D-PSC-DS-23 Exam Questions

Which cache type contains data blocks from previous read and write transactions?

Which two auditing capabilities are used in OneFS monitoring? (Select 2)

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 PowerScale cluster is configured with SmartConnect zones using dynamic IP address allocation. Failback is enabled. If there is a node failure, what happens to the IP address?

What key considerations should be kept in mind when designing a 300TB solution?

A customer is considering using the CloudPools feature to send archive data to their on premises object storage appliance. The customer needs to know how many objects will be creat...

A customer is evaluating Isilon and Pure FlashBlade solutions. Which protocol is available for both solutions?

Which type of link aggregation is supported with Isilon nodes?

You meet with the IT Director of a large single site campus. The IT department has recently taken over Physical Security from the facilities department and plans a complete overhau...

Which service daemon is used by FTP and FTPS to transfer files to and from the cluster?

A customer has installed an Isilon Gen 6 cluster as a Proof of Concept. Before making a purchase decision, they would like to compare the performance of the Isilon to competitive o...

A eight node F800 Isilon cluster running OneFS 8.2.1 has a dedicated subnet and IP pool for SMB data traffic. SmartConnect Advanced license is applied. The SMB IP pool consists of...

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 called into an opportunity, you would like to get more information on the data skew of the filer. The customer has a supported filer. What assessment tool would you use to...

What is used to set permissions for devices managed by Secure Remote Services?

How are files smaller than 128 KB protected?

A customer has a large, multi-tier Isilon Gen 6 cluster storing home directories and critical file share data. Which OneFS feature should be used to segregate home directory from c...

On an Isilon cluster consisting of eight H500 nodes running OneFS 8.2.1, which type of deduplication is used to maximize storage efficiency?

A department within a company wants to migrate data to an existing PowerScale cluster. There is a requirement to keep the data separate from other departmental data for security re...

An architect is designing a solution for a new customer. The customer is going to use the cluster to store a large number of files that will be accessed by many users. What IO opti...

A PowerScale cluster has two ports that are configured per node. Each port is on a different VLAN. Although incoming traffic is evenly distributed, transmitted data from PowerScale...

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...

If SmartPools is unlicensed on a cluster, which features are NOT enabled?

A customer is collecting remote sensor data that must be maintained for future legal challenges. The data will rarely be accessed, and the customer wants to have minimum financial...

Your customer has several departments that want separate access to the cluster so they can use their individual authentication methods. Two of the departments will use NFS and two...

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

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 had several meetings with an existing EMC VMAX customer. They have agreed that they would like to review an initial Isilon Solution for unstructured data used by the Produ...

Which OneFS roles should be assigned to an Active Directory group for login privileges equivalent to the `admin' local account?

How is the journal protected in Gen 6 hardware?

You are setting up SmartPools on the cluster. Which Microsoft Windows system tool will illustrate the difference in performance experienced by clients connecting to different tiers...

You are setting up SmartPools and SmartConnect on an Isilon cluster. Which Microsoft Windows system tool will illustrate the difference in performance experienced by clients connec...

What are the available Usermapper roles?

A customer needs to consolidate 300 TB of home directory servers and shared file systems used by development and test groups. A key requirement is to prevent the systems from consu...

A customer plans to migrate data to a remote Isilon cluster. What is a consideration when configuring a cluster with SyncIQ and hard SmartQuotas?

You have been invited to meet with the Social Media and Marketing Department and gather requirements for a potential File System Project. They primarily use CIFS and are considerin...

A potential customer uses a solution from an EMC competitor for NFS storage in their main data center. The existing arrays are five years old, and the customer would like to consol...

What do you need to take into consideration when planning a job schedule?

Your customer has observed a degradation in response time while browsing for media files within the Production Media folder of the Isilon cluster. That directory now contains over...

Which feature of OneFS is used in the Home Directory and File Share vertical to monitor storage and media clients for optimal performance?

If snapshots are configured for the InsightIQ datastore on Isilon and the datastore is reverted to a previous snapshot, what might be the result?

What are attributes of FTPS?

A customer requires a backup to tape of their Isilon cluster. They want advice on whether to implement a two-way NDMP solution or a three-way solution. The front-end network must b...

In OneFS, what is the largest number of disks in a subpool?