Manage Data Protection Policies for Storage Resources POWERSTORE-OPERATE Practice Questions (Page 1)

Questions 1–5

1. 1expert · medium

   A company has a policy 'P1' with a rule that creates snapshots every 6 hours and replicates to a remote site daily. The admin needs to change the replication schedule to every 12 hours. The admin modifies the replication rule in P1. What is the effect on volumes that have P1 applied?

   • AThe change takes effect only after the next replication cycle completes.
   • BThe change applies immediately to all volumes using P1.
   • CThe change requires re-applying P1 to each volume to take effect.
   • DThe change applies only to volumes created after the modification.
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2. 2expert · hard

   A bank has a policy 'P-BANK' with a rule that creates snapshots every hour and retains them for 24 hours. The compliance team reports that a specific volume 'V-AUDIT' is showing as 'Non-compliant'. The admin checks and finds that snapshots are being created but are being deleted after only 6 hours. What is the most likely cause?

   • AThe volume has a policy exception that overrides the retention to 6 hours.
   • BThe system is deleting snapshots early due to low storage space.
   • CThe policy's rule was modified to a 6-hour retention, but the compliance status has not updated.
   • DThe volume was moved to a different policy that has a 6-hour retention.
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4. 3application · medium

   A government agency uses PowerStore to host file shares. They have a data protection policy that creates snapshots every 6 hours. The agency wants to apply this policy to a new file system that was just created. What should the admin do?

   • AApply the policy to the NAS server that hosts the file system.
   • BConvert the file system to a volume before applying the policy.
   • CApply the existing policy to the new file system.
   • DCreate a new policy with the same rules and apply it to the file system.
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5. 4foundation · easy

   What is a valid reason to modify an existing data protection policy in PowerStore?

   • ATo change the physical location of the storage resource
   • BTo change the snapshot retention period for all resources using the policy
   • CTo change the name of a storage resource that uses the policy
   • DTo change the replication destination for a single volume
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6. 5foundation · easy

   How do you create a policy exception for a storage resource in PowerStore?

   • ABy creating a new policy and assigning it to the resource
   • BBy modifying the policy's rules and applying them to the resource
   • CBy deleting the policy and recreating it with different rules
   • DBy editing the resource's protection settings to override the policy rules
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