DELL TECHNOLOGIESDell PowerMax Design v2
The Dell PowerMax Design v2 certification validates your ability to design and position PowerMax Family solutions, covering hardware components, system configurations, upgrades and migrations, replication, and management tools. It is for storage architects and pre-sales engineers who architect enterprise storage solutions. Earning it demonstrates you can translate customer requirements into resilient, high-performance PowerMax designs.
595 practice questions · Updated 2026-07-30
7Domains
27Objectives
149Concepts
595Questions
POWERMAX-DESIGN-V2 Curriculum
Every domain, objective, and concept the POWERMAX-DESIGN-V2 exam measures.
- PowerMax Model Comparison
- PowerMax Feature Set
- PowerMax Offerings
- PowerMax Use Cases
- PowerMax hardware architecture
- PowerMax storage processors (SPs)
- PowerMax memory and cache
- PowerMax back-end disk arrays
- PowerMax front-end ports
- PowerMax power and cooling components
- PowerMax management and service processors
- PowerMax system models
- PowerMax rack configurations
- PowerMax component placement
- PowerMax cabling and power options
- PowerMax expansion and scalability
- PowerMaxOS 10 system overview
- Access methods
- Unisphere for PowerMax
- Secure access and authentication
- System initialization and configuration
- Dell Technologies Solutions Design sites
- Role of Solutions Centers
- Role of Dell Technologies Labs
- Accessing design resources
- My Work operations overview
- Accessing My Work
- Managing work items
- Executing work operations
- Monitoring work status
- PowerSizer output summary structure
- Manufacturing bin file purpose and content
- Comparing PowerSizer output to bin file constraints
- Interpreting discrepancies between PowerSizer and bin file
- Supported upgrade paths
- Upgrade prerequisites
- Upgrade validation tools
- Upgrade impact assessment
- PowerMax Upgrade Paths
- Upgrade Prerequisites
- Upgrade Planning and Impact
- Upgrade Execution Steps
- Upgrade Validation and Rollback
- PowerMax hardware upgrade process
- PowerMax software upgrade process
- Upgrade prerequisites and compatibility
- Upgrade impact and downtime management
- Upgrade validation and rollback
- Configuration change classification
- Impact assessment of configuration changes
- Pre-upgrade configuration validation
- Post-upgrade configuration verification
- Identify migration environments
- Assess source and target environments
- Determine migration scope
- Evaluate migration constraints
- SnapVX architecture
- Snapshot creation and management
- Snapshot link and unlink operations
- Restore operations
- Reuse and refresh operations
- SnapVX with SRDF
- SnapVX with CloudIQ and Unisphere
- SnapVX best practices and limitations
- SRDF Topology Overview
- Concurrent SRDF Topology
- Cascaded SRDF Topology
- Multi-Hop SRDF Topology
- Multi-Target SRDF Topology
- Topology Selection Criteria
- SRDF Overview
- SRDF Modes
- SRDF Consistency Groups
- SRDF Topologies
- SRDF Use Cases
- SRDF and PowerMax Integration
- SRDF operations overview
- Creating SRDF groups
- Establishing SRDF pairs
- Configuring SRDF consistency
- Performing SRDF failover
- Performing SRDF failback
- Managing SRDF sessions
- Monitoring SRDF status
- Troubleshooting SRDF issues
- Unisphere for PowerMax architecture
- Unisphere for PowerMax features
- Unisphere for PowerMax deployment options
- Workload Planning Overview
- Accessing Workload Planning
- Creating Workload Plans
- Simulating Workload Scenarios
- Analyzing Workload Results
- Comparing Workload Plans
- Saving and Managing Plans
- Data Exclusion overview
- Headroom overview
- Interpreting Data Exclusion metrics
- Interpreting Headroom metrics
- Data Exclusion and Headroom relationship
- Unisphere for PowerMax virtual environment monitoring overview
- Navigating Unisphere for PowerMax virtual environment views
- Monitoring virtual machine performance
- Monitoring virtual machine capacity
- Monitoring virtual machine relationships
- Monitoring virtual environment health
- Monitoring virtual environment alerts and events
- Monitoring virtual machine storage groups
- Monitoring virtual machine snapshots and clones
- Monitoring virtual environment replication
- Monitoring virtual environment compliance
- Monitoring virtual environment performance trends
- Solutions Enabler Overview
- Solutions Enabler Architecture
- Solutions Enabler Installation
- Solutions Enabler Configuration
- Solutions Enabler Security
- Solutions Enabler Operations
- Prerequisites for Solutions Enabler installation
- Installation methods for Solutions Enabler
- Installation steps on Unix/Linux
- Installation steps on Windows
- Post-installation configuration
- Upgrade paths and considerations
- Upgrade procedures on Unix/Linux
- Upgrade procedures on Windows
- Verification of installation and upgrade
- Troubleshooting common installation issues
- Functions of Solutions Enabler daemons
- Supported platforms for Solutions Enabler daemons
- Daemon communication and dependencies
- Daemon lifecycle and management
- eNAS overview
- SDNAS overview
- NAS concepts
- eNAS vs SDNAS comparison
- File replication overview
- Replication methods
- Replication configuration
- Managing file replication
- File system clone prerequisites
- Creating a file system clone
- Managing clone sessions
- Activating and restoring clones
- Terminating clone sessions
- File system snapshot creation
- File system snapshot restoration
- File system snapshot deletion
- File system snapshot management best practices
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