Pure Storage FlashArray Architect Associate - FAAA_004 Exam Questions

QUESTION NO: 1
A customer wishes to reduce the amount they spend on cloud storage from Azure public cloud. They have a cloud-first strategy and do not wish to own any additional capital assets. The applications data mainly consists of 100 TB of Database data.
Which product satisfies this requirement?

QUESTION NO: 2
What is the minimally required FlashArray model that includes the DirectCompress Accelerator (DCA)?

QUESTION NO: 3
A customer is in the very early stages of designing a storage solution at a greenfield site.
They wish to use NVMe-TCP connectivity and require approximately:
* 100 Gbps of consistent raw network throughput between the FlashArray and the dedicated SAN switches.
* The dedicated SAN switches support up to 25 Gbps connectivity.
What is the minimum number of Ethernet ports in total they should connect from the FlashArray to the SAN switches while still ensuring resiliency?

QUESTION NO: 4
A customer has two data centers: one in North America and one in England. The customer wants to replicate their production data across data centers, with as low an RPO as possible.
What Pure Storage feature meets their requirements?

QUESTION NO: 5
After meeting with a potential customer, an SE confirmed the following details:
* The customer's current workload is 50 TB
* The workload has an expected DRR of 4:1
* The customer's data has predictable growth rate of 25% per year
* A 20% headroom for any unexpected workloads that may occur in the future When sizing this solution, the SE needs to make sure that the customer will have enough capacity to last 3 years. Which raw capacity will meet these requirements?

QUESTION NO: 6
A cost-conscious customer at a small regional hospital is running a PACS image archive on an NL-disk array.
The customer has the following requirements:
* More than 1 PB of storage
* Latency is not a concern
* Customer user shares must be on the same array
Which solution will meet the customer's needs?

QUESTION NO: 7
During a controller upgrade of a Pure Storage FlashArray, what aspect of array design ensures there will be no tangible impact on performance?