D-PSC-DY-23 Exam Information and Outline
PowerScale Deploy 2023
D-PSC-DY-23 Exam Syllabus & Study Guide
Before you start practicing with our exam simulator, it is essential to understand the official D-PSC-DY-23 exam objectives. This course outline serves as your roadmap, breaking down exactly which technical domains and skills will be tested. By reviewing the syllabus, you can identify your strengths and focus your study time on the areas where you need the most improvement.
The information below reflects the latest 2026 course contents as defined by DELL-EMC. We provide this detailed breakdown to help you align your preparation with the actual exam format, ensuring there are no surprises on test day. Use this outline as a checklist to track your progress as you move through our practice question banks.
Below are complete topics detail with latest syllabus and course outline, that will help you good knowledge about exam objectives and topics that you have to prepare. These contents are covered in questions and answers pool of exam.
NAS, PowerScale, and OneFS (13%)
• Describe PowerScale storage concepts such as scale out versus scale up, architecture, and OneFS details
• Describe PowerScale hardware components and intended use cases, for both Gen 5 and Gen 6 hardware
• Describe how an administrator accesses a PowerScale cluster and conducts common operations
• Describe the OneFS directory structure and configure base directories
Configuring the Foundations for Access (17%)
• Describe cluster dependencies on NTP, LDAP, Active Directory, and access zones
• Describe basic internal and external network configurations, multi- tenancy, groupnets, subnets, pools, and rules
• Explain network configurations in Gen 5 and Gen 6, including link aggregation, failover LACP, FEC, and Round Robin
• Describe how to integrate SmartConnect, SmartConnect zones, DNS, SSIP, IP address pools, and load balancing
Configuring Identity Management and Authorization (10%)
• Compare and contrast between uses of RBAC and ZRBAC
• Explain the nature and use of user identifiers and ID mapping
• Describe POSIX and ACL permission rubrics
Configuring Client Access to Data (13%)
• Describe OneFS caching levels and use cases
• Configure SMB shares with SMB3 Continuous Availability (CA) and Server-Side Copy with protocol auditing and f ile
filtering
• Configure NFS exports with NFSv4 Continuous Availability (CA)
• Configure S3 Buckets
Foundations of Data Protection and Layout (12%)
• Identify FEC data protection levels, f ile striping, and Reed-Solomon protection definitions
• Differentiate between requested, suggested, and actual protection levels and verify with isi get commands
• Differentiate concurrent and streaming data layout models, use cases, and performance impacts
• Explain storage pools, policies, neighborhoods, global namespace, spillover, and VHS
Configuring Storage Pools (13%)
• Differentiate between SmartPools, storage pools, SSD usage, and f ile pool policies
• Describe how f ile pool policies are created
• Describe the SmartPools features
• Describe the function and value of CloudPools
Configuring Data Services (15%)
• Describe the File Filtering and Smart Quotas features
• Describe how SmartLock and SmartDedupe are configured
• Identify SnapshotIQ features, CoW and RoW mechanics, and scheduling
• Describe how to prepare the cluster for SyncIQ disaster recovery
Monitoring Tools (7%)
• Describe how to schedule and run a HealthCheck
• Describe DataIQ features
• Describe the installation of InsightIQ monitoring and reporting, and the use of isi statistics commands