Question 1

What must an architect do to delete a filesystem?

Options :

A : Unmount the file system from clients

B : Turn off the system services

C : Enable Fast Remove ***

D : Take a snapshot and then remove file system

Answer: C

Question 2

An HPC environment has the following:

-100 physical hosts, each with a single 10GbE NIC, and a single NFS mount point to the FlashBlade.

-A 7x52TB FlashBlade, connected to the Top-of-Rack switches via eight 40GbE connections.

What is the maximum aggregate write throughput the customer should expect from the FlashBlade?

Options :

A : Approximately 7 GB/s

B :

Approximately 4.2 GB/s

C :

Approximately 4 GB/s

D :

Approximately 2.1 GB/s ***

Answer: D

Question 3

A customer is using an older nearline SAS scale-out storage system to store data that is a static size. The

customer recently purchased several HPC appliances to use that data.

What happens to the workflow?

Options :

A : The older storage system does NOT use the same protocols as the newer HPC appliances.

B : The older storage system us unable to fulfill the performance demands of the newer HPC appliances. ***

C : The older storage system us unable to keep up with the capacity demands of the newer HPC appliances.

D : The older storage system us unable to use the same network infrastructure as the newer HPC appliances.

Answer: A

Question 4

A retail customer is designing a new application that will train an AI algorithm with metadata from purchase

transactions.

The customer has the following constraints:

-Billions of transactions per hour

-Hundreds of thousands of clients

-Easily connect and disconnect from many network locations

-Asymmetric encryption across a WAN

-Resilience to network latency

Which protocol should the architect recommend?

Options :

A : NFS v3

B : NFS v4.1 ***

C : SMB

D : S3

Answer: B

Question 5

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

Options :

A : 18 Rus

B : 14 Rus ***

C : 12 Rus

D : 9 Rus

Answer: B