Capture and Analyze the Technical Requirements for Performance, Capacity, and Features That Most Accurately Fit the Business and Solution Needs POWERSCALE-DESIGN-V2 Practice Questions (Page 2)

Questions 6–10

1. 6application · medium

   A manufacturing company is replacing an old NAS with PowerScale. The IT manager provides a list of current storage usage: 80% of files are older than one year and rarely accessed, while 20% are active project files. The company wants to reduce costs by tiering data. Which requirement-gathering question is most important to ask before designing the solution?

   • AWhat is the current network bandwidth between the NAS and clients?
   • BWhat is the expected growth rate of the active project files?
   • CWhat is the backup window for the entire dataset?
   • DWhat is the average file size in the environment?
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2. 7expert · hard

   A university is designing a PowerScale cluster for a multi-disciplinary research environment. The workloads include high-throughput genomics, low-latency AI training, and large-scale data archiving. The budget is limited, and the university wants to avoid over-provisioning. Which approach to requirement gathering is most appropriate?

   • ADesign for the largest capacity requirement across all groups
   • BInterview each research group to understand their specific performance and capacity needs
   • CUse a single set of requirements from the IT department
   • DDesign for the highest performance workload across all groups
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4. 8foundation · easy

   Which of the following is an example of a feature requirement for a storage solution?

   • AAn average latency of less than 2 ms
   • BA minimum of 100 TB usable capacity
   • CSupport for encryption at rest
   • DA throughput of 5 GB/s
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5. 9expert · hard

   A defense contractor requires a PowerScale cluster for classified data. The data must be encrypted at rest with FIPS 140-2 validated encryption, and access must be restricted to a small group of users. The contractor also needs to support NFS and SMB protocols. Which feature set is essential?

   • ASelf-encrypting drives with FIPS certification, RBAC, and both NFS and SMB support
   • BData deduplication, compression, and snapshots
   • CSMB protocol, NFS protocol, and SmartPools
   • DNDMP backups, replication, and SmartQuotas
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6. 10expert · hard

   A hospital is deploying PowerScale for electronic health records (EHR). The workload is 80% small random reads and 20% small random writes, with a latency requirement of 2 ms. The data set is 50 TB with 15% annual growth. The hospital also needs to support disaster recovery with a recovery point objective (RPO) of 15 minutes. Which design consideration is most critical?

   • AHybrid nodes with SSD caching and snapshots for recovery
   • BHDD-only nodes with a large number of spindles
   • CAll-flash nodes with a minimal node count to reduce cost
   • DAll-flash nodes to meet the latency requirement and SyncIQ for replication
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