Question 1

HPE Moonshot 180G Switch Modules and HPE Moonshot 16-SFP+ Uplink ModulesA customer is planning to replace its DAS-based third-party server solution with an HPE BladeSystem solution using FlexFabric connected to an iSCSI based HPE StoreVirtual 3200. Which method should the architect recommend for migrating data from the old system to the new system?

Accepted Answer

A)  Use Peer Motion with a temporary 180-day license 
B)  Use Business Copy software licensed to the current total size of all DAS storage 
C)  Use Virtual Copy software 
D)  Use a LAN-based file transfer method

Question 2

A customer recently purchased an HPE Moonshot chassis to host its internal website. Subsequently, the customer reports difficulties deploying new cartridges in an efficient manner. The customer suggests exchanging the solution for a more traditional server platform. What can the architect demonstrate to the customer to help solve the problem while preserving the validity of the original design solution?

Accepted Answer

A)  how to use SCCM to provide a graphical installation method for new nodes 
B)  how to use VSP to provide a graphical installation method for new nodes 
C)  how to add an mRCA module to provide a graphical installation method for new nodes 
D)  how to use iLO remote console to provide a graphical installation method for new nodes

Question 3

An architect is planning an HPE Integrity Superdome X solution. One nPartition will include two HPE BL920s Gen9 blades. After discussions and testing, the architect determines that the nPartition requires more memory than initially planned. Which approach should the architect recommend to the customer to ensure optimum performance?

Accepted Answer

A)  Provision each blade in the nPartition with the same amount of memory 
B)  Add DIMMs in multiples of 12 even if this means adding more capacity than necessary 
C)  Favor using lower capacity DIMMs to fill more memory slots on each channel 
D)  Avoid using all memory channels on a processor

Question 4

A customer is considering upgrading from a BL460c Gen8 to a BL460c Gen9 server. The customer needs to retain the ESXI V5.5 boot volumes and enable UEFI secure boot mode on the new BL460c Gen 9 server. What should the architect explain to the customer?

Accepted Answer

A)  The ESXI V5.5 volume will not boot in UEFI mode. 
B)  The server must be configured to support GPT boot drives. 
C)  ESXI V5.5 needs to be patched up to ESXI V6. 
D)  Secure boot mode must be enabled and certificate installed.

Question 5

A proposed solution includes the HPE Moonshot-4QSFP+ Uplink Modules. The customer informs the architect that the planned purchase of 40GbE switches has been postponed. The customer still intends to purchase 40GbE switches within a year, but in the meantime, existing 10GbE switches will be used. These switches are HPE network switches located 25 meters from the location of the racks that house the HPE Moonshot Solution. The customer needs 30Gb/s bandwidth. Which action should the architect recommend to allow the customer to deploy the solution immediately and easily take advantage of 40GbE when deployed later?

Accepted Answer

A)  Swap in HPE Moonshot-16SFP+ Uplink Modules 
B)  Replace the QSFP+ transceivers with SFP+ transceivers 
C)  Add QSP+/SFP+ adaptor kits to the design 
D)  Replace the DAC cables with DAC splitter cables

Question 6

A customer has an HPE c7000 chassis with the following components installed: - Cisco Fabric Extender - Fibre channel pass-through modules - BL460c Gen9 blades with LPe1605 The architect needs to allow network bandwidth control for some of the customer's critical servers and server-to-server communication for vMotion. Which modification should the architect recommend?

Accepted Answer

A)  Replace the Fibre Channel pass-through modules with HPE Virtual Connect 16Gb modules 
B)  Replace the Cisco Fabric Extender with HPE FlexFabrix 20/40 F8 modules 
C)  Change the QoS setting on the Fibre Channel pass-through modules 
D)  Change the setting within the Onboard Administrator to enable QoS

Question 7

Which statement describes the availability metrics for an HPE system's high availability?

Accepted Answer

A)  All standard HPE servers are designed for 99.9999% availability. 
B)  A system consisting of HPE standard servers with an availability of 99.9999% and a storage system with an availability of 99.99% will have a combined availability of 99.99999%. 
C)  A system with an availability of 99.99% can be expected to be in operational for 6 minutes or fewer per year. 
D)  A system with an availability of 99.999% will statistically not have an unscheduled downtime of more than 1 hour total in 10 years of operation.

Question 8

An architect is designing an HPE Apollo 6000 solution to support a customer application. The architect is choosing between the HPE ProLiant XL230a and the XL250a compute tray. What is one reason for choosing the XL250a tray?

Accepted Answer

A)  The application is single-threaded. 
B)  The application requires high storage capacity. 
C)  The application uses high amounts of memory. 
D)  The application requires GPU acceleration.

Question 9

A customer needs a mission critical SQL database. The customer has an HPE StoreServ and plans to use this as storage. The solution must meet the following requirements: - 240 logical cores (Hyper-Threading enabled) - support for 6TB Memory - 16GB FC - 35TB RAID 1 storage - the ability for hardware partitioning to build different physical partitions and scale as the need for CPU and memory resources grows Which solution should the architect recommend?

Accepted Answer

A)  HPE Apollo 4200 with HPE ProLiant XL170r nodes 
B)  HPE Superdome X with BL920s blades 
C)  HPE ProLiant 980 Server 
D)  HPE SL6500 with SL230s nodes

Question 10

A customer needs high performance computing (HPC) and a small-scale solution with up to eight processors. The solution should also provide storage in a modular form factor. The customer's HPC application is designed so that some nodes act as compute nodes while others act as storage nodes that serve data to the compute nodes. Which HPE Apollo system is most appropriate for this situation?

Accepted Answer

A)  HPE Apollo r2200 
B)  HPE Apollo r2800 
C)  HPE Apollo 6000 
D)  HPE Apollo 8000

Question 11

An architect is proposing an HPE Moonshot System, including m710 cartridges, an iLO Chassis Manager, switch, and uplink modules. The customer needs IT staff to be able to access cartridges over a Remote console. What should the architect explain to the customer?

Accepted Answer

A)  IT staff can open a Remote Console to any cartridges linked to an mRCA through the iLO CM. 
B)  Remote Console access is only supported when a cartridge is part of an HPE Helion CloudSystem 9.x solution. 
C)  Remote console access is not supported for cartridges; IT staff should use local consoles instead. 
D)  IT staff can open a Remote Console to any cartridge through the iLO CM.

Question 12

A customer is considering an object storage solution that will provide optimal rack density and will distribute the data with a very resilience across multiple servers and multiple sites. Which type of storage architecture should the architect design to provide the most cost-effective solution?

Accepted Answer

A)  Direct Attached Storage (DAS) 
B)  Cloud Storage 
C)  Fibre Channel SAN 
D)  iSCSI/FCoE

Question 13

A customer needs to streamline monitoring to its HPE Apollo 6000 solution. Which benefit can HPE Advanced Power Management (APM) provide to this customer?

Accepted Answer

A)  It discovers and inventories XL servers installed in the HPE Apollo chassis. 
B)  It monitors the utilization of resources such as CPU and memory. 
C)  It enables HPE OneView to automatically discover and map the chassis and its servers. 
D)  It audits the firmware on XL servers installed in the HPE Apollo chassis.

Question 14

A customer needs a server infrastructure update for its Hadoop HBase solution. The HBase maximum dataset size will be 120TB. To host HBase, the architect is planning three HPE Moonshot 1500 chassis that are fully populated with cartridges. The populated chassis provide the following in total: 135 processors with 4 2.9GHz cares each 4. 32TB RAM 64.8TB local storage on SSDs Which aspect or the design is under provisioned and is likely to cause performance to be degraded to one-tenth or even one-hundredth of its potential?

Accepted Answer

A)  number of cores per processor 
B)  number of processors 
C)  amount of local storage on SSDs 
D)  amount of RAM

Question 15

A software development customer's data center has servers from three different vendors. The customer plans to purchase 15 HPE c7000 enclosures that are populated with BL460c Gen9 blades. Each enclosure will be deployed with HPE OneView advanced licensing. The customer uses third-party SNMP-based management tools as well as some custom dashboards that were written to monitor the statue of the datacenter. The infrastructure management team is concerned about how to integrate HPE OneView into its management strategy. What should the architect demonstrate?

Accepted Answer

A)  how to access HPE OneView data and incorporate it into the internally developed dashboards using the REST API 
B)  how to use HPE OneView as the dashboard for the existing monitoring tools using the REST API 
C)  how to point the existing servers to the new HPE OneView instance for all SNMP traps 
D)  how to access HPE OneView data and incorporate it into the internally developed dashboards using the iLO RIBCL command language

Question 16

An architect needs to demonstrate the financial advantages of a proposed HPE server and Hypervisor-based solution compared to a legacy server environment that has traditional servers and desktops. Which tool should the architect use?

Accepted Answer

A)  Hyperscale Business Value Calculator 
B)  Client Virtualization ROI Calculator 
C)  HPE Business Technology Optimization 
D)  HPE Business Process Monitor

Question 17

A customer plans to develop scripts that use the REST API for HPE OneView. However, the customer is concerned about the complexity of the scripts. Which tool can be used to adopt the HPE OneView REST API quicker?

Accepted Answer

A)  HPE SmartStart Scripting Toolkit 
B)  HPE Operations Analytics for HPE OneView 
C)  HPE Python library for HPE OneView 
D)  HPE iLO4 using RedFish

Question 18

A customer purchases a hyperscale solution based on the HPE Moonshot platform and needs a management tool is suitable for this environment and meets the customer's needs?

Accepted Answer

A)  HPE Cloud OS for HPE Moonshot 
B)  HPE Helion Cloud System 9 Foundation 
C)  HPE OneView with HPE Operation Analytics plugin 
D)  HPE Insight Cluster Management Utility

Question 19

A customer requires a server infrastructure update for its Hadoop HBase solution. The HBase maximum dataset size will be 120TB. To host HBase, the architect is planning three HPE Moonshot 1500 chassis fully populated with cartridges. The populated chassis provide the following in total: - 135 processors with four 2.9GHz cores each - 4.23TB RAM - 64.8TB local storage on SSDs An aspect of the design is under provisioned and is likely to cause performance to degrade to one-tenth or even one-hundredth of its potential. How can the architect resolve this problem?

Accepted Answer

A)  Scale the memory capacity by selecting higher capacity DIMM's for the cartridges 
B)  Select different cartridges that provide more nodes per cartridge 
C)  Scale the SSD capacity by adding cartridges or selecting higher capacity SSDs 
D)  Select different cartridges that provide more processor cores

Question 20

An architect proposes an HPE Moonshot solution with three HPE Moonshot 1500 Chassis as follows: - one chassis with 30 m710 cartridges - two chassis with 30 m800 cartridges each The customer wants to change the solution to use two HPE Moonshot 1500 chassis as follows: - one chassis with 30 m710 cartridges and 15 m800 cartridges - one chassis with 45 m800 cartridges What should the architect explain to the customer?

Accepted Answer

A)  Mixing different models of cartridges in the same chassis is not supported 
B)  A chassis can support both m710 and m800 cartridges, but the m710 cartridges will not be able to use their accelerators 
C)  Mixing different models of cartridges requires the customer to use an HPE Moonshot Provisioning Manager (MPM) 
D)  A chassis can support both m710 and m800 cartridges, but the m710 cartridge adapters will operate at 1Gbps rather than 10Gbps

Exam 3: Configuring HPE GreenLake Solutions