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Exam Number: D-PSC-DS-01

Available Languages: Chinese Simplified, English, French, Japanese

Certification Overview

The Dell PowerScale Solution Design Exam is your gateway to proving mastery in architecting cutting-edge storage solutions that are scalable, efficient, and resilient. Tailored for professionals who thrive on solving complex challenges, this exam validates your ability to translate customer requirements into high-performance configurations using Dell PowerScale technologies. From SmartFabric integration to OneFS innovations, you'll demonstrate your fluency in designing enterprise-ready solutions that deliver both technical precision and business outcomes. Whether optimizing performance, ensuring data protection, or aligning with workload-specific needs, successful candidates showcase the skills to lead with confidence and deliver transformative results.

Target Audience

Implementation Specialists; Infrastructure Administrators; Pre-Sales Engineers; Product Specialists; Storage Architects; Storage Implementation Engineers; Systems Engineers; Technical Consultants

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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
Discover Customer Infrastructure and Requirements	Capture and analyze the technical requirements for performance, capacity, and features that most accurately fit the business and solution needs Identify the use cases where PowerScale would be useful	14%
PowerScale Infrastructure Design and Plan	Provide a solution and subset of software features that best suit the customer’s requirements Apply networking recommendations to a customer based on workload requirements	18%
Platform Infrastructure	Illustrate the use cases and operational functions performed by the OneFS Job Engine across cluster maintenance, data protection, and feature support Explain PowerScale filesystem structure Explain PowerScale networking (smart connect) Architect a PowerScale cluster based on available node types and network components	36%
PowerScale Management, Identity Management, and Advanced Applications	Account for specific customer continuity and protection requirements Differentiate between different security features and their proper use cases for data governance and compliance Identify client access permissions, client authentication and client protocol access on the PowerScale cluster	24%
Monitor and Workflow Analysis tools	Choose the correct tools to assess performance of the customer environment Determine the correct method to monitor and analyze a PowerScale solution	8%

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