D-PSC-DS-23 Exam Questions

When a PowerScale Gen6 cluster receives a file to be stored, which node performs the FEC calculation?

A large retail customer is using their Isilon Gen 6 cluster to store receipts. The resulting workflow data consists of only small files. What configuration change is recommended fo...

A healthcare services provider is implementing an X-Series cluster. Currently they have approximately 200 customers and they are growing at 30% per year. They have 200 TB of storag...

You have 1000 users for an application that reads and writes files averaging between one and four MB in size. Each user requires 24 MB of RAM. You want to add another 1000 users fo...

What replication option is NOT supported by SyncIQ?

What determines how a user is directed to the correct secure multi-tenancy access zones?

A potential customer requires 4 PB of usable capacity to store media files. The workloads are a combination of streaming video delivery and long term archive of video assets. There...

What is the threshold for a file to be considered small on a PowerScale Gen6 cluster?

Which platforms are supported by CloudPools with the initial OneFS 8.0 release?

What form of journaling redundancy is provided by a PowerScale Gen6 cluster?

On Isilon Gen 6 nodes, what is used to store the peer journal copy?

What is an accurate statement when configuring an Isilon Gen 6 cluster with Compliance SmartLock?

A customer's cluster contains three X200 (24 GB RAM, 3 TB drives) nodes, and three X400 (48 GB RAM, 1 TB drives) nodes. All nodes are configured in a single pool. All data is prote...

A system administrator has identified a problem on the cluster and has opened a service request on support.emc.com. They initiate isi_gather_info but it is taking a long time to co...

Which Isilon feature increases available space by consolidating copies of identical blocks of data?

You are reviewing an opportunity with a trusted advisor. You both discover gaps in the initial solution design. Each iterative discussion with the customer helps you define the sol...

Your customer purchased an Isilon cluster with eight X400 nodes for Home Directories. Your follow- up discussions have uncovered an opportunity to expand the cluster to support the...

Refer to the exhibit. Which tool was used to create this output and which line item counts the metadata read operations occurring in the file service?

While considering expanding a current Isilon cluster, what tool or report can be used to investigate current file sizes used on the cluster?

A customer configures a file pool policy to write data to tier 2 on the Isilon cluster. This is in addition to the 30 policies already created. Later in the week they check the fil...

You need to gather information in order to design an Isilon solution. What are included in the Top 10 qualification questions?

A customer has an SMB file directory with 375 TB of data on the primary cluster with a protection level of N+3:1. They want to replicate this directory to the secondary cluster. Th...

How many Z9264 switches are required for a A3000 cluster consisting of 160 nodes using a 25 GbE for a complete back-end network?

A company wants to have their new PowerScale Gen6 cluster benchmarked for a UNIX environment. What commonly available open-source tool is typically used to test PowerScale cluster...

An Isilon cluster is configured with SmartConnect zones using dynamic IP address allocation. Failback is enabled. What happens to the IP address in the event of a node failure?

During an NDMP backup restore using ShallowCopy, a version check fails. Which restore option should you switch to?

Refer to the exhibit. Your customer has three different clusters. File systems on two of the clusters are at 90% full, and the largest cluster is 10% full. Active data resides on t...

You set up a meeting to gather information on a new project with the IT manager and plan to use a workflow profile assessment (WPA) to document the requirements. Why is it recommen...

A customer has 10 files that are each 10 MB in size. They created two clones of each file on their source cluster. They now want to use SyncIQ to replicate the original files and t...

An architect is designing a solution for a customer that is replicating data between two data centers 15 km apart from each other. The customer requires point-in-time protection. W...

For a given job, what determines the number of workers assigned?

The data access pattern on a Gen 6 Isilon cluster in Concurrency. What describes this workload?

You have had several discussions with your customer in the processor design industry. They have stated that they want a Scale-Out NAS platform for their design environment. Their m...

A potential customer is considering replacing a four year old, Linux-based NFS server with 40TB of usable capacity. The existing system supports home directories, an internal websi...

Your customer has an Isilon Gen 6 cluster with eight H400 nodes. During an unexpected power outage some of the nodes go offline simultaneously. How many nodes need to remain up and...

A potential customer has about 540TB of NetApp running in ONTAP 7-Mode. They are willing to let you gather some workload data. They have LDAP and Active Directory authentication an...

An Isilon storage administrator is concerned about capacity after ingesting 200 TB of file data. They recently added more nodes to the cluster and now want to auto-balance it as so...

What requirements must be determined when sizing a PowerScale solution?

What occurs when the ShadowStoreDelete job target efficiency of a chunk drops below 90%?

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 comple...

An Isilon cluster has four A200 nodes with 15, 12TB HDDs each. VHS is specified as four virtual drives or 15 percent of the node pool. Which configuration would be used as reserved...

Your customer is moving from a Restaurant/Bar business model to a Restaurant/Casino business model. You are helping architect the upgrade of a current 4-node X200 48 TB Isilon clus...

Refer to the exhibit. A customer calls you and asks if you could come by and interpret their InsightIQ data. You see that namespace reads are 63% of the work load. What would you r...

A customer is running OneFS 8.0 on an Isilon cluster exclusively consisting of NL400 nodes. The storage administrator recently heard that in OneFS 8.1.2 it is possible to use large...

A customer is experiencing problems writing data to their PowerScale cluster. You have checked all network settings and authentication sources. No errors are reported on the cluste...

Three jobs are running, all with a priority of 5. A new job with a priority of 6 needs to be run. What happens?

Which data access pattern uses aggressive prefetching?

What is the recommended namespace path for the access zone on a new Isilon cluster with SyncIQ license?

An Isilon cluster has two ports configured per node. Each port is on a different VLAN. Although incoming traffic is evenly distributed, transmitted data from the Isilon uses one po...

Your customer is moving from a Restaurant/Bar business model to a Restaurant/Casino business model. You are helping architect the upgrade of a current 4-node X200 48 TB Isilon clus...