Practice Free NS0-520 NetApp Certified Implementation Engineer - SAN Specialist ONTAP Exam Questions Answers With Explanation

A company has 20 ESX hosts. Ten of the hosts are connected using FC, and the rest are connected over iSCSI. The FC host HBA queue depth is set to 32, and the iSCSI LUN queue depth is set to 64. The FC hosts are now experiencing random connectivity issues.

In this scenario, what would be the reason for the disconnects?

A customer recently added two nodes with FC ports to a 4-node cluster.

Which SVM configuration is needed before the customer creates LUNs on the new nodes?

You are configuring both NVMe and FC on the same AFF A700 2-node ONTAP 9.5 cluster. You are also configuring both protocols on the same FC fabric using the same A700 HBA ports.

In this scenario, which three configurations are supported? (Choose three.)

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You want to configure a UTA2 port as an FCoE target. Referring to the exhibit, which action must be performed?

Automatic host-side space management with SCSI T10 thin-provisioned LUNs is achieved by which feature of ONTAP?

An administrator is adding new hosts to a vSphere cluster. The cluster uses the FC protocol to connect to a NetApp cluster. The administrator wants to configure the multipathing for the ESXi host.

Which NetApp tool should be used to accomplish this task?

Which three components are required for NetApp iSCSI LUN access on Linux servers? (Choose three.)

Referring to the exhibit, which two pairs of ports are currently configurable as FC SAN LIFs? (Choose two.)

You have a 4 node cluster with an AFF A300 HA pair and a FAS8200 HA pair. You plan on using the default storage efficiency settings. With inline data compaction, you estimate that you can save 6% of storage space. AFF A300 LUNs that use under 5000 IOPS are moved to a FAS8200 using the lun move command.

In this scenario, what happens to the data after the LUN is moved? (Choose two.)

An administrator is asked to configure NVMe on an ONTAP 9.5 cluster for host access.

Which three steps must the administrator perform to accomplish this task? (Choose three.)

How do you configure the iSCSI-SendTargets datastore when the datastore is provisioned from NetApp storage?

An administrator reviews the Upgrade Advisor before performing an upgrade of their ONTAP cluster.

What information is detailed in the report? (Choose two.)

Which resource would you use to verify whether a specific SAN configuration is supported by NetApp?

You want to ensure maximum performance of iSCSI LUNs on an AFF A220.

In this scenario, which two actions will accomplish this task? (Choose two.)

The ESX host reports inconsistent performance for iSCSI-based connectivity.

In this scenario, what would cause this problem?

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A 4-node cluster was expanded with two news nodes (Nodes 5 and 6). You are now attempting to set up four FC LUNs on the two new nodes that use the ps2 igroup name, although FC ping works. LUNs on the previous four nodes are discoverable, but the four new LUNs on the new controllers are not discoverable.

Referring to the exhibit, what is the problem?

Referring to the exhibit, you have SAN LUNs on an AFF A700s and are asked to test an SSD shelf stack failure.

What is the maximum allowed number of failed paths per controller to shelf stack before a storage failover occurs?

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You notice that your volume named vol1 has a temporary volume that is doubling the space that is used by the volume.

In this scenario, which operation caused the volume to take up twice the space?

You are planning to set up a new SAN with an AFF A300 2-node switchless cluster. Your SAN fabric will consist of Cisco MDS9148s switches.

According to NetApp best practices, which two actions would be required to accomplish this task? (Choose two.)

An administrator has expanded a 2-node ONTAP cluster to a 4-node ONTAP cluster. The cluster is using FC LUNs with all of the default settings. You must rebalance the LUNs to the new nodes.

Which configuration must be made to achieve this requirement?

A customer is using both FC and NVMe in a cluster. The customer needs to do some work on AFF_1.

Referring to the exhibit, what will happen?

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During pre-deployment testing, you want to ensure that all FC paths are available to your host. You use the network interface modify -vserver SVM1 -lif LIF_top-0f -admin-state up command to correct the configuration shown in the exhibit.

What happens when using this command?

You have a 4-node FAS8200 A300 cluster that are using ONTAP 9.3 default settings. For faster performance, you move a volume with LUNs from a node on the FAS8200 to a node on the AFF A300. You determine that your SAN host is still using all active/optimized FC paths to the FAS8300 HA pair.

What do you need to troubleshoot to move all active/optimized FC paths to the AFF A300 HA pair?

Which two components must be verified for a supported NetApp SAN confutation? (Choose two.)

You must relocate a LUN from one AFF A700 HA pair to another AFF A300 HA pair while preserving all storage efficiencies. What are two ways to accomplish this task? (Choose two.)

Which FC service is used by a host for discover service to locate FC targets that are available?

You have deployed an AFF 400 systems for ISCSI workloads and want to ensure maximum performance to the hosts.

In this scenario, which two steps should be configured? (Choose two)

You are designing a new 4-node AFF A400 SAN cluster with 20 ISCSI hosts. Each AFF A400 node will have four data LIFs. Each ISCSI host needs to access every LUN over two LIFs per node on every

SAN node.

In this scenario, which Netapp SAN feature enable this connectivity?

Your customer asks you to configure a newly installed FAS8300 for an FC host connection.

Referring to the exhibit, which step accomplishes this task?

While changing the network connections on your ONTAP cluster from twinax to fiber, the ports experience network connectivity issues. You want to verify which speeds the ports support and ensure that you

have supported transceivers. In this scenario which two actions would accomplish this task (choose two)

You are testing FCP paths failures on a 2-node Netapp AFF All SAN Array and verify that persistent ports are correctly enabled. Before testing, a host sees four optimized paths to a LUN. You perform a

node takeover and re-check the host.

Which statement is true after the node takeover?

You are configuring a FAS8300 HA pair running ONTAP 9.8 with two hosts that requires SAN LUNs. The cluster is in a secure data center without switches. In this scenario, which block protocol is supported on the hosts?

You are configuring FC ports on front-end SAN switches for a 4-node Metrocluster configuration across two data centers. You need to ensure that each data center serves FC LUNs when an FC port goes

offline in one data center. In this scenario, which front end switch setting must be modified to avoid overlap when a new port comes online?

A database administrator needs to ensure that snapshot copies of database files across multiple LUNs are taken at the same point in time. Which action achieves this outcome?

You are a system administrator and responsible for a Netapp AFF A800 2-node ONTAP 9.8 cluster that is used only for SAN. Your SAN uses FC and FCoE on the same Cisco switches. You want to add

NVMe from the ONTAP controller to the same Cisco fabric. Which two statements are correct in this scenario? (choose two)

Which NetApp tool provides a detailed inventory of SAN components?

You have deployed a FAS8300 system and wait to enable SAN protocols. In this scenario, which two protocols are available to serve SAN data? (Choose two)

You have an existing 8-node Netapp Cluster serving NFS data, and you want to expand your cluster by an additional four nodes to serve ISCSI. In this scenario, where would you validate this configuration?

Referring to the exhibit, which WWPN would safely be removed from the zone?

You are configuring a 4-node AFF A400 ONTAP 9.8 cluster. The data center switches have limited ports, and you are given one 10-Gigabit Ethernet port per node for external access.

In this scenario, which three protocols share the same physical port? (Choose three)

A customer wants to deploy NVMe/FC along with an existing FC SAN fabric using ONTAP 9.8. In this scenario, which two actions are correct? (choose two)

An administrator is asked to provision a SAN environment in which host applications can monitor LUN space and performance space reclamation.

Which LUN type would satisfy these requirements?

You have a Netapp ONTAP cluster and are configuring ISCSI for some new hosts . You want to ensure that ISCSI connectivity can survive physical network failures.

In this scenario, which two features would help fulfill this requirement? (choose two)

Which two components should be installed to support VMware VMFS6 datastores in an environment with only Ethernet switches? (Choose two)

Which two requirements must be satisfied to run an Upgrade Advisor report on a Netapp All SAN Array? (choose two)

After performing failover testing on a newly deployed MetroCluster configuration, some aggregates remain in a degraded state. Referring to the exhibit, which statement is true?

You install an ASA AFF A400 system with 32 GB FC SFP+ modules in port 0e and 0f. After creating the SVM and configuring the FCP protocol, the physical port stays offline. Referring to the exhibit which statement is correct?

A customer experiences intermittent connectivity problems between an ESXi server and FC LUNs in an SVM. The customer has examined the nodes hosting the LUNs and both the disk and CPU performance are below 50% utilization. The customer examined the switch ports connected to the storage array, and they ate also below 50% utilization.

Which two steps would you perform next in this scenario? (Choose two.)

You are provisioning a LUN using an ISCSI initiator on an ESX host. You disable Ethernet flow control for all ports but are experiencing

Performance issues.

In this scenario, which two actions would improve the performance issue? (Choose two.)

Which type of multipathing does Linux support?

A storage administrator created a LUN using two ports on a storage system. Later, additional LUNs were added to the same node as the original LUN. After a while, the performance of the original LUN dropped beyond an acceptable level.

What would you advise to remedy the Issue?

You recently bought a FAS8200 series with SAS drives and want to maximize data efficiencies. Performance is not a primary Which two statements are correct in this scenario? (Choose two.)

You are creating an acceptance test plan and the subject of performance is raised. How should you define what the minimum performance should be?

Which four FC fabric topologies does NetApp support? (Choose four.)

Exhibit.

The exhibit shows the Inn show command output for the oradata oraFinProd_l LUN.

Which two statements ate correct about the LUN'? (Choose two.)

You have inherited a small FC SN infrastructure that consists of 15 servers (hosts), two Cisco MDS 9148s switches, and a 4-node NetApp AFF A300 cluster. You suspect that your predecessor did not configure zoning according to best practices.

In this scenario, what information is necessary to audit your SAN zoning? (Choose two.)

A4-node ONTAP FAS9000 cluster was used to serve I/O from six RedHat 7.3 servers. The servers were configured with maximum, queue depth.

For production purposes, an additional 60 similarly configured hosts were added to the environment. Later, the hosts started reporting random QFull errors, and the aggregated performance degraded.

Which two solutions would alleviate the QFull errors and performance problems? (Choose two.)

A customer's Red Hat Linux 7.0 server's Linux native DM-MP settings for multi pa thing have not been set correctly. In this scenario, what would cause this problem?

A customer wants to use both Cisco FC and FCoE switches in their ONTAP environment. According to NetApp best practices, what are two requirements in this scenario? (Choose two.)

You are booting a NetApp storage system for the first time. In which order should the various components be powered on?

A company wants to use jumbo frames in their Ethernet network. They should set the packet size to which industry conventional value?

Which commands allow you to enable NetApp deduplication and verify space savings?

At which storage object level is deduplication enabled?

Exhibit.

A customer is testing a dual-fabric FC SAN configuration as shown in the exhibit and the zones are implemented on the switches shown below.

If all the nodes are in the SLM reporting nodes list, hoe many path per LUN should the customer expect when simulating an FC SFP failure by bringing LIF_3 offline?

Exhibit.

An administrator has an AFF A200 HA pair.

Referring to the exhibit, how many 10 Gbps connections would the customer have on a single node for SAN host connectivity?