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Information Storage and Management Foundations

Exam Number: D-ISM-FN-01

Available Languages: English, French

Certification Overview

This certification validates the learner’s comprehensive understanding of various storage infrastructure components in modern data center environments. It tests the learner’s knowledge of storage-related technologies in an increasingly complex IT environment, which is fast changing with the adoption of new technologies in a digital transformation era (Cloud, Edge computing, Big Data, IoT, ML/AI, and 5G). It provides a strong understanding of storage-related technologies such as storage networking technologies (FC SAN, IP SAN, and NVMe over Fabric), intelligent storage systems (block, file, and object), data protection (backup, archive, and replication), and storage infrastructure security and management.

Target Audience

Associate Sales Engineers; Implementation Specialists; Infrastructure Administrators; Pre-Sales Engineers; Pre-Sales Solution Architects; Product Specialists; Solution Architects; Storage Administrators; Storage Architects; Storage Implementation Engineers; Systems Engineers; Technical Consultants; Technical Pre-Sales Representatives; Technical Support

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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
Modern Data Center Infrastructure	Describe the data classification, elements of a data center, key characteristics of a data center, and key technologies driving digital transformation Explain the cloud characteristics, cloud service models, and cloud deployment models Explain the key characteristics of big data, big data analytics, AI/ML, Internet of Things (IoT) architecture, Edge computing, and 5G technologies Describe a compute system, storage, connectivity in a data center, and application center Describe software-defined data center, modern data center architecture, and options to build a modern data center	18%
Storage Systems	Explain the components of an intelligent storage system, and RAID Describe storage provisioning and tiering Explain the features and components of block, file, object, and unified storage system	23%
Storage Networking Technologies	Explain the FC SAN components, FC ports, topologies, link aggregation, and SAN virtualization Explain the components and connectivity of iSCSI, FCIP, and FCoE Explain the NVMe over Fabrics, Software-defined storage and networking	19%
Backup, Archive, and Replication	Describe the information availability measurements and key fault tolerance techniques Explain backup granularity, architecture, backup targets, operations, and backup methods Describe data deduplication and data archiving solutions architecture Describe replication uses, and replication and migration techniques	24%
Security and Management	Describe the information security goals, terminologies, various security domains, and threats to a storage infrastructure Explain key security controls to protect the storage infrastructure Describe the storage infrastructure management functions and processes	16%

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Information Storage and Management Foundations