E20-018 Exam Questions

What are the three general components of a Vblock?

Which is a valid method for modifying an application environment to support more clients and increased data throughput?

Which EMC product provides seamless data mobility and enables management of the storage resources of multiple heterogeneous arrays from a single interface?

A company requires their application, which is running on a virtual server, to be continuously available. They would like to provide automatic failover and non-disruptive failure r...

In addition to encryption, which techniques represent risk mitigation?

You are meeting with the CIO to discuss your VDC design. They question the amount of capital that is being invested in iSCSI adapters. They state that, because of the number of ada...

An application processes test results from a manufacturing facility, then generates and archives quality reports. The application runs on an old, but still supported UNIX system. I...

In addition to hypervisor hardening, what are the components of a Tier 3 trust tier?

A company is considering converting their VDC to IaaS. They realize to do this they will also have to implement several new technologies and create several new functions: service o...

In which situation should you consider implementing hypervisor over-provisioning?

Which is an example of a hypervisor that performs binary translation of sensitive non-virtualized instruction requests, but allows for direct execution of user requests?

A small organization plans to migrate a critical application from a traditional, physical infrastructure to the first servers in their VDC. This will be one of several applications...

What does using the cloud for a DR site offer protection against?

An organization with 25,000 employees moved to a new building that contains a fully virtualized data center with a virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) instituted for all employees...

You are meeting with the CIO to discuss your VDC design. They question the amount of capital that is being invested in iSCSI adapters. They state that, because of the number of ada...

An organization plans to migrate a single application from a traditional, physical infrastructure to new servers. These servers are the first of several planned for their VDC. This...

Which product enables storage tiering to be extended to the host platform?

An application executes code in a "virtual bubble" on the endpoint device. Which application virtualization architecture has been implemented?

A criminal act is committed by one of the tenants in a multi-tenant environment where customer data also resides. What would be a key design recommendation to minimize risk of expo...

Which component within the array is used to create and configure secondary cache in storage arrays?

A company is considering using a public cloud environment for a new HR application. However, they are concerned about the regulatory requirements for their employee data. Several o...

Which mode of IPSec encrypts the entire IP packet?

When selecting multipathing software, which requirement would favor choosing PowerPath/VE instead of native multipathing?

A hypervisor has been deployed with all virtual machines (VMs) sharing the same storage array LUN for their respective virtual disks. Array-based replication has been implemented f...

What is the primary mechanism used to secure data between data centers?

A company has invested in virtualization for all their non-mission critical applications and many of their mission critical applications. They now want to convert their virtualized...

A small company asks you to design a VDC in each of their two data centers, using stretched VLANs and native Fibre Channel extension to interconnect the environments. The data cent...

What are the four key areas reported on a scorecard used to compare the assessments of internal IT to Service Providers?

Refer to the exhibit. A VDC design requires 300 blade server chassis, each with two embedded Fibre Channel switches, which are connected to two separate SAN fabrics. For ease of ma...

The CIO has asked you to review the status of your company's VDC and validate that the implementation has entered the IT-as-a-Service phase. Which capability must be in place prior...

Refer to the exhibit. You are expanding the compute layer of a VDC, and need to add more access layer switches to provide connectivity to the hypervisors. However, there are no ava...

Refer to the exhibit. A VDC design requires 300 blade server chassis, each with two embedded Fibre Channel switches, which are connected to two separate SAN fabrics. For ease of ma...

An application executes code on a remote host while receiving keyboard and mouse input from the endpoint. Which application virtualization architecture has been implemented?

Refer to the exhibit. You are expanding the compute layer of a VDC, and need to add more access layer switches to provide connectivity to the hypervisors. However, there are no ava...

As part of a VDC design, you configured a number of virtual machine OS clusters. Each cluster must have a non-routable network to accommodate system heartbeats. However, some of th...

Why should storage technologies such as data deduplication and data compression be considered?

What is IT's approach to addressing performance issues during the Operationalize phase of the Cloud Maturity Model?

Which product performs virtualized data caching across heterogeneous storage arrays?

What is a feature of the Cisco Unified Computing System (UCS)?

A VDC environment will be deployed with several virtual machines (VMs). The datastores for the VMs will be hosted on a storage array. Array-based local replication has been propose...

A tenant of your service provider/hosting company requires that their data be completely isolated from other tenant data. Which implementation would best meet the tenant's requirem...

You are using virtual (thin) provisioning to reduce the amount of physical storage that is initially required for an implementation. On the storage array, you configure a pool that...

As part of a VDC deployment, you are examining the existing storage configurations. On one storage system, you discover over fifty storage pools. The pools contain a single type of...

A company has five heterogeneous storage arrays that are all connected to a common SAN environment. They want to offer storage to their end users, masking the identity of the targe...

A VDC administrator needs to create a virtual distributed file system. Which file storage protocol would best meet their requirement?

Refer to the exhibit. You are designing the storage environment for a new VDC. The applications have been classified into three groups, as shown in the exhibit. You have chosen to...

You are meeting with the CIO to discuss your VDC design. They QUESTION NO: the amount of capital that is being invested in iSCSI adapters. They state that, because of the number of...

You have decided to pursue a "scale-out" approach instead of a "scale-up" approach to storage. What is the fundamental tradeoff that you have made?

Which is a scale-out NAS solution that can distribute data over multiple nodes for resiliency?

A small college asks you to design a VDC that will span four data centers located within a campus environment. They want to have the VLANs stretched across all four locations. They...