Free DES-1221 Sample Questions — Specialist - Implementation Engineer, PowerStore Solutions

A storage administrator has configured the addition of a VNX2 as a remote system for migration. Which Import External Storage migration feature architectural components are now established?

• A. Host iSCSI initiators are registered on the VNX2 storage system
• B. Data path and management control path to the source storage system
• C. Data path and management control path to the access host
• D. Host Fibre Channel initiators are registered on the VNX2 storage system

What describes the Import External Storage feature?

• A. An external plugin feature for hosts to tune application workload IO on PowerStore NVMe based storage
• B. native network configuration feature of PowerStore that configures external Ethernet switching for PowerStore installation
• C. feature external to PowerStore that orchestrates vMotion movement of virtual machines onto PowerStore X systems
• D. native data migration feature of PowerStore that imports external block storage to PowerStore

An administrator assigns a protection policy to a volume group. Volume1, Volume2, Volume3 are put into the volume group. Later it is decided that Volume2 should be replicated at a different time. Volume2 is removed from the volume group. The administrator attempts to assign a new protection policy to Volume2 and the option is greyed out. Why is the option greyed out?

• A. Already has a protection policy from the Volume-Group
• B. Requires a replication rule not a protection policy
• C. Requires a snapshot rule and a replication rule
• D. Still has associated Volume-Group snapshots

Which ports are recommended for use as the interconnect between the two Dell supplied Data Switches connected to PowerStore?

• A. Two 10 GigE
• B. Two 25 GbE
• C. Two 100 GigE
• D. Four 1 GbE

What does the remote replication Failover operation do?

• A. Fully synchronizes the source and destination data states and reverses the replication direction
• B. Fully synchronizes the source and destination data states and stops the current replication session
• C. Promotes the destination system to production with its replica data consistent to the last successful RPO synchronization state
• D. Promotes the destination system to production and resets the RPO synchronization cycle in the protection policy

Which network is used by the PowerStore for communication to the cluster database?

• A. inter-node
• B. ICM
• C. IDN
• D. ICD

A PowerStore T cluster has 3 appliances. Users are unable to access NAS services. What might be the issue?

• A. Master appliance is off-line
• B. NAS appliance failover is incorrectly configured
• C. Trial license is expired
• D. Resource balancer service has failed

While configuring a Dell switch with PowerStore, what are the recommended license outputs from a show license status command?

• A. Type: Term-Based, Status: Active
• B. Status: Perpetual, Type: Open
• C. Type: Perpetual, Status: Active
• D. Status: Term-Based, Type: Unlimited

Which IP addresses are required when adding an appliance to the cluster?

• A. DNS and NTP
• B. Storage and NTP
• C. Management and Storage
• D. Management and DNS

A VM administrator uses their PowerStore user account and noticed they are unable to change their password. Why?

• A. Extended schema for Unix users in Active Directory not set
• B. VM Administrator role cannot set password
• C. In settings > users: enable allow user to change password not set
• D. Validate user in Active Directory not set

How is the upgrade process on a multi-appliance cluster run?

• A. Master appliance primary node first, then the peer node
• B. On one node at a time
• C. On all primary nodes first, then peer nodes
• D. In parallel on all nodes

What is the recommended Windows multi-pathing policy for block volumes on a PowerStore array?

• A. Least QueueDepth
• B. Round-Robin
• C. FailOver
• D. Least Weighted Paths

1.a.1 What is the maximum number of appliances that can be connected to form a cluster?

• A. 1 in a PowerStore T cluster, 4 in a PowerStore X cluster
• B. 1 in a PowerStore T cluster, 1 in a PowerStore X cluster
• C. 4 in a PowerStore T cluster, 4 in a PowerStore X cluster
• D. 4 in a PowerStore T cluster, 1 in a PowerStore X cluster

A PowerStore X system is being implemented using Dell EMC S5248F-ON Ethernet switching as data switches. What is required when configuring the VLT interconnects on the data switches?

• A. Assign the switch default route for the VLT traffic
• B. Set the VLT connection to the switch default VLAN
• C. On each switch, select the switch management port MAC as the VLT MAC
• D. Configure the VLT MACs with a matching unique made-up address

At what point in the configuration of an External Storage Import session does the data path from the host to the PowerStore system become the active IO path?

• A. When the import session begins
• B. Before launching the Import Storage wizard
• C. During the ImportKit installation
• D. As MPIO restarts on the host