Question No : 1
A customer has a 7x17TB FlashBlade and is adding a new workload to the system that will add 30TB of data with an expected compression rate of 1.5:1.



How many 17TB FlashBlade must be purchased to meet this requirement?

• A.1x17TB blade
• B.2x17TB blade **
• C.3x17TB blade
• D.4x17TB blade

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Question No : 2
What is the speed of the connections between individual blades and the midplane?

• A.1Gb/s
• B.10Gb/s
• C.40Gb/s
• D.100Gb/s

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Question No : 3
A customer map application is built with a containerized micro-service infrastructure that runs on Windows and accesses storage using SMB.
Each container is stateless, but every end user interaction leaves a set of small text and image files. Each directory keeps all daily transaction files. A process exists to manage file life cycle and periodically delete a directory.
The customer notices that as the customer base grows, the background deletion process backlog also grows .
Which FlashBlade technology should be used to resolve this issue?

• A.Enabling concurrent data access for NFS and SM
• B.Enabling concurrent data access for NFS and HTT
• C.Enabling fast-remove for NFS and SM
• D.Reducing resource utilization for FlashBlade garbage collection.

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Question No : 4
A customer reports far lower than expected performance on the FlashBlade, in a Oracle RMAN backup solution. The environment consists of four Oracle database nodes, each with 1x10Gb/s NIC, connected via NFS, to a fully populated FlashBlade chassis. Only a small number of blades are being used. Synthetic performance testing shows no performance issues in the network.
What should the architect suggest to causing this issue?

• A.Oracle RMAN uses HCC compression, so this a poor use case for FlashBlade.
• B.dNFS is not enabled on the Oracle nodes or the number of RMAN channels is too low.
• C.The sustained write performance of a 15 blade FlashBlade is 1.5GB/s
• D.The FlashBlade only has 8x10Gb/s uplink connectivity to the customer’s top of rack switches.

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Question No : 5
A architect is reading a customer’s network diagram and notices that they are using a SAS-based NAS for a 12TB physical database server.
What does this assume about the customer?

• A.They are cost sensitive.
• B.They are latency sensitive
• C.They are NOT concerned with database performance.
• D.They prefer storage with built-in data reduction.

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Question No : 6
The customer provides the network diagram shown. The customer wants to use RBAC and SMB on the FlashBlade.
The customer does NOT use encryption for identity-related traffic.



Which ports must be opened for this to work?

• A.Ports 53, 389, and 445 on Firewalls A and C Ports 53 and 445 on Firewall B
• B.Ports 53 and 2049 on Firewalls A and B Ports 53 and 389 on Firewall C
• C.Port 123 on Firewalls A and C Ports 445 and 636 on Firewall B
• D.Ports 123, 445, and 636 on Firewalls A and B Port 445 on Firewall B

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Question No : 7
The customer expects at least 2GB/s of backup throughput but only sees 1GB/s .



What is causing the issue?

• A.Architecture of FlashArray and server infrastructure configuration.
• B.Architecture of the backup server and FlashBlade network.
• C.Architecture of server infrastructure and backup server network.***
• D.Architecture of backup server/FlashBlade NFS/Data VIP configuration.

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Question No : 8
A company has an existing database running a critical application. Users are complaining of slow response times. The company asks Pure Storage for help fixing this problem.
Which (three) questions should the architect ask to determine if FlashBlade is a good fit for the use case? (Choose three.)

• A.What is the current storage the database is running on today?
• B.How long has the database been up?
• C.How many users does the application support?
• D.What type of queries does the database support for the application?
• E.Is it and OLAP or OLTP database?

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Question No : 9
A FlashBlade is designed with a properly implemented single 4x40Gb/s LAG.
During implementation, the architect is informed that the ISL on the uplink switches in broken. The customer has no budget to repair or replace it .
What should the architect do?

• A.Divide the single LAG into one LAG per switch.
• B.Change out the 40Gb/s cable for breakout cable.
• C.Using the same LAG, create a second subnet and VI
• D.Remove all uplink from FM2.

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Question No : 10
A customer has noticed their all-flash arrays are constantly running at or near 100% load and impacting application performance. They are running dozens of applications on the arrays and ask for help to identify some workloads that could be moved to another storage system to reduce load and improve overall performance of all applications.
Which (three) workload or data characteristics should an architect look for to identify potential candidates for migration to FlashBlade? (Choose three.)

• A.Applications requiring high throughput
• B.Large number of simultaneous connections
• C.Applications that can use NFS or S3
• D.Highly transactional application.
• E.Low latency is critical to application performance.

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