DELL EMC D-ISM-FN-01 Practice Exams
Last updated on Oct 21,2026- Exam Code: D-ISM-FN-01
- Exam Name: Dell Information Storage and Management Foundations Exam
- Certification Provider: DELL EMC
- Latest update: Oct 21,2026
What accurately describes link aggregation in a SAN?
- A . Combines two or more parallel interswitch links into a single logical interswitch link
- B . Aggregates the data transmission rate of all HBA and storage system port pairs
- C . Consolidates compute-to-compute traffic and storage traffic into a single interswitch link
- D . Replaces multiple parallel interswitch links by a single physical interswitch link
What creates a large-scale SAN without storage systems and uses local storage of existing compute systems?
- A . Compute-based SAN.
- B . Software-defined compute.
- C . Storage-based SAN.
- D . Software-defined network.
If a configuration management database (CMDB) system contains different configuration items (CIs), what is considered a CI?
- A . Governance procedure
- B . Username
- C . Security guideline
- D . Customer feedback
What type of migration is used to move VMs from one compute system to another without downtime or service disruption?
- A . Appliance based migration
- B . Hypervisor based migration
- C . Storage based migration
- D . SAN based migration
What accurately describes a data lake in a big data environment?
- A . Designed for query and analysis to support data decisions
- B . Designed to organize, classify, or analyze the data when it is created
- C . Stores current and historical data that must have a structured format on object-based storage
- D . Stores large volumes of structured and unstructured data collected from various sources
Which feature of an object-based storage system abstracts and provides a common view of storage independent of location to applications?
- A . Global namespace
- B . Flexible data access
- C . Multi-tenancy
- D . Scale-out architecture
Which of the following is a characteristic of image-level backup?
- A . Backs up individual files and folders
- B . Backs up the entire system including OS, applications, and data
- C . Allows for fast file restoration
- D . Has smaller backup sizes compared to other methods
What is a function of the metadata manager in a compute-based storage area network (SAN)?
- A . Controls load balancing and data migration in a compute-based SAN
- B . Provides an interface to the software-defined storage controller
- C . Controls all data read and write operations in a compute-based SAN
- D . Performs the I/O operations on the local storage of a compute system as requested by a client
A Fibre Channel switch has eight ports and all ports must be operational from 6 AM to 6 PM, Monday through Friday.
However, a failure of Port 4 occurs with the week as follows:
– Monday= 11 AM to 1 PM
– Wednesday= 5 PM to 10 PM
– Thursday= 7 AM to 10 AM
– Saturday= 11 AM to 1 PM
What is the availability of Port 4 in that week?
- A . 80%
- B . 86.7%
- C . 90%
- D . 81 6%