Pure Storage Certified Architect Professional - FlashBlade FBAP_002 Exam Questions

A customer is a heavy Windows user and generally uses SMB for everything, including backups. The customer wants to refresh the storage used within their backup environment. The customer is using Commvault for the backup software.

Which protocol should the architect recommend?

The customer wants to build a software QA infrastructure using modern big data tools like Spark and Kafk

a. The goal is to process 50 billion events per day and provide feedback in real-time in less than 5 seconds.

The architect needs to create a FlashBlade configuration to meet the capacity and performance requirements using the following assumptions:

4 RSyslog servers accessing FlashBlade via NFS

6 servers accessing FlashBlade via S3

Capacity: 6TB + 18TB + 18TB

Each protocol will create a concurrent write and / or read throughput of 6GB/s

Which configuration should the architect use to meet these requirements?

Refer to the exhibit.

An NFS-only environment is designed from the environment diagram shown. During a Proof-of-Concept installation, the customer decides to add 2 clients writing 300MB/s and 1 client reading 1GBs. What does the architect need to do?

A retail customer is designing a new application that will train an AI algorithm with metadata from purchase transactions.

The customer has the following constraints:

- Billions of transactions per hour

- Hundreds of thousands of clients

- Easily connect and disconnect from many network locations

- Asymmetric encryption across a WAN

- Resilience to network latency

Which protocol should the architect recommend?

A state agency wants to store property deed image in multi-page .tif format on a FlashBlade NFS file system.

What compression ratio should the architect utilize for sizing?

A customer is adding a micro-service to an existing application and needs to use the same user and S3 bucket. The current secret key is unknown.

What should the customer do to resolve this issue?

A customer is developing a AI workflow that Ingests sensor data to FlashBlade NFS from its cloud edge collection point for furthers analysis.

The customer's HPC cluster mounts NFS to train the data but S3 to label.

Which challenge will the architect experience with this design?