Free Specialist – Technology Architect, Midrange Storage Solutions Version 2.0 Exam DES-1D12 Exam Practice Test

The last two drive slots in a Dell EMC PowerStore 3000 are reserved for which type of drive?

• SAS SSD
• NVMe NVRAM
• NVMe SSD
• NVMe SCM

A customer site has four NAS servers participating in MetroSync replication. Which Dell EMC Unity feature could reduce failover times?

• QoS Failover Policy
• Cabinet Failover
• SRDF Metro
• Consistency Groups

At what granularity are blocks deduplicated on a Dell EMC PowerStore array?

• 4 KB
• 8 KB
• 32 KB
• 64 KB

A Dell EMC Unity storage administrator has 10 hosts. One of the hosts experiences occasional, huge IO bursts.What is a best practice for avoiding performance issues during these burst periods?

• Enabling Quality of Service (QoS) will limit the burst problem
• Quality of Service (QoS) is enabled by default, so one only needs to configure burst settings
• Enable Quality of Service (QoS) then limit I/O for the entire FC port
• Enable Quality of Service (QoS) then configure burst settings

A customer has invested much time using the Dell PS Series Host Integration Toolkit (HIT) to integrate SAN snapshot protection with Microsoft SQL Server native snapshot technology. The customer expresses concern about whether Dell EMC SC Series cross-platform replication supports that capability.What should be your response?

• Recreate integration on the SC Series array and use only SC-to-SC replication for those volumes.
• Leverage the integration investment and use only PS-to-PS replication on those volumes.
• Cross-platform replication works with SC Series HIT integrations.
• Cross-platform replication works with PS Series HIT integrations.

Which Dell EMC Unity storage array models support NVMe?

• 380, 880, and 880F
• 680F, 880, and 880F only
• 680, 680F, 880, and 880F
• 380, 380F, and 480F

What is the purpose of the NVMe NVRAM drives in a Dell EMC PowerStore 9000 array?

• Read cache and vaulting
• Read cache and base OS
• Write cache and base OS
• Write cache and vaulting

For Dell EMC SC Series arrays, what is the minimum percentage of total system IOPS that should be applied to Tier 3 drives?

• 15%
• 20%
• 25%
• 100%

What is a key feature of the Dell EMC Future-Proof Storage Loyalty Program for Dell EMC SC Series arrays?

• 4:1 Performance Guarantee
• 4 Year Satisfaction Guarantee
• 4:1 Reduction Guarantee
• 4:1 Efficiency Guarantee

From which Dell EMC storage system can a Dell EMC PowerStore array natively import data?

• VNX
• PowerVault
• VMAX
• VNX2