EMC Specialist - Technology Architect, PowerScale Solutions Sample Questions:

1. An Isilon customer has acquired a company with its own AD and DNS infrastructure. A request is made to consolidate the data from a number of servers at the acquired company onto the existing company's Isilon cluster.
What is the least disruptive way to do this?
Response:

A) Create a new Groupnet and migrate the data to one of the existing access zones
B) Create a new access zone and SmartConnect Zone and migrate the data to Isilon
C) Migrate the new data into a new Groupnet and access zone environment
D) Migrate the data to the existing access zone and rewrite the permissions

2. A potential customer has about 540TB of NetApp running in ONTAP 7-Mode. They are willing to let you gather some workload data. They have LDAP and Active Directory authentication and primarily Windows Clients. They are very interested in Automated Tiering and Large Scale Archives.
They are not certain about the workflows from the Marketing Department. The Content Team will only say they need to acquire 300 TB within 90 days. They do not know the average file size or the number of aggregates they are managing.
Which tools would you use to gather information to do your Isilon sizing?
Response:

A) Isilon Insight IQ, OnCommand Insight, and nfsstat
B) MiTrend WPA, Autosupport, and PerfCollect
C) isi status, isi_netlogger, and PerfMon
D) Wireshark, isi statistics, and iostat

3. A customer has eight X400 24GB RAM that supports 400 client connections today The customer plans to add 400 more clients in the next few months. They are looking at adding an A-Series node to the cluster to help with client connections.
Before they start adding client connections, what hardware change do you recommend?
Response:

A) Add nodes with SSD to help with connections
B) Add more network switches to increase the number of connections
C) Add an A100 to offset concurrent client connections
D) Add RAM to offset concurrent client connections

4. What is used to set permissions for devices managed by Secure Remote Services?
Response:

A) SupportIQ
B) InsightIQ
C) Secure Remote Services gateway
D) Policy Manager

5. A customer has two Isilon clusters. Cluster 1 has eight H500 nodes and cluster 2 has twelve H500 nodes. The customer needs to be able to monitor real time performance data of the clusters as well as track file growth.
Which supported tool should be recommended?
Response:

A) isi statistics
B) Data Insights
C) InsightIQ
D) Unisphere

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