Exam 5: XtremIO Solutions and Design Specialist Exam for Technology Architects

Which balancing option is provided by SmartConnect Basic?

A customer is configuring Isilon SmartConnect. They have determined that their workload primarily consists of short-lived connections, such as HTTP and FTP. Which load-balancing policy provides the most efficient client distribution?

A customer has 10 nodes in a cluster using N+2 protection. What is the minimum number of nodes required to be online and in communication with one another to satisfy quorum?

Where is the XtremIO VSS hardware provider package installed?

What is appropriate for capturing packets for later analysis of I/O request sizes and randomness on Isilon clusters?

When working with Isilon file pool policies, which file attribute can be applied as a filter?

A customer is evaluating Isilon and Pure FlashBlade solutions. Which protocol is available for both solutions?

Which data access pattern uses moderate prefetching?

A customer environment is used for analytics on very large datasets. They are interested in using Isilon storage and Hadoop but are concerned about the costs. How does Isilon change the scalability of a Hadoop environment?

Where are file system changes first stored?

In an Isilon environment, which event will avoid Dynamic IP Address reallocation?

-- Exhibit -- We have been engaged by a research hospital to help upgrade their Isilon installation. They currently have 12 previous generation Isilon nodes with 200TB of capacity and run on a 1Gbps network. They currently have 6 Illumina Hi-Seq Sequencers and an HPC cluster to process data. They would like to expand Isilon to 2PB of active data and 1PB of archive data. They use a third party data and metadata management service (IRODs) to stage data for analysis. The Isilon cluster is mainly used for analysis work with the HPC cluster. Currently, the workflows are being limited by the network access to the Isilon cluster. What would result in the fastest possible network throughput?

You meet with the IT Director of a large single site campus. The IT department has recently taken over Physical Security from the facilities department and plans a complete overhaul of the surveillance solution. They are looking to you as a storage architecture expert to provide the correct amount of storage needed. The IT Director asks you what items they need to provide in order to size this solution. What data do you require from the customer?

An Isilon customer wants the ability to provide low latency I/O for their files due to a workflowinvolving small, random reads and writes. Which SSD strategy is most effective for this use case?

You are designing a backup solution using an NDMP redirector and throttler. What is the default threshold percentage of CPU resources that the throttler limits NDMP to?

What does Isilon OneFS use to re-write data when a disk read fails?

A physical XtremIO Management Server (XMS) has failed and requires replacement. Which two software packages are required for recovery?

What accurately represents Isilon SyncIQ Automated Failover?

After raw events are processed by the CELOG coalescers, what happens to the data?

You have conducted a meeting with a company's Chief Technology Officer (CTO). The CTO wants an XtremIO solution to meet their business needs. The CTO wants you to review the proposed solution with their desktop administrator to identify any additional requirements. What are two key considerations to discuss with the desktop administrator?