DELL TECHNOLOGIESDell Midrange Storage Solutions Design
The Dell Midrange Storage Solutions Design certification validates your ability to architect and design midrange storage solutions that meet performance, capacity, and availability requirements. It is for storage architects and solution designers who plan, size, and design Dell midrange storage deployments. Earning it demonstrates your expertise in translating business needs into resilient, efficient storage designs.
276 practice questions · Updated 2026-07-30
3Domains
14Objectives
65Concepts
276Questions
MIDRANGE-STORAGE-SOLUTIONS-DESIGN Curriculum
Every domain, objective, and concept the MIDRANGE-STORAGE-SOLUTIONS-DESIGN exam measures.
- Hardware Capacity Guidelines
- Deployment Models
- Clustering Best Practices
- OS Upgrade Best Practices
- Backend Connectivity Overview
- FC Backend Connectivity Best Practices
- SAS Backend Connectivity Best Practices
- iSCSI Backend Connectivity Best Practices
- Backend Redundancy and High Availability
- Backend Performance Optimization
- Backend Connectivity Troubleshooting
- Drive configuration best practices
- Switch configuration best practices
- Front-end connectivity best practices
- Network performance optimization
- Storage Pool Configuration Best Practices
- RAID Level Selection
- Capacity Planning and Utilization
- Storage Resource Utilization Monitoring
- Dell Midrange Data Services Overview
- Thin Provisioning Best Practices
- Snapshots Best Practices
- Thin Clones Best Practices
- Replication Best Practices
- Data Reduction Best Practices
- Quality of Service (QoS) Best Practices
- Data-at-Rest Encryption Best Practices
- Tiering and Automated Storage Tiering Best Practices
- Integration with Host and Application Best Practices
- Data Reduction Best Practices
- Snapshot Best Practices
- Thin Clone Best Practices
- Replication Best Practices
- Cluster Migration Best Practices
- Host application configuration best practices
- AppsON configuration best practices
- Sales engagement phases
- Planning phase activities
- Sizing phase activities
- Design phase activities
- Site evaluation prerequisites
- Physical site assessment
- Environmental and safety checks
- Network and connectivity evaluation
- Remediation planning
- Remediation implementation
- Post-remediation validation
- Performance Parameters
- Environmental Limits
- Workload Characterization
- Sizing Methodologies
- Design Considerations Integration
- Migration planning phases
- Data protection planning phases
- Integration of migration and data protection
- Midrange Sizer for Unity overview
- Input parameters for sizing
- Sizing methodology
- Output deliverables
- Design methods integration
- PowerSizer Overview
- Sizing Inputs
- Sizing Outputs
- Design Methods
- Deliverables
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