DELL EMC D-CI-DS-23 Practice Exams
Last updated on Oct 22,2026- Exam Code: D-CI-DS-23
- Exam Name: Dell Cloud Infrastructure Design 2023
- Certification Provider: DELL EMC
- Latest update: Oct 22,2026
An architect is designing the compute resource pools for a cloud. As part of the deliverables, the architect has included the standard specifications for the physical servers to be used. The organization has provided estimates for future growth but has concerns about whether these estimates are accurate.
What should be included in the design to address these concerns?
- A . A monitoring application and procedures for pool expansion
- B . A chargeback application and orchestration workflows to auto-scale pools
- C . A metering application and orchestration workflows to auto-scale pools
- D . A configuration management application and procedures for pool expansion
Which of the following is a primary function of a Cloud Management Platform (CMP)?
- A . Handling data analytics only
- B . Managing network hardware exclusively
- C . Providing orchestration and automation
- D . Focusing solely on security measures
Why is it important for a cloud architect to use minimal up-front sizing when planning capacity for nodes in a HCI deployment?
- A . Accommodate the workload of a node that has failed or is under maintenance
- B . Minimal up-front sizing is correlated to lower licensing costs of the HCI deployment
- C . Reduce CAPEX costs of the HCI deployment by sizing for only the capacity required
- D . Optimize storage resources by designing only for what is required to run mission critical workloads
What should be considered when placing a monitoring tool in the cloud environment?
- A . All infrastructure component interfaces must be accessible to consumers
- B . A common privileged user should be configured on all infrastructure components
- C . Monitoring tool should be placed in the consumer resource infrastructure
- D . All infrastructure component interfaces must be accessible to the tool
An organization wants to provide backup services in the cloud. They have no backup infrastructure in place.
The organization has concerns about losing data if a site disaster occurs. They want to maintain control of backup data placement because of data privacy laws. Finally, they want to maintain at least one month’s worth of backups onsite.
Which backup solution will meet these requirements?
- A . Local backup
- B . Remote backups
- C . Local backup with replication
- D . Local backups with cloud gateway
You are designing a CI solution. You need to ensure maximum CPU utilization.
Which metric will tell you if you have met this goal?
- A . Total IOPS
- B . Percent idle time
- C . I/O wait time
- D . Average disk queue length
What is a key consideration when designing a hybrid cloud architecture?
- A . Using a single cloud provider for all workloads
- B . Avoiding network connectivity between on-premises and cloud resources
- C . Ensuring seamless data and application mobility between environments
- D . Minimizing scalability options in the cloud
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
– Need to share resources to reduce cost and improve efficiency
Other considerations:
– Monitoring of protection SLAs
– All transactions must be logged for auditing review
– Users are validated using internal credentials
Refer to Case 4.
You must design the solution to enable external access to the eCommerce application using a Public cloud. The development team wants to ensure that the application has a known performance profile.
Which consideration offers best practices to address this concern?
- A . Automation Management
- B . Multicloud Compliance
- C . Interoperability
- D . Physical Server Consistency
If the metering tool supports multi-tenancy and integrates with the cloud portal, what should be considered?
- A . Only permit local user access for security reasons
- B . Metering tool should not integrate with tenant authentication
- C . Metering server access should be allowed for all tenants
- D . Role-based access for security reasons
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 sizing the compute capacity in a hyper-converged infrastructure solution. Each node has 55 TB of storage capacity. You have calculated the total cloud storage requirement to be 700 TB.
What is the minimum number of nodes required?
- A . 8
- B . 9
- C . 15
- D . 18