Specialist - Systems Administrator, Elastic Cloud Storage (ECS) v1.0
Question 1
What happens when you change the retention value in a retention policy on ECS?
- A. Retention values cannot be changed on a retention policy
- B. The changes will affect all new objects associated with that policy only
- C. Retention value in a policy can only be changed on the bucket but will not affect any object
- D. The changes will immediately affect all objects associated with that policy
Answer : D
Reference: http://doc.isilon.com/ECS/3.1/DataAccessGuide/ecs_c_cas_retention.html
Question 2
A newly configured ECS system contains 4 nodes. How many fragments will each ECS node contain when a data chunk is broken up by erasure coding?
- A. 2
- B. 4
- C. 8
- D. 16
Answer : D
Reference: https://www.emc.com/techpubs/ecs/ecs_data_protection-1.htm
Question 3
Which component of ECS provides clustering and configuration management?
- A. Storage Engine
- B. Zookeeper
- C. Fabric
- D. Data Services
Answer : C
Reference:
https://repository.usc.edu/sites/repository.usc.edu/files/ecs_overview.pdf
(p.9)
Question 4
What happens when a soft quota is reached on a bucket?
- A. No new writes are allowed
- B. Nothing will happen
- C. Only updates are allowed
- D. Warning event is triggered
Answer : D
Reference: https://www.emc.com/techpubs/ecs/ecs_manage_tenant-1.htm
Question 5
You are creating a VDC during the ECS configuration process. You get the following error:
Error 7000 (http: 500): An error occurred in the API Service
You check the system and this is what you see:
Storage Pool status: Ready -
Nodes: Ready to use -
Licenses: OK -
What can be causing this error?
- A. The endpoints were not supplied as a comma-separated list
- B. You did not wait 10 to 15 minutes after creating the storage pool
- C. You have not created the system storage pool
- D. The VDC access key was typed incorrectly
Answer : B
Reference: https://www.emc.com/techpubs/ecs/ecs_configure_single_multi_site-1.htm
Question 6
Compliance monitoring has been enabled for an ECS system. Under which conditions will a BAD event be received?
- A. UNKNOWN and NOT READY
- B. SUSPECT and UNKNOWN
- C. DEGRADED and UNTRACKED
- D. BAD and NOT READY
Answer : D
Question 7
An administrator is trying to configure a Cloud Unit in Data Domain System Manager for access to ECS and receives the following error:
Couldnג€™t connect to server.
What needs to be checked?
- A. <endpoint> 9020 or <endpoint> 9021
- B. <endpoint> 9022 or <endpoint> 9023
- C. <endpoint> 9024 or <endpoint> 9025
- D. <endpoint> 9026 or <endpoint> 9027
Answer : A
Reference:
https://www.emc.com/collateral/TechnicalDocument/docu88135.pdf
(36)
Question 8
DRAG DROP -
What is the correct order of steps used to create a VDC federation?
Select and Place:
Answer : 
Reference:
https://www.emc.com/collateral/TechnicalDocument/docu88135.pdf
(36)
Question 9
HDFS supports which native file system on ECS?
- A. EXT3
- B. SMB
- C. EXT1
- D. EXT2
Answer : B
Question 10
On which level(s) is the ECS quota enforced?
- A. Namespace only
- B. Bucket only
- C. Object user
- D. Bucket and namespace
Answer : D
Reference: https://github.com/thecodeteam/ecs-cf-service-broker/blob/master/README.md
Question 11
A company has removed the VDC from the replication group and is no longer able to add it back. What is the cause of this issue?
- A. The same VDC can be added back to the replication group, but only before failover processing is completed successfully
- B. The same VDC cannot be added back to the replication group, it must be given another name
- C. The VDC cannot be added back to the existing replication group; a new replication group must be created for the VDC
- D. Removing the VDC from the replication group initiates failover processing for permanent failures
Answer : B
Question 12
You are configuring a NetWorker CloudBoost solution using ECS as LTR backup. When adding the CloudBoost appliance in the Dell EMC Cloud Portal, the configuration fails and shows the following error:
Operation Completed with errors. Could not apply initial configuration. Reason: Validation failed; cloud profile is invalid
What is causing this error?
- A. Claim code is invalid when registering the CloudBoost appliance
- B. ECS object access S3 password does not match ECS access key
- C. Display name is set incorrectly for the ECS Cloud Profile
- D. ECS access key ID does not match object user name
Answer : A
Question 13
When a disk state is suspect, what are the allowable disk operations?
- A. Read
- B. Write
- C. Read and write
- D. No operations allowed
Answer : A
Question 14
What is a characteristic of ECS?
- A. Cannot be federated to protect data across multiple sites
- B. Cannot be run on non-Dell EMC hardware for custom solutions using existing resources
- C. Provides offline object access for mobile, desktop, and enterprise applications
- D. Provides simultaneous access to data via several standard industry protocols
Answer : D
Reference: http://ucsexadatacloud.blogspot.com/2015/11/emc-ecs-features-and-functionality.html
Question 15
When SEC Compliance is enabled, what action can be taken on a retention period?
- A. Shortened
- B. Extended
- C. Deleted
- D. Deleted with privileged delete
Answer : B
Reference: https://www.emc.com/collateral/white-papers/ecs-sec-assessment-cohasset.pdf