E20-357 Exam Questions

What is the command to renumber the nodes of the cluster?

What is the recommended InfiniBand cabling for a dual switch configuration?

You have just added a node to a cluster. What is the minimum time recommended to wait before adding thenext node?

You have just completed the installation of a cluster. What is a recommended step to check networkconnectivity?

What are the default settings for SupportIQ and remote access?

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

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...

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

Your customer has a new business unit. They are gathering web log files to be analyzed. Areusing Hadoop to do the analysis of the logs. The IT department is centrally storing the l...

You have scheduled a meeting with a prospective customer in the Life Sciences vertical market. Which Isilon features should be presented to them?

An existing customer has two NAS systems providing NFS storage in their main data center-one is an Isiloncluster and the second is an array from another vendor. Both systems are fo...

A customer wants to add Unix users to their cluster, and requires that NFS access be fault tolerant. What would you recommend?

Your customer has an Isilon 4-node X400 cluster used for home directory use, and has since updated toOneFS 7.0. The HR and Legal departments have been very strict about using only...

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...

A customer is looking for a NAS solution to support their read-intensive application. This solution must meetthe following requirements: - 1000 users - Aggregate bandwidth of 5 GB/...

A NetApp customer is considering Isilon. They use their filers for UNIX home directories, and would like to seea suggested configuration that would meet their needs. What would you...

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 WP...

Your customer has an existing Isilon cluster with seven X200 nodes. The cluster is used to store homedirectories and departmental shared folders. They are planning to deploy a new...

Your customer is a major metropolitan newspaper. Your previous discussion centered on their storagerequirements, and you asked them some of the Top Ten questions. They responded:"W...

You are designing a new Isilon cluster that requires backup to tape for all files in the Legal and Accountingshared folders. The customer has sized their IP network to support the...

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

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

An administrator recently installed InsightIQ to gather cluster statistics, and wants to look at file system usage(such as the number of files in a directory). However, currently n...

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

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

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

Your customer manages a print media environment, consisting of three Isilon clusters, which are out ofsupport. The customer would like to have access to new software releases and f...

Your customer manages a print media environment, consisting of three Isilon clusters, which are out ofsupport. The customer would like to have access to new software releases and f...

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

Your customer manages a print media environment, consisting of three Isilon clusters, which are out ofsupport. The customer would like to have access to new software releases and f...

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

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

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

When conducting high-level interviews with stakeholders of a project, what are the key questions that shouldbe asked?

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

A cost-conscious customer is exploring Isilon for their PACS archive. The workflow consists of one hundredcases a day, each including fifty 60MB image files. However, each image wi...

In an environment where an Isilon storage node has a system failure and disk drives are likely to be unaffectedin the node, what is the preferred method for restoring cluster integ...

When using an N+2:1 protection policy on a 5-node Isilon cluster, how much capacity will be used to store a320 KiB file?

When using an N+2 protection policy on a 5-node Isilon cluster, how much capacity will be used to store a1024 KiB file?

An Isilon customer's administrator created the nested directory structure, shown in the exhibit,using SmartQuotas. However, a user needs to write an additional 650 GB of data to "/...

When configuring Isilon SmartConnect in a customer environment, which records are required for a supportedimplementation?

A customer is purchasing a 5-node Isilon X400 cluster for an HPC application running on Linux. The customercurrently has 10 HPC nodes and will persistent mount the Isilon cluster t...

While configuring Isilon SmartConnect, a customer has determined that their workload primarily consists ofshort-lived connections, such as HTTP and/or FTP. Which load-balancing pol...

An Isilon customer has an environment with very different workloads. They would like to assign clients toperformance tiers based on the resources needed. Which software functionali...

When configuring Dynamic IP Address Allocation in Isilon SmartConnect, which policy setting needs to bedetermined?

Based on the following criteria: - Spans 3-40 nodes - Logical grouping of drives - Automatically assigned - Intelligently distributes disks to manage performance Which Isilon clust...

An Isilon customer currently has an 8-node cluster of older X-Series nodes. They are planning severalupgrades over the next three years in the following stages: - Stage 1: Add 2 X-...

Which Isilon license feature provides the ability to manage the performance and cost of data in a cluster as itrelates to business objectives such as value and SLAs?

Which Isilon feature provides the ability to build a cluster using different node types and tiers to meet acustomer's business objectives?

An Isilon customer needs to provide low latency I/O for their files due to a workflow which involves small,random reads and writes. Which SSD strategy is most effective for this us...