An organization is looking to further secure the data locate…

An organization is looking to further secure the data located on their FlashArrays against decryption. They have been provided Pure standard documentation on Encryption at Rest and they want to implement additional measures to safeguard data. Which Purity feature should an architect recommend to meet this requirement?

A company wants to enable NVMe/TCP on their FlashArray. Each…

A company wants to enable NVMe/TCP on their FlashArray. Each controller currently has a 4-port 25Gb NIC installed, with two ports already being utilized for iSCSI connectivity. What is the MOST cost-effective way an architect could enable the NVMe/TCP while maintaining iSCSI connectivity?

A trading company has implemented a cloud based observabilit…

A trading company has implemented a cloud based observability platform to enhance monitoring and alerting for their infrastructure. The company has the goal to proactively identify anomalies and improve collaboration during investigations. They are successfully scraping real-time metrics from all components of their critical trading service. This includes the front-end application and marketing analysis, to the back-end networks and storage arrays. These metrics have been scraping successfully from all components for the last 14 days. Which action should the architect recommend next?

An organization is using FlashBlade with S3 multi-site writa…

An organization is using FlashBlade with S3 multi-site writable buckets, with replication enabled in different data centers. They are using a single LAG configuration. However, when the application is reading or writing heavily (100% utilization on the uplink LAG interface) the replication lag increases significantly causing application errors. The network team has reported that there is lower than normal utilization of the cross-site link.   What should the architect do to reduce the replication lag?

An organization is migrating their 1200 VMware VMs to the AW…

An organization is migrating their 1200 VMware VMs to the AWS cloud within seven months. All of the VMs are running VMware File System (VMFS). The organization’s 3PB of data, including boot volumes, is currently stored on Pure FlashArrays in their data center.    The organization has a Direct Connect with AWS to a local region with 10ms of roundtrip latency and has configured multiple Cloud Block Store (CBS) arrays in that region.   What is a valid storage migration design to accomplish this in the time required?

A small machine tool producer wants to determine whether to…

A small machine tool producer wants to determine whether to produce in-house or contract with a supplier. In-house production incurs fixed costs of $8,000 and variable costs of $60 per unit. The supplier has no fixed costs, only variable costs of $100 per unit. For what range of output would contracting with a supplier be more cost-effective than in-house production?