EMC Dell PowerScale Design 2023 Sample Questions:
1. A customer has a large, multi-tier Isilon Gen 6 cluster storing home directories and critical file share data.
Which OneFS feature should be used to segregate home directory from critical file shares, enabling data archive across a single namespace?
A) Aspera
B) SyncIQ
C) SmartPools
D) SmartConnect
2. You are setting up SmartPools on the cluster.
Which Microsoft Windows system tool will illustrate the difference in performance experienced by clients connecting to different tiers of storage?
A) Iometer
B) IOZone
C) iostat
D) MiTrend
3. Where are file system changes first stored?
A) Endurant Cache
B) L1 Cache
C) Journal
D) L2 Cache
4. A European Sports TV network is considering Isilon for their Media Edit Storage for their editing workloads. They are also considering Isilon for near-line media archiving.
The network receives XDCAM HD footage which is loaded onto their existing Transcoding Storage platform. New footage that needs to be edited will be transferred from their Transcoding Storage platform to the proposed Media Edit Storage platform at the rate of ten simultaneous XDCAM HD files via FTP.
Edited files will be transferred back to the Transcoding Storage platform at the rate of ten simultaneous XDCAM HD files via FTP.
The network currently has 15 Final Cut Pro edit stations, 15 Avid edit stations. Proxy software will be used to allow Isilon to act as the storage for the Final Cut Pro and Avid media. Three of those edit stations will be performing content compositing as needed.
The network expects 70 hours of new content per week, and 50 hours of edited content per week. They intend to keep the new and edited content on the proposed Media Edit Storage as a performance tier for
30 days. They would like to retain all new and edited footage proposed Media Edit Storage as a near-line tier for two years.
In addition to the current workloads, the network expects to implement a new Media Asset Management (MAM) solution and has requested the Isilon cluster be capable of supporting 120 MBps read and 120 MBps write to support the MAM requirements.

The customer wants to be able to put completed content into a non-editable folder. However, they want to give access to an administrator to delete content if required.
What do you recommend to the customer?
A) SmartLock using Enterprise mode
B) WORM using Compliance mode
C) SyncIQ with read-only mode
D) SmartLock using Compliance mode
5. What is a consideration when designing access zones?
A) Authentication providers are restricted to one specific zone
B) Access zones cannot overlap the same directories
C) UID/GID ranges should not overlap for providers in the same zone
D) Share names must be unique between different access zones
Solutions:
| Question # 1 Answer: C | Question # 2 Answer: A | Question # 3 Answer: C | Question # 4 Answer: A | Question # 5 Answer: B |
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