DELL EMC D-MSS-DS-23 Practice Exams
Last updated on Apr 01,2025- Exam Code: D-MSS-DS-23
- Exam Name: Dell Midrange Storage Solutions Design 2023
- Certification Provider: DELL EMC
- Latest update: Apr 01,2025
What is a benefit of restoring data from a Dell EMC Unity snapshot?
- A . Can select which Consistency Group members have data restored
- B . Supports replication to up to 32 remote systems
- C . Enables efficient storage usage with 8 KB block granularity
- D . Does not require additional pool storage
A customer has a fully scaled-out Dell PowerStore T cluster and wants to ensure that PowerStore Manager is in a highly available configuration
How many instances of PowerStore Manager should be installed, and why?
- A . Four A customer should install one instance per appliance in the cluster
- B . Zero PowerStore Manager runs highly available by default
- C . Eight A customer should install one instance per node in the cluster
- D . Two PowerStore Manager needs at least two instances for a highly available configuration
A customer wants to expand their Dell EMC Unity Hybrid system, which includes a pool of 64 drives in a RAID 5 (4+1) configuration.
What is the minimum number of drives needed to expand the pool?
- A . 1
- B . 5
- C . 6
- D . 7
Which parameters can be selected when sizing a Dell Unity XT 480F using the System Design method?
- A . Drive count and RAID level Percentage of random writes and reads
- B . Data reduction ratio Percentage of sequential writes and reads
- C . One of four workload types Drive count and RAID level
- D . One of two block sizes Application type
Which Dell EMC tool uses an HTML5 interface and best practices to predict storage performance?
- A . Unity Sizer
- B . UniSphere
- C . Midrange Sizer
- D . MiTrend
A database volume on a Dell PowerStore cluster has a Protection Policy that is applied with a single snapshot rule. The policy takes a snapshot every hour and retains them for 48 hours. The storage administrator must present a copy of the database volume to a test environment
Which action does the storage administrator take to meet this requirement?
- A . Restore the snapshot to a new test volume
- B . Create a thin clone of the database volume and map it to the test host
- C . Create a new snapshot policy for the test volume
- D . Create a snapshot of the database volume and map it to the test host
You are designing a Dell EMC PowerStore solution with a customer. They ask if they can populate Slots 0 to 10 with NVMe SSD drives.
What should be your response?
- A . Any drive type can be populated in the remaining slots
- B . NVMe SSDs must be populated in the remaining empty slots
- C . NVMe SCM drives are required in Slots 0 through 10
- D . NVMe SCM drives must be populated in the remaining empty slots
A solutions architect must present two different Dell PowerStore options to a customer Both options must contain 90 TB raw in the smallest drive configuration possible A 3000T and a 9000T are the two models requested. The customer wants to know the minimum drive count necessary to perform a capacity upgrade
Which solution should be recommended?
- A . A 6x 15 TB drives in the 3000T and 6x 15 TB drives in the 9000T both requiring upgrades in six drive increments
- B . 6x 15 TB drives in the 3000T and 12x 7 TB drives in the 9000T both supporting single drive upgrades
- C . 6x 15 TB drives in the 3000T and 6x 15 TB drives in the 9000T both supporting single drive upgrades
- D . 12x 7 TB drives in the 3000T and 6x 15 TB drives in the 9000T both requiring upgrades in six drive increments
How many hierarchical snapshots are supported by Dell EMC PowerStore 9000X array?
- A . 0 levels deep for LUNs
0 levels deep for file systems - B . 32 levels deep for LUNs
16 levels deep for file systems - C . 10 levels deep for LUNs
10 levels deep for file systems - D . 16 levels deep for LUNs
16 levels deep for file systems
A customer wants to provision a file system while creating a NAS server in a Dell EMC PowerStore T system.
What information is needed to create the NAS server?
- A . FQDN
- B . Subnet
- C . DNS details
- D . WWPN