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
A customer has two PowerScale clusters. Cluster1 has eight H700 nodes, and Cluster2 has twelve A300 nodes. The customer wants to monitor real-time performance data of both clusters and track file growth.
Which tool should be recommended?
- A . IOZone
- B . Iperf
- C . InsightIQ
- D . Iometer
When a Gen 6 Isilon cluster receives a file to be stored, which node(s) performs the FEC calculation?
- A . Node to which the client is connected
- B . Each node in the cluster
- C . First node in each node pair
- D . Node that will be holding the FEC
What is the sector size of an Isilon 8 TB drive?
- A . 1024 bytes
- B . 2048 bytes
- C . 4096 bytes
- D . 512 bytes
A customer has two Isilon clusters. Cluster 1 has eight H500 nodes and cluster 2 has twelve H500 nodes. The customer needs to be able to monitor real time performance data of the clusters as well as track file growth.
Which supported tool should be recommended?
- A . InsightIQ
- B . Data Insights
- C . Unisphere
- D . isi statistics
A potential customer requires 800TB of usable capacity to store medical images for their network of health clinics.
The IT department has limited staff and currently manages four storage arrays from other vendors. During a meeting with the Director of IT, you learn that the company is planning to deploy a scale-out NAS solution from a competitor of EMC.
Which factors can demonstrate a lower TCO using Isilon?
- A . An IDC study found that Isilon requires 30% less downtime per year compared to other solutions
- B . Isilon linear scalability eliminates over buying and over provisioning
- C . An IDC study found that Isilon requires 95% less downtime per year compared to other solutions
- D . Isilon uses lower speed NL-SAS drives which reduces overall power and cooling requirements
- E . An IDC study found that Isilon requires 95% less downtime hours per year compared to other competitors
- F . Isilon linear scalability eliminates over buying and over provisioning
- G . An IDC study found that Isilon requires 95% less downtime hours per year compared to other competitors
- H . Isilon linear scalability closely aligns with additional staff requirements as capacity grows
A customer has eight X400 24GB RAM that supports 400 client connections today The customer plans to add 400 more clients in the next few months. They are looking at adding an A-Series node to the cluster to help with client connections.
Before they start adding client connections, what hardware change do you recommend?
- A . Add RAM to offset concurrent client connections
- B . Add an A100 to offset concurrent client connections
- C . Add nodes with SSD to help with connections
- D . Add more network switches to increase the number of connections
An insurance company is using PowerScale H700 nodes to store their data. A systems administrator conducts a capacity assessment and notices that the available space has decreased significantly.
During investigation, the administrator finds that several users are storing their PST and MP4 files on the cluster which occupies a large amount of storage space.
What can the administrator do to prevent such situation to happen in the future?
- A . Configure an accounting quota.
- B . Use file filtering policies.
- C . Use inline data compression.
- D . Configure an advisory quota.
What are characteristics of the streaming data access pattern on a PowerScale Gen6 cluster?
- A . Single stream workflows, very aggressive prefetching
- B . Clients accessing the same data, aggressive prefetching
- C . Multiple stream workflows, no prefetching
- D . Clients accessing the same data, moderate prefetching
In an NFSv3 only environment, what is the recommended limit for active NFSv3 connections, per Isilon node?
- A . 500
- B . 1,000
- C . 1,500
- D . 2,500