E20-555 EMC Isilon Solutions and Design Specialist Exam for Technology Architects Free Practice Exam Questions (2025 Updated)
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A customer has two data centers (Site A and Site B) and in each data center there is an Isilon cluster. They are replicating data between the sites using SyncIQ.
You have been reviewing their disaster recovery plan and found the following:
The policies specify that SyncIQ runs a replication job every four hours and that the job finishes within one hour.
Three additional hours will be needed to get servers and the network redirected to work from Site B.
What is the Recovery Point Objective in this plan?
What is appropriate for capturing packets for later analysis of I/O request sizes and randomness on Isilon clusters?
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A European Sports TV network is considering Isilon for their Media Edit Storage for their editing workloads. They are also considering Isilon for near-line media archiving.
The network receives XDCAM HD footage which is loaded onto their existing Transcoding Storage platform. New footage that needs to be edited will be transferred from their Transcoding Storage platform to the proposed Media Edit Storage platform at the rate of ten simultaneous XDCAM HD files via FTP. Edited files will be transferred back to the Transcoding Storage platform at the rate of ten simultaneous XDCAM HD files via FTP.
The network currently has 15 Final Cut Pro edit stations, 15 Avid edit stations. Proxy software will be used to allow Isilon to act as the storage for the Final Cut Pro and Avid media. Three of those edit stations will be performing content compositing as needed.
The network expects 70 hours of new content per week, and 50 hours of edited content per week. They intend to keep the new and edited content on the proposed Media Edit Storage as a performance tier for 30 days. They would like to retain all new and edited footage proposed Media Edit Storage as a near-line tier for two years.
In addition to the current workloads, the network expects to implement a new Media Asset Management (MAM) solution and has requested the Isilon cluster be capable of supporting 120 MBps read and 120 MBps write to support the MAM requirements.
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Refer to the exhibit.
Based on the number of edit stations, and their intended use, what bandwidth requirements should be considered while sizing?
Match each tool with the task for which the tool is used.
Your customer has an existing Isilon cluster with seven X200 nodes. The cluster is used to store home directories and departmental shared folders. They are planning to deploy a new application that generates small block, synchronous writes.
Which OneFS 7 capability can help reduce latency for the new workload?
What is the best case performance for Backup Accelerator when backing up to LTO-4 or LTO-5 drives?
Which node type provides CPU, memory, and Fibre Channel connectivity?
If Isilon SmartConnect is being configured in a customer environment, which records are required for a supported implementation?
What key considerations should be kept in mind when designing a 300TB solution?
Refer to the exhibit.
Which tool was used to create this output and which line item counts the metadata read operations occurring in the file service?
Your customer has a new business unit. They are gathering web log files to be analyzed. They are using Hadoop to do the analysis of the logs. The IT department is centrally storing the log files on a 5-node Isilon cluster. They have enabled the Hadoop cluster to access the files directly on the Isilon storage. The nodes are X400's with two SSD drives in each node and 96GB of RAM.
How many DataNodes does the Isilon cluster have?
What is the correct order of steps taken during the file striping process?
Your customer manages a print media environment, consisting of three Isilon clusters, which are out of support. The customer would like to have access to new software releases and feature sets. You have been asked to perform a full discovery of the customer’s environment.
The customer's current Isilon clusters are as follows:
“Cust” (12 x 12000X) serves as upload media storage for different tenants.
“Working” (8 x 12000X + 6 x X200) serves as a working zone for extraction to RAW and printing media from it.
“Archive” (16 x 72NL + Accelerator nodes) is used to store printed content for six months.
The customer operates in a Windows environment using SMB 2.0, two DNS servers per AD forest, three forest domains which are servicing three different environments. All servers are operating on a 1Gb network, three VLANs segregating the DEV/QA/PROD environments. Currently, there is no monitoring in place for performance measurement or optimization.
The requirements for this solution include:
Better ROI and TCO
Maintain same performance with possible improvements
Renew HW/SW and get inclusive support
Limit migrations
Reduce space, power, cooling consumption
Get new feature sets
If migration required, use Parallel copy (multiple nodes, multiple threads, multiple connections)
Segregate tenant shares from other tenants
Expand up to 1PB of total storage
Which licenses need to be defined for the solution to perform optimally?
A customer environment is used for analytics on very large datasets. They are interested in using Isilon storage and Hadoop but are concerned about the costs.
How does Isilon change the scalability of a Hadoop environment?
How many file systems are present in a 20-node Isilon X200 cluster?
Your customer has observed a degradation in response time while browsing for media files within the Production Media folder of the Isilon cluster. That directory now contains over five million files. It was confirmed that there are no network or edit station related causes.
What changes to the Isilon cluster will best accelerate the browsing performance?
Which license is a prerequisite for enabling CloudPools?
What is the smallest unit of data that Isilon OneFS will write to disk?
In what order does an Isilon Gen 6 cluster respond to a client file read request?
A telecommunications company has a substantial amount of data. This data is being created by network elements within their environment.
The company wants to change the way the network elements Call Detail Records (CDR) are stored and analyzed. The existing infrastructure consolidates all of the CDRs into a table structure, and then ingests them into a large database. Once ingested, a query engine accesses the database and performs analysis on these files. The system is functional; however, since the amount of CDRs generated will increase exponentially over the next year, the company is open to alternatives for storing and analyzing these records.
In evaluating alternatives, the key requirements are to reduce cost, the amount of storage, and the amount of time to analyze the data. The customer would like to use Hadoop to analyze the CDRs.
After you have conducted an assessment of the workflow, you have recommended an Isilon Cluster to work within the Hadoop environment.
Which protocols would be the best fit when using Isilon for this customer's Hadoop workflow?
