Free Pure Storage Certified Architect Professional – FlashBlade Exam FBAP_002 Exam Practice Test

A customer has an existing Flashblade with 13x52TB blades in a single-chassis configuration and needs more capacity for a new application coming online in the next few weeks. The architect has determined they need an additional four blades.How many additional rack units are required to accommodate the new blades?

• 12
• 10
• 6
• 4 ***

A customer reports far lower than expected performance on the FlashBlade, in a Oracle RMAN backup solution. The environment consists of four Oracle database nodes, each with 1x10Gb/s NIC, connected via NFS, to a fully populated FlashBlade chassis. Only a small number of blades are being used. Synthetic performance testing shows no performance issues in the network.What should the architect suggest to causing this issue?

• Oracle RMAN uses HCC compression, so this a poor use case for FlashBlade.
• dNFS is not enabled on the Oracle nodes or the number of RMAN channels is too low. ***
• The sustained write performance of a 15 blade FlashBlade is 1.5GB/s
• The FlashBlade only has 8x10Gb/s uplink connectivity to the customer's top of rack switches.

Which of the following benefits does FlashBlade SafeMode offer?

• Protects against unauthorized eradication of snapshots ***
• Prevents the unauthorized deletion of snapshots.
• Protects snapshots from being overwritten.
• Eradicates deleted snapshots immediately.

A state agency wants to store property deed image in multi-page .tif format on a FlashBlade NFS file system.What compression ratio should the architect utilize for sizing?

• 3.6:1
• 2.0:1
• 5.1:1
• 1.1:1 ***

How many rack units (Rus) of space are required to support a multi-chassis FlashBlade with 40 blades?

• 18 Rus
• 14 Rus ***
• 12 Rus
• 9 Rus

A customer asks an architect to help troubleshoot low throughput in their high-performance compute (HPC) environment. All 70 HPC nodes have a single 10Gb connection to a 96 port 10Gb switch. The FlashBlade is connected to their dedicated HPC switch with 8x10Gb connections. The HPC application is using a single shared S3 bucket for the data being processed.Which change is needed to increase throughput?

• Add more uplinks to the HPC switch. ***
• Add more VLANS to FlashBlade.
• Add more IPs to the existing VLAN
• Add more nodes to the HPC cluster

A customer is a heavy Windows user and generally uses SMB for everything, including backups. The customer wants to refresh the storage used within their backup environment. The customer is using Commvault for the backup software.Which protocol should the architect recommend?

• SMB ***
• NDMP ***
• S3
• NFS

Which two Ethernet speeds do the External Fabric Modules support for data? (Select two.)

• 100Gb/s ***
• 25Gb/s
• 40Gb/s ***
• 50Gb/s
• 1Gb/s

A customer's application runs slowly on their HDFS cluster. The customer is only using a small subset of the data on the cluster.What is causing the issue?

• Data Locality
• Data Consistency
• Data Availability ***
• Data Efficiency

What type of network connection load balancing does FlashBlade use?

• ECMP (Equal Cost Multipathing) ***
• DNS (Round Robin)
• BGP (Border Gateway Protocol)
• Sticky Session (Session Persistence)