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Exam Number: D-PSC-DY-23

Available Languages: English, French

Certification Overview

This exam focuses on the implementation of PowerScale scale-out storage solutions. The related course prepares students to perform PowerScale cluster installation and implementation. Students will be familiar with PowerScale software modules and configuration including authentication, identity management, authorization, SmartConnect, SMB, NFS, S3, data protection/replication, snapshots, replication, deduplication, RBAC, and monitoring.

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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
NAS, PowerScale, and OneFS	Describe PowerScale storage concepts such as scale out versus scale up, architecture, and OneFS details Describe PowerScale hardware components and intended use cases, for both Gen 5 and Gen 6 hardware Describe how an administrator accesses a PowerScale cluster and conducts common operations Describe the OneFS directory structure and configure base directories	13%
Configuring the Foundations for Access	Describe cluster dependencies on NTP, LDAP, Active Directory, and access zones Describe basic internal and external network configurations, multi- tenancy, groupnets, subnets, pools, and rules Explain network configurations in Gen 5 and Gen 6, including link aggregation, failover LACP, FEC, and Round Robin Describe how to integrate SmartConnect, SmartConnect zones, DNS, SSIP, IP address pools, and load balancing	17%
Configuring Identity Management and Authorization	Compare and contrast between uses of RBAC and ZRBAC Explain the nature and use of user identifiers and ID mapping Describe POSIX and ACL permission rubrics	10%
Configuring Client Access to Data	Describe OneFS caching levels and use cases Configure SMB shares with SMB3 Continuous Availability (CA) and Server-Side Copy with protocol auditing and file filtering Configure NFS exports with NFSv4 Continuous Availability (CA) Configure S3 Buckets	13%
Foundations of Data Protection and Layout	Identify FEC data protection levels, file striping, and Reed-Solomon protection definitions Differentiate between requested, suggested, and actual protection levels and verify with isi get commands Differentiate concurrent and streaming data layout models, use cases, and performance impacts Explain storage pools, policies, neighborhoods, global namespace, spillover, and VHS	12%
Configuring Data Services	Describe the File Filtering and Smart Quotas features Describe how SmartLock and SmartDedupe are configured Identify SnapshotIQ features, CoW and RoW mechanics, and scheduling Describe how to prepare the cluster for SyncIQ disaster recovery	15%
Configuring Storage Pools	Differentiate between SmartPools, storage pools, SSD usage, and file pool policies Describe how file pool policies are created Describe the SmartPools features Describe the function and value of CloudPools	13%
Monitoring Tools	Describe how to schedule and run a HealthCheck Describe DataIQ features Describe the installation of InsightIQ monitoring and reporting, and the use of isi statistics commands	7%

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