Manage Data Protection Policies for Storage Resources POWERSTORE-OPERATE Practice Questions (Page 3)

Questions 11–15

1. 11application · medium

   A hospital uses PowerStore to store patient imaging data. The compliance team mandates that all volumes containing protected health information (PHI) retain hourly snapshots for 24 hours and daily snapshots for 30 days. You are creating a data protection policy for the PHI volumes. What should you configure?

   • ACreate two separate policies and apply both to each PHI volume.
   • BCreate one rule with hourly snapshots retained for 30 days and rely on the daily snapshot being a subset.
   • CCreate two rules: one with hourly snapshots retained for 24 hours, and another with daily snapshots retained for 30 days.
   • DCreate a single rule with a snapshot frequency of 1 hour and a retention of 30 days.
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2. 12application · medium

   A media company has a data protection policy applied to a volume group that takes snapshots every 4 hours. One volume in the group hosts a temporary render cache that changes constantly and does not need snapshots. The admin wants to stop snapshots for only that volume while keeping the policy for the rest of the group. What should you do?

   • ACreate a new policy with no snapshot rules and apply it to the render cache volume.
   • BUse the policy exception feature to disable the policy for the render cache volume.
   • CRemove the volume from the volume group and apply the policy to the remaining volumes individually.
   • DModify the existing policy to exclude the render cache volume from its rules.
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4. 13expert · medium

   A company wants to ensure that a critical volume has both local snapshots for quick recovery and remote replication for disaster recovery. They create a policy with a snapshot rule (every 30 minutes) and a replication rule (every 2 hours). What is the relationship between the snapshot and replication rules in this policy?

   • AThe replication rule creates its own snapshots independently of the snapshot rule.
   • BThe replication rule overrides the snapshot rule for the volume.
   • CThe snapshot rule and replication rule must have the same frequency.
   • DThe replication rule replicates the snapshots created by the snapshot rule.
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5. 14application · medium

   An e-commerce company needs to replicate a volume to a remote site for disaster recovery. They want to take a snapshot every 15 minutes and replicate the snapshots to the remote site every hour. What should the admin configure in the data protection policy?

   • ATwo rules: one for snapshots every 15 minutes, and another for replication every hour.
   • BA single rule that creates snapshots every 15 minutes and replicates them every hour.
   • CTwo policies: one for snapshots and one for replication, applied to the same volume.
   • DA single rule that replicates every hour and relies on the system to create snapshots automatically.
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6. 15expert · hard

   A company has a volume group 'VG-APP' with a policy that creates snapshots every 8 hours. A new volume 'V-LOG' is added to the group. The admin wants V-LOG to have snapshots every 4 hours, which is different from the group policy. What is the correct approach?

   • AApply a second policy to V-LOG in addition to the group policy.
   • BRemove V-LOG from the group and apply a separate policy with a 4-hour schedule.
   • CCreate a policy exception for V-LOG with a 4-hour snapshot frequency.
   • DModify the group policy to change the snapshot frequency to 4 hours for all volumes.
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