DELL EMC D-CI-DS-23 Practice Exams
Last updated on Oct 21,2026- Exam Code: D-CI-DS-23
- Exam Name: Dell Cloud Infrastructure Design 2023
- Certification Provider: DELL EMC
- Latest update: Oct 21,2026
What determines the maximum number of blade or rack servers that can be installed in a CI system?
- A . Unified management storage array configuration
- B . Open-sources management switch configuration
- C . Unified management switch configuration
- D . Open-sourced management storage array configuration
An organization uses Microsoft Active Directory (AD) for service authentication in their private cloud. They want to use the same authentication source for services in the public cloud. External employees access services in both clouds and need to authenticate with AD. The organization wants to minimize and secure network traffic.
Which solution will address these requirements?
- A . Connect the two clouds through IPsec VPN.
Place AD controllers in the private cloud only. - B . Connect the two clouds through IPsec VPN.
Place AD controllers in the private and public clouds. - C . Configure perimeter firewalls to allow AD traffic.
Place AD controllers in the private and public clouds. - D . External users connect with IPsec VPN.
Place AD controllers in the private cloud only.
A company has the following requirements:
– Modular building blocks
– Scalability
– In-house management solution
– No physical SAN
What type of infrastructure would meet these requirements?
- A . Cloud-in-a-Box
- B . Converged
- C . Traditional
- D . Hyper-Converged
An organization is planning to deploy CMP components for their private cloud environment. As a cloud architect, why would you recommend a SaaS-based CMP solution?
- A . Speeds up the initial deployment and reduces the complexity in managing the CMP solution
- B . Allows the organization to use low cost IT resources in order to run the CMP application
- C . Allows management of both private and public cloud resources using a legacy unified management tool
- D . Requires only a one-time investment and the organization has full control over the CMP solution
You are designing a cloud backup solution. Consider the following requirements when sizing the backup target:
– Total amount of data to be backed up = 2 TB (2000 GB)
– Full backup once a week
– Retention period for full backups = 2 months
– Daily incremental backups (assuming an average 10% change in data)
– Retention period for incremental backups = 1 month
– No Compression or deduplication
– Number of backup copies = 1
What is the total capacity, in GB, required for the backup target to accommodate the backups?
- A . 13, 200
- B . 16, 000
- C . 21, 200
- D . 26, 400
A cloud design contains multiple hosts that are running a hypervisor. Each host has only two physical 10 Gb network adapters that are aggregated for bandwidth and failover. The physical switch ports for each host are configured as access ports.
Each host will support numerous virtual machines and network segments. These virtual machines will communicate with other virtual machines on the same network segments.
Why would overlay networks be required for this design?
- A . Support for more than two virtual switches
- B . Support for more than one virtual segment
- C . Support for more than two virtual machines
- D . Support for more than one distributed virtual switch
As a cloud architect designing a DIY PaaS Solution, you have concluded that using containers to support the target application is the best choice.
What consideration supports that decision?
- A . An application will run on multiple platforms with minor modification
- B . The abstraction of the physical hardware limits vulnerability
- C . Multiple operating systems can be supported in a single container
- D . The container supports the required software stack
An organization has chosen to build a platform using a packaged PaaS Solution. This will support its primary consumer Internet application.
What is a key consideration for security?
- A . Authentication services cannot be allowed to affect availability or latency.
- B . Authentication and authorization standards must be supported.
- C . There must be sufficient failure domains to support intrusion prevention.
- D . A runbook must be used to ensure system patches are secure.
In addition to the operating system, what other components does the consumer manage in an IaaS cloud service model?
- A . Application, data, storage, and physical networking
- B . Data, middleware, application, and runtime
- C . Runtime, physical servers, application, and middleware
- D . Middleware, runtime, hypervisor, and application
Refer to the exhibit.
Your company is currently using a traditional SAN storage network. The server infrastructure is partially virtualized. There is a public cloud in place that is used to test development and application migration to cloud.
Business requirements:
– Consolidate the network, storage, and compute resources
– Simplify network management and storage provisioning
– Maintain application performance
– A disaster recovery plan to meet RTO / RPO targets
Other considerations:
– All data must be secured at rest and in-flight
– Include an app development platform
Refer to Case 6.
You are designing a private cloud to use VLANs to support compute to compute connectivity. The cloud services and security requirements will result in 5,120 separate VLANs being created.
What is a concern related to VLANs when reviewing this requirement?
- A . VLANs limit the number of NICs that can participate in the network to 2,048
- B . Configuration times out when attempting changes to more than 1,024 VLANs
- C . Each VLAN requires separate infrastructure and management traffic
- D . VLANs can only support up to 4,094 virtual networks