FlashArray Architect

Question 1

CT0 is on __ and CT1 is on __

Answer 1

CT0 is on top and CT1 is on botton

Question 2

What XL models do DCA Cards (Direct Compression) come in?

Answer 2

DCA Cards come in all XL models, x70R4, X90R4, C70R4, C90R4. Not in any other models.

Question 3

XL is the ____ performance. X is ___ XL in performance. C is the ____ cost and ____ performance option on the exam.

Answer 3

XL is the highest. X is below XL. C is the lowest cost and lowest performance.

Question 4

Cloud Block Store (CBS) runs what software in either AWS or Azure?

Answer 4

Purity

Question 5

What is performed post process and will improve the data reduction over time?

Answer 5

Deep deduplication and deep compression.

Question 6

When a deduplication hash is matched, what does the FlashArray grow it by?

Answer 6

When a deduplication hash is matched, it grows the block by 512
bytes looking for a larger data blocks to deduplicate.

Question 7

Flash capacity placed in a system =

Answer 7

Raw

Question 8

Available flash after RAID loss and system
reserve (Can use 40% loss)

Answer 8

Useable

Question 9

Usable capacity X data reduction

Answer 9

Effective

Question 10

How Evergreen//One
and //Flex are metered. (host written capacity)

Answer 10

EUC – Effective Used capacity

Question 11

No distance or
latency limit. Lowest RPO is 10 minutes. Can
replicate to any FlashArray XL, X, C or Cloud Block
Store.

Answer 11

Snapshot Replication AKA Async

Question 12

No distance or latency limit. Lowest RPO
is a few second

Answer 12

Active DR

Question 13

11ms replication limit. 0 RPO 0 RTOF
Lowest RPO

Answer 13

Active Cluster

Question 14

___ is supported in X to X, X to XL, XL to
XL, or XL to X. X or XL to C is not supported.

Answer 14

Active Cluster

Question 15

___ is supported from any FlashArray to any
FlashArray including X to C and Cloud Block Store

Answer 15

Active DR

Question 16

How snapshots and replication
are scheduled. Members can be hosts, host groups,
or volumes.

Answer 16

Protection Group

Question 17

You can place a protection group in a pod to integrate ___ ___ with Active Cluster

Answer 17

Periodic Snapshot

Question 18

___ Replicates snapshots to non Pure
storage. Supports AWS S3, Azure BLOB, and GCP as
targets

Answer 18

CloudSnap

Question 19

___ ___ ___ can run on any FlashArray. Needs about ___ performance overhead.

Answer 19

FA File Services, 20%

Question 20

Evergreens foundation includes, ___ ___ ___, ___ ___ ___, & ___ ___ ___ ___

Answer 20

Love your Storage, Right Size Guarantee, & Flat
and Fair support

Question 21

Evergreen Forever includes al foundation features + ___ ___, ___ ___, and ___ ___

Answer 21

Ever Modern, Ever Agile,
and Capacity Consolidation.

Question 22

Love your storage is vaild for ___ ___ after purchase

Answer 22

30 days

Question 23

___ ___ ___ is vaild for 12 months after delivery and is extended with new capacity purchase.

Answer 23

Right Size Guarantee

Question 24

___ ___ replaces customer controllers every 3 years, when
they pay for 3 additional years of support.

Answer 24

Ever Modern

Question 25

___ ___ - Allows a customer to upgrade to higher model of
controllers and get a trade in credit on the current controller.
NOTE: (___ ___) will reset the 3 year Ever Modern Clock to the date
of the )___ ___) Transaction.

Answer 25

Ever Agile

Question 26

– Provides a trade in credit on old media
when a customer buys new media. Full TB for TB trade in credit given
if the customers buys 4X the capacity (25% off total)

Answer 26

Capacity Consolidation

Question 27

___ - As a service storage model. Metered on Effective
consumed Capacity (host written non reduced capacity)

Answer 27

Evergreen//One

Question 28

– Customer owns the hardware and rents the
capacity license to use.

Answer 28

Evergreen//Flex

Question 29

In performance graphs: r=___, w=___, mw=___, and Q=___

Answer 29

r = read, w = writes, mw = mirrored
writes (active cluster replication performance), and Q =
queue time.

Question 30

– Shows data path performance from
Storage, to datastore, to Host, to VM guest, to vDisk.

Answer 30

VM Analytics in Pure1

Question 31

___ is a measure of how busy an array is. For the sake of
this test, think of it as CPU use. Moving to a higher model
will reduce load.

Answer 31

Load

Question 32

___ and ___ in the GUI dashboard represent usable
capacity.

Answer 32

Used and Total