Describe the Planning, Sizing, and Design Phases of a Midrange Solution Sales Engagement. MIDRANGE-STORAGE-SOLUTIONS-DESIGN Practice Questions (Page 3)

Questions 11–15

1. 11expert · hard

   A consultant is designing a midrange storage solution for a customer that has a mix of production and development workloads. The production workloads require high availability and performance, while the development workloads are less critical and can tolerate lower performance. The customer has a limited budget and wants to minimize cost. Which design approach best meets the customer's needs?

   • AUse a single low-cost tier for all workloads to minimize cost.
   • BUse a single high-performance tier for all workloads to ensure production performance.
   • CUse separate tiers: a high-performance, highly available tier for production and a lower-cost tier for development.
   • DUse a single array with automatic tiering to handle both workloads.
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2. 12application · medium

   A consultant has completed the sizing phase for a customer's new midrange storage solution and has created a solution architecture that includes a dual-controller array with 10K SAS drives and a RAID 5 configuration. During the design validation step, the customer reveals that the application requires 99.999% availability and can tolerate a maximum of 30 minutes of downtime per year. What should the consultant do next?

   • AReduce the number of drives to lower cost, since the availability requirement is not a storage concern.
   • BRevise the design to include a more resilient RAID level, such as RAID 6 or RAID 10, and consider additional redundancy features.
   • CMove the application to a public cloud to avoid the availability requirement.
   • DProceed with the design because RAID 5 and dual controllers provide sufficient redundancy.
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4. 13foundation · easy

   Which phase of a Midrange solution sales engagement involves creating a detailed solution architecture?

   • APlanning phase
   • BDesign phase
   • CSizing phase
   • DDiscovery phase
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5. 14application · medium

   A consultant is designing a midrange storage solution for a financial services customer. The sizing phase determined that the solution needs 50 TB of usable capacity and 100,000 IOPS. The consultant is now in the design phase and must select the appropriate drive type and configuration. Which design decision is most directly influenced by the IOPS requirement?

   • ADeciding on the number of enclosures needed to physically house the drives.
   • BSelecting the management software for the array.
   • CDetermining the network topology for connecting the array to the servers.
   • DChoosing between SAS and NL-SAS drives based on spindle speed and performance characteristics.
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6. 15foundation · easy

   What is the main purpose of the sizing phase in a Midrange solution sales engagement?

   • ATo install and configure the storage system
   • BTo create a network topology diagram
   • CTo define service level agreements
   • DTo determine the appropriate storage capacity and performance
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