| 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% |
