DES-1111 Specialist – Technology Architect, PowerMax and VMAX All Flash Solutions Exam

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Exam Description Overview
This is the qualifying exam for the Specialist – Technology Architect, PowerMax and VMAX All Flash Solutions Specialist (DCS-TA) track.
This exam focuses on designing and positioning PowerMax and VMAX All Flash solutions, including storage allocation, monitoring, workload planning and virtualized environment management. The ability to size PowerMax and VMAX All Flash arrays and design SRDF solutions with Business Continuity Solution Designer is assessed. The exam also assesses the ability to demonstrate the usage of Unisphere and Solutions Enabler SYMCLI to manage configuration changes as well as local and remote replication solutions.

Dell Technologies provides free practice tests to assess your knowledge in preparation for the exam. Practice tests allow you to become familiar with the topics and question types you will find on the proctored exam. Your results on a practice test offer one indication of how prepared you are for the proctored exam and can highlight topics on which you need to study and train further. A passing score on the practice test does not guarantee a passing score on the certification exam.

Products
Products likely to be referred to on this exam include but are not limited to:
• PowerMax Family
• PowerMaxOS 5978
• SRDF
• Business Continuity Solution Designer (BCSD) Tool
• VMAX All Flash Family
• TimeFinder SnapVX
• Open Replicator
• VMAX Sizer

Exam Topics
Topics likely to be covered on this exam include:

PowerMax and VMAX All Flash Features (20%)
• Compare and contrast PowerMax and VMAX All Flash models
• Position PowerMax and VMAX All Flash solutions
• Identify PowerMax and VMAX All Flash management tools
• Explain Virtual Provisioning concepts
• Describe device and port management concepts

Business Continuity (10%)

• Overcoming business continuity business challenges
• Describe Remote Replication Network Connectivity options
• Identify SRDF features and solutions
• Explain Open Replicator concepts

Replication (20%)
• Describe TimeFinder SnapVX concepts
• Perform TimeFinder SnapVX operations using management tools
• SRDF/S architecture and design considerations
• RDF/A architecture and design considerations
• SRDF/Metro architecture and design considerations

Virtualized Environments (10%)
• Describe administrative tasks such as replicating and recovering a datastore
• Key considerations for implementing PowerMax and VMAX All Flash in virtualized environments

Design and Sizing for PowerMax and VMAX All Flash (30%)
• Monitor PowerMax and VMAX All Flash SRPs, compliance, and data reduction
• Perform Workload Planning activities with Unisphere for PowerMax
• Identify design options and best practices
• Provide overview and data collection techniques for BCSD
• Design SRDF solutions with BCSD
• Create PowerMax and VMAX All Flash sizing and upgrade solutions with VMAX Sizer

Unisphere for PowerMax (10%)
• Describe architecture and key features of Unisphere for PowerMax
• Install Unisphere for PowerMax
• Navigate the Unisphere interface
• Perform administrative tasks using Unisphere for PowerMax

The percentages after each topic above reflects the approximate distribution of the total question set across the exam.

Recommended Training
The following curriculum is recommended for candidates preparing to take this exam.
Please complete all of the following courses

Course Title Course Number Mode Available
Unisphere for PowerMax Implementation and Administration

QUESTION 1
What is the best practice sizing guideline for front-end FA utilization on a single engine PowerMax array?

A. 0.5
B. 0.6
C. 0.7
D. 0.8

Answer: A

QUESTION 2
A customer is planning to purchase a PowerMax 8000 system with the zEssentials software package. The
environment needs to have the ability to rapidly recover from large scale logical corruption using TimeFinder SnapVX.
Which optional software should be recommended to fulfill the requirement?

A. Product Suite for z/TPF
B. GDPR
C. zDP
D. AutoSwap

Answer: C

QUESTION 3
The output file of a Linux Host Collection Utility does not match the BCSD parser format. What could be the reason?

A. Incorrect LUNs specified
B. Perform is not up to date
C. BSCD is incorrectly configured
D. OS patches are not up to date

Answer: D

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