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HPE0-J55

Building HPE Storage Solutions

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Exam A

QUESTION 1
What is an advantage of a meshed FC SAN topology when compared to a cascaded topology?

A. faster firmware upgrade procedures

B. large number of available switch ports
C. multiple paths for internal fabric resiliency
D. cost efficiency

Correct Answer: C
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QUESTION 2
Which component shifts processing of the communications protocol tasks (TCP/IP) from the server
processor to the Network Interface Card (NIC), lowering CPU overhead and use?

A. TCP Offload Engine

B. GBIC
C. network switch
D. software iSCSI initiator

Correct Answer: A
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QUESTION 3
A customer is experiencing high latency while reading data from their HPE 3PAR 8200 storage array. What
should you propose as the most cost-effective way to increase read performance?

A. Increase the controller read cache.

B. Add magnetic disks to the current CPG.
C. Add SSDs for Adaptive Flash Cache.
D. Upgrade the controller CPUs and memory.

Correct Answer: C
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QUESTION 4
What is the main difference between the FC and FCoE stack?

A. The higher layers of the FC stack are replaced by TCP/IP packets.

B. The lower layers of the FC stack are replaced by lossless Ethernet.
C. FCoE requires Layer 3 Ethernet switches.
D. Zoning is not supported in FCoE networks

Correct Answer: B
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QUESTION 5
DRAG DROP

Match the tools and resources with the features they provide.

Select and Place:

Correct Answer:

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QUESTION 6
A customer requests a new storage array with the following features:

VMware virtualization integration

two sites with asynchronous replication
support for mixed mainstream workload
virtual server consolidation
automatic monitoring for available hotfixes

Which product should you present?

A. HPE 3PAR StoreServ

B. HPE StoreEasy
C. HPE StoreOnce
D. HPE Nimble

Correct Answer: D
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QUESTION 7
A customer needs to implement a VDI solution for 300 users. They need hardware assisted deduplication
and compression, and integrated data protection.

Which part of the HPE storage strategy should you position?

A. Hyper-converged
B. Composable
C. Converged
D. Traditional

Correct Answer: A
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QUESTION 8
The customer has HPE Nimble AF-series storage.

What is true when upgrading the unit with Dual-Flash Carriers?

A. Each bank is part of a common RAID group.

B. Bank B can be upgraded with an expansion shelf.
C. Both banks need to be in servicing mode.
D. All 24 slots in Bank A need to be populated first.

Correct Answer: D
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QUESTION 9
A customer is considering a SAN solution.

Which resource should you use to configure a storage infrastructure to meet your customer's performance
needs?

A. НРE Storage Product Selector

B. SPOCK
C. VisioCafe
D. НРE Storage Sizing Tool

Correct Answer: D
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QUESTION 10
A customer is considering an upgrade of rotational drives to solid state disks.
What is the typical increase of random read IOPS per drive with 15K drives compared to enterprise
performance SSD?

A. 10x
B. 100x
C. 1000X
D. 10000x

Correct Answer: B
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QUESTION 11
What is an advantage of using Express Layout when implementing an HPE 3PAR StoreServ storage array?

A. Express Layout enables additional RAID level

B. Express Layout increases the efficiency of deduplication and compression algorithms
C. Express Layout increases disaster resiliency
D. Express Layout provides more usable capacity in smaller configurations

Correct Answer: D
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QUESTION 12
Which features are part of the Advanced Data Services Software Suite on the HPE MSA 2052? (Choose
two.)

A. flash cache
B. automatic tiering
C. RAID Level 6
D. data encryption
E. 512 snapshots

Correct Answer: BE
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QUESTION 13
HOTSPOT
Click the area that depicts the HPE 3PAR Adaptive Optimization feature.

Hot Area:
Correct Answer:

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QUESTION 14
A customer needs to deploy a storage solution for a new application that requires long-term data protection,
retention, immutability, and encryption with write once, read many (WORM) data access policies.

Which product would you recommend?

A. Double Take
B. HPE StoreEasy
C. HPE StoreOnce
D. iTernity iCAS

Correct Answer: C
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QUESTION 15
A customer has an HPE D3000 enclosure with a drive that has its LED colored BLUE.

What does the BLUE LED indicate?

A. The drive is a member of one or more logical drives.

B. There is drive activity occurring.
C. The drive is rebuilding.
D. The drive is being identified by a host application.
Correct Answer: D
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QUESTION 16
Which tool is used to assign or zone D6000 drive bays directly to an HPE BladeSystem server bay?

A. HPE OneView
B. Virtual SAS Manager
C. HPE InfoSight
D. Virtual Connect Manager

Correct Answer: B
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QUESTION 17
An existing HPE 3PAR StoreServ customer wants to add a newly installed 3PAR system into SSMC, but
they cannot find the 'Add storage system' option in the menu.

What should you do to add a new 3PAR system to SSMC?

A. Activate the SSMC license on the array

B. Log on to the SSMC Administrator Console
C. Activate SSMC advanced mode
D. Enable the WSAPI service on the array

Correct Answer: B
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QUESTION 18
DRAG DROP

Match the backup type with its description.

Select and Place:

Correct Answer:
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QUESTION 19
A customer wants to learn more about the HPE storage solution that you recently proposed by watching live
or pre-recorded demos.

Which resource should you recommend?

A. HPE SPOCK
B. HPE Solution Demo Portal
C. HPE Smart Portal
D. HPE ActiveAnswers

Correct Answer: B
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QUESTION 20
Which SSD product line would provide your customer with the lowest price per GB?

A. Enterprise Mixed Use SSDs

B. Enterprise Mainstream SSDs
C. Enterprise Performance SSDs
D. Enterprise Value SSDs

Correct Answer: D
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QUESTION 21
Which storage solution is the most cost-effective to meet an RTO measured in days?

A. highly available HPE Storage array with synchronous replication

B. clustered HPE Storage array with backup to disks
C. standalone HPE Storage array with HPE tape backup
D. redundant HPE Storage with replicated data offsite

Correct Answer: C
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QUESTION 22
Which HPE storage solution provides shared block storage without the need for external hardware array
controllers?

A. HPE 3PAR StoreServ

B. HPE StoreEver
C. HPE StoreVirtual VSA
D. HPE MSA

Correct Answer: C
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QUESTION 23
In which status indicator scenario would drive removal result in potential data corruption? (Choose two.)

A.

B.

C.
D.

E.

Correct Answer: CE
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QUESTION 24
What benefit does Software Defined Storage provide as opposed to traditional storage implementations?

A. simplified troubleshooting
B. increased access speed
C. hardware independent
D. native encryption

Correct Answer: C
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QUESTION 25
Which HPE storage products act as a gateway to present LUNs as CIFS and NFS file shares to clients?
(Choose two.)

A. HPE StoreOnce
B. HPE Nimble
C. HPE StoreEasy
D. HPE StoreVirtual
E. HPE 3PAR StoreServ File Controller

Correct Answer: CE
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QUESTION 26
Which HPE StoreEasy feature provides high availability for Windows file shares in clustered configurations?

A. IPSec
B. NFS v4.1
C. SMB 3.0
D. Peer Motion

Correct Answer: B
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QUESTION 27
A customer asks if they qualify for the HPE 3PAR Get Thin Guarantee program. Which resource should
you use to determine if they qualify for this program?

A. HPE NinjaStars
B. HPE Storage Product Selector
C. HPE Storage Sizing Tool
D. HPE SAN Design Reference Guide

Correct Answer: A
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QUESTION 28
A customer needs a storage device to be used as an NFS file server. It must provide deduplication for
greater efficiency. The storage device will also be used as a backup target.

Which HPE Storage system meets this requirement?

A. HPE StoreOnce VSA

B. HPE StoreEasy
C. HPE Nimble
D. HPE MSA

Correct Answer: B
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QUESTION 29
Which scenario will require a SAN administrator to enable NPIV on one or more fibre channel switches in a
SAN fabric?

A. Connection of HPE blade servers to the fabric using HPE B-series SAN switch uplink (E) ports
B. Connection of HPE blade servers to the fabric using HPE Virtual Connect uplink (N) ports
C. Connection of HPE blade servers to the fabric using pass-through uplink (N) ports
D. Direct connection of HPE blade Servers to a 3PAR array using HPE Virtual Connect uplink (N) ports in a
“flat-san” configuration
Correct Answer: B
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QUESTION 30
When speaking about data protection, what is the term for the acceptable period of time an application can
be unavailable?

A. Recovery Point Objective

B. Service Level Objective
C. Recovery Time Objective
D. Service Level Agreement

Correct Answer: C
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QUESTION 31
A customer is experiencing bottleneck issues with their MSL2024 and is unable to identify the specific
cause. What diagnostic tool can assist the customer in identifying the problem?

A. HPE MSL Optimizer

B. HPE InfoSight
C. HPE Library and Tape Tools
D. HPE OneView

Correct Answer: C
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QUESTION 32
An additional drive enclosure full of property matched drives is added to expand the capacity of an HPE
3PAR StoreServ array.

Which additional process is required to ensure maximum performance and utilization of the array?

A. The 3PAR mesh-active topology should be recalculated.

B. The second controller node should be put into an active status.
C. An Autonomic Rebalance of the array should be performed.
D. A 3PAR Smart SAN license should be applied to the array.

Correct Answer: C
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QUESTION 33
A customer requires a storage solution in their Composable Synergy environment.
Which HPE direct attach storage should you recommend?

A. HPE D3940 Storage Module

B. HPE MSA 2050 Storage
C. HPE D2220 Storage Blade
D. HPE D3710 JBOD enclosure

Correct Answer: A
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QUESTION 34
What is a benefit of thin provisioning?

A. It uses a real-time I/O engine to position data intelligently on the most appropriate tier of storage.
B. It gives the appearance that a volume is larger than the resources that have been allocated.
C. It removes allocated but unused space with minimal performance impact.
D. It stores frequently accessed files in a local cache to reduce the consumed storage space.

Correct Answer: B
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QUESTION 35
When configuring volume access on a Nimble storage array, in which scenario would an administrator
select multiple initiators to access a volume?

A. The server administrator has requested MPIO access for the host.
B. The volume will be used as a CIFS storage volume by a gateway device.
C. The server administrator has requested a high performance volume.
D. The volume will be used as a datastore for a virtualization cluster.

Correct Answer: D
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QUESTION 36
To which customer would you propose a solution consisting of StoreOnce CloudBank as an object storage
platform?

A. A StoreOnce 3100 customer looking for a cloud based data replication solution.
B. A 3PAR customer looking for a cloud based data protection solution.
C. A customer looking for copies from cloud backup to StoreOnce NAS and VTL.
D. A customer looking for a solution to backup directly to a CloudBank store.

Correct Answer: A
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QUESTION 37
What must be configured on a host system to connect to iSCSI storage?

A. iSCSI initiator
B. iSCSI expander
C. iSCSI target
D. iSCSI array

Correct Answer: A
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QUESTION 38
A customer is interested in purchasing a network attached storage device for their data center. Which
sizing considerations are required to recommend the proper solution? (Choose two.)

A. Number of administrators needed to manage the solution

B. Total capacity and the expected growth rate
C. Distance between switches and the NAS appliance
D. RAID and availability level

Correct Answer: BD
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QUESTION 39
Which characteristics must you consider to properly size a Nimble AF3000 solution? (Choose two.)

A. RAID level
B. CPG raid set
C. triple parity
D. hot spare drives
E. deduplication and compression

Correct Answer: CE
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QUESTION 40
A customer has a Windows 2016 SQL Cluster running on HPE StoreEasy 1450 storage and needs to
ensure that combined throughput of all network adapters is used on all cluster nodes together.

Which HPE StoreEasy system feature helps the customer meet this requirement?

A. Multibus failover and node fault tolerance

B. Smart Pathing
C. SMB Multichannel
D. Windows Native MPIO
Correct Answer: C
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QUESTION 41
Which Host Adapters support File Persona on the HPE 3PAR StoreServ 8000 series array? (Choose two.)

A. 4-port 16Gb Fibre Channel Adapter

B. 2-port 10Gb iSCSI/FCoE Adapter
C. 2-port 10Gb Ethernet Adapter
D. 4-port 16Gb Fibre Channel/10Gb NIC Combo Adapter

Correct Answer: AC
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QUESTION 42
A customer is concerned whether a proposed solution is future proof.

Which independent IT industry source can you recommend to the customer to prove HPE is a storage
vendor with a strong vision?

A. IDC Magic Circle

B. IEEE Technology Journal
C. Gartner Magic Quadrants
D. SNIA

Correct Answer: C
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QUESTION 43
You are designing a new HPE 3PAR StorServ array for a customer. The customer is concerned about
whether HPE 3PAR is able to address their challenges.

Which HPE resource should you use to show the customer how HPE can help resolve their concerns?

A. HPE Information Library

B. HPE Ninja Tools
C. VisioCafe
D. HPE Solution Demo Portal

Correct Answer: D
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QUESTION 44
What is recommended when using NL SAS drives in an HPE 3PAR StoreServ array?

A. Enable write-through mode.

B. Map the drives to node1.
C. Configure the drives with RAID 6.
D. Reserve 4Gb adaptive flash cache.

Correct Answer: C
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QUESTION 45
A customer is moving their storage from HPE ProLiant Servers with direct attached HPE D3700 storage
shelves, to HPE StoreVirtual VSA. The customer is concerned about management capabilities.

Which tool should you demonstrate to the customer?

A. Storage Management Utility

B. Centralized Management Console
C. InfoSight
D. StoreServ Management Console

Correct Answer: B
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QUESTION 46
Which Fibre Channel SAN topology supports automatic path rerouting if all ISLs between two switches fail?

A. single core-edge
B. mesh
C. cascade
D. Flat SAN

Correct Answer: B
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QUESTION 47
A customer wants to replace an existing third-party array with an HPE 3PAR StoreServ system. He asks to
get an estimate of the expected deduplication ratio on the new HPE 3PAR StoreServ system.

Which tool will you use to deliver this information?

A. HPE InfoSight
B. NinjaStars
C. HPE OneView
D. NinjaCrawler

Correct Answer: B
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QUESTION 48
A customer wants to replace their aging storage environment. You want to collect capacity data about the
current storage system, servers, and applications.

Which tool can you use to accomplish this?

A. NinjaSTARS
B. OneConfig Advanced
C. Storage Assessment Foundry
D. HPE Storage Sizer

Correct Answer: C
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QUESTION 49
What is used to create connections between Fibre Channel SAN Switches?

A. ISL
B. NPIV
C. FCIP
D. FCoE

Correct Answer: A
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QUESTION 50
A customer has an HPE Synergy frame with eight compute modules. They want to implement an iSCSI
SAN for the servers in the Synergy frame.

Which components should you recommend? (Choose two.)

A. HPE Brocade 16Gb Fibre Channel SAN Switch Module

B. HPE Image Streamer
C. HPE StoreVirtual VSA
D. HPE D3940 Storage Module
E. HPE StoreOnce VSA

Correct Answer: CD
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QUESTION 51
What is required to enable a server to boot from SAN storage in a fabric? (Choose two.)
A. The storage controller's MAC address for FCoE connection
B. The server and storage controller WWPN for fibre channel connection
C. Access to an IP routing configuration tool
D. Access to a fibre channel zoning configuration tool
E. The server's MAC address for FCoE connection

Correct Answer: AB
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QUESTION 52
A customer wants to use Micro Focus Data Protector to back up their virtualized environment. They require
disk-based backup and deduplication.

Which backup target will meet the customer requirements?

A. HPE StoreVirtual VSA

B. HPE StoreOnceVSA
C. HPE StoreEver LTO-7
D. HPE MSA 2050

Correct Answer: B
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QUESTION 53
When designing a SAN fabric topology, which parameters will influence data availability? (Choose two.)

A. ISL trunking
B. power supply wattage
C. number of switches
D. SFP speed
E. buffer credits

Correct Answer: AC
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QUESTION 54
А customer uses several StoreEasy 1000 systems successfully. They recently added a StoreEasy model
3000 for more capacity. They cannot find the HPE Pool Manager on the newly installed system.

What is the most likely issue causing the customer to have trouble locating the HPE Pool Manager?

A. HPE Pool Manager is only available on StoreEasy 1000 systems.

B. HPE Pool Manager requires a separate license.
C. The customer needs to order the Federation license to manage multiple StoreEasy systems.
D. The customer needs to update the StoreEasy 3000 system to the latest version.
Correct Answer: A
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QUESTION 55
HOTSPOT

A customer wants to replace their existing storage system.

Click the tool that can be used to turn captured data into input data required by sizing tools once the
performance and capacity related data are captured from current storage systems and servers.

Hot Area:

Correct Answer:
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QUESTION 56
A customer has replaced their old 4Gb SAN switches in two on-premise datacenters. The new 32Gb SAN
switches with SW optics fail to establish connectivity with port speed set to 32Gb.

What could cause this connectivity issue at a specified speed?

A. The port butter credits are set to a lower speed.

B. The length and type of multi-mode fiber between data centers.
C. The ISL links need to be configured with LW optics.
D. The lack of Fabric license on the switch.

Correct Answer: A
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QUESTION 57
Which technology maximizes the available capacity for disk-based backups?

A. snapshots
B. deduplication
C. tiering
D. wide striping

Correct Answer: B
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QUESTION 58
Which user interface must be used to create new storage volumes on HPE MSA storage systems?

A. HPE Centralized Management Console

B. HPE OneView Global Dashboard
C. HPE Storage Management Utility
D. HPE Pool Manager

Correct Answer: C
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QUESTION 59
Which HPE 3PAR StoreServ product simplifies the configuration process of the Storage Area Network and
reduces the number of steps required to provision new storage.

A. Persistent Ports
B. Adaptive Optimization
C. Dynamic Optimization
D. Smart SAN

Correct Answer: D
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QUESTION 60
DRAG DROP

Considering the HPE Converged Storage strategy, match the product to its most appropriate use case.

Select and Place:

Correct Answer:

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