DELL EMC D-ISM-FN-01 Practice Exams
Last updated on Oct 23,2026- Exam Code: D-ISM-FN-01
- Exam Name: Dell Information Storage and Management Foundations Exam
- Certification Provider: DELL EMC
- Latest update: Oct 23,2026
Which block storage volume allocates all of the physical storage specified at the time it is created?
- A . Thick provisioned LUN
- B . Thin provisioned LUN
- C . Thin provisioned RAID
- D . Thick provisioned RAID
What is an accurate statement regarding virtual LANs?
- A . Supports Fibre Channel network transport data security
- B . Supports one or more logical L ANS operating over a single physical LAN
- C . Provides hardware level connectivity and maintains physical L AN transport paths
- D . Provides software level connectivity and maintains physical LAN transport paths
An Ethernet switch has eight ports and all ports must be operational for 24 hours, from Monday through Friday.
However, a failure of Port4 occurs as follows:
– Monday = 8 PM to 9 PM
– Wednesday 7 PM to 9 PM
– Thursday = 6 AM to 9 AM
– Saturday = 4 PM to 7 PM
What is the MTTR of Port 4?
- A . 2 hours
- B . 3 hours
- C . 28 hours
- D . 38 hours
What is an advantage of performing capacity monitoring in a storage infrastructure environment?
- A . Automatically identifying configuration changes to the storage infrastructure elements
- B . Rapidly identifying component failures that may lead to storage unavailability
- C . Efficiently tracking unauthorized access to the storage infrastructure elements
- D . Proactively preventing service outages due to the lack of storage space
When implementing a full mesh topology in a Fibre Channel (FC) SAN environment, what is the effect when there is an increase in the number of switches?
- A . Reduces the available node ports for ISL connectivity.
- B . Increases the load on the ISLs due to traffic aggregation.
- C . Increases the hop count for compute to storage traffic.
- D . Reduces the available switch ports for node connectivity.
What is a typical configuration in a core-edge topology?
- A . All compute systems are connected to the core-tier
- B . Edge-tier switches are connected to each other
- C . All storage devices are connected to the core-tier
- D . Core-tier switches are isolated from each other
Which component of a software-defined storage (SDS) environment manages and provisions storage?
- A . SDS controller
- B . REST API
- C . SDS web service
- D . Storage agent
Which block-based storage system component connects hosts to the storage system?
- A . Storage drives
- B . Cache
- C . Back-end ports
- D . Front-end ports
In which data access method does the file system’s user component reside on the compute system and its storage component reside on the storage system?
- A . Sector-based
- B . Block-based
- C . File-based
- D . Object-based
A system has three components, and all three components need to be operational from 8 AM to 5 PM; Monday to Friday.
During a particular week, failure of component 3 occurred as follows:
Monday = 7 AM to 11 AM
Tuesday = No failure
Wednesday = 4 PM to 7 PM
Thursday = No failure
Friday = 12 PM to 2 PM
Saturday = 5 AM to 8 AM
Sunday = 6 PM to 9 PM
What is the availability of component 3 for this week?
- A . 84.2%
- B . 86.6%
- C . 90.8%
- D . 92.4%