New NS0-526 Exam Questions – NetApp Certified Implementation Engineer, Data Protection

1. Click the Exhibit button on the right.

Referring to the exhibit, which two tiers are monitored in the volume capacity? (Choose two)

2. You want to determine the amount of cold data that can be tiered from a FabricPool-enabled aggregate. In this scenario, which feature satisfies this requirement?

3. Your customer wants to implement SVM DR, but the customer is not certain whether the identity-preserve parameter should be enabled. The customer explains that the source and destination clusters are in different network subnets.

In this scenario, which SVM DR solution should the customer use?

4. You have created a new CIFS share but it is inaccessible. After verifying the export policy, network connectivity, junction path, and permissions are all correct, you realize there is root volume loadsharing mirror in place.

What should you do next to make the share accessible?

5. You must back up and replicate a Microsoft SQL server using SnapProtect in your clustered Data ONTAP environment.

Which three components must be correctly installed and configured? (Choose three.)

6. A customer has deployed OnCommand Unified Manager and wants to use it to manage their data protection relationships within their NetApp storage infrastructure.

In this scenario, which additional component must be deployed to satisfy this requirement?

7. You recently set up a SnapMirror relationship with a daily update schedule. You want to verify that the updates are being performed daily.

Which two actions inside OnCommand System Manager would you ensure that the SnapMirror transfers are occurring daily? (Choose two.)

8. A customer is running clustered Data ONTAP on primary and secondary clusters. The customer is using SnapVault to back up volumes between the clusters.

The customer has good Data ONTAP 7-Mode knowledge and needs to set up two new SnapVault relationships between the clusters on a weekly schedule.

Which solution would you recommend to satisfy this requirement?

9. You have deployed volume-level replication with NetApp Synchronous SnapMirror replication technology.

In this scenario, which two statements are true? (Choose two.)

10. Click the Exhibit button.

cluster2::> snapmirror show –instance

Source Path: svm1:svm1_vol3

Destination Path: svm1_2:svm1_2_vol2

Relationship Type: DP

Relationship Group Type: none

SnapMirror Schedule: 5min

SnapMirror Policy Type: async-mirror

SnapMirror Policy: DPDefault

Tries Limit: –

Throttle (KB/sec): unlimited

Mirror State: Snapmirrored

Relationship Status: Idle

Last Transfer Type: update

Last Transfer Error: –

Last Transfer Size: 72 KB

Last Transfer Network Compression Ratio: 1:1

Last Transfer Duration: 0:0:2

Last Transfer From: svm1:svm1_vol3

Last Transfer End Timestamp: 09/24 13:10:04

Progress Last Updated: –

Relationship Capability: 8.2 and above

Lag Time: 0:0:55

Number of Successful Updates: 1

Number of Failed Updates: 0

Number of Successful Resyncs: 0

Number of Failed Resyncs: 0

Number of Successful Breaks: 0

Number of Failed Breaks: 0

Total Transfer Bytes: 212992

Total Transfer Time in Seconds: 5

You want to view your SnapMirros relationship to make sure it is up to date. You issue the snapmirror show –instance command. Referring to the exhibit, how long has it been since the last SnapMirror update has successfully occurred?

11. Click the Exhibit button.

You have a SnapProtect v11 environment as shown in the exhibit.

What are the two default Snapshot copies created automatically after creating a Storage Policy. (Choose two.)

12. You want to ensure that a particular version of SnapManager for SQL is supported in a configuration.

Which three components need to be verified in the Interoperability Matrix? (Choose three.)

13. You are mirroring the root volume of a storage virtual machine (SVM) according to NetApp best practices.

In this scenario, which two statements are true? (Choose two.)

14. A client has a FlexVol volume that is 10 TB in size and is nearly full. The volume has a Snapshot reserve of 5%, that is currently utilized at 120%. They have chosen to enable ONTAP to automatically delete the oldest Snapshot copies with a volume threshold trigger in order to free space within the volume when it becomes necessary.

In this scenario, what amount of space would be made available to the client, without additional intervention?

15. You have two ONTAP clusters, cluster1 and cluster2. Cluster1 has an SVM serving SMB3 data and you want to protect it by replicating it to cluster2 using SVM DR. The source and destination subnets are identical. You want to retain the CIFS server security of the SVM at the destination site.

In this scenario, which three steps would you take to configure the SVM DR relationship? (Choose three.)

16. Data on an AFF system is replicated using SnapMirror to a FAS system that is configured with NL-SAS-based storage. In this scenario, which storage efficiency is lost on the SnapMirror destination?

17. A customer wants to enforce prompt tiering when the cooling threshold has been reached. They want to do this even though the data may have been deleted or the data continues to exist in the primary file system.

In this scenario, which tiering policy should be used?

18. A client decided to transition from a NetApp Storage Encryption environment that uses a KMIP-based centralized key management server to a NetApp Volume Encryption environment that uses onboard key management.

Which two steps are required to complete this task? (Choose two.)

19. A storage administrator is reviewing NAS volume space allocation and is concerned that the Snapshot copies that are recently created to protect the volumes are not storing the data from the volumes. One volume contains over 20 GB of data, although the latest SnapShot copy contains only 198 KB of data.

In this scenario, which statement is true?

20. You decide to enable SnapMirror network compression on your NetApp clustered Data ONTAP environment.

Which two statements are correct about enabling this feature? (Choose two.)

21. You want to determine the amount of cold data that can be tiered from a FabricPool-enabled aggregate.

In this scenario, which feature satisfies this requirement?

22. You are asked to protect your customer’s Exchange environment. You deploy SnapCenter 4.1 and the plug-in for Microsoft Exchange Server. While creating the backup policy, you select the Full and Log Backup from the list of supported backup types.

In this scenario, what would the Full and Log Backup type allow you to protect within Exchange?

23. You are deploying a mission-critical business application for a healthcare customer that, according to government policies and regulations, requires zero data loss.

In this scenario, which NetApp solution enables you to set up data replication at a volume level to satisfy your business needs?

24. Your customer wants to implement SVM DR, but the customer is not certain whether the identity-preserve parameter should be enabled. The customer explains that the source and destination clusters are in different network subnets.

In this scenario, which SVM DR solution should the customer use?

25. Click the Exhibit button.

A customer needs to add an additional X91143A card into a FAS9000 to allow mirroring between the production system and the disaster recovery FAS9000 platform. Slots 1, 4, 6, 8, and 9 have cards in them.

Referring to the exhibit, in which slot should you install the card?

26. A customer has developed a new application that uses Oracle with an AFF system to help track all of their shipping trucks around the world. The customer wants to ensure that application-consistent backups are offloaded to the cloud.

In this scenario, which two solutions enable the customer to satisfy these requirements? (Choose two.)

27. A storage administrator is reviewing NAS volume space allocation and is concerned that the Snapshot copies that are recently created to protect the volumes are not storing the data from the volumes. One volume contains over 20 GB of data, although the latest SnapShot copy contains only 198 KB of data.

In this scenario, which statement is true?

28. You need to backup Exchange, MS SQL, and VMware virtual machines with application consistency.

Which tool accomplishes this task?

29. You are creating a SnapVault relationship and have concerns about the available capacity on the destination.

In this scenario, which three factors must you consider when you size the destination volume? (Choose three.)

30. A customer has ONTAP 9.5 clusters running at two nearby locations. The customer wants a zero RPO for one mission-critical volume.

In this scenario, which two NetApp solutions satisfy this requirement while using the existing ONTAP clusters? (Choose two.)

31. Click the Exhibit button.

Referring to the exhibit, what must be performed on nodes aff-01 and aff-02 to allow them to failover and giveback properly?

32. After deploying an ONTAP Select 2 node HA cluster at a remote site, you successfully perform manual takeover and giveback before placing the cluster into production. After the cluster runs in production for a week, you notice that you can no longer perform a manual takeover.

In this scenario, what are two causes of this problem? (Choose two.)

33. A customer has deployed OnCommand Unified Manager and wants to use it to manage their data protection relationships within their NetApp storage infrastructure.

In this scenario, which additional component must be deployed to satisfy this requirement?

34. A customer wants to set up an SVM DR relationship to protect a source SVM that is dedicated for NAS file services. The source and destination clusters are running ONTAP 9.5.

In this scenario, which application accomplishes this task?

35. Click the Exhibit button.

Your customer wants to protect a volume and replicate it to a secondary volume. The customer has tried to configure this relationship using OnCommand System Manager. Upon reviewing this newly configured relationship, you discover that the configuration does not satisfy the customer’s stated requirements.

Referring to the exhibit, what should you do to ensure that the volume is protected?

36. ) the database SnapVault status.

In this scenario, which report type satisfies the requirements?

37. Which two configurations would be used to protect volumes in a production ONTAP system at two different disaster recovery (DR) locations? (Choose two.)

38. Click the Exhibit button.

Referring to the exhibit, what two Search Criteria check boxes need to be used to provide a supported solution for protecting Windows Server 2019 DCE 64-bit, x64 host using local NetApp LUNs with SnapCenter Server 4.1.1? (Choose two.)

39. You want to set up an important management solution that must comply with FIPS 140-2. The solution should support a multi-clusters environment and should provide centralized management of the encryption keys.

In this scenario, which solution accomplishes the task?

40. You are monitoring data protection relationships of type XDR using OnCommand System Manager running ONTAP 9.5. In the GUI, you click Protection -> Volume Relationships.

In this scenario, which status in the Relationship State field must be displayed to ensure that the relationships are working as expected?

41. A customer has application data corruption on a LUN that is in a volume with six other data LUNs. The customer needs to restore the corrupted LUN from a Snapshot copy without affecting the other six LUNs.

Which process would accomplish this task?

42. You have an environment with multiple database servers that are performing scheduled nightly dumps. These dumps vary in both the time to complete and the size of data produced. You need to ensure that there is always enough room in the volume for the data and that a nightly SnapMirror update does not take place until the database dump process is complete.

In this scenario, which NetApp tool ensures that this process is completed every night?

43. A customer is using SnapMirror to replicate their data to a remote site. They notice that storage efficiency is nor preserved, and the amount of data at the destination is higher than expected.

In this scenario, which configuration in the destination volume would cause this issue?

44. A customer wants to set up SNMP to monitor their ONTAP platforms. Because of security reasons, they need strong authentication and data encryption?

In this scenario, which SNMP version satisfies these requirements?

45. Click the Exhibit button.

Your customer has recently implemented a FabricPool solution that uses the default configuration. They notice that no data has moved to the cloud tier. Your customer is concerned that FabricPool might not be functioning properly.

Referring to the exhibit, what is causing the problem?

46. Data on an AFF system is replicated using SnapMirror to a FAS system that is configured

with NL-SAS-based storage.

In this scenario, which storage efficiency is lost on the SnapMirror destination?

47. Which two NetApp technologies allow for synchronous replication of data between two remote sites? (Choose two.)

48. You recently set up a SnapMirror relationship with a daily update schedule. You want to verify that the updates are being performed daily.

Which two actions inside OnCommand System Manager would you ensure that the SnapMirror transfers are occurring daily? (Choose two.)

49. When you configure a SnapLock feature, where should the ComplianceClock be initialized?

50. Which two tools would you use to verify that an Oracle database has an application-consistent snapshot taken? (Choose two.)

51. Click the Exhibit button.

Referring to the exhibit, which two statements are true? (Choose two.)

52. You are creating daily SnapVault backups of a NAS volume that contains the data for your business critical application. You discover that corruption began two weeks ago on the data on that volume.

In this scenario, which statement is true?

53. You have set up a SnapMirror relationship between two SVMs for data protection. The data in the source volume is unavailable due to an event related to a virus infection leading to data corruption.

In this scenario, which three actions are required to activate the SnapMirror destination volume and provide data access to the users? (Choose three.)

54. A volume on a FabricPool-enabled aggregate is consuming 10 TB of the performance tier and 90 TB of the cloud tier. A SnapMirror copy needs to be created on a FabricPool-enabled peer cluster at a disaster recovery location.

In this scenario, how much data is transferred when the SnapMirror relationship is initialized?

55. You are given the vsadmin account credentials for an SVM that is delegated to you by your organization’s shared services group. You are asked to verify that all of the volumes in your SVM are protected with SnapMirror.

In this scenario, what would you use to accomplish this task?

56. Your customer wants to deploy 40 ONTAP clusters in their environment to protect client databases, Windows host file systems, applications, and virtual machines. One of the primary monitoring and system management requirements is to use a centralized dashboard for all application-consistent backups and REST API integration.

In this scenario, which NetApp management tool satisfies the requirements?

57. You are asked to implement a DR solution to protect employee home directories on the primary cluster. The solution should provide an PRO of one hour, disaster recovery and archiving configured on the same destination volume of the DR cluster. Your solution should also reduce the amount of secondary storage requirements and use lower network traffic on the WAN links.

In this scenario, which NetApp replication technology satisfies these requirements?

58. An administrator notices that a NAS volume has been filled completely by active data and Snapshot copies that have expanded over the Snap reserve. The volume is no longer writable.

In this scenario, which two actions must you take to make the volume writable again? (Choose two.)

59. You have two ONTAP clusters, cluster1 and cluster2. Cluster1 has an SVM serving SMB3 data and you want to protect it by replicating it to cluster2 using SVM DR. The source and destination subnets are identical. You want to retain the CIFS server security of the SVM at the destination site.

In this scenario, which three steps would you take to configure the SVM DR relationship? (Choose three.)

60. Click the Exhibit button.

You have been receiving the lag status error notifications shown in the exhibit.

What must you do to correct this problem?

61. You are working for a customer that has deployed a large FlexGroup with ONTAP 9.5. This FlexGroup has a SnapMirror relationship to a system at a disaster recovery site. The FlexGroup is nearly full and needs to be expanded to accommodate additional data.

In this scenario, what must you do to expand the FlexGroup and ensure that the data remains protected?

62. Which two cloud providers allow you to provision Cloud Volumes ONTAP as a SnapMirror destination? (Choose two.)

63. A customer wants to enforce prompt tiering when the cooling threshold has been reached.

They want to do this even though the data may have been deleted or the data continues to exist in the primary file system.

In this scenario, which tiering policy should be used?

64. A customer wants to assign a user to a build-in SnapCenter RBAC Role that will allow them to review and start existing SnapMirror processes only.

In this scenario, which Role will allow the customer to accomplish this task?

65. You have deployed volume-level replication with NetApp Synchronous SnapMirror replication technology.

In this scenario, which two statements are true? (Choose two.)

66. Click the Exhibit button.

A client has a SnapMirror relationship between two sites that is scheduled to run once a day at 12:15 a.m. They have a network connection between two sites that provides 100 Mbps on bandwidth. By performing the backup at this time, they can maximize their bandwidth use.

Referring to the exhibit, how long does the SnapMirror update take to finish?

67. A customer is running multiple Oracle DBs over NFS. The volumes are replicated using

SnapMirror to a secondary site, which also hosts the development and test systems. They want to streamline the creation of test environments on the secondary site so that they will not have to manually use FlexClone to clone multiple volumes for each request.

In this scenario, which tool satisfies these requirements?

68. A client has two regional offices that use SnapMirror cross-site replication to host disaster-recovery mirrors for both offices. A co-worker at one office is requesting read/write access to one of the volume mirrors. You must accomplish this task without interrupting data access or replication.

In this scenario. how should you proceed?

69. A customer has a 2-node ONTAP Select HA cluster deployed on the same site. The ONTAP Deploy VM has been accidentally deleted. The 2-node ONTAP Select HA cluster is still serving data, but the storage failover capability has been disabled.

In this scenario, what would you do to reestablish the storage failover capability on your cluster?

70. An administrator wants to use SnapCenter 4.1 to back up and restore both their VMware Horizon environment and Microsoft SQL attached database.

In this scenario, which service account role should be configured to accomplish this task?

71. You want to modify the existing Snapshot copy schedule to allow for more granularity in your ability to recover data after a corruption or loss.

In this scenario, which two tools allow you to accomplish this task (Choose two.)

72. Click the Exhibit button.

You want to restore a file from the engineering volume that is shown in the exhibit. When you click Restore in OnCommand Unified Manager, there are no files available to restore.

Referring to the exhibit, what caused this problem?

73. Your customer needs to activate a destination SVM DR following a disaster.

In this situation, which two actions should be performed? (Choose two.)

74. You want to configure peering between two existing ONTAP HA clusters.

In this scenario, which three steps would you perform to accomplish this task? (Choose three.)

75. Your customer is running an older cluster that uses Data ONTAP 8.1 Cluster-Mode. They would like to create a SnapMirror relationship with their new ONTAP 9.5 cluster.

In this scenario, what must the customer do to create the SnapMirror relationship?

76. A customer is planning the cloud strategy for their Microsoft SQL databases and must be able to protect them from outages. They are planning on using multiple cloud providers for their solution with their current NetApp storage system.

In this scenario, which two products are required to satisfy their backup management needs? (Choose two.)

77. You have successfully deployed a primary and a secondary ONTAP cluster. You want to set up an intercluster SnapMirror relationship between your primary and secondary sites.

In this scenario, which two actions are required before accomplishing this task? (Choose two.)

78. Click the Exhibit button.

A customer is interested in using SnapCenter to support Snapshot copies with their Oracle DB. They virtualized their environment but do not have any block protocols available.

In this solution, which protocol shown in the exhibit is supported?

79. A customer’s infrastructure consists of multiple ONTAP clusters, both physical and virtual. The clusters replicate some data with each other. You want to generate a comprehensive report of all the replication that is present on the infrastructure.

In this scenario, which tool accomplishes this task?

80. A client has a FlexVol volume that is 10 TB in size and is nearly full. The volume has a Snapshot reserve of 5%, that is currently utilized at 120%. They have chosen to enable ONTAP to automatically delete the oldest Snapshot copies with a volume threshold trigger in order to free space within the volume when it becomes necessary.

In this scenario, what amount of space would be made available to the client, without additional intervention?

81. You just created a mirror relationship using OnCommand System Manager in ONTAP 9.3.

You review the relationship using the CLI.

In this scenario, what is the expected type and default SnapMirrorpolicy?

82. You are planning on archiving 200 TB of data with SnapVault to an ONTAP Cloud Instance.

Which NetApp tool manages your Bring Your Own License (BYOL)?

83. Click the Exhibit button.

An employee’s computer and mapped home folder has been encrypted with ransomware.

You are asked to restore the data from a SnapVault repository.

Referring to the exhibit, what happens when the volume is restored?

84. You are asked to verify that data stored in your disaster recovery site can be restored and is viable. Currently, you have a NetApp SnapMirror relationship with a MirrorAllSnaps policy type that is enabled and is updating frequently.

What would be a nondisruptive method to carry out a detailed validation of your disaster-recovery strategy?

85. You have recently installed and set up a new NetApp HCI deployment in your data center that consists of four compute nodes and four storage nodes. Inside this HCI deployment, you are using ONTAP Select for file services. You must protect the data inside the ONTAP Select VM in case of a rack failure.

Which two methods would accomplish this task? (Choose two.)

86. Which product delivers application-consistent recovery across local and remote sites?

87. You are maintaining a 4-node MetroCluster.

How are the high-availability interconnects cabled?

88. Click the Exhibit button.

Referring to the exhibit, whichsetting specifies the point that the vol_sanluns01dev_01 volume will increase in size?

89. You are configuring SnapMirror on the NetApp Cloud Backup appliance (formerly AltaVault).

In this scenario, which LIF type IP addresses must be white listed?

90. What are three prerequisites for replicating an Element OS volume to ONTAP? (Choose three.)

91. You asked a colleague tocreate a new SnapMirror replication relationship of type “Vault” between two SVMs on separate clusters. You want to verify that the SVMs are healthy and updating on a particular schedule.

What are two ways to accomplish this task? (Choose two.)

92. You have deployed the DP_Optimized (DPO) license on the destination cluster to support a high number of volumes and peer relationships for setting up data protection with multiple sourceclusters. You want to obtain a list of unprotected volumes on the source cluster and protect them.

Which two management tools would be used to accomplish this task? (Choose two.)

93. You have a FAS9000 with 10 TBNL-SAS drives that is replicating to a FAS8200 with 4 TB NL-SAS drives. An 80 TB source volume on the FAS9000 is showing 50% storage efficiency. After that volume mirror is initialized, the FAS8200 destination volume is showing only 10% storage efficiency.

In this scenario, why is storage efficiency reduced after replication?

94. Click the Exhibit button.

You have data corruption in a volume, and you are asked to restore the data froma SnapVault destination.

Referring to the exhibit, which two actions occur when the volume is restored? (Choose two.)

95. You have experienced a disaster at your source site and activated SVM DR. The source site is now up, but your source SVMs no longer exist. You must restore data to the original source and maintain the SVM DR configuration.

Which two steps must be taken to accomplish this task? (Choose two.)

96. What does the metrocluster configuration-settings interface create command do?

97. The volume efficiency modify command, enables which three storage efficiency technologies when applied to a FlexVol volume? (Choose three.)

98. You want to set up protection relationships at the time of provisioning one or more primary volumes in the source cluster in ONTAP.

Which NetApp management tool enables you to accomplish this task?

99. Which technology uses synchronous replication?

100. When volumes are set to be thin-provisioned, what must be monitored for space usage?