DELL EMC D-ISM-FN-01 Practice Exams
Last updated on Oct 24,2026- Exam Code: D-ISM-FN-01
- Exam Name: Dell Information Storage and Management Foundations Exam
- Certification Provider: DELL EMC
- Latest update: Oct 24,2026
What restricts a tenant’s access to a specific group of object buckets in a software-defined storage environment?
- A . Availability zone
- B . Retention quotas
- C . Namespace
- D . Erasure coding
Why is it important for organization to deploy intelligent storage systems in their data centers?
- A . Reduce the complexity of managing information by creating silos of storage
- B . Effectively migrate data from a data center to the cloud at no cost
- C . Reduce the amount of data to be replicated, migrated, and backed up
- D . Effectively store and manage information across data centers
What is an advantage of performing incremental backups compared to cumulative backups for the same data?
- A . Requires more time to perform data backup
- B . Storage capacity needed for backups is significantly reduced
- C . Requires more storage capacity for backup
- D . Reduces restore time but requires a maximum of two copies
What is a characteristic of the Orchestration layer in a modern data center architecture?
- A . Interacts directly with physical components across layers to begin provisioning tasks
- B . Enables automatic updates of offerings listed in the service catalog with pre-defined workflows
- C . Allows centralized, automated, and policy-driven management of heterogeneous resources
- D . Enables automated arrangement, coordination, and management of resource provisioning tasks
Refer to the Example:

What do X and Y represent in the formula for Information Availability?
- A . MTTR and RTO
- B . MTTR and MTBF
- C . RTO and RPO
- D . MTBF and MTTR
If a company has experienced a passive attack on its IT infrastructure, how is the company’s security impacted?
- A . Access to services is denied.
- B . Availability of data is affected.
- C . Information privacy is compromised.
- D . Data is altered by an unauthorized user.
What is signified by the “variety” characteristic of big data?
- A . Data is generated in different formats by numerous sources
- B . Meaning of the data changes constantly
- C . Varying data quality affects its reliability and accuracy
- D . Data change rate affects its timely analysis
Which type of login is performed between an N_Port and an F_Port in a Fibre Channel SAN environment?
- A . FLOGI
- B . PLOGI
- C . PRLI
- D . WWPN
An application generates 8400 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 5 configuration?
- A . 4800
- B . 11200
- C . 16800
- D . 22400
A Fibre Channel switch has eight ports and all ports must be operational from 8 AM to 8 PM, Monday through Friday.
However, a failure of Port 2 occurs on a particular week as follows:
– Monday = 10 AM to 12 PM
– Wednesday = 4 PM to 9 PM
– Thursday = 4 PM to 7 PM
– Friday = 3 PM to 6 PM
– Saturday = 9 AM to 1 PM
What is the availability of Port 2 in that week?
- A . 70%
- B . 71.6%
- C . 78.3%
- D . 80%