Question 1

Your business is planning to deploy RecoverPoint for your DR solution. What is an important consideration when using Consistency Groups in RecoverPoint 4.1?

Accepted Answer

A)  Supports up to two synchronous copies per Consistency Group 
B)  Supports up to three remote copies in a same remote cluster 
C)  Fibre connectivity is required for synchronous replication 
D)  Supports host-based and array-based write splitters

Question 2

What should you do prior to presenting LUNs to a new Linux host?

Accepted Answer

A)  Disable IO elevators 
B)  Disable DM-MPIO 
C)  Set least queue depth 
D)  Rebuild GRUB

Question 3

What are the three most active components measured in the Performance pane in the XtremIO GUI?

Accepted Answer

A)  Volumes, Initiator Groups, and Block Size 
B)  Initiator Groups, iSCSI Bandwidth, and Block Size 
C)  iSCSI Bandwidth, FC Bandwidth, and Volumes Space 
D)  FC Bandwidth, Block Size, and Volumes Space

Question 4

You are implementing a RecoverPoint/SE cluster using vRPAs. What must be configured and available on the new VNX array prior to the installation of the cluster with Deployment Manager?

Accepted Answer

A)  An iSCSI interface from SPA and SPB of the VNX 
B)  Zones from SPA and SPB FC ports to the ESX servers 
C)  Zones from SPA and SPB FC ports to the Virtual WWNs of the vRPAs 
D)  Physical connections from the ESX HBAs to the FC interfaces of SPA and SPB

Question 5

You are preparing to install a new XtremIO cluster. What software may be required for you to perform the installation?

Accepted Answer

A)  XtremIO storage controller rescue image XtremApp software bundle 
B)  XtremIO Technician Advisor XMCLI Client 
C)  XMS rescue image 
D)  XMS VHD file

Question 6

An existing environment is replicating using RecoverPoint/CL. A new VPLEX has just been installed and the VPLEX splitter has been added to the RecoverPoint configuration. The administrator can see the VPLEX splitter in Unisphere for RecoverPoint but cannot obtain management, installation, and integration information about volume types. What could cause this issue?

Accepted Answer

A)  RecoverPoint and VPLEX certificates have not been exchanged. 
B)  The VPLEX certificate has expired. 
C)  VPLEX splitter is only compatible with RecoverPoint/EX. 
D)  RPAs have not been added to a Storage View.

Question 7

What are the four severity levels that can be displayed with the alert details?

Accepted Answer

A)  Informational, minor, major, and critical 
B)  Informational, warning, error, and critical 
C)  Notice, warning, alert, and error 
D)  Warning, error, critical, and alert

Question 8

A customer has two VMAX arrays and three VNX arrays fronted by an EMC VPLEX. They wish to use RecoverPoint to protect their environment. How many licenses, and of which type, would be required for their environment?

Accepted Answer

A)  1 EX license 
B)  1 SE license and 2 EX licenses 
C)  5 EX licenses 
D)  6 EX licenses

Question 9

Which string variables are mandatory when creating a volume using the XMCLI?

Accepted Answer

A)  Name and size 
B)  Name and Block size 
C)  Size and Provisioning type 
D)  Size and LUN number

Question 10

A customer is installing a single cluster RecoverPoint/SE environment and has decided to create a cluster of six virtual RPAs to perform RecoverPoint operations. According to EMC best practices, how many ESX hosts are needed to host the required vRPAs?

Accepted Answer

A)  2 
B)  3 
C)  4 
D)  6

Question 11

What is a prerequisite for deploying a RecoverPoint/SE system?

Accepted Answer

A)  VNX splitter enabled 
B)  RecoverPoint/SE license installed 
C)  RecoverPoint/SE registered with EMC 
D)  Unisphere for RecoverPoint installed and running

Question 12

A storage administrator has a RecoverPoint environment with vRPAs containing 64 Consistency Groups (CGs). They want to create distributed CGs. What is the maximum number of distributed CGs that can be added to this particular system?

Accepted Answer

A)  0 
B)  8 
C)  40 
D)  128

Question 13

If an XtremIO cluster has been shut down as a result of a power loss to the data center, how should you proceed with restoring cluster service?

Accepted Answer

A)  Cluster services automatically restart when power is restored to the data center. No administrative action is needed. 
B)  Cluster services must be manually restarted using the start-cluster XMCLI command once power is restored to the data center. 
C)  The Battery Backup Units, Storage Controllers, and XMS must be rebooted in order for cluster services to be restored. 
D)  Only the XMS and Storage Controllers must be rebooted in order for cluster services to be restored.

Question 14

EMC installed a 4 X-Brick cluster in a customer's Data Center. How many PDPs need to be connected to an electricity source in order to adequately supply power to all PDUs of this cluster?

Accepted Answer

A)  2 
B)  4 
C)  6 
D)  8

Question 15

You are protecting a volume using the wizard in Unisphere for RecoverPoint. Which state will the new Consistency Group be in immediately after completing the wizard?

Accepted Answer

A)  Initializing 
B)  Active 
C)  Paused 
D)  Disabled

Question 16

What may be required after modifying a host with the VSI plug-in?

Accepted Answer

A)  Reboot 
B)  Rescan 
C)  Rediscover 
D)  Reconnect

Question 17

While troubleshooting a host performance issue, you need to verify which ports on the XtremIO cluster a host Initiator is connected to. Which XMCLI command should you use?

Accepted Answer

A)  show-initiators-connectivity target-details 
B)  show-targets-performance 
C)  show-initiators-performance 
D)  show-targets frequency

Question 18

What is needed to make a read-only snapshot writeable?

Accepted Answer

A)  Create writeable snapshot of a read-only snapshot 
B)  Change snapshot type to writeable 
C)  Adjust the snapshot tag 
D)  Writeable snapshots are not supported

Question 19

An existing RecoverPoint cluster has four physical RPAs deployed with VMAX arrays. Which RPAs need to be masked to the VMAX gatekeepers in order to deploy the VMAX splitter?

Accepted Answer

A)  RPA 1 and RPA 2 
B)  RPA 1 only 
C)  All RPAs in the cluster 
D)  RPA 2 only

Question 20

You are connecting a host with two Fibre Channel HBAs to an XtremIO array. The array is a single X-Brick connected to two Fibre Channel switches. According to EMC best practices, how should the host be zoned to the array?

Accepted Answer

A)  Single initiator, single target - using WWPNs 
B)  Single initiator, single target - using WWNNs 
C)  Single initiator, multi target - using WWPNs 
D)  Single initiator, multi target - using WWNNs

Exam 2: XtremIO Solutions Specialist Exam for Implementation Engineers