Dell Information Storage and Management Foundations 2023 D-ISM-FN-23 Practice Exam

The Dell Information Storage and Management Foundations 2023 (D-ISM-FN-23) exam validates your fundamental knowledge and skills in the realm of information storage and management within a modern data center environment.

Who Should Take This Exam

This exam is ideal for individuals seeking to:

• Build a foundation for a career in storage technologies.
• Prepare for the Associate - Information Storage and Management (DCA-ISM) certification, which acts as the next step in the learning path.
• Gain a comprehensive understanding of storage-related technologies in the context of digital transformation.

Prerequisites

There are no formal prerequisites for taking the D-ISM-FN-23 exam. However, basic familiarity with IT concepts and terminology would be beneficial.

Roles and Responsibilities 

• Assisting with storage infrastructure management tasks.
  
• Contributing to data protection activities like backup and replication.
• Supporting basic storage networking configurations.
• Providing initial troubleshooting for storage-related issues.

Exam Details

• Format: Multiple Choice Questions
• Passing Score: 70%
  
• Time Limit: 90 Minutes

Course Outline

Modern Data Center Infrastructure (18%)

• Describe the data classification, elements of a data center, key characteristics of a data center, and key technologies driving digital transformation
• Explain the cloud characteristics, cloud service models, and cloud deployment models
• Explain the key characteristics of big data, big data analytics, AI/ML, Internet of Things (IoT) architecture, Edge computing, and 5G technologies
• Describe a compute system, storage, connectivity in a data center, and application center
• Describe software-defined data center, modern data center architecture, and options to build a modern data centre

Storage Systems (23%)

• Explain the components of an intelligent storage system, and RAID
• Describe storage provisioning and tiering
• Explain the features and components of block, file, object, and unified storage system

Storage Networking Technologies (19%)

• Explain the FC SAN components, FC ports, topologies, link aggregation, and SAN virtualization
• Explain the components and connectivity of iSCSI, FCIP, and FCoE
• Explain the NVMe over Fabrics, Software-defined storage and networking

Backup, Archive, and Replication (24%)

• Describe the information availability measurements and key fault tolerance techniques
• Explain backup granularity, architecture, backup targets, operations, and backup methods
• Describe data deduplication and data archiving solutions architecture
• Describe replication uses, and replication and migration techniques

Security and Management (16%)

• Describe the information security goals, terminologies, various security domains, and threats to a storage infrastructure
• Explain key security controls to protect the storage infrastructure
• Describe the storage infrastructure management functions and processes