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. You learn that, for compliance reasons, the organization needs to maintain a separate set of infrastructures for certain deployed services.
Which part of the design will be impacted by this requirement?
- A . Number of service catalogs
- B . Number of compute pools
- C . Service catalog sizing
- D . Over-commitment ratio
A cloud architect has determined that the cloud management infrastructure requires an authentication and PKI environment. In addition, each tenant will require its own authentication and PKI environment.
What describes these separate environments in a cloud design document?
- A . Availability zones
- B . Fault domains
- C . Multi-tenancy
- D . Trust zones
Why would an organization want to incorporate SOA in their DIY PaaS?
- A . Containers are used in place of role based access control for developers.
- B . Applications using modular functions have a flexible and scalable architecture.
- C . Standard interfaces are used between applications and their supporting platforms.
- D . Open Source APIs help users select and switch vendors based on value provided.
A cloud architect is evaluating an organization’s need to support thousands of virtual machine instances and some form of encryption.
Which encryption type should be selected and why?
- A . Storage array encryption to provide centralized management
- B . Full file systems encryption to simplify key management
- C . Network-based encryption to increase security at the cost of server overhead
- D . Self-encrypting storage devices to increase security at the cost of increased overhead
For what utilization limit should the processing capability of blade and rack servers in a CI solution be sized?
- A . 50%
- B . 60%
- C . 70%
- D . 80%
A cloud architect is designing a hybrid cloud for an organization. A requirement for this environment is for federated access to both cloud provisioning APIs.
What must be configured between both cloud providers’ authentication mechanisms?
- A . Shared super-user account
- B . Trust relationship
- C . Identical accounts
- D . IPsec VPN
A cloud design includes a software-defined network controller.
Which requirement(s) will this address?
- A . Elastically expand applications programmatically into the public cloud
- B . Deploy applications that can programmatically modify zones and deploy LUNs in a SAN
- C . Programmatically abstract network data for optimal performance in a low bandwidth infrastructure
- D . Deploy applications that can programmatically after network behavior
A cloud design includes a software-defined network controller.
Which requirement(s) will this address?
- A . Elastically expand applications programmatically into the public cloud
- B . Deploy applications that can programmatically modify zones and deploy LUNs in a SAN
- C . Programmatically abstract network data for optimal performance in a low bandwidth infrastructure
- D . Deploy applications that can programmatically after network behavior
Which type of storage is suitable for high-performance, low-latency applications in the cloud?
- A . Cold storage
- B . Object storage
- C . Block storage
- D . Tape storage

