E20-526 Online Practice Questions and Answers

A customer wants to purchase an XtremIO array. After the array is installed, the customer wants to initially disable encryption. What is the result of enabling encryption on an array that is already being used?

A. Data will remain in place but the XtremIO cluster services will need to be temporarily shutdown.

B. Data will remain in place and there will be no interruption to the XtremIO cluster services.

C. Data will be erased but there will be no interruption to the XtremIO cluster services.

D. Data will be erased and the XtremIO cluster services will be temporarily shutdown.

An XtremIO administrator is having a problem with performance and is troubleshooting the issue. What is an accurate statement about I/O transfers?

A. As I/O size increases, IOPs increase, and latency increases

B. As I/O size increases, IOPs decrease, and bandwidth increases

C. As I/O size decreases, IOPs increase, and bandwidth increases

D. As I/O size decreases, IOPs decrease, and latency increases

Which level of granularity does XtremIO deduplication run?

A. Variable 8 kB

B. Variable 32 kB

C. Fixed 8 kB

D. Fixed 32 kB

Which operation is performed when an XtremIO Snapshot is created?

A. Pointers to the ancestor metadata are created for the snapshot

B. Space equal to the size of the ancestor is allocated to the snapshot

C. A reserved space is created for new snapshot data

D. A deduplication pass is immediately run against the snapshot

A customer has a VMware vSphere environment running Native Multipathing (NMP). Which path selection policy should be set for optimal performance when connected to an XtremIO cluster?

A. Fixed AP

B. Most Recently Used

C. Fixed

D. Round Robin

What is a characteristic of the XtremIO Snapshot feature?

A. Snapshots may be deleted in any order

B. Snapshots can only be deleted in reverse creation order

C. Only one snapshot may be created or deleted at a time

D. Snapshots can be restored

What is the maximum speed of the Fibre Channel ports on an XtremIO storage controller?

A. 2 Gb/s

B. 4 Gb/s

C. 8 Gb/s

D. 16 Gb/s

You have conducted a meeting with a company's Chief Technology Officer (CTO). The CTO wants an XtremIO solution to meet their business needs. The CTO wants you to review the proposed solution with their desktop administrator to identify any additional requirements.

What are two key considerations to discuss with the desktop administrator?

A. Rapid desktop deployment and operational ease of use

B. Application response time and rapid boot times

C. Sufficient capacity and performance

D. Ease of management and ability to customize end-user desktops

When creating XtremIO volumes for a host, which operating systems will benefit by changing the default logical block size for applications consisting of 4 KB I/Os?

A. Microsoft Windows and RHEL

B. VMware ESX and Microsoft Windows

C. RHEL and IBM AIX

D. Sun Solaris and HP-UX

A customer has decided to use VMware Horizon View as their desktop virtualization technology. Their VDI environment will consist of XtremIO storage and ESXi hosts. They are looking for increased speed and low latencies while performing file copy operations.

What should the setting for VAAI XCOPY I/O size be set to in order to achieve this requirement?

A. 8 kB

B. 63 kB

C. 256 kB

D. 4 MB