Specialist Implementation Engineer Isilon Solutions Exam v1.0
Question 1
An Isilon cluster has ten A200 nodes and the node pool data protection level is set to N+2. The data access pattern is currently set to streaming. If the data access pattern is changed to concurrency, how many stripes for a 1 MB file are moved to the other drive(s)?
- A. 0
- B. 2
- C. 4
- D. 6
Answer : B
Question 2
Which OneFS 8.0 feature can be added to an NFSv4 export to assist with seamless failover in the event of a disconnect?
- A. Transparent failover
- B. Stateless connection
- C. Stateful connection
- D. Continuous availability
Answer : C
Reference: https://www.dellemc.com/resources/en-us/asset/white-papers/products/storage/h17240_wp_isilon_onefs_nfs_design_considerations_bp.pdf (7)
Question 3
When using NIC aggregation, which configuration is supported in an Isilon Gen 5 environment?
- A. ext-1 and ext-2 of node 1 aggregated together
- B. ext-1 and 10gige-1 of node 1 aggregated together
- C. 10gige-1 port of node 1 and 10gige-1 of node 2 aggregated together
- D. ext-1 port of node 1 and ext-1 port of node 2 aggregated together
Answer : D
Question 4
Which command provides cluster statistics including protocol, disk input, and disk output?
- A. isi statistics client
- B. isi statistics system
- C. isi statistics drive
- D. isi statistics protocol
Answer : B
Reference: https://www.dell.com/community/Isilon/isi-statistics-command-document/td-p/7101434
Question 5
What are the methods to join a node to an Isilon cluster?
- A. Configuration wizard, SSH connection, or CLI only
- B. Serial connection, Configuration wizard, or CLI only
- C. Front panel display, serial cable, or Configuration wizard only
- D. Front panel display, Configuration wizard, WebUI, or CLI only
Answer : D
Question 6
What is a requirement when adding Gen 6 nodes to an existing Isilon Gen 5 cluster?
- A. 40 Gb InfiniBand ports
- B. Decreased journal size for storage performance
- C. Dedicated bootflash drives
- D. NVRAM dependency
Answer : A
Reference: https://community.emc.com/community/products/isilon/blog/2017/05/25/next-gen-nodes
Question 7
An Isilon administrator wants to minimize the use of root/admin access to their cluster. In additional, the administrator wants to create specific administrative accounts for specific cluster management activities in different access zones. An administrator of one zone should be able to view or configure objects in a different zone.
Which action will address the administrator’s requirements?
- A. Create ZRBAC role for each zone administrator.
- B. Create ZRBAC role for the administrator on all access zone.
- C. Create a separate management subnet for each administrator.
- D. Create an unique role in the System zone for each administrator.
Answer : A
Reference: https://www.dellemc.com/en-us/collaterals/unauth/technical-guides-support-information/2019/09/docu95372.pdf (113)
Question 8
An Isilon administrator wants to enable quota notifications for their LDAP users. However, the users’ email IDs are not updated in the LDAP environment. What additional configuration needs to be performed?
- A. Configured the file provider
- B. Manage local users and groups
- C. Configure the local provider
- D. Configure a mapping rule
Answer : D
Question 9
How many Active Directory provider instances can be configured per access zone?
- A. 1
- B. 2
- C. 3
- D. 4
Answer : A
Reference: http://doc.isilon.com/onefs/zzz_archive/cloudpools_staging/ifs_c_active_directory.html
Question 10
Which deduplication phase is excluded from the Dry Run process?
- A. Commonality Detection
- B. Sharing
- C. Sampling
- D. Index Updating
Answer : D
Question 11
What is the recommended networking design approach when planning subnets?
-
A.
Use a common subnet for data, replication and backup, and use a dedicated subnet for management.
Assign the lowest priority gateway number for the management subnet. -
B.
Use a common subnet for management, data, replication and backup.
Assign a random priority gateway number for the subnet. -
C.
Use a common subnet for data and management and a common subnet for replication and backup.
Assign the lowest priority gateway number for the management subnet. -
D.
Use dedicated subnets for management, data, replication and backup.
Assign the lowest priority gateway number for the data subnet.
Answer : D
Reference: https://community.emc.com/community/products/isilon/blog/2014/11/28/routing-and-isilon-how-to-get-from-a-to-b-and-back-again
Question 12
What are the considerations when a NANON configuration is used?
- A. Increase frontend I/O ports and aggregated cache.
- B. Increases capacity and aggregated cache.
- C. Increases frontend network ports and capacity.
- D. Increases bandwidth inside the cluster and GbE links.
Answer : C
Question 13
DRAG DROP -
What is the correct sequence of actions performed by OneFS to generate an access token?
Answer : 
Question 14
An administrator wants to enable quotas on a group directory in their Isilon cluster. In addition, the administrator wants to monitor and limit the disk usage. Which type of quotas need to be configured?
- A. Advisory
- B. Enforcement
- C. Accounting
- D. Soft
Answer : A
Reference: https://www.dellemc.com/resources/en-us/asset/white-papers/products/storage/h10575-wp-quota-management-with-smartquotas.pdf
Question 15
A systems administrator needs to change the cluster protection from N+3n to N+2n. Which interfaces can be used?
- A. HTTP, WebUI, and CLI
- B. SFTP, HTTP, and CLI
- C. PAPI, WebUI, and CLI
- D. PAPI, WebUI, and SFTP
Answer : A