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EMC D-MSS-DS-23 Dell Midrange Storage Solutions Design 2023 Exam Practice Test

Demo: 25 questions
Total 85 questions

Dell Midrange Storage Solutions Design 2023 Questions and Answers

Question 1

A customer has a data center with applications running on 16 volumes that are presented from a Dell Unity XT system. They want to design a DR site within metro distance with zero RPO using storage-based replication. According to Dell best practices, which design approach minimizes the impact on storage performance?

Options:

A.

Use multiple ports per controller for replication.

B.

Include a Flash tier in a hybrid pool where synchronous replication is active.

C.

Use Thick volumes within the replication group.

D.

Create the synchronous replication session before filling the source storage object with data.

Question 2

What action is performed in the "Create a file import session" during a PowerStore file import?

Options:

A.

Destination NAS server resources are created.

B.

Production interfaces are disabled on the source side.

C.

Options for import are specified.

D.

Source import network interface is created.

Question 3

Which statement is true about dynamic node affinity?

Options:

A.

Maintains relatively consistent utilization, latency, and performance between both nodes.

B.

Automatically moves NAS servers to the peer node to balance the workload.

C.

Trespass affected block volumes between nodes.

Question 4

Which sizer option supports configuration of a Midrange solution with hybrid dynamic pools?

Options:

A.

Advanced Performance

B.

Quick Configuration

C.

System Designer

D.

Simple Performance

Question 5

Which network option should be configured to provide the best iSCSI performance on a Dell Unity XT array?

Options:

A.

iSCSI offload

B.

Single VLAN for all traffic

C.

Disable flow control

D.

Jumbo frames

Question 6

Which path of the sizer tool for Dell Unity XT uses predefined configurations that are based on array model, capacity points, random workloads, RAID type, and drive type?

Options:

A.

Advanced Performance

B.

Quick Configuration

C.

Simple Performance

D.

System Designer

Question 7

What is a Dell recommendation when connecting ESXi hosts to PowerStore?

Options:

A.

Configure Round Robin Multipathing with an IOPS limit of 1024.

B.

Enable DelayedACK when configured using iSCSI.

C.

Configure a minimum of two NAS servers when using vVol Datastores.

D.

Use the default 8k host I/O size when using NFS.

Question 8

Which two statements are correct for a PowerStore 5200T with mixed SSD and SCM drive combination? (Select 2)

Options:

A.

Expansion Enclosures are supported.

B.

NVMe drives are not used for Caching and Vaulting.

C.

SSD drives are used for metadata tiering.

D.

SCM drives do not add to usable capacity.

Question 9

Which Dell Unity XT DPE front-end port connectivity can support up to 30,000 IOPS/port and up to 1,700 MB/s?

Options:

A.

25 GbE iSCSI

B.

16 Gb FC

C.

10 GbE iSCSI and 16 Gb FC

D.

16 Gb FC and 25 GbE iSCSI

Question 10

The CPU utilization in a Dell Unity XT system is currently at 68%. What is the level of CPU utilization?

Options:

A.

Extremely High Utilization

B.

High Utilization

C.

Low Utilization

D.

Normal Utilization

Question 11

A customer has a PowerStore 3200T system with only base enclosure consisting of 15 SSD 1920 GB drives and wants to expand the available capacity. What is the most cost-effective drive addition from a raw and usable capacity perspective to achieve the result wanted by the customer?

Options:

A.

6 x 1920 NVMe SSD drives

B.

6 x 3840 NVMe SSD drives

C.

6 x 750 GB NVMe SCM drives

Question 12

What is the minimum number of IP addresses for optimal performance of PowerStoreX?

Options:

A.

6

B.

7

C.

9

D.

4

Question 13

In a Dell Unity XT system, SSD wear alerts are issued at 180-, 90-, 60-, and 30-day periods before the predicted end of life. What is automatically initiated on the spare drive at 30 days?

Options:

A.

Predictive Copy Operations

B.

Protective Copy Operations

C.

Preemptive Copy Operations

D.

Proactive Copy Operations

Question 14

A customer has three Dell PowerStore 1000Ts in a cluster and wants to add a PowerStore 5000X. What must they do?

Options:

A.

Create a cluster with the 5000X.

B.

Use the PowerStore CLI to add the appliance.

C.

Reconfigure the existing cluster.

D.

Use the PowerStore Manager to add the appliance.

Question 15

What information must a solution architect gather before they start designing a storage solution?

Options:

A.

Application response, LAN, and WAN requirements

B.

Network Infrastructure, Storage, and Customer workload performance requirements

C.

LAN, SAN, and IOPS requirements

D.

LAN, SAN, and Customer workload requirements

Question 16

What is the maximum supported drive configuration in the base enclosure of the PowerStore 3200T?

Options:

A.

23xNVMe SCMs 2 x NVMe NVRAM

B.

21 x NVMe SSDs 2 x NVMe NVRAM

C.

23 x NVMe SSDs 2 x NVMe NVRAM

D.

21 x NVMe SCMs 4 x NVMe NVRAM

Question 17

What initiates an automatic NAS server failover to the peer SP?

Options:

A.

Assisted internal migration

B.

Network link failure

C.

SP hardware fault

D.

Resource balancing algorithm

Question 18

Which two options allow the collection of telemetry files when evaluating an existing Dell Unity XT system configuration? (Select 2)

Options:

A.

unity_service_data collects

B.

UEMCLI

C.

PSTCLI

D.

unity_telemetry_data collects

Question 19

Which tool can be used for proactive monitoring and anomalies detection for a Unity environment?

Options:

A.

CloudIQ

B.

InsightIQ

C.

Unisphere

D.

ArrayconfigAnalyzer

Question 20

A customer must provision file systems on a Dell Unity XT 480F for a test environment. A dynamic pool will be configured with RAID 5 (4+1) protection to match the production pool. The used tier contains only SAS Flash 3 drives. What is the minimum drive count necessary to create this pool?

Options:

A.

6

B.

11

C.

5

D.

10

Question 21

What does the Storage Performance Saturation field show in the Configurations tab of the PowerStore sizing tool in a Multi-Appliance solution?

Options:

A.

Aggregate of all workloads

B.

Maximum Performance

C.

Aggregate of all capacity

D.

Maximum usable capacity

Question 22

When designing a system to support Oracle OLAP Workload for a new customer with no I/O details, what are the default selections for the I/O profile input in sizer?

Options:

A.

Sequential Read: 70% at 8 KiB Sequential Write: 30% at 8 KiB

B.

Random Read: 70% at 8 KiB Random Write: 30% at 8 KiB

C.

Sequential Read: 80% at 8 KiB Sequential Write: 20% at 8 KiB

D.

Random Read: 50% at 32 KiB Random Write: 50% at 32 KiB

Question 23

What non-Dell product reports can be generated using My Work?

Options:

A.

HP EVA and IBM SVC

B.

NetApp and HDS

C.

3PAR and IBM XIV

D.

HDS and 3PAR

Question 24

Which tool can be used to migrate file data for Windows hosts from a legacy VNX array to a new Dell Unity XT array?

Options:

A.

Rsync

B.

SANCopy

C.

DataDobi

Question 25

What is the minimum RPO that can be configured on a Dell Unity XT block-asynchronous replication session?

Options:

A.

60 minutes

B.

1 minute

C.

5 minutes

D.

20 minutes

Demo: 25 questions
Total 85 questions