You meet a customer for the first time. They explain that their current environment for NAS does not meet their needs. You want to make sure that Isilon is a good fit for their needs.
What would be a good prequalifying question to ask?

• A. What application are you using to create directories?
• B. What protocols are accessing your NAS?
• C. How many users are in your Directory Services?
• D. Is your datacenter ISO9001 compliant?

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A European Sports TV network is considering Isilon for their Media Edit Storage for their editing workloads. They are also considering Isilon for near-line media archiving.
The network receives XDCAM HD footage which is loaded onto their existing Transcoding Storage platform. New footage that needs to be edited will be transferred from their Transcoding Storage platform to the proposed Media Edit Storage platform at the rate of ten simultaneous XDCAM HD files via FTP. Edited files will be transferred back to the Transcoding Storage platform at the rate of ten simultaneous XDCAM HD files via FTP.
The network currently has 15 Final Cut Pro edit stations, 15 Avid edit stations. Proxy software will be used to allow Isilon to act as the storage for the Final Cut Pro and Avid media. Three of those edit stations will be performing content compositing as needed.
The network expects 70 hours of new content per week, and 50 hours of edited content per week. They intend to keep the new and edited content on the proposed Media Edit Storage as a performance tier for 30 days. They would like to retain all new and edited footage proposed Media Edit Storage as a near-line tier for two years.
In addition to the current workloads, the network expects to implement a new Media Asset Management (MAM) solution and has requested the Isilon cluster be capable of supporting 120 MBps read and 120 MBps write to support the MAM requirements.
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The customer wants to be able to put completed content into a non-editable folder. However, they want to give access to an administrator to delete content if required. What do you recommend to the customer?

• A. SmartLock using Enterprise mode
• B. SmartLock using Compliance mode
• C. WORM using Compliance mode
• D. SyncIQ with read-only mode

A customer has eight X400 24GB RAM nodes that support 400 client connections. They will be adding 400 more clients in the next few months. They are looking at adding an A-Series node to the cluster to help with client connections.Before they start adding client connections, what hardware change do you recommend?

• A. Add an A100 node to offset concurrent client connections
• B. Add nodes with SSD to help with connections
• C. Add RAM to the nodes to offset concurrent client connections
• D. Add more network switches to increase the number of connections

You have had several discussions with your customer in the processor design industry. They have stated that they want a Scale-Out NAS platform for their design environment. Their most significant responses were "We have 125 design engineers accessing large diagrams and we need high throughput to support them. Can we also get the highest performance available? We need to stay ahead of our competitors." Other areas you discussed were their data retention policies and workflow after the chip design is completed. They plan to archive the design files but the files must stay on line.
What is your initial node recommendation?

• A. X-Series nodes with SSD for the active diagrams and NL nodes for the archives
• B. S-Series nodes for the active diagrams and NL Series nodes for the archives
• C. X-Series nodes for the active diagrams and NL 400 nodes for the archives
• D. A-Series nodes for the active diagrams and X-Series nodes for the archives.

When conducting high-level interviews with stakeholders of a project, what are the key questions that should be asked?

• A. Who are the application owners?
  How much usable storage is needed?
  What applications will be accessing the storage?
  How many users are in your Active Directory?
• B. Which backup application is in use today?
  What is your change rate?
  How many clients will connect to the cluster?
• C. What does your network architecture look like?
  Do you have existing NAS infrastructure?
  Do you have 10Gb or 1Gb ethernet?
  Which applications will access this storage?
• D. How much usable storage are you looking for? What client OS will access this storage? Which applications will access this storage?