DELL TECHNOLOGIESDell PowerScale Design v2
The Dell PowerScale Design v2 certification validates your ability to architect and design scalable, high-performance PowerScale storage solutions that meet enterprise demands for massive unstructured data growth. Built for storage architects and solution designers, this credential proves you can translate business requirements into resilient, efficient PowerScale designs. Earning it demonstrates your expertise in one of the industry's leading scale-out NAS platforms, positioning you as a trusted advisor for modern data-intensive workloads.
279 practice questions · Updated 2026-07-30
POWERSCALE-DESIGN-V2 Curriculum
Every domain, objective, and concept the POWERSCALE-DESIGN-V2 exam measures.
- Technical Requirements Gathering
- Performance Requirements Analysis
- Capacity Requirements Analysis
- Feature Requirements Analysis
- Business and Solution Alignment
- Identify PowerScale use cases
- Match customer requirements to PowerScale features
- Distinguish PowerScale from alternative storage
- Requirements Analysis
- Solution Design
- Software Feature Selection
- Network Requirements Analysis
- PowerScale Network Architecture
- Network Topology Design
- Protocol Selection
- Network Segmentation and VLANs
- Link Aggregation and Failover
- Quality of Service (QoS)
- Network Performance Tuning
- Scalability and Future Growth
- Best Practices and Recommendations
- OneFS Job Engine overview
- Job types and categories
- Job scheduling and prioritization
- Job impact management
- Job monitoring and reporting
- Job Engine in cluster maintenance
- Job Engine in data protection
- Job Engine in feature support
- Filesystem hierarchy
- Data and metadata separation
- Inode and block management
- Journaling and consistency
- Snapshots and cloning
- Filesystem scalability
- Filesystem integrity checks
- SmartConnect overview
- SmartConnect zones
- SmartConnect service IP addresses
- SmartConnect DNS
- Connection balancing policies
- Failover and failback
- SmartConnect and subnet configuration
- SmartConnect and client connections
- SmartConnect and network resilience
- PowerScale Node Types
- Node Selection Criteria
- Network Components Overview
- Network Topology Design
- Scaling Considerations
- Cluster Architecture Principles
- Identify customer continuity requirements
- Map continuity requirements to PowerScale features
- Design for high availability
- Design for disaster recovery
- Incorporate backup and restore strategies
- Evaluate protection levels
- Document continuity and protection design
- Security features overview
- Access control lists (ACLs)
- Role-based access control (RBAC)
- Authentication and authorization mechanisms
- Encryption at rest
- Encryption in transit
- Audit logging and reporting
- Compliance mode and SmartLock
- Data-at-rest encryption key management
- Secure deletion and data sanitization
- Integration with external identity providers
- Security policy enforcement
- Data classification and governance
- Client access permissions
- Client authentication
- Client protocol access
- Identify performance assessment tools
- Match tools to performance scenarios
- Understand tool capabilities and limitations
- PowerScale monitoring tools overview
- Selecting monitoring tools based on use case
- Configuring monitoring and alerting
- Analyzing performance data
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