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Exam Number: D-DP-DS-01

Available Languages: English, French

Certification Overview

Showcase your expertise with the Dell PowerProtect Solutions Design certification. This exam validates your ability to design, size, and architect data protection solutions that align with business objectives and environmental requirements. It emphasizes architectural and design focused skills, analyzing customer needs, planning scalable and resilient solutions, and translating requirements into effective data protection architectures. By earning this credential, you demonstrate your capability to architect end to end PowerProtect solutions, applying sound design principles and selecting appropriate technical components across hardware and software. The exam assesses your understanding of how Dell PowerProtect products work together to deliver solutions that meet performance, capacity, availability, and operational expectations. Position yourself as a trusted PowerProtect solutions design professional who delivers well architected, customer focused solutions built for enterprise reliability and growth. Start your certification journey today and advance your career with the Dell PowerProtect Solutions Design exam.

Target Audience

Data Protection Consultants; Implementation Specialists; Pre-Sales Engineers; Product Specialists; Solution Architects; Storage Architects; Storage Implementation Engineers; Systems Engineers

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Exam Topics

The table below lists the topics that are included in this exam, and the approximate percentage of the exam devoted to each topic.

Category	Topics	Coverage
Identify	Communicate foundational knowledge of the Dell Security portfolio Curate key areas of interest in the customer architecture for a Dell Security Solution Establish customer vision/mission Determine customer pain points	20%
Analyse	Evaluate customer security requirements and challenges Capture customer compliance requirements Discover applications and systems installed in the customer infrastructure Document customer Business,Technical, Operational, and Financial (BTOF) goals Analyze current performance issues	24%
Design	Map appropriate Dell Security products and features for specific use cases Size a Dell Security Solution according to customer requirements using industry best practices Reverse engineer competing solutions Provide the best Total Cost of Ownership (TCO)	32%
Defend	Demonstrate how the solution will address customer vision using industry best practices and compliance requirements Demonstrate how the solution will address customer Business, Technical, Operational, and Financial (BTOF) goals Deliver a cost-benefit comparison	24%

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