
EMC Specialist - Technology Architect, PowerScale Solutions - DES-1415 Exam Questions
QUESTION NO: 1
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 cluster, with 50% utilized for their video surveillance operations.
They want to upgrade from 15 FPS (NTSC) in H.264 codec, with a 15 days retention policy to 30 FPS (NTSC) in H.264 codec, with a 30 days retention policy.
How many nodes of the same type will you need to add in order to meet the required changes and not exceed 70% raw capacity?
Response:
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 cluster, with 50% utilized for their video surveillance operations.
They want to upgrade from 15 FPS (NTSC) in H.264 codec, with a 15 days retention policy to 30 FPS (NTSC) in H.264 codec, with a 30 days retention policy.
How many nodes of the same type will you need to add in order to meet the required changes and not exceed 70% raw capacity?
Response:
Correct Answer: D
QUESTION NO: 2
Refer to the exhibit.

A large hospital chain has approached you to redesign their storage infrastructure. The head of IT believes their requirement is for 60 TB of RAW capacity. The following are the notes from meetings with the department heads.
Which is the minimum cluster configuration that meets the customer's requirements?
Response:
Refer to the exhibit.

A large hospital chain has approached you to redesign their storage infrastructure. The head of IT believes their requirement is for 60 TB of RAW capacity. The following are the notes from meetings with the department heads.
Which is the minimum cluster configuration that meets the customer's requirements?
Response:
Correct Answer: D
QUESTION NO: 3
You get a call from a customer that has just added 200 user connections to the cluster. They want to know how fast they are writing data with these new users. What tool would you use to gather this information?
Response:
You get a call from a customer that has just added 200 user connections to the cluster. They want to know how fast they are writing data with these new users. What tool would you use to gather this information?
Response:
Correct Answer: D
QUESTION NO: 4
An architect is designing a solution for a customer that is replicating data between two data centers 15 km apart from each other. The customer requires point-in-time protection. What is possible in a SyncIQ policy?
Response:
An architect is designing a solution for a customer that is replicating data between two data centers 15 km apart from each other. The customer requires point-in-time protection. What is possible in a SyncIQ policy?
Response:
Correct Answer: D
QUESTION NO: 5
Your customer purchased an Isilon cluster with eight X400 nodes for Home Directories. Your follow-up discussions have uncovered an opportunity to expand the cluster to support the Legal Department. As you prepare to complete the Workflow Profile Document, you meet with the customer to discuss data protection.
Which key areas should you address?
Response:
Your customer purchased an Isilon cluster with eight X400 nodes for Home Directories. Your follow-up discussions have uncovered an opportunity to expand the cluster to support the Legal Department. As you prepare to complete the Workflow Profile Document, you meet with the customer to discuss data protection.
Which key areas should you address?
Response:
Correct Answer: A
QUESTION NO: 6
How are clients, L1 cache, L2 cache, and disks interconnected?
Response:
How are clients, L1 cache, L2 cache, and disks interconnected?
Response:
Correct Answer: C
QUESTION NO: 7
Which Isilon feature increases available space by consolidating copies of identical blocks of data?
Response:
Which Isilon feature increases available space by consolidating copies of identical blocks of data?
Response:
Correct Answer: B
QUESTION NO: 8
While designing SyncIQ policies for a new cluster, an architect wants to ensure that data is not deleted. What should the architect create?
Response:
While designing SyncIQ policies for a new cluster, an architect wants to ensure that data is not deleted. What should the architect create?
Response:
Correct Answer: A
QUESTION NO: 9
An Isilon customer is experiencing less than expected performance and poor space utilization with their cluster. They are using the X400 nodes with an N+2d:1n protection policy to host web server log data.
Upon further analysis, the customer discovers that the web servers write log files 64KiB in size. The log files are then accessed by an analytics application for reporting purposes.
What should be done to increase the write performance of the cluster?
Response:
An Isilon customer is experiencing less than expected performance and poor space utilization with their cluster. They are using the X400 nodes with an N+2d:1n protection policy to host web server log data.
Upon further analysis, the customer discovers that the web servers write log files 64KiB in size. The log files are then accessed by an analytics application for reporting purposes.
What should be done to increase the write performance of the cluster?
Response:
Correct Answer: D
QUESTION NO: 10
A company with a PowerScale cluster wants to apply quotas to restrict the amount of storage space used by every department. They want to set a quota to each department that stores files on the cluster to no more than 1.2 TB. Each department is when they exceed 1 TB.
Which type of quota should be used?
Response:
A company with a PowerScale cluster wants to apply quotas to restrict the amount of storage space used by every department. They want to set a quota to each department that stores files on the cluster to no more than 1.2 TB. Each department is when they exceed 1 TB.
Which type of quota should be used?
Response:
Correct Answer: B
QUESTION NO: 11
During initial configuration of a PowerScale cluster, OneFS creates a network using the default internal network interface without a failover option. What is the default back-end network interface used?
Response:
During initial configuration of a PowerScale cluster, OneFS creates a network using the default internal network interface without a failover option. What is the default back-end network interface used?
Response:
Correct Answer: C
QUESTION NO: 12
If SmartPools is unlicensed on a cluster, which features are NOT enabled?
Response:
If SmartPools is unlicensed on a cluster, which features are NOT enabled?
Response:
Correct Answer: D
QUESTION NO: 13
Which OneFS roles should be assigned to a new local account for login privileges equivalent to 'root' local account?
Response:
Which OneFS roles should be assigned to a new local account for login privileges equivalent to 'root' local account?
Response:
Correct Answer: B
QUESTION NO: 14
For a given job, what determines the number of workers assigned?
Response:
For a given job, what determines the number of workers assigned?
Response:
Correct Answer: A




