Specialist - Technology Architect, Midrange Storage Solutions Exam (DES-1D12) Free Practice Test

Question 1

What is a consequence of using an 800 GB drive and five 400 GB drives in a Dell EMC Unity XT dynamic pool?

A. Extents 9 - 14 are marked unavailable and can never be recovered

B. Extents 9 - 14 are marked unavailable until more 800 GB drives are added

C. Unisphere short strokes the 800 GB drive to 8 extents

D. Extents 9 - 14 are used to create a RAID Group

Correct Answer: B

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Question 2

What tabs are available on the Dell EMC PowerStore Manager Dashboard?

A. Performance. Overview, and Capacity only

B. Health, Efficiency. Performance, and Summary

C. Performance. Efficiency, and Capacity only

D. Health. Overview. Performance, and Capacity

Correct Answer: A

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Question 3

A solutions architect must present two different Dell PowerStore options to a customer Both options must contain 90 TB raw in the smallest drive configuration possible A 3000T and a 9000T are the two models requested The customer wants to know the minimum drive count necessary to perform a capacity upgrade Which solution should be recommended?

A. 12x 7 TB drives in the 3000T and 6x 15 TB drives in the 9000T both requiring upgrades in six drive increments

B. 6x 15 TB drives in the 3000T and 12x 7 TB drives in the 9000T both supporting single drive upgrades

C. 6x 15 TB drives in the 3000T and 6x 15 TB drives in the 9000T both supporting single drive upgrades

D. A 6x 15 TB drives in the 3000T and 6x 15 TB drives in the 9000T both requiring upgrades in six drive increments

Correct Answer: C

Question 4

A customer has invested much time using the Dell PS Series Host Integration Toolkit (HIT) to integrate SAN snapshot protection with Microsoft SQL Server native snapshot technology. The customer expresses concern about whether Dell EMC SC Series cross-platform replication supports that capability.
What should be your response?

A. Cross-platform replication works with PS Series HIT integrations.

B. Recreate integration on the SC Series array and use only SC-to-SC replication for those volumes.

C. Leverage the integration investment and use only PS-to-PS replication on those volumes.

D. Cross-platform replication works with SC Series HIT integrations.

Correct Answer: C

Question 5

A storage administrator is deploying a new Dell Unity XT 880F system The system will be used over FC by several hosts running production databases The system will also be used over iSCSI to several hosts running tesVdev workloads The administrator wants to prevent the test/dev hosts from using more than 5000 IOPS What Unity XT feature can be used for this configuration?

A. Thin clones

B. FASTVP

C. LUN masking

D. Host I/O limits

Correct Answer: D

Question 6

Which Dell EMC SC Series array allows for back-end expansion cards?

A. SCv3020

B. SC7020

C. SCv3000

D. SC5020

Correct Answer: B

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Question 7

In Dell EMC PowerStore storage, if the remote cluster has multiple appliances, then what automatically chooses the destination appliance for the resource?

A. Performance Policy

B. Resource Balancer

C. Master appliance

D. Source array

Correct Answer: B

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Question 8

A technical architect is designing a Dell Unity XT 480 using the System Designer option of Sizer. What is the recommended minimum amount of Flash that they should specify?

A. 10%

B. 7%

C. 5%

D. 15%

Correct Answer: C

Question 9

Which parameters can be selected when sizing a Dell Unity XT 480F using the System Design method?

A. One of two block sizes Application type

B. Drive count and RAID level Percentage of random writes and reads

C. Data reduction ratio Percentage of sequential writes and reads

D. One of four workload types Drive count and RAID level

Correct Answer: C

Question 10

What is the purpose of the NVMe NVRAM drives in a Dell EMC PowerStore 9000 array?

A. Read cache and base OS

B. Write cache and base OS

C. Read cache and vaulting

D. Write cache and vaulting

Correct Answer: D

Question 11

From which storage platforms does a migration import data to a Dell PowerStore cluster?

A. VNXe Unity Dell Compellent SC Series and Dell EqualLogic PS series

B. Dell EqualLogic PS series Unity, Dell Compellent SC Series, and PowerVault ME

C. Unity VNX2 Dell EqualLogic PS series and Dell Compellent SC Series

D. PowerMax. Dell EqualLogic PS senes Dell Compellent SC Series and Unity

Correct Answer: A

Question 12

How many replication rules can be applied to a cluster in Dell EMC PowerStore?

A. 16

B. 32

C. 24

D. 64

Correct Answer: B

Question 13

Which Dell EMC Unity feature provides network high availability with active-passive ports when provisioning File storage for a NAS client?

A. Preferred Interfaces

B. Link Aggregation

C. Fail-safe Networking

D. Redundant Interfaces

Correct Answer: C

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Question 14

A customer is managing a Dell EMC SC7020 array running SCOS 7.2. The array is running out of capacity. The customer asks you to begin scoping the system for additional drives. What disk drive redundancy rule applies to 3.84 TB SSDs?

A. Forced Non-Redundancy

B. Default Single Redundancy

C. Forced Dual Redundancy

D. Default Dual Redundancy

Correct Answer: D

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