Friday, 15 December 2017

DES-1D11 Specialist, Technology Architect | Midrange Storage Solutions Exam

Overview
This exam is a qualifying exam for the Specialist-Technology Architect, Midrange Storage (DECS-TA) track.

This exam tests the candidate’s knowledge to architect and size solutions for Dell EMC Unity and SC Series systems. This exam also tests the candidate’s knowledge of key product features of both of these storage systems.

Dell EMC provides free practice tests to assess your knowledge in preparation for the exam. Practice tests allow you to become familiar with the topics and question types you will find on the proctored exam. Your results on a practice test offer one indication of how prepared you are for the proctored exam and can highlight topics on which you need to study and train further. A passing score on the practice test does not guarantee a passing score on the certification exam.

Products
Products likely to be referred to on this exam include but are not limited to:
 Dell EMC Unity(All Flash Array, Hybrid, VSA)
 SC Series

ExamTopics
Topics likely to be covered on this exam include:

Dell EMC Midrange Architectures (25%)
 Identify and describe the Unity hardware (e.g., enclosures, I/O components, storage media options, etc.)
 Explain Unity storage resources and features (e.g., dynamic pools, RAID functions)
 Identify and describe SC Series storage resources, connectivity options (e.g., RAID, Consistency Groups, SSD, HDD options), and use cases
 Identify and describe the various controller options available in the SC Series models

Dell EMC Midrange Product Solutions (42%)
 Identify key features of the SC Series operating system
 Describe SC Series cross-platform replication functionality and use cases
 Describe how to provision and access Unity storage; including Block, Files, and VMware datastores
 Identify Unity advanced features for Block storage; e.g, FAST Suite, D@RE, host I/O limit availability, thin clones
 Identify Unity advanced features for File storage; e.g, IP Multi-tenancy, Advanced Static Routing, IP Packet Reflect, etc.
 Identify and describe Unity Data Protection (e.g., Snapshots, Replication, and Snapshot Replication architecture) solutions and use cases
 Describe Unity Data Mobility features, requirements, and use cases
 Compare and contrast similar features between the Unity and SC Series products

Dell EMC Midrange Best Practices, Sizing, and Design (33%)
 Apply Dell EMC midrange best practice recommendations for data service, system, storage, and host application configurations
 Identify and describe the sizing and design considerations for Unity and SC Series features
 Identify and describe how to size and design a midrange solution for performance, capacity, security, and resilience
 Describe the data gathering methods to size and design an SC Series solution
 Identify and describe the tools and resources available to size and design Unity and SC Series solutions
 Explain how to size an SC Series solution that includes Tiers 1-3, storage requirements, front-end and back-end connections, and common use cases
The percentages after each topic above reflects the approximate distribution of the total question set across the exam.

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Saturday, 9 December 2017

C9060-800 Fundamentals of Applying IBM Spectrum Computing V1

Number of questions: 65
Number of questions to pass: 40
Time allowed: 90 mins
Status: Live

This exam consists of 6 sections described below.

Section 1: Discovery 12%
Determine customer's existing applications and computing needs.
Determine the size and details of customers physical computing environment.
Determine the appropriate management framework: Symphony, LSF, Conductor, Conductor with Spark, Spectrum Cluster Foundation.
Assess client application onboarding requirements.

Section 2: Solution Proposal 18%
Describe the value proposition for Spectrum Computing solutions.
Respond to RFIs and RFPs.
Describe how Spectrum Computing can help consolidate existing compute infrastructures.
Describe the competitive landsacpe for Spectrum Computing offerings.
Recommend best practice for compute environments.
Describe High Performance Services offerings on SoftLayer (HPC Cloud).
Identify if a customer requires professional services for an IBM Spectrum Computing solution.
Identify Spectrum Computing products to increase resource utilization.
Explain difference between open source and Spectrum Compute solutions.
Describe and differentiate: LSF, Symphony and Conductor.
Describe Host Grouping.
Explain Spectrum Compute capabilities for managing application data.

Section 3: IBM Spectrum Conductor 11%
Describe benefits of Conductor.
Describe the Conductor architecture.
Define and deploy an application template.
Describe user management and security in Conductor.
Describe reporting features in Conductor.
Describe Conductor API.
Describe licensing models for Conductor.

Section 4: IBM Spectrum Conductor with Spark 9%
Describe the benefits and value of Conductor with Spark.
Describe Conductor with Spark instance groups.
Describe Conductor with Spark notebooks.

Section 5: IBM Spectrum LSF 31%
Describe the benefits of IBM Spectrum LSF.
Explain workload management in LSF.
Describe IBM Spectrum LSF architecture.
Describe user management and security in IBM Spectrum LSF.
Describe licensing models for IBM Spectrum LSF.
Describe IBM Spectrum LSF product add-ons.
Describe LSF use cases.
Describe reporting features in LSF.

Section 6: IBM Spectrum Symphony 19%
Describe the benefits of Spectrum Symphony.
Describe the Spectrum Symphony Architecture.
Describe user management and security in Symphony.
Describe how to onboard an application with Spectrum Symphony.
Describe resource management in Spectrum Symphony.
Describe reporting features in Symphony.
Describe licensing models for Symphony.

The sample test is designed to give the candidate an idea of the content and format of the questions that will be on the certification exam. Performance on the sample test is NOT an indicator of performance on the certification exam. This should not be considered an assessment tool.

Use the study guide to help pass this exam. A study guide is an easy to follow document that will help you prepare for this exam. The guide is free and can be downloaded immediately.

This exam has an Assessment Exam option: A9060-800 Assessment: Fundamentals of Applying IBM Spectrum Computing V1

Assessment exams are web-based exams that provides you, at a cheaper costs, the ability to check your skills before taking the certification exam.
This assessment exam is available in:

Passing the exam does not award you a certification, and it is only used to help you assess if you are ready or not to take the certification exam.

You can register for it at Pearson VUE and it will provide you a score report, showing you how you did in each section.

Classroom Course

Course Title: IBM Spectrum LSF Basic Configuration and Administration for Linux

Course Abstract: This course teaches IBM Spectrum LSF 10.1 version.
The course is designed to give system administrators the knowledge required to implement and maintain LSF in their working environment. They will gain a solid understanding of workload resource management, cluster configuration and administration. The workshops provide valuable experience with the installation of LSF, cluster configuration and administration. The system administrator will also learn helpful hints and tips and develop fundamental troubleshooting skills.
Redbook

IBM Spectrum Computing solutions (formerly known as IBM Platform Computing solutions) deliver the power of managing, sharing, and optimizing resources for analytics, cloud, technical computing, and more in distributed computing environments.

These solutions use intelligent workload and policy-driven resource management to optimize resources throughout the data center, both on premises and in the cloud, and are faster, more flexible, and scalable to over 160,000 cores. IBM Spectrum Computing solutions use advances in software-defined infrastructure that can help you take advantage of the power of your distributed computing environment.

New IBM Redbooks content explores the IBM Spectrum Computing family of solutions and shows you the opportunities that these solutions can bring to your business.