DES-1D11 Online Practice Questions and Answers

What is a benefit of cross-platform replication between Dell EMC SC Series and PS Series?

A. Active Snapshot Replication

B. Live Volume Replication

C. Compression of replicated data

D. Leverages existing interfaces

A Dell EMC SC Series customer has purchased the Storage Optimization bundle and wants to ensure that Data Progression works efficiently. Which snapshot schedule conforms to best practice when using Data Progression?

A. Daily snapshot with an expiration of no more than 23 hours

B. Daily snapshot with an expiration of exactly 24 hours

C. Daily snapshot with an expiration of at least 25 hours

D. Daily snapshot configured with no expiration time

You are designing a Dell EMC Unity storage system for a customer who is concerned about power requirements. How much primary power is provided by each DPE power supply?

A. 200 Watts

B. 400 Watts

C. 800 Watts

D. 1100 Watts

In a Dell EMC SC Series environment, what can be examined to determine a customer's data change rate?

A. Event logs

B. Volume properties

C. Incremental backups

D. DPACK reports

A customer wants to add self-encrypting SSDs to a Dell EMC SC8000 system running SCOS version 6.5. They have deployed a SafeNet Key Management server in the network. Does the customer need to do anything else?

A. No. Add and manage the SSDs in the disk folder.

B. Yes. Upgrade the hardware to SC9000 and SC220 enclosures.

C. Yes. Upgrade to SCOS 6.7 release or newer.

D. Yes. Add a new enclosure exclusively for the SSDs.

Why is the drive size a threshold in Dell EMC SC Series for Dual Redundancy?

A. RAID protection level during a disk allocation failure

B. RAID stripe reconstruction time during a disk failure

C. Data Progression run times are longer with larger drives

D. Cost per GB on larger drives is less

A customer has a Dell EMC Unity 500 at their headquarters location. They want to deploy a UnityVSA in a remote/branch office environment to run an instance of a mission-critical financial application. In addition, they want to ensure that headquarters and the branch offices share the same information by using asynchronous replication. Finally, the customer wants to add 10 TB of capacity in the next 6 months.

Since a Professional Edition subscription with the lowest storage capacity was purchased, what is the minimum upgrade subscription required?

A. 4 TB to 10 TB

B. 10 TB to 25 TB

C. 10 TB to 50 TB

D. 25 TB to 50 TB

A customer requires a minimum of 6 PB of raw capacity and six back-end SAS connections. Which Dell EMC Unity model meets these requirements?

A. Unity 350F

B. Unity 400

C. Unity 450F

D. Unity 500

A Dell EMC SC Series customer has purchased the Storage Optimization bundle and wants to ensure that Data Progression works efficiently. Which snapshot schedule conforms to best practice when using Data Progression?

A. Daily snapshot with an expiration of exactly 24 hours

B. Daily snapshot with an expiration of at least 25 hours

C. Weekly snapshot with an expiration of exactly 7 days

D. Weekly snapshot with an expiration of at least 8 days

Which technology is the Dell EMC Unity File Import feature architecture built upon?

A. Inband Migration Tool

B. SANCopy Push

C. Transparent Data Transfer

D. Redirect on Write

An analysis of a customer's current environment reveals a peak of 6,600 IOPS with 4,500 writes and 2,100 reads. The sample was gathered at 10-minute intervals. Given this information, what is a reasonable IOPS target for the Tier 1 drives in a Dell EMC SC Series solution?

A. 7,000 IOPS

B. 9,000 IOPS

C. 12,000 IOPS

D. 15,000 IOPS

A customer wants a solution that includes a single 12-drive DPE and six 25-drive DAEs. Which Dell EMC Unity model should be recommended?

A. Unity 300

B. Unity 400

C. Unity 450F

D. Unity 500F

Which feature is supported with cross-platform replication between Dell EMC PS and SC Series arrays?

A. Active Snapshot Replication

B. Encryption of replicated data

C. Application integration with replicas

D. Asynchronous Replication

You are designing a Dell EMC Unity Block storage solution for use in a customer's virtual desktop environment (VDI). In addition, the array will store several critical database applications for hosts that are sensitive to long response times. What should be used to prevent the VDI environment from disrupting the database application response times?

A. Thin clones for VDI storage and Flash pools for database applications

B. Host I/O Limits for the database application storage

C. IP Multi-tenancy, configuring tenants for the VDI and database applications

D. Host I/O Limits for the VDI storage, configured for bursts

In a Dell EMC Unity environment, which design configuration will support synchronous replication?

A. Consistency Groups on a UnityVSA system

B. Consistency Groups on a Unity 450F system

C. NFS datastores on a UnityVSA system

D. NFS datastores on a Unity 450F system