pure storage fbap-002 practice test
Pure Storage Certified Architect Professional - FlashBlade
Question 1
A customer is adding snapshot policies so that some file systems can be tiered based on importance
to the business.
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1 file system with high priority
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3 file systems with medium priority
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2 file systems with low priority
How many snapshot policies does the customer need to protect all of their file systems?
- A. 3 ***
- B. 1
- C. 6
- D. 4
Answer:
A
Question 2
What is the recommended number of power cables for a multi-chassis FlashBlade configuration with
4 chassis?
- A. 16 power cables
- B. 18 power cables
- C. 20 power cables ***
- D. 22 power cables
Answer:
C
Question 3
Refer to the exhibit.
A customer has a 7x17TB FlashBlade and is adding a new workload to the system that will add 30TB
of data with an expected compression rate of 1.5:1.
How many 17TB FlashBlade must be purchased to meet this requirement?
- A. 1x17TB blade
- B. 2x17TB blade *****
- C. 3x17TB blade ***
- D. 4x17TB blade
Answer:
C
Question 4
A state agency wants to store property deed image in multi-page .tif format on a FlashBlade NFS file
system.
What compression ratio should the architect utilize for sizing?
- A. 3.6:1
- B. 2.0:1
- C. 5.1:1
- D. 1.1:1 ***
Answer:
D
Question 5
The customer wants to build a software QA infrastructure using modern big data tools like Spark and
Kafk
a. The goal is to process 50 billion events per day and provide feedback in real-time in less than 5
seconds.
The architect needs to create a FlashBlade configuration to meet the capacity and performance
requirements using the following assumptions:
4 RSyslog servers accessing FlashBlade via NFS
6 servers accessing FlashBlade via S3
Capacity: 6TB + 18TB + 18TB
Each protocol will create a concurrent write and / or read throughput of 6GB/s
Which configuration should the architect use to meet these requirements?
- A. 7x17TB
- B. 12x17TB
- C. 40x17TB
- D. 24x17TB ****
Answer:
D
Question 6
A customer is adding a micro-service to an existing application and needs to use the same user and
S3 bucket. The current secret key is unknown.
What should the customer do to resolve this issue?
- A. Call support for help to retrieve the existing key
- B. Click on the user under the Object Store view to view the key.
- C. SSH into the FlashBlade and run pureobjuser command to list the key
- D. Create a new key for that user. ***
Answer:
D
Question 7
A customer has an existing Flashblade with 13x52TB blades in a single-chassis configuration and
needs more capacity for a new application coming online in the next few weeks. The architect has
determined they need an additional four blades.
How many additional rack units are required to accommodate the new blades?
- A. 12
- B. 10
- C. 6
- D. 4 ***
Answer:
D
Question 8
A customer is interested in deploying Splunk for their infrastructure logs. They will not be replicating
the Splunk environment to another site, anticipate a 2TB per day ingest rate, and want to be able to
easily scale their indexers independent of their storage.
How should the architect recommend that the customer deploy Splunk?
- A. Spluck Classic on FlashArray
- B. Spluck Classic on FlashBlade
- C. Spluck SmartStore on FlashBlade ***
- D. Spluck SmartStore on FlashArray
Answer:
C
Question 9
A customer has multiple FlashBlades and reports performance issues that occurred in the past 24
hours.
Where should the architect go to identify the issue?
- A. Performance view under Analytic ***
- B. Dashboard view
- C. Alerts view under Messages
- D. Expanded Card View under Appliances
Answer:
A
Question 10
A customer offers subscription access to E-books. The customer wants to be able to enable and
disable access to the E-book efficiently.
What should the architect do?
- A. Create an NFS share that uses AD for authentication that can be disabled later.
- B. Create a presigned object URL that can be disabled with an API call. ***
- C. Create and object store with a user account and secret key that will be deleted in the future.
- D. Create and SMB share that uses AD for authentication and manually disable account at a later time.
Answer:
B
Question 11
A customer wants to deploy AI/ML using Pure Storage AIRI reference architecture.
Which model should the architect use to meet the requirements?
- A. An architecture that is made up of 4xUCS X220 servers, 2xCisco Nexus 9000 switches, and FlashBlade single chassis
- B. An architecture that is made up of 4xDGX-1 servers, 2xArista 7060x switches, and FlashBlade single chassis ***
- C. An architecture that is made up of 4xDGX-1 servers, 2xArista 7060x switches, and FlashArray //X70
- D. An architecture that is made up of 4xDGX-1 servers, FlashBlade XFM, and FlashBlade single chassis.
Answer:
B
Question 12
A customer has noticed their all-flash arrays are constantly running at or near 100% load and
impacting application performance. They are running dozens of applications on the arrays and ask
for help to identify some workloads that could be moved to another storage system to reduce load
and improve overall performance of all applications.
Which (three) workload or data characteristics should an architect look for to identify potential
candidates for migration to FlashBlade? (Choose three.)
- A. Applications requiring high throughput ***
- B. Large number of simultaneous connections
- C. Applications that can use NFS or S3 ***
- D. Highly transactional application.
- E. Low latency is critical to application performance. ***
Answer:
A, C, E
Question 13
Refer to the exhibit.
A customer decides to use S3 as a protocol between the Backup Server to FlashBlade. The Backup
Application S3 client in multi-threaded. What is the expected maximum restore throughput?
- A. ~10Gb/s
- B. ~80Gb/s ***
- C. ~70Gb/s
- D. ~20Gb/s
Answer:
B
Question 14
What must an architect do to delete a filesystem?
- A. Unmount the file system from clients
- B. Turn off the system services
- C. Enable Fast Remove ***
- D. Take a snapshot and then remove file system
Answer:
C
Question 15
A company has an existing database running a critical application. Users are complaining of slow
response times. The company asks Pure Storage for help fixing this problem.
Which (three) questions should the architect ask to determine if FlashBlade is a good fit for the use
case? (Choose three.)
- A. What is the current storage the database is running on today?
- B. How long has the database been up?
- C. How many users does the application support? ***
- D. What type of queries does the database support for the application? ***
- E. Is it and OLAP or OLTP database? ***
Answer:
C, D, E