Differentiate Between SmartPools, Storage Pools, SSD Usage, and File Pool Policies POWERSCALE-DEPLOY Practice Questions (Page 3)

Questions 11–15

1. 11expert · hard

   A company has a PowerScale cluster with HDD nodes. They want to improve performance for a workload that has a high read/write ratio and a working set of 1 TB. They have 10 nodes, each with 100 GB of SSD capacity. They are considering using SSDs for caching. What is the primary limitation of this approach?

   • ASSD caching only improves read performance, not write performance
   • BSSD caching is not supported on HDD nodes
   • CThe total SSD capacity is only 1 TB, which may not be enough to cache the entire working set
   • DSSD caching requires a separate storage pool
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2. 12expert · hard

   A company has a file pool policy that moves files with a .log extension to an archive pool after 30 days. They notice that some .log files are not being moved. They check the policy and see that it also has a criterion for file size greater than 1 MB. What is the most likely reason some .log files are not moved?

   • AThe files are locked by the system
   • BThe files are smaller than 1 MB and do not match the policy criteria
   • CThe archive pool is full
   • DThe policy has not run yet
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4. 13foundation · easy

   What is the primary purpose of SmartPools in a PowerScale cluster?

   • ATo manage user authentication and access control
   • BTo replicate data between clusters for disaster recovery
   • CTo provide a unified namespace across multiple clusters
   • DTo manage storage tiers and automate data placement through file pool policies
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5. 14foundation · easy

   What is the relationship between storage pools and file pool policies in PowerScale?

   • AFile pool policies replace storage pools
   • BFile pool policies use storage pools as targets for data placement
   • CStorage pools manage file pool policies
   • DStorage pools are created by file pool policies
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6. 15application · medium

   A research lab has a PowerScale cluster with two storage pools: a high-performance pool and an archive pool. They want to automatically move files with a .bam extension that haven't been accessed in 6 months to the archive pool. Which configuration should they use?

   • AManually move the files using a script and schedule it with cron
   • BCreate a SmartPools rule that matches files by extension and moves them to the archive pool
   • CCreate a file pool policy that matches files by extension and last access time, and set the action to move to the archive pool
   • DConfigure the archive pool to automatically pull files based on extension
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