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1. When you are using the NetApp Cloud Tiering service, which object storage provider is supported?
A. IBM Cloud Object Storage
B. NetApp ONTAP S3
C. Azure Blob storage
D. Alibaba Cloud Object Storage Service (OSS)
Answer: C
Explanation:
Reference: https://docs.netapp.com/us-en/occm/faq_cloud_tiering.html

2. Which software references NetApp ONTAP Snapshot metadata to create writable, point-in-time copies
of a volume?
A. SnapVault
B. FlexClone
C. SnapLock
D. FlexCache
Answer: B
Explanation:
Reference:
https://docs.netapp.com/ontap-9/topic/com.netapp.doc.dot-cm-concepts/ONTAP%20concepts.pdf (page
28)

3. Your customer asks you to create a Storage VM that provides NFS access.
In this scenario, which type of Storage VM needs to be created?
A. system Storage VM
B. node Storage VM
C. admin Storage VM
D. data Storage VM
Answer: D

4. Your company has an on-premises solution based on NetApp AFF storage with ONTAP software. A lot of
data is infrequently accessed and can be moved to a cloud solution. The company prefers an opex
business model.
In this scenario, which NetApp solution satisfies these requirements?
A. FabricPool
B. SnapVault
C. Cloud Sync
D. Cloud Tiering
Answer: D
Explanation:
Reference: https://www.netapp.com/blog/lift-but-dont-shift-with-netapp-cloud-tiering/

5. You want to have automatic tiering of all data blocks from a SnapMirror destination volume to an Amazon
S3 bucket for both Cloud Volumes ONTAP and on-premises ONTAP systems.
In this scenario, which NetApp ONTAP features satisfies this requirement?
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A. Cloud Sync
B. FabricPool technology
C. ONTAPS3
D. FlexCache software
Answer: B
Explanation:
Reference: https://www.netapp.com/pdf.html?item=/media/17239-tr4598pdf.pdf&v=20216141531

6. Which attribute of a host is used to route packs to a non-local subnet?

A. VLAN trunk
B. default gateway
C. NTP server
D. DNS server
Answer: D

7. You are required to use data-at-rest encryption on a NetApp ONTAP system. You want to maintain
cross-volume storage efficiencies.
Which three technologies would accomplish this task? (Choose three.)
A. NetApp Cluster peering encryption
B. NetApp Volume Encryption
C. NetApp self encrypting drives
D. NetApp Aggregate Encryption
E. NetApp Storage Encryption
Answer: B,C,D
Explanation:
Reference:
https://docs.netapp.com/ontap-9/index.jsp?topic=%2Fcom.netapp.doc.pow-nve%2FGUID-EAD13D8E-0
219-45B6-A2C6-B25B76C9CA1A.html

8. Which two tools would you use to manage your NetApp SolidFire eSDS storage cluster? (Choose two.)
A. NetApp Active IQ Unified Manager
B. NetApp Element Ul
C. NetApp Element Plug-in for VMware vCenter Server
D. NetApp Cloud Manager
Answer: A,B
Explanation:
Reference:
https://docs.netapp.com/us-en/element-software/pdfs/pages/esds/concept_get_started_esds.pdf

9. What provides dynamic storage orchestration services for Kubernetes workloads?

A. Ansible
B. SANtricity OS
C. Trident
D. ONTAP software

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Answer: C
Explanation:
Reference: https://netapp.io/persistent-storage-provisioner-for-kubernetes/

10. Which two protocols are supported with an E-Series system? (Choose two.)
A. iSCSI
B. NFS
C. FC
D. SMB
Answer: A,B
Explanation:
Reference:
https://community.netapp.com/t5/Tech-ONTAP-Articles/Everything-You-Always-Wanted-to-Know-about-E
-Series/ta-p/86476

11. You want your developers to be able to request storage on private and public cloud locations using a
single API endpoint.
In this scenario, which NetApp service provides this capability?
A. Cloud Manager
B. Cloud Sync
C. Cloud Volumes ONTAP
D. Cloud Volumes Services
Answer: A

12. What are two roles that you would run in a NetApp Storage GRID service appliance? (Choose two.)
A. Gateway Node
B. Storage Node
C. Storage VM
D. Primary Admin Node
Answer: A,D
Explanation:
Reference: https://library.netapp.com/ecm/ecm_download_file/ECMLP2848253

13. What are two types of NetApp Storage GRID appliances? (Choose two.)
A. backup appliances
B. management appliances
C. storage appliances
D. services appliances
Answer: C,D
Explanation:
Reference:
https://docs.netapp.com/sgws-114/index.jsp?topic=%2Fcom.netapp.doc.sg-primer%2FGUID-60E4F645-
A188-40A8-8669-9E3230151134.html

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14. You are using NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP for AWS. You need to have data protection for your cloud
data.
What NetApp service would you use to satisfy your requirements?
A. Cloud Sync
B. Cloud Volumes Service for AV\
C. Cloud Backup
D. SaaS Backup
Answer: B
Explanation:
Reference: https://www.netapp.com/cloud-services/cloud-volumes-ontap/aws/

15. Which two data protection features are built into NetApp Element software? (Choose two.)
A. volume snapshots
B. RAID DP
C. real-time replication between clusters
D. SnapLock software
Answer: A,C
Explanation:
Reference:
https://docs.netapp.com/us-en/element-software/pdfs/pages/concepts/concept_solidfire_concepts_data_
protection.pdf (p.2)

16. In which two scenarios would NetApp Cloud Backup be used to restore files? (Choose two.)
A. when using an E-Series solution on-premises
B. if a volume in a different working environment is in a different account
C. when a volume in a different working environment is in the same account
D. if a volume is in the same working environment
Answer: C,D
Explanation:
Reference: https://docs.netapp.com/us-en/occm/task_restore_backups.html

17. Which two software-based encryption types does NetApp ONTAP software support? (Choose two.)
A. NetApp Storage Encryption (NSE)
B. NetApp Aggregate Encryption (NAE)
C. Self Encrypting Drive (SED)
D. NetApp Volume Encryption (NVE)
Answer: B,D
Explanation:
Reference:
https://docs.netapp.com/ontap-9/index.jsp?topic=%2Fcom.netapp.doc.dot-cm-concepts%2FGUID-394B
C638-DADB-4CA4-8C8E-D7F942F30458.html

18. Your company asks you to implement a solution that will provide data governance and data mapping in
your NetApp hybrid cloud deployment.

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In this scenario, which NetApp technology would you deploy to deliver these services?
A. Cloud Insights
B. Cloud Sync
C. Cloud Compliance
D. Cloud Manager
Answer: C
Explanation:
Reference: https://www.netapp.com/cloud-services/cloud-data-sense/

19. Your organization currently has a containerized application running on Google Kubernetes Engine
(GKE). You want to begin backing up your stateful application data and enable your development teams
to easily create copies of the application for testing and staging.
In this scenario, which NetApp product would accomplish this goal?
A. Cloud Volumes ONTAP
B. Astra
C. Cloud Backup Service
D. Cloud Manager
Answer: A
Explanation:
Reference:
https://cloud.netapp.com/blog/gcp-cvo-blg-google-kubernetes-engine-ultimate-quick-start-guide

20. Which cloud architecture model does Cloud Volumes Service have?
A. PaaS
B. DRaaS
C. SaaS
D. IaaS
Answer: C
Explanation:
Reference: https://www.netapp.com/cloud-services/cloud-volumes-service-aws/

21. You are asked to create and manage working environments in NetApp Cloud Manager. In
this scenario, which user role would enable you to perform this assignment?
A. Cluster Admin
B. Compliance Viewer
C. Storage Admin
D. Account Admin
Answer: D
Explanation:
Reference: https://docs.netapp.com/us-en/occm38/pdfs/sidebar/Get_started_with_Cloud_Manager.pdf
(page 6)

22.A customer wants to operate their own environment, yet subscribe to an offered service with NetApp
Keystone Flex Subscription.

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In this scenario, which two actions are customer-operated? (Choose two.)

A. administrative
B. upgrade
C. deploy
D. monitor
Answer: A,D
Explanation:
Reference:
https://docs.netapp.com/us-en/keystone/pdfs/fullsite-sidebar/Documentation_for_NetApp_Keystone_Flex
_Subscription.pdf

23. What are two reasons for using containers? (Choose two.)
A. to minimize resource overhead
B. to deploy microservices as building blocks to distributed applications
C. to deploy virtual machines to multiple different hardware platforms
D. to deploy independent system kernels to unified applications
Answer: A,B
Explanation:
Reference: https://www.netapp.com/devops-solutions/what-are-containers/

24. Which statement is correct about block and file data access?
A. With block data access, the host OS owns the file system; with file data access. ONTAP owns the file
system
B. With block data access. ONTAP owns the file system; with file data access, the host OS owns the file
system
C. With block and file data access, the host OS owns the file system
D. With block and file data access. ONTAP owns the file system.
Answer: A

25. Which three benefits of using NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP for AWS? (Choose three.)
A. automatic tiering to Amazon S3 for cost reduction
B. automatic replication to Cloud Volumes Service with Snap Mirror
C. ONTAP thin provisioning for space efficiency and over-provisioning
D. NetApp Aggregate Encryption (NAE)with Onboard Key Manager
E. ONTAP data reduction mechanisms with compression and deduplication
Answer: A,B,E

26. Which Storage GRID component is used to create tenant accounts and control how clients connect?
A. Admin Node
B. Grid Manager
C. Tenant Manager
D. Storage Node
Answer: C
Explanation:

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Reference: https://library.netapp.com/ecm/ecm_download_file/ECMLP2582762

27. What are three benefits provided by the Spot by NetApp portfolio? (Choose three.)
A. continuously optimizes cloud resources
B. replicates data to other clouds
C. reduces cloud infrastructure costs
D. scales Windows Virtual Desktops in Azure
E. avoids service disruption
Answer: A,C,E

28. What are two benefits of using the capacity pools licensing model for ONTAP Select? (Choose two.)
A. This model provides perpetual storage allocation to the nodes
B. This model provides more efficient use of storage capacity for each node
C. This model provides reduced administrative overhead resulting in lower cost
D. This model provides dedicated storage capacity to each individual node
Answer: B,C

29. Which are three focus areas of NetApp E-Series solutions? (Choose three.)
A. video surveillance
B. backup
C. big data analytics
D. virtual desktop infrastructure
E. file shares using SMB
Answer: A,B,C
Explanation:
Reference: https://www.netapp.com/data-storage/e-series/

30. What are three benefits of using NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP? (Choose three.)
A. serverless compute
B. storage efficiencies
C. automatic tiering
D. SnapMirror capabilities
E. automatic backup
Answer: BCE

31. What are two public cloud providers? (Choose two.)

A. Microsoft Azure
B. Commvault
C. Amazon Web Services
D. Veeam
Answer: AC

32. Which three public cloud providers are supported when you deploy NetApp Private Storage (NPS)?
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A. Google Cloud
B. Amazon Web Services
C. Microsoft Azure
D. Adobe Cloud
E. Rackspace
Answer: ABC

33. What are three pay-as-you-go (PAYGO) licenses for Cloud Volume ONTAP? (Choose three.)
A. Cloud Volumes ONTAP Standard
B. Cloud Volumes ONTAP Bring Your Own License (BYOL)
C. Cloud Volumes ONTAP Explore
D. Cloud Volumes ONTAP Services
E. Cloud Volumes ONTAP Premium
Answer: ACE

34. What is the process in which an AFF node takes over the storage of its partner?
A. giveback
B. Interconnect
C. failover
D. cluster
Answer: C

35. Which three Element software global efficiencies are always active? (Choose three.)
A. data deduplication
B. thin provisioning
C. redundant array of inexpensive disks (RAID)
D. data compression
E. quality of service
Answer: ABD

36. Which NetApp utility is used to determine the officially supported configurations of NetApp and
non-NetApp products?
A. SnapCenter
B. NetApp Kubernetes Service (NKS)
C. Active IQ
D. Interoperability Matrix Tool (IMT)
Answer: D

37. You are asked to set up Cloud Manager to manage Azure NetApp Files. You are also asked to deploy
a solution that can identify the personal and sensitive data that resides in these files.
In this scenario, which three steps would you take to deploy this solution? (Choose three.)
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to 50% cashback.
A. Create a Connector.
B. Deploy Cloud Compliance.
C. Deploy Cloud Sync.
D. Create a Cloud Central account.
E. Install a data broker.
Answer: ABC

38. Which NetApp application is based on AutoSupport information from your NetApp systems and
provides predictive and proactive insights to improve availability, efficiency, and performance?
A. Active IQ
B. OnCommand Unified Manager
C. OnCommand Insight
D. Cloud Insights
Answer: A

39. Which management software allows you to provision Dynamic Disk Pools?
A. SANtricity
B. ONTAP
C. Element
D. StorageGRID
Answer: A

40. What are two benefits of implementing NetApp Cloud Sync? (Choose two.)
A. to consolidate storage management into one administrative tool
B. to provide a secure data synchronization service
C. to automate data migration processes, on-premises or to the cloud
D. to leverage native SnapMirror technology to retain storage efficiencies
Answer: BC

41. Which type of service is an Amazon EC2 instance?

A. compute
B. networking
C. switch
D. storage
Answer: A

42. Which feature enables replication from Element volumes to ONTAP?

A. Cloning
B. Snapshot
C. SnapMirror
D. SnapVault
Answer: C

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43. Which two Amazon storage services are used to store data for Cloud Volumes ONTAP? (Choose two.)
A. Amazon FSx
B. Amazon EBS
C. Amazon S3
D. Amazon EFS
Answer: BC

44. Your company wants to use public cloud for data analytics and they want to use the most competitive
cloud provider at any given time.
In this scenario, which NetApp solution would store data near multiple public cloud providers?
A. NetApp HCI
B. Azure NetApp Files
C. Cloud Volumes ONTAP
D. NetApp Private Storage
Answer: D

45. Which NetApp service protects Microsoft Exchange Online, Microsoft SharePoint Online, Microsoft
OneDrive, and Microsoft Teams workloads?
A. NetApp Snapshot
B. NetApp SaaS Backup
C. NetApp Cloud Backup Service
D. NetApp SnapMirror
Answer: B

46. What is the primary interface to manage a NetApp HCI cluster?

A. VMware vCenter
B. VMware Horizon
C. OnCommand Unfired Manager
D. OnCommand System Manager
Answer: A

47. An IoT company is building a mobile device. The development team wants to move data collected with
the mobile devices to a file share hosted on AWS that would be used as the ingestion source for a
machine learning pipeline. They have decided to host the file share using Cloud Volumes ONTAP.
Which software would you add to the mobile device to facilitate this task?
A. SANtricity
B. StorageGRID
C. ONTAP Select
D. Element
Answer: C

48. Which NetApp cloud technologies would be deployed using OnCommand Cloud Manager? (Choose
two.)
A. Cloud Volumes Services

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B. Cloud Volumes ONTAP

C. Cloud Sync
D. Cloud Backup Service
Answer: AB

49. Which three topics does data compliance cover? (Choose three.)
A. regulatory requirements
B. legal requirements
C. hardware lifecycle management
D. cloud provider policies
E. business policies
Answer: BCD

50. You want to restore files to the same NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP instance after being backed up in
object storage.
In this scenario, which NetApp service enables this capability?
A. Spot Ocean
B. Cloud Compliance
C. Cloud Backup
D. SaaS Backup
Answer: C

51. Which tool would be used to allocate additional storage to your NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP
clusters?
A. Cloud Sync
B. OnCommand Cloud Manager
C. Cloud Insights
D. OnCommand Unified Manager
Answer: B

52. Which data protection law is enforced by the European Union?

A. Ibero — American Data Protection Network (RIPD)
B. General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)
C. EU — US Privacy
D. Convention on Cyber Security and Personal Data Protect (CCSPDP)
Answer: B

53. What are two main components of an iSCSI SAN? (Choose two.)
A. iSCSI switch
B. iSCSI router
C. iSCSI target
D. iSCSI initiator
Answer: CD

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54. Which two software platforms are provided with an HCI cluster? (Choose two.)
A. VMware ESXi
B. Cloud Volumes ONTAP
C. Element
D. SANtricity
Answer: AC

55. Which ONTAP-native encryption type is supported with Cloud Volumes ONTAP?
A. AES
B. RSA
C. NVE
D. NSE
Answer: C

56. Which two statements are correct regarding containers? (Choose two.)
A. A container is a lightweight, standalone, virtualized Java-based operating system.
B. Containers are isolated software enclaves in a virtual machine.
C. Containers are available for both Linux-based and Windows-based applications.
D. A container is a standard unit of software that packages code and all its dependencies.
Answer: AC

57. Which IEEE standard supports VLAN tagging?

A. 802.3u
B. 802.1q
C. 802.3q
D. 802.3
Answer: B

58. What would be used as a centralized location to access and manage all NetApp Cloud Data Services?
A. Cloud Insights
B. OnCommand System Manager
C. Cloud Central
D. OnCommand Cloud Manager
Answer: C

59. On a NetApp E-Series hybrid flash system, you want to optimize drive rebuild speeds after a failure.
In this scenario, which disk configuration would you use to accomplish this task?
A. RAID Double Parity (RAID-DP)
B. Disk Pools
C. RAID Triple Erasure Coding (RAID-TEC)
D. Volume Group
Answer: B

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and need to delegate work to the staff so that you can attend to other issues.
Which approach will you take to ensure that your systems are safe?
A. Provide all users with power user access.
B. Employ mandatory integrity control.
C. Provide all users with administrator access.
D. Employ the principle of least privilege.
Answer: C

61. Which technology enables the use of nonvolatile persistent memory to tier data on a client?
A. FlexPool
B. MAX Data
C. FlexCache
D. Flash Cache
Answer: B

62. What are two benefits of managing persistent storage volumes in containers using NetApp Trident?
(Choose two.)
A. Trident dynamically fulfills storage requests.
B. Trident provides a unified interface to NetApp storage.
C. Trident provides automated deployment of Helm charts to Kubernetes.
D. Trident provides additional storage efficiencies.
Answer: AB

63. You are building a new application in Google Cloud Platform (GCP) that requires multi-protocol file
access.
In this scenario, which solution would you use?
A. Google Cloud Storage
B. Google Cloud Spanner
C. NetApp Kubernetes Service
D. NetApp Cloud Volumes Service
Answer: C

64. Your users require both NFS and SMB file services. You do not want to manage the storage using
OnCommand System Manager or the command line interface.
In this scenario, which three products would satisfy these requirements? (Choose three.)
A. Azure NetApp Files
B. NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP
C. NetApp Cloud Volumes Service for AWS
D. NetApp Cloud Volumes Service for GCP
E. Amazon S3 Glacier
Answer: ACD

65. Which two hypervisors are supported for use with ONTAP Select? (Choose two.)
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B. Solaris
C. KVM
D. ESXi
Answer: CD

66. You have set up your new FAS system and you want to manage your storage from a GUI interface.
Which OnCommand tool is bundled with ONTAP that will satisfy this request?
A. OnCommand Cloud Manager
B. OnCommand Insight
C. OnCommand System Manager
D. OnCommand Unified Manager
Answer: C

67. What are two functions of FlexGroup volumes? (Choose two.)

A. massive capacity
B. ability to hold LUNs
C. nondisruptive scale out
D. ideal for small workloads
Answer: AC

68. Which tool do you use to administer a NetApp Kubernetes Service cluster manager?
A. kubectl
B. kubeadm
C. clustershell
D. helm
Answer: D

69. What are two reasons to enable high availability? (Choose two.)
A. performance management
B. fault tolerance
C. nondisruptive operation
D. load balancing
Answer: BC

70. You want to use NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP as a data replication target for your primary ONTAP
storage systems.
In this scenario, what are three cost-saving business benefits? (Choose three.)
A. the ability to run without purchasing a license as long as your production workload is less than 2 TB
B. the ability to shut down the virtual instance to save on compute costs
C. the ability to provision added capacity when you need it
D. the ability to migrate clusters between public cloud providers to take advantage of price differences
E. the ability to tier inactive data to less costly storage
Answer: CDE

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71. What is a group of one or more containers in a Kubernetes cluster?

A. helm
B. pilot
C. node
D. pod
Answer: D

72. You need to be able to fail over from your main office to your remote office in the event of a disaster.
Which NetApp product would you use in this scenario?
A. SnapManager
B. SnapCenter
C. SnapMirror
D. SnapLock
Answer: C

73. What are three supported deployment solutions for NetApp StorageGRID? (Choose three.)
A. virtual servers using VMware ESXi
B. virtual servers using Docker containers
C. StorageGRID hardware appliances
D. virtual servers using Amazon EC2
E. virtual servers using Microsoft Hyper-V
Answer: ACE

74. Which two StorageGRID features provide data durability for large unstructured datasets? (Choose
two.)
A. erasure coding
B. storage tiering
C. object replication
D. S3 API compatibility
Answer: BC

75. Which ONTAP feature allows you to re-purpose existing third-party storage systems and present them
as native ONTAP storage?
A. SnapMirror
B. Foreign LUN Import (FLI)
C. FlexClone
D. FlexArray
Answer: D

76. What are two methods to subscribe to Cloud Insights? (Choose two.)
A. NetApp Cloud Central
B. NetApp Sales
C. NetApp Support Site
D. AWS Marketplace

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Answer: BD

77. Regarding system high availability, what is the reference used to determine reliability?
A. the amount of data available to users and how quickly they can access it, measured in IOPS
B. the number of hard drives available in a system, with more drives indicating more reliability
C. the number of data network components available between the data and the user, measured in packet
per second (PPS)
D. the number of nines; for example, two nines (99), three nines (99.9), four nines (99.99), and five nines
(99.999)
Answer: D

78. You are the storage administrator for a large number of NetApp systems for your organization. You
want to see a list of all of the identified risks for the clusters that you manage.
In this scenario, from which two NetApp sources would you locate this information? (Choose two.)
A. Active IQ website
B. Cloud Sync
C. Cloud Insights
D. Cloud Compliance
Answer: AC

79. Which two statements describe the benefits of using public clouds? (Choose two.)
A. Applications are always less expensive to run in the public cloud.
B. Public clouds are always used for hosting tier 1 and financial applications.
C. Public clouds provide an environment for development, testing, and disaster-recovery applications.
D. Public clouds support multi-regional applications without the expense of collocating data centers.
Answer: CD

80. What is the logically isolated network that you create in Amazon Web Services (AWS) to be used with
Cloud Volumes ONTAP?
A. Virtual Storage Area Network (VSAN)
B. Virtual Network (VNet)
C. Virtual Local Area Network (VLAN)
D. Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)
Answer: D

81. What are three NetApp ONTAP storage efficiencies? (Choose three.)
A. compression
B. thin provisioning
C. quality of service
D. deduplication
E. audit logs
Answer: ABD

82. What are two optional nodes in StorageGRID? (Choose two.)

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A. archive node
B. API gateway node
C. admin node
D. cloud service node
Answer: AB

83. Which service does Cloud Volumes ONTAP tiering use?

A. Azure Blob
B. Azure Queue Storage
C. Azure Data Lake Storage
D. Azure Stack
Answer: A

84. What is an elastic IP?

A. an Internet routable address
B. a nonroutable address
C. a peering route
D. a load-balanced IP address
Answer: A

85. Which Cisco-validated design (CVD) is built upon the Cisco Unified Computing System (Cisco UCS),
the Cisco Nexus family of switches, and NetApp storage controllers (FAS or AFF)?
A. FlexPod
B. HCI
C. E-Series
D. StorageGRID
Answer: A

86. Which NetApp platform forms the basis of the StorageGRID appliance?
A. AFF
B. FAS
C. E-Series
D. SolidFire
Answer: C

87. Your company has expanded to a new building with its own VLAN. A network router has been
implemented connecting the new building into the corporate network. You are accessing company data
located in another building on a different VLAN.
Which task would be performed by the router in this scenario?
A. The router performs packet encryption.
B. The router determines the full path to a destination network.
C. The router rewrites the IP addresses of IP packets.
D. The router determines the next hop to a destination network.
Answer: D

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88. What is an advantage of server virtualization from a maintenance perspective?

A. Hosts can be powered off with no effect to the virtual machines running on the hosts.
B. Virtual machines that are powered on but not being accessed, use no CPU or memory resources.
C. Virtual machines can be non-disruptively relocated to more powerful platforms, if required.
D. Hosts can be upgraded or replaced non-disruptively to the virtual machines running on the hosts.
Answer: B

89. Which three benefits does Astra provide? (Choose three.)

A. application migration
B. data insights
C. data protection
D. disaster recovery
E. application management
Answer: ACD

90. Your existing virtual environment is stored on a NetApp AFF array. You want to reduce the capacity
utilization on this array while taking advantage of highly scalable cloud storage.
Which ONTAP feature should you enable to satisfy these requirements?
A. FlexCache
B. FlexClone
C. FabricPool
D. StorageGRID
Answer: B

91. Which two technologies enable business continuity during a site failure? (Choose two.)
A. SnapLock
B. StorageGRID
C. Snapshot copies
D. MetroCluster
Answer: CD

92. Your business has access to on-premises applications and decides to distribute some of the workload
onto a public cloud provider.
In this scenario, what is this architecture called?
A. community cloud
B. hybrid cloud
C. public cloud
D. private cloud
Answer: B

93. Which ONTAP technology is the foundation for SnapMirror?

A. disks
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C. clones
D. snapshots
Answer: D

94. Which replication technology is managed using OnCommand Cloud Manager?

A. FabricPool
B. SnapMirror
C. SaaS Backup
D. NetApp Data Availability Service
Answer: B

95. OnCommand Cloud Manager would be used to manage which three NetApp storage resources?
(Choose three.)
A. NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP
B. NetApp Private Storage (NPS)
C. NetApp StorageGRID
D. NetApp All Flash FAS (AFF)
E. NetApp HCI
Answer: ABD

96. Which statement is true regarding application containerization?

A. Application containerization requires the Linux operating system.
B. Application containerization is designed for massive data sets.
C. Application containerization provides increased portability.
D. Application containerization increases performance of virtual machines.
Answer: C

97. Which three NetApp data mobility products are used to migrate data into the cloud? (Choose three.)
A. SnapMirror
B. Cloud Sync
C. robocopy
D. XCP
E. rsync
Answer: ABD

98. Where would you create an export policy?

A. in an aggregate
B. in a FlexVol volume
C. in a RAID group
D. in an SVM
Answer: D

99. Your employer asks you to develop an off-site data replication strategy that maintains ONTAP data
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Which two solutions satisfy this requirement? (Choose two.)

A. MAX Data
B. Cloud Volumes Service
C. Cloud Volumes ONTAP
D. NetApp Private Storage
Answer: CD

100. What are two node types within a Kubernetes cluster? (Choose two.)
A. worker node
B. master node
C. storage node
D. gateway node
Answer: AD

101. What are two performance advantages that solid-state drives have over hard disk drives? (Choose
two.)
A. no rotational latency
B. no seek time
C. I/O start time
D. consistent transfer time
Answer: AB

102. Which workload would benefit from a virtualized environment with the ability to quickly clone entire
virtual machines?
A. the payroll system of a government body
B. a large data lake
C. online retail sales
D. a virtual desktop environment with 5,000 users
Answer: D

103. What would be used with Cloud Volumes Service to create Snapshot copies, catalog backups, and
perform file-level restores?
A. Cloud Backup Service
B. Cloud Volumes ONTAP
C. Cloud Sync
D. Azure NetApp Files
Answer: A

104. You are asked to ensure that On Command Cloud Manager automatically provisions additional
storage for your Cloud Volumes ONTAP system.
Which OnCommand Cloud Manager feature enables you to accomplish this task?
A. data tiering
B. automatic capacity management
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D. WORM storage
Answer: B

105. Which two resources are provisioned when you deploy Cloud Volumes ONTAP in Azure? (Choose
two.)
A. Azure Managed Disks
B. Azure Files
C. Azure Blob
D. Azure Queue Storage
Answer: BC

106. You are using Cisco Unified Computing System (UCS) and Cisco Nexus switches. You need a
storage component that validates the FlexPod reference architecture.
Which NetApp product will accomplish this task?
A. NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP
B. NetApp AFF
C. NetApp ONTAP Select
D. NetApp StorageGRID
Answer: B

107. You have a centralized data center running NetApp ONTAP. Your business is deploying a new IoT
solution directly managed by the Azure IoT hub. You want to store data in the cloud for use with data
analytics.
Whish NetApp solution would accomplish this task?
A. Cloud Secure
B. Cloud Volumes ONTAP
C. Cloud Backup Service
D. Cloud Insights
Answer: B

108. Your customer is moving some of their data to the public cloud, but is concerned about the complexity
of migrating and managing their data. They ask you about building a data fabric to make this process
easier.
What are three reasons for using NetApp technologies in this scenario? (Choose three.)
A. NetApp enables customers to provision, monitor and manage their cloud and on-premises storage
through a single UI.
B. NetApp enables customers to back up data to private or public clouds.
C. NetApp enables customers to reduce the cost of migration by avoiding egress costs.
D. NetApp enables customers to offload the provisioning of storage In public and private clouds.
E. NetApp enables secure replication between on-premlses storage systems and the public cloud.
Answer: A,B,C

109. You have multiple on-premises applications writing to ONTAP LUNs and NFS exports. You want to
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Resource Group while preserving the data efficiency and access properties for block and file.
Which cloud storage destination would you use In Microsoft Azure to accomplish this task?
A. NetApp Cloud Volumes Service
B. Azure Blob Destination
C. Azure NetApp Files
D. NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP
Answer: C

110. Which two NetApp features encrypt the storage data? (Choose two.)
A. NetApp Volume Encryption (NVE)
B. NetApp Storage Encryption (NSE)
C. Trusted Platform Module (TPM)
D. Encrypted File System (EFS)
Answer: A,B
Explanation:
https://docs.netapp.com/ontap-9/index.jsp?topic=%2Fcom.netapp.doc.dot-cm-concepts%2FGUID-394B
C638-DADB-4CA4-8C8E-D7F942F30458.html

111. What are two elements of the Azure NetApp Files hierarchy? (Choose two.)
A. encryption
B. volume
C. capacity
D. tier
Answer: B,C

112. You want to use the Cloud Manager solution to deploy Cloud Volumes ONTAP in your public cloud
environment.
In this scenario, what Is deployed first to accomplish this task?
A. Active IQ Unified Manager
B. ONTAP System Manager
C. Connector
D. Acquisition Unit
Answer: D

113. Your employer asks you to deploy a solution in the cloud for sharing files company-wide. Employees
require optimal performance and transparent data access to a single set of data.
In this scenario, which NetApp technology would you deploy?
A. Global File Cache
B. ONTAP Select
C. StorageGRID
D. Cloud Sync service
Answer: A

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A. Cloud Insights
B. Cloud Backup
C. SnapLock
D. Cloud Compliance
Answer: B

115. When creating a StorageGRID solution with two sites, how many storage nodes are required?
A. at least three nodes per site
B. at least four nodes in total
C. at least two nodes per site
D. at least one node per site
Answer: C

116. You are setting up a new StorageGRID environment.

In this scenario, which two nodes would you deploy? (Choose two.)
A. storage node
B. admin node
C. management node
D. cluster node
Answer: B,D

117. Which NetApp Cloud Manager add-on service scans your data to locate personally identifiable
information (PII)?
A. Cloud Compliance
B. Cloud Insights
C. Cloud Sync
D. Cloud Backup
Answer: A
Explanation:
https://docs.netapp.com/us-en/occm/concept_cloud_compliance.html

118. What are two benefits of using NetApp Keystone? (Choose two.)
A. The storage Infrastructure Is purchased up-front.
B. It allows you to lease and pay over time.
C. It provides a pay-peruse model for storage.
D. It provides a 100% capex model.
Answer: A,C

119. You are using Cloud Manager to manage your resources.

In this scenario, which two features require you to deploy a connector? (Choose two.)
A. Cloud Volumes Service
B. Azure NetApp Files
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D. Cloud Volumes ONTAP

Answer: A,C

120. Your employer asks you to create a large repository for storing videos and photos that is available at
every location. You decide to use StorageGRID to accomplish this task.
In this scenario, which two statements are correct? (Choose two.)
A. StorageGRID unifies data services across SAN and NAS environments, both on-premises and in the
cloud.
B. StorageGRID allows you to store data globally and access It locally with a true global namespace.
C. StorageGRID achieves data reduction with always-on global deduplication, compression, and thin
provisioning.
D. StorageGRID enables applications to access content directly with the Amazon S3 cloud interface.
Answer: A,D

121. Your employer asks you to develop an off-site data replication strategy that maintains NetApp ONTAP
data efficiencies for the home directory data.
Which solution would satisfy this requirement?
A. Cloud Volumes Service
B. Azure NetApp Files
C. Global File Cache
D. Cloud Volumes ONTAP
Answer: D

122. Which two enable you to tier data that is stored in an ONTAP system to an object store? (Choose two.)
A. Cloud Tiering
B. FabricPool
C. Cloud Sync
D. FlexGroup
Answer: B,C

123. What are two benefits of using the ONTAP Tools for VMware vSphere software? (Choose two.)
A. deploying ONTAP Select Instances from the vCenter Server
B. connecting to AWS for virtual machine replication
C. optimizing ESXi hosts settings for ONTAP storage
D. provisioning ONTAP storage from the vCenter Server
Answer: A,D

124. Which replication software preserves NetApp ONTAP storage efficiencies?

A. SnapMirror
B. robocopy
C. Snapshot
D. Cloud Sync
Answer: C
Explanation:

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https://community.netapp.com/t5/Tech-ONTAP-Articles/Storage-Efficiency-in-Clustered-Data-ONTAP/ta-p
/86822#:~:text=The%20most%20important%20new%20storage,copies%20of%20a%20primary%20volu
me.

125. You want complete visibility into your infrastructure to monitor, troubleshoot, and optimize all of your
resources, including your public clouds and your private data center.
Which NetApp SaaS product will satisfy these requirements?
A. Cloud Manager
B. Active IQ Unified Manager
C. Cloud Insights
D. My Services In Cloud Central
Answer: A

126. What are two advantages of using containers? (Choose two.)

A. Containers can be easily deployed using an ovf format.
B. Containers are easily deployable.
C. Containers reduce networking complexity.
D. Containers Include all necessary executables, binary code, libraries, and configuration files.
Answer: A,B

127. Which NetApp administration tool is used to manage E-Series and EF-Series storage arrays?
A. SANtricity System Manager
B. Active 1Q Unified Manager
C. Cloud Insights
D. ONTAP System Manager
Answer: A
Explanation:
https://www.netapp.com/data-management/santricity/#:~:text=NetApp%20SANtricity%20software%20let
s%20you,EF%2DSeries%20Flash%20Storage%20Arrays.

128. What must be used for all backup and restore operations with Cloud Backup?
A. SnapLock software
B. SnapCenter software
C. Cloud Manager
D. Cloud Sync
Answer: A

129. You want to maintain a longer retention time of your Snapshot copies on a NetApp ONTAP system in a
remote data center versus the NetApp ONTAP system in your primary data center.
Which NetApp ONTAP feature enables you to accomplish this task?
A. FlexGroup volume
B. SnapCenter
C. SnapVault
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Answer: B

130. What are two main benefits when configuring Advanced Disk Partitioning (ADP) on an AFF or FAS
system? (Choose two.)
A. Increases deduplication efficiencies.
B. Reduces the RAID parity overhead.
C. Decreases disk failure rate.
D. Optimises storage capacity.
Answer: B,D

131. At the moment, all of your backup data is stored in an on-premises NetApp FAS cluster. Due to
compliance requirements, you must move 300 TB of your backup data to the cloud as a secondary copy.
You also want a predictable payment option as you move the backup data.
In this scenario, which NetApp storage offering satisfies the requirements?
A. a NetApp FAS cluster deployed in a secondary location
B. an ONTAP Select deployed on a local vCenter Server instance
C. a Cloud Volumes ONTAP bring-your-own-license (BYOL) subscription
D. a Cloud Volumes ONTAP pay-as-you-go (PAYGO) subscription
Answer: C

132. You are helping to deploy a new cloud application. Over time, cloud resource requirements will likely
grow and could become costly. Your manager asks you to collect cost data and determine how to optimize
costs.
In this scenario, which NetApp product would enable you to fulfill this request?
A. Cloud Compliance
B. Cloud Volumes ONTAP
C. Cloud Volume service
D. Spot Cloud Analyzer by NetApp
Answer: B

133. Your company has a NetApp ONTAP solution deployed in a data center. The current solution has a
large amount of stored inactive data. You are asked to tier this data to the cloud, but you must keep the
data efficiencies that you are using in the data center.
In this scenario, which NetApp technology enables you to accomplish this task?
A. FabricPool
B. StorageGRID
C. Cloud Volumes Service
D. Cloud Volumes ONTAP
Answer: C

134. Which two statements are correct about a FlexVol volume? (Choose two.)
A. A FlexVol volume Is always read/write.
B. A FlexVol volume can be used for file or block data.
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D. A FlexVol volume can share Its containing aggregate with other volumes.
Answer: A,D

135. Which NetApp cloud product is specifically designed for stateful containerized applications?
A. Azure NetApp Files
B. Virtual Desktop Service
C. Cloud Volumes ONTAP
D. Astra
Answer: B

136. Your users require both NFS and SMB file services. You do not want to manage the storage using
ONTAP System Manager or the command line interface.
In this scenario, which two products would satisfy these requirements? (Choose two.)
A. Azure NetApp Files
B. Cloud Volumes Service
C. Azure Blob Storage
D. Amazon S3 Glacier
Answer: A,B

137. What are two benefits of NetApp FabricPool technology? (Choose two.)
A. to reclaim capacity on primary storage
B. to enable ease-of-use data migration to the cloud
C. to allow simple disaster recovery from primary to secondary locations
D. to allow high-performance storage to be used for active (hot) data
Answer: B,C

138. You want to use Azure NetApp Files to create a volume in an existing capacity pool-In this scenario,
which statement about volumes is true?
A. A volume can be moved to another capacity pool, but only In the same region.
B. A volume can be moved to another capacity pool, but only In the same NetApp account.
C. A capacity pool can contain multiple volumes.
D. A volume can be In multiple capacity pools at the same time.
Answer: D

139. Which statement is correct about Cloud Volumes ONTAP systems and ONTAP clusters, before you
can replicate data between them?
A. The source volume has been taken offline.
B. The source and destination volumes are running compatible ONTAP versions.
C. The volume names on both the source and the destination are the same.
D. The destination volume has all of the storage efficiency settings disabled.
Answer: D

140. Which StorageGRID feature is used to define the object placement and replication rules within a
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A. Object Lifecycle Management (OLM)

B. Storage Classes
C. Information Lifecycle Management (ILM)
D. application lifecycle management (ALM)
Answer: A

141. Which statement is true about Google Cloud?

A. Google archives all data that is stored In Google Cloud.
B. Data stored in Google Cloud is searchable by using the Google search engine.
C. Data stored at rest in Google Cloud is encrypted by default.
D. Data stored In Google Cloud Is accessed through Google Drive.
Answer: C

142. You are tiering data from your primary NetApp ONTAP cluster to StorageGRID. +In this scenario,
which statement about FabricPool licensing Is correct?
A. There is no way to increase the capacity of a FabricPool license after the Initial purchase.
B. A FabricPool license Is not required.
C. Each cluster purchased by a user includes a single 10 TB FabricPool license.
D. The FabricPool license is Included with the NetApp ONTAP bundle.
Answer: A

143. Which NetApp product would be used to manage multiple E-Series systems from a single pane of
glass?
A. Cloud Manager
B. Active 1Q Unified Manager
C. SANtricity System Manager
D. SANtricity Unified Manager
Answer: A

144. What are two Type 1 hypervisors? (Choose two.)

A. VMware ESXI
B. Oracle VM VirtualBox
C. VMware Workstation
D. Microsoft Hyper-V
Answer: A,D
Explanation:
https://medium.com/teamresellerclub/type-1-and-type-2-hypervisors-what-makes-them-different-6a1755d
6ae2c#:~:text=Type%201%20Hypervisor%3A&text=A%20few%20examples%20of%20Type,known%20t
o%20be%20very%20secure.

145. Which two technologies are involved during a takeover event on an ONTAP cluster? (Choose two.)
A. Advanced Disk Partitioning (ADP)
B. Storage VM (SVM)
C. Storage Failover (SFO)

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D. Aggregate Relocation (ARL)

Answer: B,D

146. Your customer wants to purchase a NetApp SolidFire storage cluster. The customer wants to know
the minimum required nodes per cluster.
In this scenario, what do you tell the customer?
A. Three nodes are required.
B. Four nodes are required.
C. Two nodes are required.
D. Six nodes are required.
Answer: B

147. Your company has decided to move an on-premises application to the cloud. The application's data is
currently stored locally on a physical Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) server.
Which NetApp solution would be used to migrate this data to an Azure NetApp Files volume?
A. SnapVault
B. Cloud Sync
C. SnapMlrror
D. AzCopy
Answer: A

148. You want to make efficient use of your disk storage and save money by tiering your infrequently
accessed data to a less expensive object store.
Which NetApp technology enables you to satisfy these requirements?
A. FabricPool
B. SnapVault
C. SnapMirror
D. FlexCache
Answer: A

149. Due to new legal regulations, a customer is now required to save all written data for a period of seven
years without the ability to delete it.
In this scenario, which NetApp software feature would they use to accomplish this task?
A. SnapVault snapshots
B. SnapLock Compliance
C. SnapLock Enterprise
D. SnapMirror Synchronous
Answer: D

150. Currently, all of your application workloads store their data on a NetApp AFF cluster. You are required
to move 20% of your application workloads to the public cloud by the end of the fiscal year. You also want
a flexible payment option as you scale your public cloud footprint.
In this scenario, which NetApp storage offering satisfies the requirements?
A. ONTAP Select deployed on a local vCenter Server instance

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B. Cloud Volumes ONTAP brlng-your-own-llcense (BYOL) subscription

C. Cloud Volumes ONTAP pay-as-you-go (PAYGO) subscription
D. NetApp FAS cluster deployed In a secondary location
Answer: A

151. Which two solutions are natively supported with NetApp Virtual Desktop Service? (Choose two.)
A. Windows Virtual Desktop
B. Citrix Virtual Desktops Essentials
C. Remote Desktop Protocol
D. Amazon Workspaces
Answer: B,D

152. Which two statements are true regarding an ONTAP Select deployment? (Choose two.)
A. Multiple nodes from a single ONTAP Select cluster should not run on the same hypervisor host.
B. You can add an ONTAP Select node directly to a NetApp engineered hardware ONTAP cluster.
C. The hypervisor host is running either VMware ESXi or Red Hat KVM.
D. Each hypervisor host within an ONTAP Select cluster can run a different version or release of the
hypervisor software.
Answer: A,C

153. What are two benefits of providing object storage with NetApp StorageGRID appliances? (Choose
two.)
A. enterprise-grade hardware
B. integration with VMware vSphere
C. simplicity of deployment
D. underlying heterogeneous storage
Answer: A,B

154. What are three global efficiencies for NetApp Element software? (Choose three.)
A. compaction
B. compression
C. deduplication
D. thin provisioning
E. Inline zero detection
Answer: B,D,E

155. What are three types of data access? (Choose three.)

A. cloud
B. object
C. RAID
D. block
E. file
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156. Which storage type provides access using Amazon S3 APIs?

A. object
B. NAS
C. inode
D. SAN
Answer: D

157. You want to ensure that the data that is stored in your Azure NetApp Files and on-premises NetApp
ONTAP volumes satisfy General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) engagements. You also want to
ensure that the sensitive data Is stored In specific locations only.
In this scenario, which NetApp cloud data service accomplishes these tasks?
A. Cloud Compliance
B. Cloud Backup
C. SnapLock Compliance
D. Cloud Insights
Answer: C

158. The NetApp Cloud Compliance service scans data from which two data sources? (Choose two.)
A. Azure Ultra Disk
B. Amazon S3 Glacier
C. Microsoft OneDrive
D. Cloud Volumes ONTAP
Answer: B,D
Explanation:
https://docs.netapp.com/us-en/occm/concept_cloud_compliance.html#supported-working-environments-
and-data-sources

159. You are asked to collect and monitor data using NetApp Cloud Insights. You want to collect data from
infrastructure-type assets.
In this scenario, what must you first deploy to accomplish this task?
A. a proxy server
B. an acquisition unit
C. an agent host
D. a federated identity source
Answer: B

160. Your company is using a FlexPod reference architecture. You want to manage your compute, storage,
and visualization environment in a single UI.
In this scenario, which product would satisfy these requirements?
A. Cisco Intersight
B. NetApp Active IQ Unified Manager
C. VMware vCenter
D. Cisco UCS Director
Answer: B

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161. Regarding Quality of Service, what are three IOPS parameters in the NetApp Element software that
are defined per volume? (Choose three.)
A. Standard IOPS
B. Maximum IOPS
C. Burst IOPS
D. Extreme IOPS
E. Minimum IOPS
Answer: B,C,E
Explanation:
https://library.netapp.com/ecmdocs/ECMLP2854716/html/GUID-A0C92EA6-37D8-44C4-BF6B-464817D
6CB0A.html#:~:text=A%20SolidFire%20storage%20cluster%20has,Max%20IOPS%2C%20and%20Burs
t%20IOPS.

162. Cloud Manager would be used to manage which two NetApp storage resources? (Choose two.)
A. NetApp E-Serles
B. NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP
C. NetApp StorageGRID
D. NetApp All Flash FAS (AFF)
Answer: B,D

163. Which NetApp product would be used for High Performance Computing solutions?
A. E-Series
B. StorageGRID
C. Active IQ
D. Astra
Answer: A
Explanation:
https://www.netapp.com/blog/choosing-storage-for-your-hpc-solution-part-1-speed/#:~:text=With%20nea
rly%201%20million%20systems,with%20NetApp%20E%2DSeries%20storage.