DELL EMC D-PSC-DS-23 Practice Exams
Last updated on Oct 22,2026- Exam Code: D-PSC-DS-23
- Exam Name: Dell PowerScale Design 2023 Exam
- Certification Provider: DELL EMC
- Latest update: Oct 22,2026
Following Dell best practices, at what capacity consumption should an organization begin the process of ordering more nodes to add to a cluster?
- A . 80%
- B . 85%
- C . 75%
- D . 70%
A customer needs to be able to periodically monitor their node live performance for ongoing operational tasks as well as during problem analysis. You have recommended they use the isi statistics command to fulfill this need.
What types of statistics and statuses could be displayed with this command?
- A . Protocol status, drive statistics, hardware statistics, node statistics
- B . Node alerts, Job Engine statistics, hardware status, protocol statistics
- C . Node statistics, general status, drive status, hardware statistics
- D . Drive statistics, node status, protocol alerts, general performance
How are clients, L1 cache, L2 cache, and disks interconnected?
- A . Clients connect to L1 Cache and write coalescer L1 cache is connected to L2 on the local node L2 cache connects to disks on all nodes via internal network
- B . Clients connect to L2 Cache and write coalescer L1 cache connects to disks on all nodes via internal network L2 cache is connected to L1 on the local node
- C . Clients connect to L2 Cache and write coalescer L1 cache connects to disk on its local node L2 cache is connected to L1 on all nodes via internal network
- D . Clients connect to L1 Cache and write coalescer L1 cache is connected to L2 on all nodes via internal network L2 cache connects to disks on its local node
By default, which method is used by Isilon OneFS for SSDs?
- A . Metadata read acceleration
- B . Metadata read/write acceleration
- C . Data on SSDs
- D . Avoid SSDs
A large hospital organization is looking for a vendor neutral archive solution for their imaging data. When proposing an Isilon solution, which benefits should be discussed?
- A . Consolidation of imaging applications and ability to switch PACS systems
- B . Deduplication of image data and Data at Rest Encryption
- C . Data at Rest Encryption and high performance storage platform
- D . Consolidation of imaging applications and global namespace acceleration
A cluster has user quotas configured for user’s home directories with hard limits and advisory limits set.
What would the default setting be for calculating user quotas on the cluster?
- A . User data and data protection overhead only
- B . User data only
- C . User data, snapshot data, and data protection overhead
- D . User data and snapshot data only
You are sizing a PowerScale Gen6 cluster for a small organization that is concerned about the availability of the journal during an extended power outage.
What is a consideration when sizing?
- A . Journal must be protected by an external UPS.
- B . Journal is written to nonvolatile storage if power is lost.
- C . Journal is replicated to all nodes within a chassis.
- D . Battery life within each node is a limiting factor.
A customer has a 5 node Isilon cluster. The raw capacity of the cluster is 85% used. On average, the cluster has 4,000 users connected during office hours. The average CPU usage is 65%. The customer needs to delete some data to free up capacity.
What should the customer do to minimize the effect of the deletion job?
- A . Delete the data from a client directly connected to the cluster
- B . Run the treedelete job with a high impact and high priority during out-of-office hours.
- C . Run the treedelete job with a high impact and high priority during office hours.
- D . Run the treedelete job with the default impact and priority during out-of-office hours.
There is a concern that there are not enough physical switch ports available for the Isilon cluster in a new implementation with SMB and ICAP requirements.
What course of action should be taken?
- A . Team the NICs across the nodes and just add one connection to minimize the ports required.
- B . The customer needs to provide more switch ports for the implementation
- C . Create a SmartConnect zone across all ports but do not connect all of them
- D . Leave the archival nodes off the external network switch to save switch ports
A customer is implementing a new backup strategy for their two PowerScale clusters. The clusters are in a DR configuration. The customer uses SyncIQ to replicate data from the primary cluster to the DR cluster.
They use CloudPools to tier archival data to a public cloud provider from both clusters. The public cloud provider guarantees a backup of all data that is stored in their cloud.
Which NDMP backup option should be applied to their primary cluster to avoid backing up data that is tiered to their cloud provider?
- A . NDMP Redirector
- B . DeepCopy
- C . ComboCopy
- D . ShallowCopy