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
What is a benefit of application virtualization?
- A . Avoids conflicts between different versions of the same application
- B . Enables an application to directly access a LUN on a storage system
- C . Runs applications without requiring the use of cache memory
- D . Presents more memory to an application than is physically available
What is an accurate statement about cache vaulting?
- A . Only writes to the cache are stored in a mirrored location during a power failure
- B . Cache data in multiple locations is made coherent during a power failure
- C . Contents of cache is dumped to a set of physical storage drives during a power failure
- D . Seals the cache and rejects any further reads or writes during a power failure
What is the purpose of monitoring availability in a storage infrastructure?
- A . Evaluate utilization of components and identify bottlenecks
- B . Identify component failures that may lead to service unavailability
- C . Track unauthorized access that may lead to information unavailability
- D . Ensure availability of adequate resources to prevent service unavailability
Which of the following are uses of replication in a data center? (Choose two)
- A . Long-term data retention
- B . Creating redundant copies of data for fault tolerance
- C . Migrating data between different types of storage
- D . Ensuring data availability for critical applications
A Fibre Channel switch has eight ports and all ports must be operational 24×7.
However, a failure of Port 5 occurs on a particular week as follows:
– Monday = 11 AM to 12 PM
– Thursday = 7 AM to 11 AM
– Saturday = 11 AM to 1 PM
What is the availability of Port 5 in that week?
- A . 93%
- B . 94.1%
- C . 95.8%
- D . 97%
Which statement is true regarding virtual provisioning?
- A . Multiple shared storage pools can be created while each pool must be allocated to a unique thin LUN
- B . Virtual provisioning prevents issues that arise from oversubscription
- C . Virtual provisioning enables more efficient allocation of storage to compute systems
- D . Shared and Thin LUNs can be expanded rapidly with only minor disruptions
Which compute system component enables dynamic extension of file system capacity and efficient storage management?
- A . Logical Unit Number
- B . Logical Unit Number Masking
- C . Logical Volume Manager
- D . Virtual Memory Manager
Which layer of the Fibre Channel (FC) protocol stack defines the fabric services?
- A . FC-0
- B . FC-1
- C . FC-2
- D . FC-4
In a compute-based storage area network (SAN), what is a function of the metadata manager?
- A . Holds cluster-wide mapping information and load balancing in a compute-based SAN.
- B . Performs the I/O operations on the local storage of a compute system as requested by a client.
- C . Provides an interface to the software-defined storage controller.
- D . Controls all data read and write operations in a compute-based SAN.
What is a benefit of using a Scale-Out NAS system vs. general purpose file servers?
- A . For high performance and security NAS supports only NFS protocol
- B . NAS servers are pooled into a cluster of independent NAS nodes
- C . File system grows dynamically as nodes are added to the NAS cluster
- D . For high performance and security NAS supports only CIFS protocol