1. A customer has requested that you provide them with an architecture and bill-of-materials for a stack of top-of- rack switches. The customer has 34 HPE DL360 servers in the rack, each with four 1GBASE-T Ethernet ports which need to be connected to the network.

The customer is upgrading 50% of the 1GBASE-T Ethernet ports on the servers to 10GBASE-T Ethernet ports and needs the switching to support the upgraded servers. They are opposed to a chassis switch, and want to keep the number of managed devices on the network to a minimum.

Which architecture meets the customer requirements?

2. A client needs a data center network for a highly-virtualized server environment.

They have the following requirements:

• 25 Gb connectivity from the servers to the top-of-rack switches

• support for iSCSl storage

• lowest possible latency between their VM farms, which are contained In separate cabinets and connected to different top-of-rack switches within the data center

• support for Python script interpretation and open APIs

Which networking product line and architecture should you recommend?

3. A customer requires a management solution that will provide email notifications if hardware errors occur on their servers.

Which management solution provides this functionality?

4. What is the process or writing data to two locations within a single array in real time?

5. DRAG DROP

Match each characteristic to the correct storage type.

6. DRAG DROP

A customer needs a new VMware environment for a critical stock trading application and will need high performance compute and low latency storage.

Identify the correct component configurations on the left and drag them to the answer area on the right. (Choose two.)

7. A customer needs a virtual desktop infrastructure environment to quickly deploy new desktop images to more than 70 onsite contractors. They plan to use HPE ProLiant DL360 Gen10 servers running VMware ESXi connected to a shared storage device. The customer requires deduplication because they are concerned about the required storage capacity for the full clone images.

Which storage device would best address their concerns?

8. A customer needs to verify inbound packet statistics for interface Ten-GigabitEthernet 1/0/10 on an HPE FlexFabric 5900 series switch used by an iSCSI storage array.

Which command can be used in the CLI to perform this operation?

9. A customer has two HPE ProLiant Gen10 servers. They both require firmware installation.

Which HPE tool should you recommend for performing this task?

10. DRAG DROP

Match the speed and protocol with the appropriate component.

11. DRAG DROP

Match the feature to the lowest iLO5 license in which it is available

12. You configured a port on an HPE FiexFabric 5900 series switch that is connected to a VMware ESXi server to support multiple VLANs

interface Ten-GigabitEthernet 1/0/11 description server ESXiOl-ethl port link-type trunk port trunk permit vlan 50 port trunk permit vlan 2 port trunk pvid vlan 50

Given the configuration above, what should happen to any untagged traffic coming from the VMware ESXI host?

13. A customer with a Microsoft server environment wants to consolidate their employee home directories and other company file shares presented from an appliance as a single name space.

Which HPE product should you recommend to the customer?

14. A customer needs a shared storage solution for a virtualization platform that will host a database application. The customer is considering an HPE Nimble array.

Which feature would lead you to propose an HPE Nimble AF40 over an HPE 3PAR All Flash array?

15. Which feature in a block storage array eliminates redundant data through the process of using indexes that refer to the original set of data?

16. Read the question, and then refer to the exhibit.

<Switch-A>display int Ten-GigabitEthernet 1/0/1 Ten-GigabitEthernet1/0/1 Current state: UP Line protocol state: UP IP packet frame type: Ethernet II, hardware address: d894-03fb-793d Description: Ten-GigabitEthernet1/0/1 Interface Bandwidth: 10000000 kbps Loopback is not set Media type is stack wire, port hardware type is STACK SFP_PLUS 10Gbps-speed mode, full-duplex mode Link speed type is autonegotiation, link duplex type is autonegotiation Flow-control is not enabled Maximum frame length: 10000 Allow jumbo frames to pass Broadcast max-ratio: 100% Multicast max-ratio: 100% Unicast max-ratio: 100% PVID: 1 MDI type: Automdix Port link-type: Trunk VLAN Passing: 10 VLAN permitted: 10 Trunk port encapsulation: IEEE 802.1q Port priority: 0 <SNIP>

An administrator connected a hypervisor to interface Ten-Gigabit Ethernet1/0/1 in a switch. The administrator created virtual machines in VLAN 10 and 20 on the hypervisor. These VLANs are configured to be tagged on the hypervisor.

The administrator found that all the virtual machines within VLAN 20 can communicate with each other, but not to any resource on VLAN 20 outside the hypervisor.

What must you do to resolve this issue?

17. A customer is subject to regulatory requirements and their data is highly sensitive.

Which HPE Smart Array feature addresses their need for an level of security for data stored inside their server?

18. DRAG DROP

Indicate whether each management feature manages or monitors a single system or multiple systems.

19. DRAG DROP

Match the stacking technology to the switch series.

20. You have configured a port on an HPE FlexFabric 5900 series switch that is connected to a

VMware ESXi server to support multiple VLANs.





Given the configuration above, what should happen to any of the untagged traffic coming from the VMware ESXi host?

21. When is it appropriate for a customer to implement HPE OneView Standard?

22. A customer needs to share files cost-effectively among their Microsoft Windows server over a local network.

Which storage solution meets this requirement?

23. When configuring a single ProLiant Gen10 server, which embedded tool can be used to deploy a reliable and consistent configuration?

24. A customer environment is being managed and monitored with HPE OneView. A review of the OneView log shows that there have been several trap storm events.

Which series of events must take place for OneView to insert a Trap Storm event entry into the log of system events?

25. DRAG DROP

Match the Networking Product Family to the appropriate use case:

26. What is the correct cable type to use when connecting a server to a switch using 10 Gbps Short Range (SR) SFP+ optical connections?

27. A customer has a VMware environment with HPE ProLiant servers and Nimble storage.

They have been using a Windows VM to provide file services for their employees.

The customer is experiencing performance issues with the solution due to memory constraints on the virtual environment.

What could be added to the existing environment that will provide dedicated file services with better performance that would still utilize the existing storage and backup solutions?

28. What is the most important difference between an HPE ProLiant DL380 Gen10 server and an HPE ProLiant DL385 Gen10 server?

29. A customer has a small business office and is concerned that the local storage in their current ProLiant Gen 10 server with a Linux OS Is reaching maximum capacity

Which solution should you recommend to expand the customers data storage capacity?

30. Refer to the exhibit.





You are asked to review a server configuration for a customer before it is quoted. The server will be used in a business-critical environment and high availability is required. The server configuration is shown in the exhibit.

What should be added to the configuration to ensure availability?

31. In which protocol are REST API requests transported?

32. DRAG DROP

Refer to the exhibit.





A customer purchased a server/storage environment shown in the exhibit with 1 Gb networking connectivity.

The customer is now experiencing performance issues.

Identify the correct components to upgade the network connections and improve performance on the left. Then drag those components to the answer area on the right. (Choose three.)

33. A customer wants an HPE solution to expand a Big Data platform. The company is outgrowing its current setup and expects to consume 1 PB of data in a few months and up to 2 PB of data within a year.

Which HPE server platform is best suited for this use case?

34. Refer to the exhibit.





A customer needs a server with four 10Gb network adapters. They need it to be configured for the best possible network throughput.

Given the BOM in the exhibit, what do you need to add to this server to meet the customer requirement?

35. You need to change BIOS configuration settings without rebooting a server.

Which system utility should you use?

36. Exhibit:





Which HPE ProLiant Server meets the customer's requirements?





Which HPE ProLiant Server meets the customer's requirements?

37. DRAG DROP

Drag the correct protocols from the left to their appropriate area on the topology.

38. You are installing an HPE Nimble HF20 into a customer’s existing rack.

Prior to installation, what should you consider?

39. DRAG DROP

Match each HPE solution to its optimal use case.

40. A customer requires an entry-level, all-flash system with predictable performance at the lowest possible price. They have performance-sensitive workloads that require speed and efficiency.

Which HPE storage system needs the customer’s requirements?

41. A system administrator’s performing the BIOS/Platform configuration of a DL380 Gen10 server. You notice the amber health LED.

The health status of which solution components can be verified with embedded UEFI Diagnostics? (Choose two.)

42. Which disk technology provides the lowest latency for performing random reads?

43. A customer is purchasing a complete HPE solution that includes servers, storage, and networking. They need to leverage cloud storage for an off-site copy of their data in case of disaster.

Which HPE solutions should you suggest? (Choose two.)

44. A customer is moving a server from a co-location facility back into their existing data center to comply with new internal policies on data management.

Due to budget constraints, the customer cannot purchase any additional switches and will need to use an existing end-of-row design with HPE FlexFabric switches While the server will be installed six racks away from the switches, the total cable run with cable management Is expected to be 35 m.

Which component should be selected when designing the 10 Gbps connectivity option for the server?

45. When should you choose to populate a server with LRDlMMs?

46. A security client needs a surveillance solution to support 239 Cameras. They expect to generate 2PB of data and require a 10Gb network infrastructure in a single rack.

Which solution should you recommend to meet the customer requirements?

47. Which HPE solution brings together CPU, Memory, and Disk with an unpredictable workload into a single management infrastructure?

48. You are reviewing a series of MSA2052 storage designs for a customer’s remote locations. Their largest remote site requires the highest possible level of internal data protection with at least 20 TB of storage.

Which disk drive design is adequate for this site?

49. A customer’s backup administrator is responsible for maintaining and coordinating all nightly backups of the company’s 30 servers.

Which HPE product can be used as the primary interface to orchestrate all backup targets and Catalyst copy functions?

50. What does the term composable mean when applied to HPE infrastructure?

51. A client complains about systems reliability issues caused by their staff’s inability to identify the root cause of failures. The client’s lead administrator wants to automatically send data from HPE OneView to additional listeners in the network.

What should you configure in HPE OneView to enable the external monitoring of the managed devices?

52. DRAG DROP

You need to create a dynamic bridge-aggregation group on a FlexFabric switch to ensure the ports are automatically configured with the applicable bridge-aggregation interface configuration.

Drag the steps on the left Into their appropriate order in the answer area on the right.

53. DRAG DROP

Match the characteristic to the correct HPE ProLiant family.

54. Which solution should you recommend to a customer for basic file and print services?

55. Which storage array feature records only changes made to the base volume and keeps an earlier state of the original volume?

56. What does StoreOnce use to allow independent software vendors (ISV) to be aware of the HPE StoreOnce Backup system and its capabilities without emulation?

57. Which information is contained in the Array Diagnostic Report? (Choose two.)

58. Refer to the exhibit.





A customer is planning to deploy a branch office server rack

What should you change in your configuration to ensure it meets the customer requirements?

59. What is a benefit of a NAS device?

60. HOTSPOT

You are configuring an MSA 2052 for one of your customers in OCA.

Click on either one of the two places on the Bill of Materials screen that will enable you to verify the configuration and get details on any errors.

61. DRAG DROP

Match the customer requirement to the appropriate HPE storage solution.

62. A customer requires five HPE ProLiant servers that will be mounted in a rack and shipped from site to site All servers must be online within an hour of site arrival.

Which feature will ensure that the servers win be available to the business if travel motion has damaged a DIMM?

63. A customer needs a single, dual-processor server for an Enterprise Resource Planning solution for a single office. The customer application uses a mix of HDDs and SSDs and up to 3TB of RAM.

Which HPE Solution should you propose?

64. A retail company recently implemented a Video surveillance solution. They now need an MSA storage solution with 100TB capacity. They want to be able to add more disk capacity if needed.

Which HPE tool can help you choose a storage solution, determine the total usable capacity, and create a BOM?

65. DRAG DROP

Given the solution shown in the exhibit, which adapter is required in the server to facilitate connective in Block 1

66. An HPE customer wants to perform is simplified update of firmware and drivers among their 100 HPE Gen9 and Gen10 racked servers.

Which HPE software tool should the customer use to minimize the time required to perform this activity.

67. A customer recently installed a VMware environment with HPE ProLiants, HPE MSA storage, and Aruba switches.

What should you recommend to the customer to manage their support contracts with HPE?

68. What is used to identify a storage HBA port in a Fibre Channel SAN fabric?

69. Where would a customer go to run the SSD wear Gauge report on an HPE ProLiant server?

70. HOTSPOT

A solution integrator is installing new equipment to the rack.

Click the recommended location for HPE R/T3000 Extended Runtime Module.

71. Which factors are used to determine RAM configuration maximum memory capacity? (Choose two.)

72. Refer to the exhibit.





You are validating a Nimble HF40 configuration created in OCA, and you receive an error when you run a CLIC check.

Which Nimble component needs to be added to the configuration to complete the solution?

73. Which HPE feature enables the customer to achieve this A customer has a new virtual environment. They selected HPE servers for the environment in order to achieve better performance for their applications.

server performance improvement?

74. Refer to the exhibit.





When performing a code upgrade on an HPE Nimble array, you noticed a connection failure on ESX1. Refer to the exhibit showing the complete zoning configuration of one of the HPE SN3000B switches.

What should you do to ensure storage access is not interrupted when doing the next update?

75. A customer ordered a pair of HPE SN3000B 16 Gb Fibre Channel Switches to provide Fibre Channel connectivity between VMware ESXi hosts and HPE 3PAR StoreServ 8200.

Which adapter is required to support Fibre Channel connectivity from the VMware ESXi hosts to the new switches?

76. Which HPE Proliant server should you recommend for a home office environment where the server will be located in the same office as the user?

77. DRAG DROP

A customer needs a new environment to support an ERP system.

The sizing information you received shows the following requirements:

✑ 3 servers with dual AMD processors, 256GB RAM, and 10Gb network connectivity

✑ 10TB of high performance shared storage

✑ Cloud-based performance monitoring and analytics

The customer prefers rack mounted equipment.

Identify the components that will meet the customer requirements, then drag the correct components on the left to their appropriate location in the environment on the right.

78. Refer to the exhibit.





A customer has been using VEEAM and the HPE StoreOnce 3620 shown in the exhibit to backup their environment. The customer’s legal team has asked to double their retention times for all backup sets, and they are starting to run out of space on the StoreOnce.

Which options could you recommend that the customer add to their existing configuration to accommodate the new requirement? (Select two. Each option represents a separate solution.)

79. A Network administrator connects two switches together with multiple links of the same speed, duplex, and media type. The administrator expected the links to be aggregated, but they are not. The administrator confirmed that the ports are part of the appropriate link aggregation groups and that the permitted VLANs match.

Switch A has the lower LACP System Priority.

Which LACP operation states describe the failure above?

80. DRAG DROP

Match each characteristic to the correct storage type.

81. Which component of HPE iLO provides continuous monitoring of more than 1600 parameters?

82. A customer is facing high and unpredictable latency on an HPE ProLiant DL380 Gen10 server equipped with P408i-a controller.

Which tool can display an Array Diagnostic Report?

83. A customer needs to provide inventory management, health monitoring, status alerting, and reporting for their ProLiant servers.

Which HPE management offering meets the customer’s needs?

84. You are validating a configuration prior to quoting it for the customer.

You plan to propose the following configuration:

✑ Two HPE DL380 Gen10 servers with dual processors, 256GB of memory, dual 10Gb NICs, SN1100Q 16Gb dual port FC HBA, dual 800W power supplies, and high temperature fan kit

✑ HPE Nimble HF20H with 11TB storage, 960GB of cache, dual port 10GbE NIC, and 16Gb dual port FC adapter kit

✑ Two SN3000B FC Switches

Which tool should you use to verify firmware compatibility between the storage and server components in this proposed solution?

85. A customer is experiencing read cache hit ratios well below 80 percent on an HPE Nimble HF40 array Data is constantly being ejected from the Nimble array's First In First Out cache

What should you recommend?

86. Refer to the exhibit.





A customer has two HPE ProLiant DL380 Gen10 servers running as an Oracle cluster. They are trying to reduce licensing costs and want to move to the best processor available from the list to minimize licensing costs while still providing a high level of performance for the Oracle database.

Which DL380 Gen10 processor would you recommend?

87. Which series of internal checks will an HPE ProLiant server use to validate that the base hardware components are working correctly before booting the operating system?

88. Which feature in a block storage array is effective in decreasing the size of blocks?

89. Which HPE remote management tool offers simplified warranty and contract case management?

90. Which web service uses baste CRUD operations performed on resources using HTTP Post, Get. Put. Delete, and Patch?

91. Refer to the exhibit.





The information shown is displayed for a Nimble array you are installing. The customer’s administrator has asked you for the speed at which the Nimble ports are connecting to their SAN switches, and you have run the command shown to determine the number of gigabits per second used by this port connection.

What speed does the exhibit indicate is in use?

92. HPE Support asks you to generate an SSD wear gauge report for local storage on an HPE DL360 Gen10 server running VMware.

Which procedure will ensure that the server will boot directly into a maintenance state so you can generate the requested report?

93. A customer has a single HPE ProLiant Gen 10 server.

Which embedded management tool should they use to monitor the server?

94. A customer requires a management solution that will provide email notifications if hardware errors occur on their servers.

Which management solution provides this functionality?

95. A customer needs to integrate a new digital video surveillance solution into their existing environment and available network ports. The solution needs to include redundant hypervisor servers and a redundant SAN with a shared Fibre Channel attached storage array.

You plan to propose the following configuration:

✑ 2 HPE DL380 Gen10 servers with dual processors, 384 GB of memory, dual port 10 Gb NIC, and High Performance Fan Kit

✑ 1 HPE MSA 2050 Dual Controller Storage Array with 24x 1.8 TB 10 K SAS drives and 96x 7.2K NL drives

✑ 4 VMware vSphere Standard licenses

✑ 1 VMware vCenter Server Foundation licenses

✑ 5 year 24x7x4 support for all equipment

What must be added to the configuration to provide a complete solution? (Choose two.)

96. DRAG DROP

A customer is considering an upgrade of their networking infrastructure with HPE FlexFabric 5940 series switch.

Match the fan tray option with the airflow direction.

97. A customer is planning to deploy a new Top of Rack solution.

They plan to use a stacking technology that meets the following requirements:

✑ Support for Multi Chassis Link Aggregation in an active-active mode.

✑ The control plane must not be a single point of failure.

✑ Rapid Fail-over. Unified Management.

✑ They require a maximum of two switches per stack.

Which stacking technology meets the customer’s requirements?

98. A customer’s environment includes virtual machines and containers. They need an on-premises platform that allows them to easily and efficiently deploy cloud-native applications at rack-scale.

Which HPE solution meets the customer requirements?

99. Which HPE MSA storage feature enables tuning the tier-migration algorithm for a virtual volume when creating or modifying the volume?

100. Read the question, and then refer to the exhibit.

<Switch-A>display interface Ten-GigabitEthernet 1/0/1 Ten-GigabitEthernet1/0/1 Current state: Administratively DOWN Line protocol state: DOWN IP packet frame type: Ethernet II, hardware address: d894-03fb-793d Description: Ten-GigabitEthernet1/0/1 Interface Bandwidth: 10000000 kbps Loopback is not set Media type is stack wire, port hardware type is STACK_SFP_PLUS Unknown-speed mode, unknown-duplex mode Link speed type is autonegotiation, link duplex type is autonegotiation Flow-control is not enabled Maximum frame length: 10000 Allow jumbo frames to pass Broadcast max-ratio: 100% Multicast max-ratio: 100% Unicast max-ratio: 100% PVID: 1 MDI type: Automdix Port link-type: Trunk VLAN Passing: 10, 20 VLAN permitted: 10, 20 Trunk port encapsulation: IEEE 802.1q Port priority: 0 Last link flapping: 0 hours 0 minutes 18 seconds Last clearing of counters: Never Peak input rate: 78 bytes/sec, at 2011-03-31 04:55:57 Peak output rate: 15 bytes/sec, at 2011-03-30 23:00:57 Last 300 second input: 0 packets/sec 67 bytes/sec - % Last 300 second output: 0 packets/sec 14 bytes/sec - % Input (total): 62670 packets, 8565340 bytes 0 unicasts, 0 broadcasts, 62670 multicasts, 0 pauses Input (normal): 62670 packets, - bytes 0 unicasts, 0 broadcasts, 62670 multicasts, 0 pauses Input: 0 input errors, 0 runts, 0 giants, 0 throttles 0 CRC, 0 frame, - overruns, 0 aborts C ignored, - parity errors Output (total): 3707 packets, 1294835 bytes 0 unicasts, 0 broadcasts, 3707 multicasts, 0 pauses Output (normal): 3707 packets, - bytes 0 unicasts, 0 broadcasts, 3707 multicasts, 0 pauses Output: 0 output errors, - underruns, - buffer failures 0 aborts, 0 deferred, 0 collisions, 0 late collisions 0 lost carrier, - no carrier

A customer added a new switch to their network. They connected it using interface Ten-GigabitEthernet 1/0/1. They are using VLAN 10 and 20 for the devices in their network.

The new switch was fully operational. Then, the customer experienced a power failure later that day and could not reach any device on the new switch after the power returned.

From the output in the exhibit, would could be the issue?