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
You are creating a cloud infrastructure design for an organization. The cloud design includes physical servers with hypervisors which will be used to host consumer services. The hosts are managed through a hypervisor element manager.
Which step should be taken to secure the hypervisor environment?
- A . Place the element manager administrative interfaces on a consumer-facing network and hypervisor administrative interfaces on an isolated network
- B . Place the element manager administrative interfaces on a consumer-facing network and hypervisor administrative interfaces on a secure network
- C . Place the element manager and hypervisor administrative interfaces on a secure network
- D . Place the element manager and hypervisor administrative interfaces on a consumer- facing network
Which design consideration applies to object storage?
- A . Multi-tenancy is supported through file and directory permissions
- B . It is best suited for high performance and low latency applications
- C . A RAID controller on the host computer handles redundancy
- D . A common authentication mechanism is accessible by all tenants
A cloud architect is designing a distributed block storage solution that will support application HA. The solution will consist of 10 nodes with all SAS devices. There are five racks available in the data center.
Each rack has a single top-of-rack access layer switch with sufficient bandwidth to the aggregate layer. Each node will have multiple connections to the local topof- rack switch. The architect wants to provide a design that has the fewest number of storage pools maximizing the number of fault domains.
How should the storage pools be designed?
- A . One pool with SSD nodes located in one rack.
One pool with all SAS nodes located in a different rack. - B . One pool with 50% SSD and 50% SAS nodes distributed equally across five racks.
- C . One pool with SSD nodes distributed equally across five racks.
One pool with all SAS nodes distributed equally across five racks. - D . One pool with 50% SSD and 50% SAS nodes located in one rack.
One pool with 50% SSD and 50% SAS nodes located in a different rack.
When considering a packaged PaaS solution, what is a potential advantage?
- A . Greater control over infrastructure management
- B . Lower cost of ownership
- C . Longer time to market for applications
- D . Reduced reliance on third-party vendors
When designing for large addressing space in HCI nodes, what operations(s) negatively impacts cost of performance?
- A . First write
- B . Page-in and page-out
- C . Random write
- D . Sequential read
A cloud architect is evaluating an organization’s need for encryption.
Which type of encryption allows the deletion of data on disk by simply deleting the encryption key?
- A . Embedded
- B . Application
- C . File
- D . File system
During an assessment for an organization’s cloud design, a cloud architect discovers that developers will be creating applications for tenants. The applications will self-scale based on an internal trigger. The architect has included CMP components in the design that will support this requirement.
What else should the cloud architect consider to meet this requirement?
- A . CMP account with elevated privileges exists that can be shared with developers
- B . Mechanisms exist for changing the type of consumer resources automatically
- C . Mechanisms exist for re-installing CMP components for scaling
- D . Sufficient consumer resources exist to support the application elasticity
In which cloud design lifecycle phase is TCO value analysis performed?
- A . Validation
- B . Plan and design
- C . Implementation
- D . Understand requirements
You are a cloud architect responsible for designing a multiple availability zone configuration for the organization’s geographically dispersed clouds. You must provide the ability for services to survive a failure at the data center or site level.
The primary requirement is to provide for automated site recovery.
What is a key consideration for automating the setup, failover, and recovery of services at the remote site?
- A . When implementing automated site recovery, you must have automated orchestration of site failback processes
- B . The number of storage volumes in the DR site must be identical in number and size to the primary site
- C . The recovery site must have sufficient available capacity to host workloads after a disaster at the primary site
- D . The DR site must contain the same vendor hardware as the primary site
What is a primary function of a CMP in cloud design?
- A . Managing physical hardware
- B . Providing real-time analytics only
- C . Orchestrating and automating cloud resources
- D . Handling application development tasks