EMC Specialist - Technology Architect, PowerScale Solutions Sample Questions:
1. A cluster has user quotas that are configured for home directories with hard limits and advisory limits set. What would be the default setting for calculating user quotas on the cluster?
Response:
A) User data and data protection overhead only
B) User data, snapshot data, and data protection overhead
C) User data and snapshot data only
D) User data only
2. Which directory path is the recommended PowerScale directory structure?
Response:
A) /ifs/<access zone>/<cluster>/<pool>/<pod>/<share>
B) /ifs/<cluster>/<access zone>/<pod>/<pool>/<share>
C) /ifs/<cluster>/<access zone>/<pool>/<pod>/<share>
D) /ifs/<cluster>/<pool>/<access zone>/<pod>/<share>
3. A customer needs to be able to periodically monitor their node live performance for ongoing operational tasks as well as during problem analysis. You have recommended they use the isi statistics command to fulfill this need.
What types of statistics and statuses could be displayed with this command?
Response:
A) Node statistics, general status, drive status, hardware statistics
B) Drive statistics, node status, protocol alerts, general performance
C) Protocol status, drive statistics, hardware statistics, node statistics
D) Node alerts, Job Engine statistics, hardware status, protocol statistics
4. A company currently has multiple fileservers to provide home directories for its employees. Each department has a separate fileserver.
Most corporate users are on Windows clients and utilize Active Directory, except for the Engineering department, which uses Linux and NIS for authentication. The company is looking for a solution with minimal administrative overhead and a single namespace for the home directories.
What is the recommended solution that will meet this company's requirements?
Response:
A) Configure a single cluster, and migrate Linux users to Windows.
B) Utilize SmartPools to create two different FilePools, and separate Windows users from Linux users.
C) Configure a single Isilon cluster and utilize Access Zones for authentication to Active Directory and NIS.
D) Configure two separate clusters, one for Windows clients and the other for Linux.
5. What accurately defines quorum in an Isilon cluster?
Response:
A) Greater than 66% of the nodes are available
B) Greater than 40% of the nodes are available
C) Greater than 33% of the nodes are available
D) Greater than 50% of the nodes are available
Solutions:
Question # 1 Answer: D | Question # 2 Answer: C | Question # 3 Answer: C | Question # 4 Answer: C | Question # 5 Answer: D |