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Question 1

In your organization, you are asked to protect your users' home directory volume by keeping one monthly Snapshot copy for twelve months, one weekly Snapshot copy for 26 weeks, and one daily Snapshot copy for 30 days. Which two statements describe how you would accomplish this task? (Choose two.)

  • A. Create separate job schedules for monthly, weekly, and daily
  • B. Create a snapshot policy to include the new job schedules
  • C. Create one job schedule that includes monthly, weekly, and daily
  • D. Create a snapshot policy for each: weekly, monthly, and daily
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Correct Answer:
  • A. Create separate job schedules for monthly, weekly, and daily
  • B. Create a snapshot policy to include the new job schedules
Question 2

You are asked to encrypt data to satisfy a requirement for FIPS 140-2 Level 2. What would satisfy the requirement?

  • A. Configure NetApp Volume Encryption and NetApp Aggregate Encryption with an onboard key manager
  • B. Configure NetApp Aggregate Encryption and SED drives with an onboard key manager
  • C. Configure NetApp Aggregate Encryption and NSE drives with an external key manager
  • D. Configure NetApp Volume Encryption and SED drives with an external key manager
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Correct Answer:
B. Configure NetApp Aggregate Encryption and SED drives with an onboard key manager
Question 3

A customer has been running ONTAP Select to implement vNAS capabilities at two remote office sites. They now have a requirement for high availability around their software-defined storage (SDS) deployment. The customer wants to use MetroCluster SDS to provide high availability between the remote sites. In this scenario, which two conditions must be satisfied before the MetroCluster SDS is deployed? (Choose two.)

  • A. The distance between sites must be no more than 10 km
  • B. The distance between sites must be no more than 20 km
  • C. Layer 3 connectivity is required between each of the participating sites
  • D. Layer 2 connectivity is required between each of the participating sites
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Correct Answer:
  • A. The distance between sites must be no more than 10 km
  • D. Layer 2 connectivity is required between each of the participating sites
Question 4

You are the administrator of your company's NetApp ONTAP clusters. You are asked to protect the data during replication over the wire from one ONTAP cluster to another, to prevent malicious man-in-the middle attacks. In this scenario, which feature satisfies this requirement?

  • A. NetApp Volume Encryption
  • B. cluster peer encryption
  • C. NetApp Storage Encryption
  • D. SMB encryption
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Correct Answer:
B. cluster peer encryption
Question 5

You have detected a potential ransomware attack. Which two observations led you to this conclusion? (Choose two.)

  • A. You noticed a large change in the size of the Snapshot copy
  • B. You noticed a decrease in storage efficiencies such as deduplication and compression
  • C. You noticed an increase in deduplication savings but a decrease in compression savings
  • D. You noticed an increase in storage efficiencies such as deduplication and compression
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Correct Answer:
  • A. You noticed a large change in the size of the Snapshot copy
  • B. You noticed a decrease in storage efficiencies such as deduplication and compression
Question 6

As part of a hybrid cloud strategy, you are planning on deploying some of your workloads in Google Cloud. Your current infrastructure consists of an ONTAP 9.8 cluster serving LUNs to database servers using the FC protocol. In this scenario, which method would enable you to transfer your data to the cloud, and begin working with it?

  • A. Create a SnapMirror relationship to a Cloud Volumes ONTAP system, and serve the data using FCoE
  • B. Use the NetApp Cloud Sync service to replicate the data to Cloud Volumes Service in Google Cloud
  • C. Create a SnapMirror relationship to a Cloud Volumes ONTAP system, and serve the data using iSCSI
  • D. Create a SnapMirror Cloud relationship from ONTAP to Google Cloud Standard storage
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Correct Answer:
C. Create a SnapMirror relationship to a Cloud Volumes ONTAP system, and serve the data using iSCSI
Question 7

Which two statements about SnapMirror throttling are true when setting a new throttle? (Choose two.)

  • A. Transfers in progress use the new throttle
  • B. Transfers in progress must be restarted to use the new throttle
  • C. Throttles are set in kilobytes per second
  • D. Throttles are set in megabytes per second
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Correct Answer:
  • A. Transfers in progress use the new throttle
  • C. Throttles are set in kilobytes per second
Question 8

You want to take Snapshot copies of your Azure NetApp Files volumes at regular intervals. Which two statements are correct in this scenario? (Choose two.)

  • A. Configure a Snapshot policy within ONTAP System Manager
  • B. Use cron and an Azure CLI command to schedule the Snapshot copies
  • C. The Azure NetApp Files service automatically schedules Snapshot copies
  • D. Use the Snapshot policies feature within the Azure portal
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Correct Answer:
  • B. Use cron and an Azure CLI command to schedule the Snapshot copies
  • D. Use the Snapshot policies feature within the Azure portal
Question 9

You must protect all data within a storage VM (SVM) serving NAS data, with the requirements shown below. -- All volumes within the SVM must be protected. -- The source and destination SVMs are on the same subnet. -- The source SVM contains volumes for multiple applications. -- DR testing of an individual application is required without disrupting other applications. Which data protection solution satisfies these requirements?

  • A. Use SyncMirror
  • B. Use SVM DR with identity-preserve set to true
  • C. Use SM-BC with the ONTAP Mediator
  • D. Use SVM DR with identity-preserve set to false
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Correct Answer:
B. Use SVM DR with identity-preserve set to true
Question 10

You are configuring NetApp Cloud Backup in a multicloud environment. The destination object storage that you configure must allow for both volume and file-based restores to your on-premises NetApp ONTAP system. In this scenario, which two object storage solutions would satisfy this requirement? (Choose two.)

  • A. NetApp StorageGRID
  • B. IBM Cloud
  • C. Azure Blob
  • D. Amazon S3
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Correct Answer:
  • A. NetApp StorageGRID
  • D. Amazon S3

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