Apply Dell Midrange Best Practice Recommendations for Data Services. MIDRANGE-STORAGE-SOLUTIONS-DESIGN Practice Questions (Page 6)

Questions 26–30

1. 26application · medium

   A company uses Dell Unity XT for its SAP environment. The SAP team needs to refresh the development (dev) environment from production (prod) every week. The prod database is 10 TB, and the dev environment needs a full writable copy. The storage administrator wants to minimize the time and capacity required for the refresh. What is the Dell best practice?

   • ATake a snapshot of the prod database and mount it to the dev environment as read-only.
   • BCreate a full copy of the prod database volume using the array's volume copy function.
   • CUse host-based copy tools to copy the prod database to the dev environment.
   • DCreate a thin clone of the prod database volume and present it to the dev environment.
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2. 27application · medium

   A company runs a file server on a Dell PowerStore array with a mix of NVMe and SAS drives. The file server contains 80% cold data that is rarely accessed and 20% hot data accessed frequently. The storage administrator wants to minimize cost while maintaining good performance for the hot data. What is the Dell best practice for tiering?

   • APlace all data on the NVMe tier and use compression to reduce capacity costs.
   • BPlace all data on the SAS tier and use caching on the NVMe tier for hot data.
   • CManually place the hot data on NVMe and the cold data on SAS, and disable automated tiering.
   • DEnable automated tiering and set the tiering policy to move hot data to NVMe and cold data to SAS.
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4. 28foundation · easy

   A company must protect sensitive data stored on a Dell midrange array to meet compliance requirements. What is the purpose of data-at-rest encryption?

   • ATo improve the performance of read and write operations
   • BTo protect data from unauthorized access when the physical drives are removed or stolen
   • CTo replicate data to a remote site for disaster recovery
   • DTo reduce the storage capacity required for data
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5. 29foundation · easy

   What is a primary benefit of using thin clones on Dell midrange arrays compared to full volume copies?

   • AThin clones provide better performance than the source volume
   • BThin clones can be created without any impact on the source volume
   • CThin clones consume less storage capacity because they share data with the source
   • DThin clones are automatically replicated to a remote site
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6. 30foundation · easy

   When implementing thin provisioning on a Dell midrange array, what is a key best practice to follow?

   • AEnable monitoring and alerting on thin pool usage to avoid over-allocation
   • BDisable automatic expansion of thin pools to maintain predictable performance
   • CSet the thin pool to a size equal to the sum of all thin volumes' reported capacities
   • DUse thin provisioning only for volumes smaller than 1 TB
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