7,18,23,24,25,31,32,42,51,54

1.
What is a difference between single engine bay and dual engine bay VMAX3 configurations?
Single Engine Bay: InfiniBand fabric is mandatory in all bays
Dual Engine Bay: InfiniBand switch is optional in System Bay 1

Single Engine Bay: Maximum of 6 DAEs per engine

Dual Engine Bay: Maximum of 2 DAEs per engine

Single Engine Bay: Maximum of 2 DAEs per engine

Dual Engine Bay: Maximum of 6 DAEs per engine

Single Engine Bay: InfiniBand switch is optional in System Bay 1

Dual Engine Bay: InfiniBand fabric is mandatory in all bays

2.
What is the minimum VMAX3 eNAS configuration?

1 Control Station and 2 Data Movers

2 Control Stations and 1 Data Mover

2 Control Stations and 2 Data Movers

2 Control Stations and 4 Data Movers

3.
What happens during an SRDF dynamic personality swap?

R1 and R2 are split and the application can be restarted on the R2

R1 on a VMAX 40K can now become the R2 on the VMAX3

R1 becomes write-disabled and the R2 becomes read/write enabled

R1 becomes the R2 and the R2 becomes the R1

4.
Which SYMCLI command(s) can be used to create a Storage Group?

symconfigure and symaccess

symaccess and symsg

symconfigure and symsg

symsg only

5.
Which FAST algorithm only applies to devices associated with the Platinum, Gold, Silver or Bronze SLO?

SRP capacity compliance algorithm

 SLO capacity compliance algorithm

SLO response time compliance algorithm

Disk resource protection algorithm

6.
What should be done, from an application perspective, prior to performing an SRDF Establish operation?

Continue accessing the R1 and R2 devices

Continue accessing the R1 devices; stop accessing the R2 devices

Stop accessing the R1 devices; continue accessing the R2 devices

Stop accessing the R1 and R2 devices

7.
When using Unisphere for VMAX, which workload planning feature should be used to determine the
performance impact of moving the parent Storage Group workload from one array to another array?

Service Level Capacity

Headroom Indicator

FAST Array Advisor

Suitability Check

8.
You are attempting to install Unisphere for VMAX 8.0 on a server with the following configuration:
 Microsoft Windows Server 2008 64-bit
 Dual core processor
 16 GB RAM
 80 GB free space

Quad core processor is required

12 GB of RAM is required

32-bit operating system is required

120 GB of free space is required

9.
What is the correct priority sequence for selecting a Gatekeeper candidate?

RDF R1 or R2 devices
Small devices (under 10 cylinders)
ACLX device
Standard non-RDF devices
 10.
A storage administrator needs to make multiple concurrent configuration changes to a VMAX3 array.
What is the maximum number of non-conflicting concurrent configuration changes that can be
performed?

11.
On a VMAX3, which TDEV size is nearest to 1 TB?

279,621 cylinders

559,242 cylinders

1,048,576 cylinders

1,118,484 cylinders

12. In addition to the GNS daemon, which other daemon is mandatory during the installation of Solutions
Enabler?

Base Daemon

SYMAPI Server Daemon

STP Daemon

Event Daemon

13.
Which Solutions Enabler daemon provides services for remote clients?

storevntd

storapid

storsrvd

storstpd

14.
A data center has experienced a disaster. The VMAX3 array at the data center is using SRDF to replicate
data to a remote disaster recovery site. The storage administrator wants to switch data processing from
the source to the target site.
Which SRDF operation should be used?

Failback

Update

Restore

Failover

15.
What is the default Service Level Objective in a VMAX3 array?

Diamond

Optimized

Gold

Bronze

16.
What is the maximum number of logical volumes a VMAX3 Storage Group can contain?

1K

2K

4K

8K

17.
Before creating a dynamic RDF group, which SYMCLI command can be used to validate that the RF
zoning is correct?

symcfg list -ra all

symsan list -sanrdf -dir all

symaccess list logins

symrdf ping

18.
An application is using four VMAX3 devices. A TimeFinder SnapVX snapshot of the Storage Group
containing these devices was created at 10 AM. The storage administrator adds another device to this
Storage Group at 2 PM. A restore operation is performed using the snapshot.

What will be the status of the newly added device after the restore session is terminated?

Not Ready

Write disabled

Read/Write enabled
 Failed

19.
Which Unisphere for VMAX Storage Resource Pool report shows the disk groups that make up the SRP?

View SRP Details

Storage Group Demand Report

Workloads Demand Report

Demand Report

20.
Which SRDF mode of operation maintains a consistent copy at the remote site by placing host writes into
cycles?

SRDF/CG

SRDF/S

SRDF/DM

SRDF/A

21.
When switching SRDF devices from Adaptive Copy Disk mode to Asynchronous mode, how many cycle
switches after resynchronization is required for the devices to become consistent?

2.
An RDF group on a VMAX3 array is being replicated in SRDF/A mode to a remote VMAX3 array. After an
extended loss of all RDF links, the links have been restored.

What is the recommended process for getting back to SRDF/A mode after creating a gold copy of the R2
devices?

Change mode to Adaptive Copy Disk

Disable SRDF/A Consistency for the RDF group
Change mode to Asynchronous
Enable SRDF/A Consistency for the RDF group
Verify device pairs are Synchronized
 23.
A TimeFinder SnapVX snapshot of source volumes has been linked to target volumes. The
target volumes are being used for application testing.

What should be done prior to restoring from the snapshot?

Stop accessing the source volumes

Stop accessing the source and target volumes

Continue accessing the source and target volumes

Stop accessing the target volumes

24.
How is VMAX eNAS managed on a VMAX3 array?

Storage menu in Unisphere for VNX

File Dashboard in Unisphere for VMAX

Storage Dashboard in Unisphere for VMAX

Data Mover command line

25.
A storage administrator wants to create a list of all virtual machines which are connected to a
VMAX storage array. The number of virtual machines in VMware vCenter is different from the
number seen in Unisphere for VMAX.

What could be a cause for this mismatch in Unisphere?

Credentials of one or more ESXi hosts is incorrect

Powered off virtual machines do not show up

Virtual machines that reside on multiple datastores are counted more than once

Virtual machines that only have RDM storage are not counted

26.
Which port flag must be enabled to use autoprovisioning groups on VMAX3 arrays?

SPC-2

ACLX

SCSI-3

27.
What is the Reserved Capacity in the Storage Resource Pool reserved for in a VMAX3?
 Restore writes

Backup writes

New host writes

Snapshot delta writes

28.
When is a VMAX3 Storage Group considered to be FAST managed?

Storage Group is part of a Masking View

Host I/O limits are explicitly set on the Storage Group

SLO is explicitly set on the Storage Group

Storage Group is associated with a FAST policy

29.
Data corruption is detected in a production volume. A TimeFinder SnapVX snapshot named
“Prod_Snap1” is then taken of the volume. The snapshot's linked target is mounted on a test
host where a system administrator is able to repair the file system damage.

Which process should be used to restore the production volume from the repaired data?

Create a snapshot of the linked target and then restore the production volume from the
new snapshot

Restore the production volume from snapshot “Prod_Snap1”

Create a snapshot of the linked target and then link the new snapshot to the production
volume

Link the production volume to the linked target

30.

Refer to the Graphic.

Production work continues on the R1 devices after an SRDF Suspend operation. Where will
the changes made to the R1 device be reflected in the SRDF Query?
 1

31.
A TimeFinder SnapVX snapshot has been created for four source volumes on a VMAX3 array
at 8 AM. The snapshot is set to expire at 10 AM. The snapshot is linked in NoCopy mode to
target volumes at 9 AM.

What will happen to the snapshot past the expiration time?

Snapshot will continue

Snapshot will fail

Snapshot will become invalid

Snapshot will terminate

32.
You are planning the installation of Unisphere for VMAX to support one EMC VMAX 10K
array, two VMAX 20K arrays, and one VMAX3 array. What is the minimum level of Solutions
Enabler needed to support this environment?

Solutions Enabler 7.5 32-bit

Solutions Enabler 7.6.2 64-bit

Solutions Enabler 8.0 64-bit

Solutions Enabler 8.0.1 64-bit

33.
Which type of grouping is supported to perform TimeFinder SnapVX operations using
Unisphere for VMAX?

Device File

Device Group

Consistency Group

Storage Group

34.
Which technology does TimeFinder SnapVX use under most circumstances to preserve a
point-in-time snapshot?

Copy-on-Write
 Copy-on-First Access

Redirect-on-Write

Copy-on-First Write

35.
An RDF director port on a VMAX3 running HYPERMAX OS is connected to an RDF port on a
VMAX running Enginuity 5876. The maximum supported RDF groups on this port have been
configured.

How many additional RDF groups can be configured on the RDF director on the VMAX3
array?

64

186

250

256

36.
What is a valid TTL value to expire a TimeFinder SnapVX snapshot?

Any specific date

A specific date, up to 512 days in the future

A specific date, up to 1024 days in the future

A specific date, up to 400 days in the future

37.
What is a requirement before a VMAX3 thin device can be deleted?

Device must be unmapped

Device must be set to Write Disable

Device must be set to Not Ready

Optimized SLO must be set on the device

38.
A storage administrator has set the I/O limit on a VMAX3 Storage Group to 1000 IO/Sec. The
I/O distribution has been set to the 'OnFailure' mode. One of the directors in the associated
two-director Port Group has failed.

What will the I/O limit be on the director that is still online?

500 IO/Sec

750 IO/Sec
 1000 IO/Sec

2000 IO/Sec

39.
Which Solutions Enabler environment variable can be set to stop the user from getting asked
for confirmation during command execution?

symcli_command_scope

symcli_output_mode

symcli_mode

symcli_noprompt

40.
A TimeFinder SnapVX snapshot called “Prod_1” is taken of a production volume. What
occurs if an attempt is made to create another snapshot called “Prod_1” of the production
volume?

A second snapshot will be taken named “Prod_1”, designated as generation 1

A second snapshot will be taken named “Prod_1”, designated as generation 0

The second snapshot operation will fail because a snapshot already exists with the name
“Prod_1”

A second snapshot will be taken named “Prod_1” and it will be cascaded from the first
snapshot

41.
What is the Unisphere for VMAX recommendation for the number of ports in a VMAX3 Port
Group?

42.
What would the RDF device and Link states be after an SRDF Restore operation?

R1=RW; Link=NR; R2=WD

R1=RW; Link=RW; R2=WD

R1=WD; Link=NR; R2=RW

 R1=RW; Link=NR; R2=RW
43.
A storage administrator wants to configure a large SRDF deployment between a VMAX3
array and an older VMAX array. There are many different applications and workloads that
need to be separated into their own SRDF groups.

How many SRDF groups will this configuration support?

64

128

186

250

44.
What is used to maintain consistency for enabled composite groups across multiple arrays for
SRDF/A with MSC?

SYMAPI options file

Daemon options file

GNS daemon

RDF daemon

45.
Which Solutions Enabler daemon provides centralized Gatekeeper device management?

storstpd

storapid

storsrvd

storevntd

46.
In TimeFinder SnapVX, how many snapshots per source are allowed?

128

256

512

1024

47.
A company with a VMAX3 is using VMware vCenter with VSI to provide storage to their
physical and virtual servers. Which action is required to have a LUN provisioned as a VMware
datastore?
 Raw Device Mappings can be provisioned to virtual machines only when unmasked
volumes are available

Datastores are created automatically when provisioning storage directly to an ESXi host

EMC VSI should be used exclusively with VMAX and VMAX3

Storage is automatically provisioned from existing datastores when adding storage to a

virtual machine

48.
SRDF/A has been enabled between two VMAX3 arrays. In the event of DSE activation, which
mechanism will throttle host writes to match the DSE spillover rate?

Multi-Cycle Mode

Group-level Write Pacing

Device-level Write Pacing

Transmit Idle
49.
A storage administrator sees a TimeFinder SnapVX snapshot with a TTL that is in the past.
Why would the snapshot continue to exist?

Snapshot still has a linked no copy target

Target was relinked with the copy option

Snapshot has not been terminated

Snapshot is the only generation left of the snapshot

50.
When selecting an available service level objective, which SLO emulates Flash drive and 15K
RPM performance?

Silver

Platinum

Diamond

Gold

51.
When navigating Unisphere for VMAX 8.0, which menu can be used to manage charts?

Performance

Storage

System Dashboard

System Settings
 52.
A new SRDF pair is created using the symrdf createpair -sid 1234 -f pairs.txt
-type R1 -rdfg 10 -establish command. What is the default SRDF mode being used
by the new pair?

Adaptive Copy Disk Mode

Asynchronous Mode

Synchronous Mode

Adaptive Copy Write-Pending Mode

53.
You have configured Open Replicator between a new VMAX3 array and an older Symmetrix.
A host is connected to the VMAX3 array and a control device configured to pull data from a
device on the Symmetrix. You want the host to be able to access data on the control device
while the data is being pulled from the remote device.

What will cause a priority data move from the remote device if the hosts attempts to read data
that has not yet been copied to the control device?

Copy-on-First Access

Front-end Zero Detection

Donor Update

Background Copy

54.
In Unisphere for VMAX, what is the minimum Storage System role required to setup alerts?

PerfMonitor

SecurityAdmin

StorageAdmin

Monitor
55.
A storage administrator is using Unisphere for VMAX and wants to know which Storage
Groups meet the SLO Compliance. Which option should be selected from the Storage
Groups Dashboard?

Available

Marginal

Critical

Stable

56.
A system administrator has two VMAX3 arrays using SRDF/A. A permanent loss of link
places the replicated devices in device group "asyncdg1" in a Partitioned state. Production
work continues on the R1 devices.

When the link is restored, the administrator needs to let the R1 and R2 sides gradually get
synchronized because the physical link is shared with other latency critical applications.
During the synchronization, consistency is not an issue.

Which steps need to be performed to get the device group synchronized again?

symrdf -g asyncdg1 disable

symrdf -g asyncdg1 set mode acp_disk
symrdf -g asyncdg1 resume
symrdf -g asyncdg1 enable

symrdf -g asyncdg1 set mode acp_disk

symrdf -g asyncdg1 resume
symrdf -g asyncdg1 set mode async

symrdf -g asyncdg1 disable

symrdf -g asyncdg1 set mode acp_disk
symrdf -g asyncdg1 resume
symrdf -g asyncdg1 set mode async
symrdf -g asyncdg1 enable

symrdf -g asyncdg1 disable

symrdf -g asyncdg1 resume
symrdf -g asyncdg1 enable

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7.
When using Unisphere for VMAX, which workload planning feature should be used
to determine the performance impact of moving the parent Storage Group workload
from one array to another array?
Explanation
Topic: Monitor storage resource pools, SLO compliance, and describe how Unisphere
is used for workload planning

Training: VMAX3 Configuration Management

18.
An application is using four VMAX3 devices. A TimeFinder SnapVX snapshot of the
Storage Group containing these devices was created at 10 AM. The storage
administrator adds another device to this Storage Group at 2 PM. A restore operation
is performed using the snapshot.
What will be the status of the newly added device after the restore session is
terminated?
Explanation
Topic: Describe and perform TimeFinder SnapVX operations with SYMCLI and
Unisphere for VMAX in physical and virtualized environments

Training: VMAX3 Business Continuity Management

23.
A TimeFinder SnapVX snapshot of source volumes has been linked to target
volumes. The target volumes are being used for application testing.

What should be done prior to restoring from the snapshot?

Explanation
Topic: Describe and perform TimeFinder SnapVX operations with SYMCLI and
Unisphere for VMAX in physical and virtualized environments

Training: VMAX3 Business Continuity Management

24.
How is VMAX eNAS managed on a VMAX3 array?
Explanation
Topic: Describe how eNAS is managed

Training: VMAX3 Configuration Management

25.
A storage administrator wants to create a list of all virtual machines which are
connected to a VMAX storage array. The number of virtual machines in VMware
vCenter is different from the number seen in Unisphere for VMAX.

What could be a cause for this mismatch in Unisphere?

Explanation
Topic: Describe VMAX3 storage management in a virtualized environment

Training: VMAX3 Configuration Management

31.
A TimeFinder SnapVX snapshot has been created for four source volumes on a
VMAX3 array at 8 AM. The snapshot is set to expire at 10 AM. The snapshot is
linked in NoCopy mode to target volumes at 9 AM.

What will happen to the snapshot past the expiration time?

Explanation
Topic: Describe and perform TimeFinder SnapVX operations with SYMCLI and
Unisphere for VMAX in physical and virtualized environments

Training: VMAX3 Business Continuity Management

32.
You are planning the installation of Unisphere for VMAX to support one EMC
VMAX 10K array, two VMAX 20K arrays, and one VMAX3 array. What is the
minimum level of Solutions Enabler needed to support this environment?
Explanation
Topic: Describe how Unisphere for VMAX is installed

Training: VMAX3 - Unisphere for VMAX Implementation and Management &

VMAX3 Configuration Management
42.
What would the RDF device and Link states be after an SRDF Restore operation?
Explanation
Topic: Describe and perform SRDF operations in synchronous and asynchronous
modes using SYMCLI and Unisphere for VMAX in physical and virtualized
environments

Training: VMAX3 Business Continuity Management

51.
When navigating Unisphere for VMAX 8.0, which menu can be used to manage
charts?
Explanation
Topic: Explain how to navigate the Unisphere for VMAX user interface

Training: VMAX3 - Unisphere for VMAX Implementation and Management &

VMAX3 Configuration Management
54.
In Unisphere for VMAX, what is the minimum Storage System role required to setup
alerts?
Explanation
Topic: Perform Unisphere for VMAX administration tasks

Training: VMAX3 - Unisphere for VMAX Implementation and Management & VMAX3
Configuration Management