Question 1

You are designing a solution for a data-intensive application running on a ProLiant DL380 Gen10 server, where performance will be critical. Which tool should you use to validate that your design meets the workload requirements?

Accepted Answer

The HPE Storage Sizer is the appropriate tool to validate that your design meets the workload requirements for a data-intensive application, as it helps in sizing and configuring storage solutions to ensure optimal performance.

Question 2

HPE OneView can be used to provision volumes on which HPE solutions? (Choose two.)

Accepted Answer

HPE OneView automation provisions storage volumes, zones the fiber channel SAN and attaches 3PAR StoreServ storage to the server profile.

Question 3

A customer is requesting new leaf switches for their 40-server virtualization farm. Their servers are currently equipped with 25GbE NICs. Which switch family should you recommend?

Accepted Answer

The HPE FlexFabric 5945 48SFP28 8QSFP28 switch supports 25GbE, which matches the 25GbE NICs in the customer's servers, making it the appropriate choice for their virtualization farm.

Question 4

Which two metrics are key to guiding data placement decisions? (Choose two.)

Accepted Answer

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Question 5

You need to replace a VDI (Virtual Desktop Infrastructure) solution that supports 300 concurrent users. The current platform is running on four HPE BL460 G7 blades and P4000 iSCSI storage. Which platform should you recommend for this integrated VDI workload?

Accepted Answer

The HPE SimpliVity 380 Gen10 enables high performance even at high user density. It eliminates the performance impact of client login storms, delivering 1,000 logins in 1,000 seconds

Question 6

A customer needs a VMware Horizon VDI solution for a space-constrained remote office. The solution must include deduplication and compression, and be simple to implement and manage. Which platform should you recommend?

Accepted Answer

Optimizes cloud investment - Reduce time, cost, and network bandwidth for cloud storage with highly efficient global, in-line, variable-length, sliding-window deduplication, and compression.

Question 7

A customer needs to provide a composable server solution that is optimized for both the highest CPU frequency and the highest memory density. Which compute solution is recommended?

Accepted Answer

The Synergy SY 660 Gen10 is recommended as it is designed to provide high CPU frequency and high memory density, making it suitable for composable server solutions requiring these optimizations.

Question 8

You are offering a startup service of StoreOnce 3620 to a customer. Which customer need will require an additional Pointnext service?

Accepted Answer

Validation of the StoreOnce System operation requires an additional Pointnext service because it involves testing and verifying the functionality of the system, which is beyond the scope of the basic installation and configuration services.

Question 9

A customer is looking to better manage their HPE Synergy-based VMware environment. Which VMware extension will reveal critical trends in their environment?

Accepted Answer

HPE OneView for VMware vRealize Operations is designed to provide insights into critical trends and performance metrics in a VMware environment, helping in better management and optimization.

Question 10

A customer needs to manage the power of their Apollo servers. The server racks provide only basic PDU capability. Which Management tool will meet the customer's need?

Accepted Answer

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Question 11

A customer is considering purchasing an application that requires a highly-available NUMA platform that will scale up to 16 processors. They ask you which HPE compute solution will meet their needs. Which solution should you recommend?

Accepted Answer

HPE Superdome Flex is designed for high availability and scalability, supporting up to 32 processors, making it suitable for a NUMA platform with up to 16 processors.

Question 12

A customer wants to replace their EMC VNX storage array with a new HPE storage solution. Which tool can be used to gather metrics off of the current array to assist in sizing the new solution?

Accepted Answer

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Question 13

A customer is considering a hyperconverged solution to consolidate their current virtualization environment. Which question should you ask to determine whether SimpliVity is the correct platform?

Accepted Answer

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Question 14

When determining the storage lifecycle requirements for a new customer solution, which criteria should you use to optimize data placement?

Accepted Answer

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Question 15

A customer has the following design requirements: support for 16Gb Fibre Channel The management console must be HPE OneView Which component must be included in the design to meet the customer's requirements?

Accepted Answer

The HPE Virtual Connect SE 16Gb FC Module for HPE Synergy is the only component that meets both of the customer's requirements: support for 16Gb Fibre Channel and compatibility with the HPE OneView management console.

Question 16

Which HPE tool combines performance metrics from multiple arrays?

Accepted Answer

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Question 17

A customer has expressed concerns about the security of using RESTful API to do a survey against their existing infrastructure. What should you say about the REST client to alleviate the customer's concerns?

Accepted Answer

It defines the User-based Security Model (USM), providing for both Authenticated and Private (encrypted) SNMP messages

Question 18

A customer is thinking about a new solution to run their Line of Business (LOB) application. They are considering an HPE SimpliVity solution. Which deployment requirement should be communicated to the customer?

Accepted Answer

HPE SimpliVity is a hyper-converged infrastructure solution that requires applications to run in a virtualized environment.

Question 19

You are designing a solution that will utilize HPE SimpliVity as the solution platform. Which additional components are required and should be documented in your design? (Choose two.)

Accepted Answer

HPE SimpliVity Arbiter Service is required for managing and monitoring SimpliVity clusters. vCenter or SCVMM is required for managing and provisioning virtual machines on SimpliVity clusters.

Question 20

Which server technology has the highest cost and lowest latency?

Accepted Answer

NVDIMM has the highest cost and lowest latency among the given options.

Exam 5: Designing HPE Server Solutions