EMC Dell PowerScale Design 2023 - D-PSC-DS-23 Exam Questions

QUESTION NO: 1
How many Z9264 switches are required for a A3000 cluster consisting of 160 nodes using a 25 GbE for a complete back-end network?

QUESTION NO: 2
A customer has two Isilon clusters in an Active-Passive setup. The customer has latency sensitive media editing workflows. Most of the media editing work occurs prior to broadcasting between 7:00-8:00,
11:00- 12:00, 17:00-18:00 and 19:00-20:00.
What should be recommended to minimize the risk of including latency to the client workflow?

QUESTION NO: 3
A customer is evaluating Isilon and Pure FlashBlade solutions.
Which protocol is available for both solutions?

QUESTION NO: 4
A customer has a cluster consisting of six H700 nodes (in one full chassis and one half populated chassis) and four A2000 nodes (in one full chassis). The customer wants to expand their A2000 nodes.
What is the minimum number of A2000 nodes and chassis that the customer can add to the cluster?

QUESTION NO: 5
What happens to worker threads running on the same node when there is an excessive number of workers running at the same time?

QUESTION NO: 6
A cluster has user quotas configured for user's home directories with hard limits and advisory limits set.
What would the default setting be for calculating user quotas on the cluster?

QUESTION NO: 7
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 WPA report that shows the array has 50TB of usable capacity.
In discussions with the customer, you learn the content is comprised of four million 6MB files and 400 million 64KB files. The customer explains they have a small budget and very limited rack space available in their datacenter. Performance is not a concern because the files are rarely accessed.
Which configuration provides the needed usable capacity using N+2:1 protection, and requires the least amount of rack space?

QUESTION NO: 8
A customer has a 24-node PowerScale cluster, they need a solution that tolerates three node failures and four drive failures.
What protection level should be applied?

QUESTION NO: 9
You are designing a backup solution using an NDMP redirector and throttler.
What is the default threshold percentage of CPU resources that the throttler limits NDMP to?

QUESTION NO: 10
Which feature will provide data immutability without the ability for the administrator to delete the files under any condition?

QUESTION NO: 11
Which tool measures actual throughput and produces sophisticated graphs?

QUESTION NO: 12
Which directory path is the recommended PowerScale directory structure?

QUESTION NO: 13
In an NFSv3 only environment, what is the recommended limit for active NFSv3 connections, per Isilon node?