...

Which SyncIQ policy is required if the goal is to have all source data replicated and to retain deleted files?

A customer is evaluating PowerScale and NetApp FAS solutions. They are storing many unique files and want to understand how each solution deduplicates data. What is the difference...

A customer plans to consolidate 200 TB of digital images and video content. Performance is important for recently created files. However, the customer wants any content that has no...

What are three benefits of NDMP multistream backup and recovery? (Select 3)

A customer has a requirement for a new solution to handle their growing storage requirements. The solution should have the ability to cover storage needs for the next three years....