EMC Isilon Design Specialist Exam for Technology Architects Sample Questions:

1. A hospital is considering using Isilon to store their long-term archive data for their PACS application. They currently have two million 17 MB studies. They expect capacity requirements to be 50% compounded growth per year. They plan to use N+2:1 protection, and would like this sized for three years of growth.Which minimum cluster configuration would meet this customer's environment?

A) Five X200 (3 TB drive) nodes
B) Four NL400 (2 TB drive) nodes
C) Three X400 (3 TB drive) nodes
D) Five NL400 (1 TB drive) nodes

2. You meet a customer for the first time. They explain that their current environment for NAS does not meet their needs. You want to make sure that Isilon is a good fit for their needs.
What would be a good prequalifying question to ask?

A) How many NICs do your clients have?
B) Are you using a KVM to access your storage?
C) What applications access this storage?
D) What type of racks are in your datacenter?

3. An Isilon customer expressed an interest in more effectively managing their storage. Specifically, they would like to plan for future growth.
Which tool would allow the customer to forecast capacity requirements?

A) InsightIQ
B) Isilon SNMP MIB
C) SyncIQ
D) SmartPools

4. When designing Isilon solutions, which issue should you pay special attention to?

A) Follow all SSD sizing rules
B) Conduct stakeholder interviews
C) Create a workflow document
D) Meet customer expectations

5. -- Exhibit -
A large manufacturing company is an existing Isilon customer with a cluster consisting of four NL400 nodes with 4TB drives. The cluster is using N+2:1 protection level and the file system shows that it is 60% utilized. Home directories and file shares comprise 75% of the existing content and the remainder is inactive deep archive. The company has 1,000 employees using Windows and Mac clients participating in a single Active Directory (AD) forest.
During a meeting with the CIO and Director of IT you discuss the company's recent acquisition - an engineering firm that specializes in Computer Aided Design (CAD). The engineering firm has 400 UNIX workstations that produce technical drawings which are currently stored on another vendor's SAN solution. The all UNIX environment uses NIS for authentication and name resolution. They do not currently use DNS or LDAP. The engineering company has an old storage system that has been experiencing problems and the CIO would like you to migrate the data onto the Isilon cluster. The CIO would like to eliminate all tape and recover the data onto disk.
The CIO is concerned about security of the company's intellectual property, especially with the rapid adoption of mobile devices and external cloud content sharing services such as DropBox, Egnyte, and SugarSync. They would like to implement an alternative that provides external file sharing and mobile device synchronization while maintaining security control over the company's data.
The Director of IT reports that users are storing non-work related content on the Isilon cluster. They would like to limit the amount of capacity that each user can consume in their home directory and want to ensure you provide the capability to easily visualize which users are over their allotment. The company's Windows users currently leverage Windows Shadow Copy to recover files that have been accidentally deleted. The IT department wants to ensure that Mac and incoming UNIX clients have the same functionality.
The Director of IT also mentions that users are reporting slow response times when browsing their home directories and shared folders. They are concerned that Isilon cannot scale to support their combined requirements.
The customer provides the following environment summary from the engineering firm's recently departed IT staff:
20 TB of Home Directory data
100 TB of active CAD projects
400 TB of archived data stored on tape at an offsite warehouse
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Which Isilon license options are required to meet the customer's needs?

A) SnapshotIQ SmartQuotas Syncplicity EE SyncIQ InsightIQ SmartPools
B) SnapshotIQ SmartConnect Advanced SmartQuotas SyncIQ InsightIQ SmartPools
C) SnapshotIQ SmartQuotas Syncplicity EE InsightIQ SmartPools
D) SnapshotIQ SmartQuotas SmartLock SyncIQ InsightIQ

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