Symmetrix Solutions Specialist Exam for Technology Architects (E20-515) Free Practice Test

Question 1

A Symmetrix customer wants to create additional thin devices by using a graphical user interface. Which tool would be best suited in this scenario?

A. Symmetrix Manager

B. Storage Provisioning Services

C. Symmetrix Management Console

D. Solutions Enabler

Correct Answer: C

Question 2

A Symmetrix VMAX 40K customer is planning to use Virtual Provisioning and FAST VP for
their Microsoft SQL Server Database.
--Thin Pool 1 is a EFD RAID-5 pool configured with 100 GB of free space.
--Thin Pool 2 is a FC RAID-1 pool configured with 300 GB of free space
--Thin Pool 3 is a SATA RAID-6 pool configured with 1TB of free space
--The database server needs four (4) 100 GB LUNs.
Two (2) of the LUNs are mission critical and should never encounter an I/O error because of a thin pool being full.
How should the mission critical LUNs be configured to ensure this?

A. Bound to Pool 3 and pinned

B. Bound to Pool 2 and fully preallocated

C. Bound to Pool 1 and fully preallocated

D. Bound to Pool 1 and pinned

Correct Answer: B

Question 3

A Symmetrix VMAX customer is using Virtual Provisioning. A thin pool has been created and ten 10 GB data devices have been added and enabled. The Maximum Subscription Percent has been set to 300. How many 10 GB thin devices can be bound to the thin pool?

A. 30

B. 300

C. 40

D. 10

Correct Answer: A

Question 4

Which statement describes the process when a TimeFinder/Mirror full restore is initiated for a BCV pair?

A. The changed content of the standard device is copied to the BCV device.

B. The entire content of the BCV device is copied to the standard device.

C. The entire content of the standard device is copied to the BCV device.

D. The changed content of the BCV device is copied to the standard device.

Correct Answer: B

Question 5

How many Symmetrix logical volumes can be in a Storage Group?

A. 8192

B. 1024

C. 2048

D. 4096

Correct Answer: D

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Question 6

The customer has noticed when using SYMCLI and VMAX and Unisphere responses to commands are unusually slow. What might be the problem?

A. The size of the gatekeepers need to be increased to 3GB.

B. Solutions Enabler must be upgraded.

C. The currently provisioned gatekeepers need to be shared across more hosts.

D. Additional gatekeepers need to be provisioned.

Correct Answer: D

Question 7

What RDF state in an SRDF/S environment will allow a swap operation?

A. R1 Updated

B. Partitioned

C. Suspended with R2 Write Disabled

D. Synchronized

Correct Answer: D

Question 8

How are the tracks on the Control device marked during an Open Replicator Hot Push creation?

A. Invalid tracks

B. Modified tracks

C. Unprotected tracks

D. Protected tracks

Correct Answer: D

Question 9

A VMAX administrator has excess capacity in a Snap pool. How can this excess space be reallocated to other enabled devices in the same Snap pool?

A. Unmount SAVE devices in the Snap pool.

B. Disable SAVE devices in the Snap pool.

C. Use the drain_save CLI command.

D. Use the symsnap terminate CLI command.

Correct Answer: B

Question 10

A customer intends to implement TimeFinder/Snap. What is the required target volume type?

A. VDEV

B. Std

C. Thin

D. SAVE

Correct Answer: A

Question 11

A customer wants to concurrently establish two RAID 1 BCVs with a STD RAID 1 device in a Symmetrix V-Max array.
How many mirror positions will remain for the STD device in this configuration?

A. 3

B. 0

C. 1

D. 2

Correct Answer: A

Question 12

Which device is used as a gatekeeper for the autoprovisioning database and resides on the Symmetrix file system?

A. ACLX

B. VCH

C. Save

D. Data

Correct Answer: A

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Question 13

What is a Symmetrix Data Device used for?

A. Virtual LUN migration

B. Virtual Provisioning

C. TimeFinder/Snap

D. Cascaded SRDF

Correct Answer: B

Question 14

A customer's production application uses 10 servers and 40 devices. Each of the servers accesses four production devices. A Concurrent SRDF (SRDF/S and SRDF/A) solution has been proposed for the application. All the production devices will be on the same Symmetrix.
What is the minimum number of RDF groups that have to be configured in the source Symmetrix for this solution?

A. 4

B. 1

C. 10

D. 2

Correct Answer: D

Question 15

What is the minimum number of Symmetrix VMAXDX ports required to support FTS?

A. 4

B. 8

C. 1

D. 2

Correct Answer: A

Question 16

A TimeFinder VP Snap session has been created and activated at 10 AM. Subsequently track number 1000 is written to on the Source device. At 11 AM a second TimeFinder VP Snap session is created and activated for the same Source device. After activation of the second session track number 2000 is written to on the Source device.
How will a read request to track 1000 on the target of the second TimeFinder VP Snap session be serviced?

A. Read request will access track number 1000 on the target of the second TimeFinder VP Snap session

B. Read request will access shared track in the thin pool used by the targets of the TimeFinder VP Snap sessions

C. Read request will be re-directed to the Source device

D. Read request will access track number 1000 on the target of the first TimeFinder VP Snap session

Correct Answer: C

Question 17

What is the maximum number of Fibre Channel initiators allowed in a Symmetrix V-Max Initiator Group?

A. 8

B. 48

C. 16

D. 32

Correct Answer: D

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