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
How do VSANs ensure security in an IT infrastructure?
- A . By providing isolation over a shared infrastructure
- B . By authenticating a new switch that joins a fabric
- C . By limiting the number of switches in a fabric
- D . By prohibiting an unused switch port from being used
An administrator has defined a backup policy. Full backups will be performed at 8 PM every Monday and incremental backups performed at 8 PM the remaining days.
How many backup copies are required to restore the files if they were accidentally deleted on Friday morning?
- A . 1
- B . 2
- C . 3
- D . 4
In Fiber Channel SAN topology, what does the term ‘Fabric’ refer to?
- A . A point-to-point connection
- B . A network switch-based topology
- C . A type of storage device
- D . A type of cabling used
If the client requests authorization from the resource owner, what are the remaining sequence of steps to authenticate a user using OAuth control?


What is true about Storage Class Memory (SCM)?
- A . SCM is slower than DRAM but read and write speeds are faster than flash.
- B . SCM adds a new tier of SAS performance at memory-like cost.
- C . SCM read and write speeds are slower than hard disk drives.
- D . SCM is faster than cache memory but slower than solid state drives.
What maps the logical path of a file system to its physical path in a file-level virtualization implementation?
- A . Global namespace
- B . Remote procedure call
- C . Distributed file system
- D . Cache coherency
What is an accurate statement about a TCP offload engine (TOE) NIC with a software iSCSI adapter?
- A . TCP/IP and iSCSI processing does not require the CPU cycles of a compute system
- B . Offloads the iSCSI processing from the CPU of a compute system
- C . Offloads the TCP/IP processing from the CPU of a compute system
- D . TCP/IP and iSCSI processing requires the CPU cycles of a compute system
What is the primary purpose of storage resource management?
- A . Managing user access to files
- B . Optimizing the performance and utilization of storage resources
- C . Encrypting data on storage devices
- D . Monitoring network traffic for suspicious activity
Which statement describes the purpose of containers?
- A . Provides hypervisor level virtualization to simply resource allocation
- B . Provides portable application support to mainframe applications
- C . Isolates applications to reduce CPU utilization
- D . Bundles an application with required software libraries to run anywhere
What is a domain ID represented in Fibre Channel (FC) addressing?
- A . Unique number provided to each switch in the fabric
- B . Unique number provided to each port within a switch
- C . Unique number provided to a group of switches
- D . Unique number provided to a group of switch ports