DELL EMC D-ISM-FN-01 Practice Exams
Last updated on Oct 22,2026- Exam Code: D-ISM-FN-01
- Exam Name: Dell Information Storage and Management Foundations Exam
- Certification Provider: DELL EMC
- Latest update: Oct 22,2026
A customer has a requirement to perform a backup each night. However, the customer has a limited amount of time for backups to run on week nights, Monday through Friday evenings.
Which backup granularity type is recommended to meet the backup window for those nights?
- A . Incremental
- B . Cumulative
- C . Full
- D . Differential
The graphic represents an FCIP tunnel configuration that merges two Fibre Channel SANs at either end of the tunnel.

Which types of ports do the labels "X" and "Y" represent on the FCIP gateway?
- A . X = VF_port and Y = E_port
- B . X = E_port and Y = VE_port
- C . X = EX_port and Y = VE_port
- D . X = F_port and Y = E_port
The Ethernet switch has eight ports and all ports must be operational for 24 hours, from Monday through Friday.
However, a failure of Port 4 occurs as follows:
– Monday = 8 PM to 11 PM
– Wednesday = 7 PM to 10 PM
– Thursday = 6 AM to 12 PM
What is the MTTR of Port 4?
- A . 28 hours
- B . 2 hours
- C . 38 hours
- D . 4 hours
Which benefit does the measured service characteristic provide to a cloud service provider?
- A . Enables control and optimization of resource use
- B . Enables cloud services to communicate with each other
- C . Enables availability of specific resources depending on policy
- D . Enables the reduction and/or elimination of upfront IT expenditure
What does a domain ID represent in Fibre Channel (FC) addressing?
- A . Unique number provided to a group of switch ports
- B . Unique number provided to each port within a switch
- C . Unique number provided to a group of switches
- D . Unique number provided to each switch in the fabric
Which network file sharing protocol provides cloud-based file sharing through a REST API interface?
- A . S3
- B . HDFS
- C . ZFS
- D . FTP
In a NAS environment, which file system enables file sharing with Windows clients and uses the TCP/IP protocol?
- A . New Technology File System (NTFS)
- B . Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS)
- C . Common Internet File System (CIFS)
- D . Network File System (NFS)
What is a benefit of link aggregation?
- A . Optimizes fabric performance by distributing network traffic across ISLs.
- B . Improves ISL utilization by increasing the network traffic on a specific ISL.
- C . Yields a higher throughput by combining two parallel ISLs into a single physical ISL.
- D . Saves bandwidth by restricting traffic to a specific potentially congested ISL.
Which parameter determines the rotation latency of a disk drive?
- A . Response time
- B . Seek time
- C . Speed of the spindle
- D . Data transfer speed
An application generates 4200 small random I/Os at peak workloads with a read/write ratio of 2:1.
What is the disk load at peak activity for a RAID 6 configuration?
- A . 2800
- B . 5600
- C . 8400
- D . 11200