Storage Foundations

Which RAID level is no longer used in HPE storage?

Which HPE 3PAR StoreServ capacity-based license should you recommend to a customer who needs converged storage?

A customer wants to use an HPE StoreEasy 3000 to host a SQL Server database. How can MS-SQL be configured to use an SMB share rather than
local storage?

Which tool should you use to prepare a configuration and quotation for an HPE 3PAR StoreServ, based on your customer's sizing details?

Under the HPE Converged Storage strategy, which type of primary storage is provided through NAS solutions?

Which RAID level uses double parity Advanced Data Guarding?

What does the HPE StoreVirtual solution provide?

Which HPE storage offering provides enterprise-level, Tier 1, primary storage?

Which networking transport protocol is used in a NAS environment?

You are meeting with a small SMB customer to discuss the requirements of a new storage solution. The customer tells you that they require a new
consolidated platform to provide file storage with built-in deduplication for no more than 20 Microsoft Windows users. The customer has limited budget
and IT skills.
With which HPE product should you start the conversation?

Your customer wants to implement an HPE 3PAR StoreServ Array for a 24x7 production environment. They want to enable dynamic load balancing for
the Virtual Connect uplinks.
Which feature must be enabled on the Virtual Connect interfaces and the HPE B-series SAN switches to accomplish this?

Your customer has the following backup strategy:
Sunday to Thursday -> Daily Incremental
Friday -> Weekly Full
No backup is run on a Saturday
Backup window is 22:00 - 04:00
They suffer a catastrophic failure on Thursday at 05:30. Which backup sets are required to restore the failed system to the most recent state?

Which device connects SAS initiators, expanders, and targets?

Which storage connectivity is commonly used between the Smart Array controller and physical disk drive?

Which HPE tool provides a mix of validated storage configurations, guidelines, and suggestions on a variety of HPE storage solutions?

Which benefit does dual-domain offer over dual-path SAS?

Which service is used in a NAS environment, but not a SAN environment?

Which RAID level uses double distributed parity?

What must you configure on a host system to connect to iSCSI storage?

What is the term for the maximum allowable period for a business to be without a specific application should a disaster occur?

A customer is experiencing rapid data growth and requires more backup data to be available online. Which technology could benefit the customer?

Which information is exchanged in the FLOGI sequence between a FlexFabric module and a SAN switch?

Your customer is deploying a new application that is based on OpenStack. Which HPE storage solution supports this deployment?

You are designing a small, direct attach storage solution for an existing HPE Proliant Server with HPE Smart Array Controllers. Your customer asks you
to provide full redundancy with no single point of failure.
What should you propose?

Which HPE management tool provides a single integrated management environment with powerful search capabilities and an open architecture?

Which HPE Storage product uses deduplication technology designed by HPE Labs?

Which HPE direct attach storage product offers an archiving platform for HPE ProLiant с-Class servers?

Which element of HPE's BURA storage portfolio provides deduplicated backup disk storage?

Which HPE primary production storage solution is targeted to the small and mid-sized business market?

A customer has a number of server blades in a BladeSystem с7000 Enclosure and an HPE D2220sb Storage Blade, and wants to implement a small
test and development iSCSI SAN.
What can provide this functionality?

Which tool allows you to size and provide general performance metrics for HPE 3PAR StoreServ?

Which functionality does an HPE 3PAR StoreServ File Controller provide?

A customer wants to learn more about the HPE backup solution that you recently proposed. Which resource will
help show its value?

You are presenting your storage solution design to the decision maker of a small SMB. What should you
emphasize in your presentation?

A customer requests 3 new storage solution The RTO Is measured in days. Which cost effective recovery option
meet this requirements?

You need to document the deduplication ratio and capacity management of a federated deduplication
environment using HPE StoreOnce solutions in a company's headquarters
and branch offices. Which HPE management tool should you use?

Which transport protocol does the Virtual Connect FlexFabric 20/40 F8 supports?

Which back up strategy requires only one backup set to completely restore a system?

Which statement is true about thin provisioning?

What connects Fibre Channel SAN switches to form a scalable SAN Fabric?

A customer has a Windows 2012 SQL Cluster running on HIT StoreEasy 1450 storage and wants to ensure that
combined throughput of all network adapters is used on all cluster nodes together.
Which HPE StoreEasy system feature helps the customer meet this requirement?

Which key feature of the HPE StoreVirtual arrays lets customers asynchronously replicate thin-provisioned,
reservation-less snapshots between primary and remote locations?

A customer needs to be able to manually map out preferred paths within a fabric, based on application, priority,
and topology, while allowing failover to a non-preferred path if the preferred path fails.
Which SN3000B feature should you recommend to the customer to provide this functionality?

For single files, what is a benefit of using a disk-to-disk backup solution versus a backup-to-tape solution?

Which HPE 3PAR StoreServ virtualization technology provides DHAM cache extension to reduce application
response time for read intensive I/O workloads?

Which software is used to assign or zone D6000 drive bays directly to an HPE BladeSystem server bay?

The IT manager of a large SMB customer is requesting a new storage array with the following features:
•VMware virtualization compatibility •2 sites with synchronous replication
•scalability for unpredictable growth between 10 and 50 percent •support for up to 4 virtualization hosts
Which product should you present?

You are using HPE Library and Tape Tools to document serial number and firmware versions of your
customers tape infrastructure. What do you use to perform this?

You are configuring an HPE StoreEasy for first use. Which software automates RAID array and disk creation?

Which task can you perform using the HPE Server Smart Update Tool?

A customer is interested in migration to a three-tier infrastructure with HPE Helion Openstack. You are asked to prepare a Proof of Concept to demonstrate the ease of deployment through the management console.
Which management dashboard should you demonstrate to provision the storage environment?

A Customer has the following requirements for a new storage solution for the company’s 4-node, HPE ProLiant DL380 Gen9 SQL Cluster.
• Fully redundant SAS connectivity
• Dual controller architecture
• Mixed drive support
• 4 ports per controller
• SSD drive support
Which storage solution meets the customer requirements?

At which level does deduplication take place in an HPE StoreOnce system?

Your customer requested a Network Attached Storage (NAS) solution that allows Microsoft Windows user to continue working uninterrupted during hardware failures. Which HPE StoreEasy functionality supports transparent failover?

What is a benefit of the HPE MSA architecture?

A customer needs direct attached storage that can provide relatively large storage capacities at low cost. The environment workload will be high read/low write
Which HPE SDD solution best suits these requirements?

What is an advantage of a meshed FC SAN topology when compared to a cascade topology?

What is a benefit of the HPE StoreVirtual architecture?

A customer request phone home support for the company’s HPE StoreVirtual storage platform. Which HPE tool should you recommend?

Which component perform the iSCSI encapsulation process in an iSCSI SAN environment when not using TCP/IP Offload Engine (TOE) card?

Which deduplication implementation method can be used with HPE StoreOnce when your customer has limited network bandwith?

Which Key advantage do SSD drive have over HDD drives?

You are designing you customer’s HPE B-series SAN infrastructure upgrade and you want to ensure compatibility between SAN switch firmwares. Wich command can you ask them to run to provide you with this information.

A customer requested a new storage solution and you have already sized and designed a new HPE 3PAR StoreServ system. Wich tool will help you configure and provide a budgetary quote?

A large SMB customer requests a storage solution in which downtime is not an option. What is the requirement?

Under the HPE Converged Storage strategy, wich type of primary storage is provides through NAS solutions?

What is the primary benefit of the HPE StoreVirtual Network RAID technology?

Which Software-define storage (SDS) product is optimized for virtual deployments?

Your customer’s data centers are interconnected with 16 km long dark fiber. Which type of 8GB fiber optic modules (SFPs) are required to connect the FC SAN switch ISL links?

A customer is opening a new remote office. They have servers containing internal storage that they plan to virtualize. They currently own existing HPE Data Protector licenses. Which data protection solution would be ideal for then?

Which fiber Channel SAN topology supports automatic path rerouting if all ISLs between two switches fail?

According to best practices, what provides the most usable capacity for an HPE 3PAR StoreServ SSD CPG with eight disks?

You are reviewing an HPE 3PAR solution with a customer who is very interested in space optimization. What is important to emphasize during the presentation?

Your customer is considering moving their storage form HPE ProLiant Servers with direct attached HPE HPE D3700 storage shelves, to HPE StoreVirtual VSA. You want to demonstrate the management console to the customer
Which console should you use?

You need to document and performance tune a customer’s storage infrastructure with an environment that convers the full HPE portafolio. Which management tool can be used to identify backup bottlenecks in the customer’s environment?

54. Your customer has a very specific performance requirements and is thinking about purchasing a SAN an backup device. Which resource should you use as you work with your customer design a storage infrastructure to meet your customer’s needs?

Which HPE 3PAR StoreServ virtualization technology provides DRAM cache extension to reduce application response time for read-intensive I/O workloads?

A customer considering investing in a fibre channel, SAN-based infrastructure. They need to support mixed speed devices of 8Gb Fibre Channel and would like to be able to gradually add prots as the company grows.
Which entry-level SAN switch should you recommend to meet these requirements?

How do devices in the Fibre Channel SAN fabric identify each node?

Which industry standard informs the storage system that a specific block of allocated capacity is no longer needed or valid?

You are sizing a new HPE 3PAR StoreServ Storage solution with 2 nodes. You require 60 SFF drives in a RAID 5 (4+1) configuration. The customer requests Drive Enclosure Availability (HA-Enclosure mode)
What is the minimum number of additional drive enclosures needed to meet the customer requirements?

Which functionality does an HPE 3PAR StoreServ File Controller provide?