D-CI-DS-23 Dell Cloud Infrastructure Design 2023 Exam Dumps

1. An organization wants to deploy cloud applications using block storage. The architect has included a HCI solution in the cloud design.

Which requirements must have led to including this solution in the design?

2. Refer to the exhibit.





Your company recently negotiated several contracts with new customers to use its proprietary eCommerce system. As a result, the customer base has grown rapidly, which has introduced several challenges and requirements.

Business requirements:

- Applications need to scale quickly

- Metrics and reporting to anticipate business trends and efficient use of resources

- External customers are looking to license the eCommerce application

Other considerations:

- Applications need to be recorded for the public cloud

- Address security vulnerabilities for customer data in the cloud

Refer to Case 1.

You are designing a transformation from Platform 2.0 to cloud. You review the existing infrastructure and business requirements. You must define the method to connect the onpremises network directly to the public cloud provider.

Which technology should you select?

3. A cloud architect is designing a hybrid cloud for an organization. A requirement for this environment is that the private cloud user credential be trusted by both cloud provisioning APIs.

Which type of authentication will meet this requirement?

4. What should be used when sizing memory for nodes of a HCI deployment?

5. You are designing a CI solution. You need to ensure maximum CPU utilization.

Which metric will tell you if you have met this goal?

6. What is the minimum number of nodes supported for a HCI deployment with RAID 5 erasure coding?

7. An organization wants to deploy a CMP solution in a private cloud.

What requirements influence the sizing of the underlying cloud management infrastructure?

8. Refer to the exhibit.





Your company is currently using a traditional SAN storage network. The server infrastructure is partially virtualized. There is a public cloud in place that is used to test development and application migration to cloud.

Business requirements:

- Consolidate the network, storage, and compute resources

- Simplify network management and storage provisioning

- Maintain application performance

- A disaster recovery plan to meet RTO / RPO targets

Other considerations:

- All data must be secured at rest and in-flight

- Include an app development platform

Refer to Case 6.

You are sizing the compute capacity in a hyper-converged infrastructure solution. Each node has 55 TB of storage capacity. You have calculated the total cloud storage requirement to be 700 TB.

What is the minimum number of nodes required?

9. An organization wants to have showback capability in their private cloud.

Which cloud management platform component should be included in the cloud design to support this requirement?

10. A cloud architect is designing a hybrid cloud for an organization. A requirement for this environment is for federated access to both cloud provisioning APIs.

What must be configured between both cloud providers' authentication mechanisms?

11. When considering a packaged PaaS solution, what is a potential advantage?

12. What is a primary driver for organizations to adopt cloud solutions in the context of digital business imperatives?

13. Match each tool with its associated description.

14. A cloud architect discovers that an organization wants to deploy 500 consumer applications initially and grow to over 2000 consumer applications in three years. These applications will use block storage only.

How does the information impact the cloud management platform infrastructure sizing?

15. Uses hypervisor to create a VM snapshot

A) Agent-based backup

B) Image-based backup

C) Changed Block Tracking

D) Continuous Data Protection

16. You are designing the CMP structure. Where should you define the pods?

17. An architect is designing the compute resource pools for a cloud. As part of the deliverables, the architect has included the standard specifications for the physical servers to be used. The organization has provided estimates for future growth but has concerns about whether these estimates are accurate.

What should be included in the design to address these concerns?

18. You are designing consumer compute resources in an onsite private cloud. During an assessment, you discover that the organization’s IT staff wants secure access to the underlying host OS.

What should be included in the design to support this requirement?

19. A company has the following requirements:

- Modular building blocks

- Scalability

- In-house management solution

- No physical SAN

What type of infrastructure would meet these requirements?

20. Ensures optimal end-user service and utilization

A) Availability

B) Scalability

C) Microservice Support

D) Security

21. When designing a "Cloud in a Box" infrastructure, what is a key objective?

22. An organization wants to deploy applications that can programmatically alter network behavior. In addition, they want to deploy additional network services in real-time.

Which cloud-management component should be included in the design to support this requirement?

23. Refer to the exhibit.





Your company recently negotiated several contracts with new customers to use its proprietary eCommerce system. As a result, the scalability of the eCommerce system data is a concern for the Marketing and Sales departments.

Business requirements:

- Application resources must be able to scale up and down quickly

- External customers have protected access to the eCommerce application

- Metrics and reporting to track the use of resources and data

Other considerations:

- Applications are provided through the public cloud

- Address security vulnerabilities for customer data in the cloud

Refer to Case 3.

You must design the compute scalability functions for your administrator in a DIY private cloud. You want to use extra pools that have known performance and capacity characteristics along with orchestration tools to automate most of the deployment process.

Which method provides this function?

24. An organization plans to deploy many cloud-native applications that will generate a considerable amount of east-west traffic. The cloud-native applications will be deployed on hosts running hypervisors.

Why would distributed routers be considered in this design?

25. A cloud architect is designing a distributed block storage solution that will support application HA. The solution will consist of 10 nodes with all SAS devices. There are five racks available in the data center.

Each rack has a single top-of-rack access layer switch with sufficient bandwidth to the aggregate layer. Each node will have multiple connections to the local topof- rack switch. The architect wants to provide a design that has the fewest number of storage pools maximizing the number of fault domains.

How should the storage pools be designed?

26. What is a fundamental requirement for a cloud-based application development environment?

27. An organization plans on building their own cloud solution and is designing a new storage environment with the following requirements:

- Current IOPS = 25,000

- Expected growth rate = 100%

Storage vendor specifications:

- Max storage blocks in a storage system = 8

- Max number of drives per storage block = 24

- Max IOPS per HDD drive = 180

- Max IOPS per SSD drive = 450

What single storage system design would provide the best performance and reduce floor space?

28. Which type of storage is optimal for high performance and low latency applications?

29. A cloud architect is expected to present a final cloud infrastructure design to an organization. Before the deliverables are submitted, the architect will meet with the organization's executives to present the design.

Which type of design should the architect present?

30. What is a primary function of a CMP in cloud design?

31. A cloud architect has determined that the cloud management infrastructure requires an authentication and PKI environment. In addition, each tenant will require its own authentication and PKI environment.

What describes these separate environments in a cloud design document?

32. What is a key consideration when designing a hybrid cloud architecture?

33. An organization wants to protect the cloud management platform from loss due to a site disaster. To support this requirement, the completed cloud design deliverables include recovery validation and verification processes.

What other item(s) should be included in the deliverables to support this requirement?

34. What needs to be considered when designing a distributed storage solution?

35. An organization uses Microsoft Active Directory (AD) for service authentication in their private cloud. They want to use the same authentication source for services in the public cloud. External employees access services in both clouds and need to authenticate with AD. The organization wants to minimize and secure network traffic.

Which solution will address these requirements?

36. Which type of storage is typically designed to span multiple sets of hardware and has a flat repository?

37. Which cloud deployment model is most likely to require application monitoring for every application instance?

38. You are a cloud architect responsible for designing a multiple availability zone configuration for the organization’s geographically dispersed clouds. You must provide the ability for services to survive a failure at the data center or site level.

The primary requirement is to provide for automated site recovery.

What is a key consideration for automating the setup, failover, and recovery of services at the remote site?

39. Which type of storage is suitable for high-performance, low-latency applications in the cloud?

40. Which set of general criteria should the cloud architect consider when selecting a cloud management platform?

41. Which of the following is a primary function of a Cloud Management Platform (CMP)?

42. During an assessment, you determine that an organization wants to view available services, billing information, performance information, and usage information all from one portal.

Which component may be required in the cloud management platform to enable this capability and have minimal impact on the user experience?

43. When designing a CI solution, what switch configuration provides greater network capacity but is complex to manage?

44. Why is it important for a cloud architect to use minimal up-front sizing when planning capacity for nodes in a HCI deployment?

45. What distinguishes cloud monitoring systems from their traditional IT counterparts?

46. What influences hypervisor selections in a cloud design?

47. A cloud architect is evaluating an organization's need for encryption.

Which type of encryption allows the deletion of data on disk by simply deleting the encryption key?

48. What is a key attribute of cloud services?

49. What determines the maximum number of blade or rack servers that can be installed in a CI system?

50. You are creating a cloud infrastructure design for an organization. The organization will use hypervisors to support services. During the assessment, you realize that the design will require multiple compute pools.

Which requirement led to this conclusion?

51. What affects networking decisions when planning for monitoring a cloud?

52. If the metering tool supports multi-tenancy and integrates with the cloud portal, what should be considered?

53. Ian organization wants to protect the cloud management platform (CMP) from loss due to a site disaster. To support this requirement, the completed cloud design deliverables include the processes and procedures for restoring CMP functionality.

What other item should be included in the deliverables to support this requirement?

54. What distinguishes a hybrid cloud from a multi-cloud environment?

55. In addition to the operating system, what other components does the consumer manage in an IaaS cloud service model?

56. An organization wants to provide backup services in the cloud. They have no backup infrastructure in place.

The organization has concerns about losing data if a site disaster occurs. They want to maintain control of backup data placement because of data privacy laws. Finally, they want to maintain at least one month’s worth of backups onsite.

Which backup solution will meet these requirements?

57. An organization wants to deploy virtual machines from a service catalog. These virtual machines have software and libraries installed that are used to develop applications. Each virtual machine will be configured with the same IP address and receive OS patches from the Internet.

What will be included in the design to support these capabilities?

58. An organization has chosen to build a platform using a packaged PaaS Solution. This will support its primary consumer Internet application.

What is a key consideration for security?

59. What is a key component of a disaster recovery (DR) plan for a cloud-based application?

60. You are designing a cloud backup solution. Consider the following requirements when sizing the backup target:

- Total amount of data to be backed up = 2 TB (2000 GB)

- Full backup once a week

- Retention period for full backups = 2 months

- Daily incremental backups (assuming an average 10% change in data)

- Retention period for incremental backups = 1 month

- No Compression or deduplication

- Number of backup copies = 1

What is the total capacity, in GB, required for the backup target to accommodate the backups?

61. What is a packaged PaaS Solution?

62. A cloud design includes a software-defined network controller.

Which requirement(s) will this address?

63. In a hybrid cloud architecture, what is the primary purpose of a VPN (Virtual Private Network)?

64. You are creating a cloud infrastructure design for an organization. You learn that, for compliance reasons, the organization needs to maintain a separate set of infrastructures for certain deployed services.

Which part of the design will be impacted by this requirement?

65. What are examples of hybrid cloud use cases?

66. In which cloud design lifecycle phase is TCO value analysis performed?

67. A cloud architect is delivering a knowledge transfer on how to script a service in the Service Catalog that restores a VM.

What is the correct order of steps that should be demonstrated?

68. Which design consideration applies to object storage?

69. Why would an organization want to incorporate SOA in their DIY PaaS?

70. What are key benefits of using Virtual Private Clouds (VPCs) in cloud network design? (Select all that apply)

71. As a cloud architect, you are designing a CI solution to ensure that you isolate specific workloads for security.

What should you design for?

72. What is the primary purpose of data collection and analysis in cloud design?

73. Refer to the exhibit.





Your company is currently using a traditional SAN storage network. The server infrastructure is partially virtualized. There is a public cloud in place that is used to test development and application migration to cloud.

Business requirements:

- Consolidate the network, storage, and compute resources

- Simplify network management and storage provisioning

- Maintain application performance

- A disaster recovery plan to meet RTO / RPO targets

Other considerations:

- All data must be secured at rest and in-flight

- Include an app development platform

Refer to Case 6.

You are designing a transformation from Platform 2.0 to cloud. You review the existing infrastructure and business requirements.

You want to use a trust system to authenticate a user and share that authentication information with other entities in the form of a token.

Which technology should you select?

74. What should be considered when placing a monitoring tool in the cloud environment?

75. What describes the storage categories represented by OpenStack Swift and EMC XtremIO requirements?

76. What are some common inter-cloud connectivity methods for linking layer-2 network segments in hybrid cloud deployments?