HPE2-CP08 HPE Product Certified Free Practice Test

1. In a CEPH environment, is this a design criteria to optimize performance?

Solution: OSD object hosts should be all-flash systems.

2. Does this describe object storage?

Solution: optimized filesystem protocol

3. An HPE Apollo server environment for a Scality RING using erasure coding is being sized.

Is this a component that is important for performance for the erasure coding task?

Solution: CPU

4. Is this a design criteria when sizing a fully-populated HPE Apollo 4510 with 68 drives for a CEPH object storage environment?

Solution: Configure RAIDO volumes across two drives at a time to reduce CPU load.

5. Is this a true statement about Scality RING architecture? Solution: Scality is a software-only component.

6. A company has a private on-premises Scanty RING deployment and wants to mirror the RING in a cloud service provider. The customer is currently using S3 over HTTPS to access the local RING. The customer asks about the recommended connector to Scality RING in a hosted service provider.

Is this a true statement?

Solution: A Mirror RING provides the company with data protection and resiliency locally and across data centers.

7. A company is planning to launch a web-based application that requires petabytes of storage. Their current storage infrastructure is a NA5 storage array with limited scalability. HPE scalable object storage based on Scality RING powered by HPE Apollo servers is positioned. They need a fast deployment to meet a tight timeframe and are concerned about the limited technical expertise to deploy and maintain a new storage infrastructure.

Is this advice the IT professional should provide?

Solution: HPE PointNext can offer turnkey deployments.

8. A customer requires a Scality solution with optimal archive performance and very high-throughput for data ingest.

Is this an action that will help meet the customer's requirement?

Solution: Implement Erasure Coding to minimize data transfer.

9. A customer is discussing the use of object storage for backup and recovery using Scality.

Does this statement describe a best practice?

Solution: AIL data is directly written to the Scality Ring and automatically re-hydrated by the Scality software to the backup application storage pool when necessary.

10. A customer has a Scality RING solution with twelve storage servers evenly split between three sites.

Is this the recommended Advanced Resilience Configuration for data drives?

Solution: ARC (7,5)

11. A customer wants to integrate a Scality solution in a Splunk environment.

Is this a bucket that can be moved to Scality to optimize costs without performance implications? Solution: Warm

12. Is this information required for accurate sizing when designing an object storage solution? Solution: annual growth

13. When implementing Scality RING, is this monitoring option provided by the StandardMonitoring service?

Solution: Availability Assurance

14. A Scality RING environment based on HPE Apollo systems is being designed. The customer is concerned about data security.

Is this a feature you should emphasize?

Solution: iLO Silicon Root Trust

15. A customer wants to optimize performance for their HPE Scality RING design.

Is this what should be included in the network design to ensure maximum bandwidth between storage nodes and connected clients?

Solution: VXLAN

16. A large, enterprise customer needs a simple file-sharing platform to enable employees to access their files from any device, especially on very large files too big to send through email. The customer must keep corporate data safe on a private solution due to security and compliance concerns.

Is this a software component that will enable the customer to build an enterprise-grade, private cloud storage solution to meet these needs?

Solution: HPE Complete - Veeam

17. A customer in the financial services industry is concerned about the business risks of non­compliance for long-term data protection, retention, immutability, and encryption on the petabytes of data consisting of millions of objects in a global namespace across multiple geographic locations.

Is this an HPE offering that should be discussed with the company?

Solution: HPE Complete iTernity iCAS and HPE Scalable Object Storage with Scality RING

18. Is this a capability HPE object storage solutions can provide over other types of storage within the HPE portfolio?

Solution: scalable to petabytes with linear performance

19. Is this a business need that HPE Scalable Object Storage with Scality RING can meet?

Solution: A customer wants to deploy a general purpose storage solution for a new Microsoft SharePoint and Exchange implementation.

20. A Scality RING environment based on the HPE reference architecture is being designed.

Is this an HPE server that should be recommended as a storage node?

Solution: ML350

21. A customer has a Scality RING solution with twelve storage servers evenly split between three sites.

Is this the recommended Advanced Resilience Configuration for data drives?

Solution: RAID6 (10+2)

22. Is this statement true when working with cloud storage?

Solution: It has higher data consistency compared to traditional block storage.

23. Is this a capability HPE object storage solutions can provide over other types of storage within the HPE portfolio?

Solution: software-defined platform to collapse storage and hypervisors silos into simple, easy-to-scale building blocks

24. A customer in the logistics industry has several warehouses across the city. They have implemented a new CCTV deployment and need to store and archive thousands of video files for at least one year. Their existing storage infrastructure is a SAN which is quickly running out of capacity. The customer is interested in scalable object storage from HPE, but is concerned about the complexity of the solution given their limited IT staff.

Is this a response the IT professional should provide?

Solution: HPE Scalable Object Storage with Scality RING can be deployed on industry standard x86 servers and Linux.

25. Is this statement correct when describing S3 Cloud Storage?

Solution: S3 functionality is best for random data access.

26. During a workshop, a new managed service provider wants to implement an object storage S3-as-a-Service offering based on HPE infrastructure. The managed service provider is interested in deploying a private cloud configuration due to data sovereignty requirements of the subscribers.

Is this a recommendation the IT professional should provide?

Solution: Data-at-Rest Encryption, available on HPE Apollo servers, ensures that all traffic going to AWS is encrypted providing SEC 17a-4 compliance.

27. A customer is designing a new Scality RING solution for a new web-based application. The customer indicates that 90% of the files are smaller than 60 KB.

If the minimum size of an ARC coded file is 60 KB, is this a true statement?

Solution: Files greater than 60 KB are optimized by Scality reducing overall capacity overhead.

28. A large organization is experiencing exponential object storage data growth and wants to optimize costs at a petabyte scale.

Should this product be recommended to help the customer control costs with on-premises software-defined storage?

Solution: HPE Synergy 660 Gen10 compute modules with 3PAR All-Flash Arrays

29. Is this a method to access data in the Scality RING? Solution: NFS

30. Is this statement true regarding Stretched RING solutions? Solution: File Namespaces are only active on one site.

31. Does this connector represent a REST API?

Solution: CDMI

32. A customer currently stores 200 TB of unstructured data that is estimated to grow to 2 PB within 12 months. They are interested in an object storage solution, but they have a limited budget.

Is this a recommendation the IT professional should provide?

Solution: HPE Scalable object storage is built to achieve cloud economics with on-premises deployments.

33. In a CEPH environment, is this a design criteria to optimize performance?

Solution: Monitor nodes should use mirrored SSDs.

34. During a workshop, a new managed service provider wants to implement an object storage S3-as-a-Service offering based on HPE infrastructure. The managed service provider is interested in deploying a private cloud configuration due to data sovereignty requirements of the subscribers.

Is this a recommendation the IT professional should provide?

Solution: Scality RING with access to AWS with Sig v2/v4 provides authentication and data encryption that meets the requirements.

35. A customer in the logistics industry has several warehouses across the city. They have implemented a new CCTV deployment and need to store and archive thousands of video files for at least one year. Their existing storage infrastructure is a SAN which is quickly running out of capacity. The customer is interested in scalable object storage from HPE. but is concerned about the complexity of the solution given their limited IT staff.

Is this a response the IT professional should provide?

Solution: HPE PointNext can provide services to design, deploy, and operate a solution.

36. An HPE Apollo server environment for a Scality RING using erasure coding is being sized. Is this a component that is important for performance for the erasure coding task?

Solution: Fibre Channel HBA