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
One of your customers is interested in a PowerScale Gen6 solution. They have provided basic solution requirements, but their security policies do not allow them to perform detailed data collection for infrastructure and workload analysis.
Which tool should you use to design the new PowerScale solution?
- A . Iometer
- B . Power Calculator
- C . SolVE Online
- D . PowerSizer
Your customer is looking for a storage solution that will be able to store seven million 3 MB files, which are written and seldom accessed. Read and write operations are both completed by a webbased application, which requires 1.3 Gbps throughput. The customer’s network has not been upgraded in many years, so the network interfaces are 1Gbps.
Which cluster configuration would best meet the customer’s requirements?
- A . 3 NL400 nodes
- B . 3 X400 nodes
- C . 4 X200 nodes
- D . 5 S200 nodes
Which Isilon Gen 6 node models can use only L3 cache?
- A . A200 and A2000
- B . A200 and H5600
- C . F800 and H600
- D . F800 and A2000
A potential customer has a requirement for 4 PB of usable capacity to store media files. Their data center has limited physical space, so efficient use of that space is important. However, the customer is concerned about using 3 TB or larger drives because of rebuild times.
How does an Isilon cluster address this customer’s concern?
- A . Drive recovery takes the same amount of time regardless of drive size
Short-stroking 4 TB drives to reduce drive seek and access time - B . Proactive hot sparing eliminates most drive rebuilds
Endurant Cache reduces the overhead during drive rebuild operations - C . Nodes have more drives per rack unit
Proactive hot sparing eliminates most drive rebuilds - D . OneFS protects data rather than rebuilding drives
Splitting drives into failure domains reduces risk
Which feature will provide data immutability without the ability for the administrator to delete the files under any condition?
- A . Access Control Entries
- B . Role-based Access Controls
- C . Enterprise SmartLock
- D . Compliance SmartLock
Your customer’s site uses an old X-Series cluster, and they are interested in consolidating their two primary workflows. iostat shows that one of the applications is sensitive to latency, while isi statistics indicates sensitivity to disk response times. There are approximately 1000 users accessing 70 TB of file data.
Which node type would you recommend?
- A . S200
- B . X400
- C . X200
- D . NL400
When installing nodes into a Dell EMC rack, which node type requires the use of a Titan-HD rack?
- A . H500
- B . F800
- C . A2000
- D . A200
A PowerScale administrator has a cluster containing four F600 nodes. They must configure FTP connections for anonymous access that requires no authentication.
What is the result of this configuration?
- A . The limit is 500 for FTP connections per cluster.
- B . The limit is 500 FTP connections per node.
- C . The limit is 200 FTP connections per cluster.
- D . The limit is 200 for FTP connections per node.
Refer to the exhibit.
You want to add redundancy to your network configuration, rather than performance. You have configured all interfaces into the default SmartConnect zone.
How should you configure the switches and Isilon networking to provide your desired network redundancy?
- A . Configure the switch ports for LACP and use LACP aggregation for subnet0:pool0.
- B . Configure the switch ports as access points and use LACP aggregation for subnet0:pool0.
- C . Configure the switch ports for LACP and use FEC aggregation for subnet0:pool0.
- D . Configure the switch ports as access points, bond ext-0 and ext-1 on all nodes and use Active/Passive aggregation for subnet0:pool0.
A customer plans to replace an existing array that is supported by the MiTrend Workload Profile Assessment (WPA) service. You receive performance data from the customer and run a WPA report that shows the array has 50TB of usable capacity.
In discussions with the customer, you learn the content is comprised of four million 6MB files and 400 million 64KB files. The customer explains they have a small budget and very limited rack space available in their datacenter. Performance is not a concern because the files are rarely accessed.
Which configuration provides the needed usable capacity using N+2:1 protection, and requires the least amount of rack space?
- A . 3 x NL400 nodes with 2TB Drives
- B . 3 x X400 nodes with 1TB Drives
- C . 5 x X200 nodes with 1TB Drives
- D . 6 x X200 nodes with 1TB Drives