DELL EMC D-PDD-OE-23 Practice Exams
Last updated on Oct 21,2026- Exam Code: D-PDD-OE-23
- Exam Name: Dell PowerProtect DD Operate 2023
- Certification Provider: DELL EMC
- Latest update: Oct 21,2026
By default, when is the autosupport report sent out by the PowerProtect DD system?
- A . Every Day at 8 AM
- B . Every Day at 6 AM
- C . Every Tuesday at 8 AM
- D . Every Tuesday at 6 AM
An administrator is migrating their old cloud tier-enabled Data Domain to a new PowerProtect DD appliance with cloud tier. During migration, the administrator recognizes that file system cleaning on the source system is not possible.
What is the most likely cause of this behavior?
- A . Filesystem is disabled on source system
- B . Source system is running in restricted mode
- C . Migration will restrict all activities on both systems
- D . Migration will restrict all activities on source system
A PowerProtect DD administrator must optimize TCP/IP performance on AIX host, what setting must be used for each NIC interface?
- A . large_send to yes
- B . tcp_pmtu_discover to 0
- C . large_send to no
- D . tcp_pmtu_discover to 1
A NetBackup administrator is using PowerProtect DD as a backup device with VTL.
Which component will perform the backup and restore operations to PowerProtect DD?
- A . Backup Client
- B . Storage Node
- C . Primary Storage
- D . Master Server
A company has SMT and VTL enabled on a PowerProtect DD appliance. They back up their data to virtual tape under a VTL pool named "finance".
Where is the backup data stored on the PowerProtect DD appliance?
- A . /data/col1/<tenantname>/vtl/finance
- B . /data/col1/<tenantname>/finance
- C . /data/col1/finance
- D . /data/col1/vtl/finance
When following Dell recommendations what adjustments should a customer make on the Microsoft Windows client when using CIFS on a PowerProtect DD appliance?
- A . Adjust session timeout values and SNMP parameters.
- B . Adjust SNMP parameters and TCP/IP parameters.
- C . Adjust NTP parameters and SNMP parameters.
- D . Adjust session timeout values and TCP/IP parameters.
When following Dell best practices, what needs to be considered when creating tapes for a PowerProtect DD VTL configuration?
- A . Use larger-sized tapes since some backup applications require block size of 256 KB or larger.
- B . Use smaller tapes across many drives for greater throughput by using more data streams.
- C . Use smaller tapes since traditional backup applications require block size of 64 KB by default.
- D . Use larger-sized tapes across fewer drives for keeping configuration simplicity.
What is a benefit of the PowerProtect DD Secure Multi-Tenancy feature?
- A . Enables deployment of DDVE systems in a public cloud
- B . Provides a single cloud model for protection storage
- C . Allows different cloud models for protection storage
- D . Can be managed with DDSM
Which cloud storage providers are included in the list of supported options for PowerProtect DD system?
- A . Dell Elastic Cloud Storage (ECS)
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Microsoft Azure
Google Cloud Platform (GCP) - B . Dell Elastic Cloud Storage (ECS)
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Oracle Cloud
Microsoft Azure - C . Oracle Cloud
IBM Cloud
Alibaba Cloud
Dell Elastic Cloud Storage (ECS) - D . IBM Cloud
Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
Alibaba Cloud
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
A backup administrator is tasked with monitoring PowerProtect DD capacity metrics. The administrator is backing up 4 TB of data daily with a reduction rate at 5x. After data reduction, subsequent full backups compress down to 200 GB. The initial backup requires 800 GB with a 10 percent increase in the data each day.
Incremental backups are 400 GB. After data reduction, each incremental backup is 40 GB.
What is the weekly burn rate (GB) after four daily incremental backups and one weekly backup?
- A . 220
- B . 260
- C . 400
- D . 440