Dell ECS Design
Domain 1Objective 3
Determine the Hardware Requirements for a Given Use Case or Workflow ECS-DESIGN Practice Questions (Page 1)
Part of the ECS Solution Design Platform Architecture domain, which accounts for 20% of the ECS-DESIGN exam.
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A financial trading firm is deploying ECS for real-time market data storage. The workload requires very low latency (sub-millisecond) for reads and writes, and the data is highly transient (retained for only a few days). The total capacity requirement is 50 TB. Which node type is most appropriate for this use case?
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A financial services firm needs to store 500 TB of transaction records. The data is immutable and must be stored with 3x replication for high durability. The firm also requires a 20% annual growth rate and plans to run the system for 5 years without a major hardware refresh. What is the minimum raw storage capacity that must be deployed to meet the initial and growth requirements?
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Which metric is typically used to validate that a hardware configuration can handle a high number of small object operations?
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A healthcare provider is deploying ECS to store medical imaging (PACS) data. The workload is characterized by high write throughput during the day (new scans) and moderate read throughput for radiologists reviewing images. The total capacity requirement is 800 TB, and the data is stored with 2x replication. The provider has a strict budget and wants to minimize cost while meeting performance targets. Which node type should be selected?
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Which of the following is a key characteristic of a workload profile used for ECS hardware sizing?
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