Free Specialist – Technology Architect, PowerMax and VMAX All Flash Solutions Exam DES-1111 Exam Practice Test

An architect plans to implement SRDF/A Legacy mode. What is a possible reason to do this?

• Decoupled cycle switching between R1 and R2 arrays
• Coupled cycle switching between R1 and R2 arrays
• Increased robustness of SRDF/A sessions and reduced DSE spillover
• More granular and predictable RPO at the R2 side.

A storage administrator is provisioning storage on a PowerMax 2000 array. The application requires fast reads and the highest possible data protection.Which RAID level should be recommended?

• RAID 6 (6 + 2)
• RAID 5 (3 + 1)
• RAID 6 (14 + 2)
• RAID 5 (7 + 1)

When implementing SRDF/Metro with Array Witness, what is a requirement of the witness array?

• Empty RDF group from witness to source and target
• vApp running on a VMware ESXi server
• Minimum of two witness arrays
• Two RDF groups with source and target devices

What is the maximum number of front-end ports that can be configured on a PowerMax 8000?

• 128
• 192
• 256
• 320

What action can an administrator perform on a PowerMax using VSI?

• View replication sessions
• Manage High Availability
• Manage re-syncing objects
• View capacity utilization

Which product allows for local protection for Z Systems?

• TimeFinder SnapVX
• PowerProtect
• AppSync
• RecoverPoint

A storage architect is looking for best practices to expand an existing single V-Brick VMAX All Flash 250. They are planning to expand the VMAX configuration to a dual V-Brick model for better performance.What is a consideration?

• Both V-Bricks must contain 1 TB of cache each
• RAID type of both V-Bricks must be the same
• Cache size of both V-Bricks must be equal
• Number of drives must be less than or equal to 96

A customer is planning to purchase a PowerMax 8000 system with the zEssentials software package. The environment needs to have the ability to rapidly recover from large scale logical corruption using TimeFinder SnapVX.Which optional software should be recommended to fulfill the requirement?

• Product Suite for z/TPF
• GDPR
• zDP
• AutoSwap

A storage administrator is unable to terminate the TimeFinder SnapVX snapshot. What action should be performed by the administrator?

• Modify the Time to Live setting
• Verify that there are no linked targets or restore sessions
• Run a terminate command for each individual LUN
• Check if there is an available reserved capacity

A storage architect is planning a Unisphere upgrade. Which password is required for the upgrade?

• lockbox
• root
• sysadmin
• boxmgmt