E20-018 Online Practice Questions and Answers
Why should storage technologies such as data deduplication and data compression be considered?
A. They simplify storage configuration
B. They improve storage efficiency
C. They increase storage allocation
D. They improve storage security
What is a feature of the Cisco Unified Computing System (UCS)?
A. Server identity pools
B. Fabric reconfiguration services
C. Layer 3 routing optimization
D. CMDB maintenance utilities
What is a benefit of archiving data to the cloud using Atmos and FMA?
A. Auto-deletes aging files
B. Provides elastic object storage
C. Improves search and index
D. Accelerates file retrieval speed
A company is considering using a public cloud environment for a new HR application. However, they are concerned about the regulatory requirements for their employee data. Several of the countries in which the company operates require that personal information not flow across country borders.
What should the company do when it investigates cloud providers?
A. Evaluate the cloud provider's architecture to ensure that it meets regulatory requirements for storing, backing up, replicating, and moving data
B. Accept the cloud provider's service-level agreement for specific protections regarding employee data
C. Review the cloud provider's audit results to verify that it has never moved data across country borders
D. Create a one-off contract with the cloud provider to specify that the data will never be moved across country borders
What should you use when you require consistent backups for ease of recovery?
A. VM-based backup and image-based backup
B. Storage-based backup only
C. Hypervisor-based ("VM as flat file") backup
D. Storage-based backup and VM-based backup
Refer to the exhibit.
You are designing the storage environment for a new VDC. The applications have been classified into three groups, as shown in the exhibit. You have chosen to create a storage pool for each application group.
How should you configure the storage for each pool to meet the performance and capacity requirements, while minimizing costs?
A. Pool 1 - SSD and SAS drives with storage tieringPool 2 - SAS and NL SAS drives with storage tiering and cache tieringPool 3 - SAS and NL SAS drives with storage tiering and cache tiering
B. Pool 1 - SSD and SAS drives with storage tieringPool 2 - SSD and NL SAS drives with storage tieringPool 3 - SAS drives with cache tiering
C. Pool 1 - SSD and SAS drives with storage tieringPool 2 - SAS and NL SAS drives with storage tiering and cache tieringPool 3 - NL SAS drives with cache tiering
D. Pool 1 - SSD and SAS drives with storage tiering and cache tieringPool 2 - SAS and NL SAS drives with storage tiering and cache tieringPool 3 - NL SAS drives with cache tiering
From an IT business layer perspective, what do you gain by consolidating at the application layer?
A. Reduced transactional storage
B. Reduced footprint
C. Inter-array tiering
D. Increased compute power
What best describes the value proposition of EMC VFCache?
A. Improved performance without compromising protection
B. Improved capacity utilization at reduced cost
C. Scale-out performance at a scale-up cost
D. Source-based deduplication without any host overhead
A company wants to ensure that their critical application can fail over to another physical host within the cluster without disruption.
Which feature should be utilized?
A. Online Migration
B. High Availability
C. Fault Tolerance
D. Resource Pooling
A large enterprise has introduced virtualization into a data center. During live Mitigation, several virtual hosts have recognized lost cluster heartbeats and network performance degradation.
Which solution should be implemented to immediate the solution?
A. Implement load balance on the HBA to improve overall host performance
B. Implement isolated VLAs to separate management control traffic from production traffic
C. Implement load balancing on the NICs to improve overall host performance
D. Implement a distributed virtual switch to separate the data plane from the control plane on the NIC