Question 1

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 2

A customer practices agile development, and they are having performance issues with builds of the most actively developed software suite as they attempt additional concurrent builds. What is causing the issue?

Options :

A : Locking of shared library files during compilations.

B : Latency between the compilation server and the legacy storage. ***

C : Jumbo frames are NOT configured correctly.

D : Legacy storage does NOT have enough uplinks.

Answer: B

Question 3

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 4

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 5

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