Network Appliance NS0-604 Practice Test - Questions Answers, Page 6

When replicating data between Azure NetApp Files volumes in different regions, the appropriate replication method is asynchronous replication. Asynchronous replication is commonly used for geo-replication across regions to ensure data is copied between regions, providing disaster recovery capabilities while allowing some latency in data synchronization.

Synchronous (D) replication is typically used for high-availability within the same region or low-latency environments. Bidirectional (A) and semi-synchronous (B) are not applicable or commonly used terms in Azure NetApp Files replication scenarios.

Google Cloud NetApp Volumes (formerly known as NetApp Cloud Volumes Service) is the best storage solution for an AI workflow that requires NFSv4.1 support, minimal management requirements, data protection, and the ability to rapidly create clones of datasets. This service provides fully managed file storage with NFS support and integrates seamlessly with Google Cloud, offering features like snapshotting, cloning, and built-in data protection.

NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP (B) is also a strong option but requires more management than Google Cloud NetApp Volumes. Google local SSD (C) and Google Cloud Storage (D) don't meet the requirements for NFSv4.1 support and dataset cloning.

Astra Control Service is the best NetApp solution for managing critical containerized applications and persistent storage. It provides monitoring, backup, and recovery for Kubernetes workloads, even if they use non-NetApp storage. Astra Control gives administrators the ability to monitor both the container infrastructure and the demands of the applications, offering insights into performance, capacity, and health.

Other options like BlueXP Digital Advisor (A), BlueXP Classification (C), and BlueXP Observability (D) provide various types of infrastructure management and observability but are not designed specifically for containerized environments and application-level monitoring.

To provide a local copy of NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP shares in a globally accessible file system on Microsoft Windows Servers 2022, BlueXP Edge Caching is the ideal solution. BlueXP Edge Caching allows users to cache frequently accessed data from centralized Cloud Volumes ONTAP shares at distributed locations, ensuring fast, local access while keeping the central storage synchronized.

BlueXP Tiering (A) is for moving cold data to lower-cost storage, BlueXP Copy and Sync (B) is for data migration and synchronization, and FlexCache (D) is primarily for caching in ONTAP environments but is not optimized for global accessibility in the Windows Server context.

To accommodate the 800 new temporary users in an Azure Virtual Desktop environment using Azure NetApp Files, the company should:

Move existing user-profile volumes from the Premium service level to the Ultra service level (B): The Ultra service level provides higher throughput and IOPS, which will support the increased workload from the additional 800 users, ensuring better performance.

Increase the volume quota size on existing user-profile volumes (C): Expanding the volume quota will ensure that there is enough capacity to store the profiles of the additional users, preventing performance issues due to storage capacity limits.

Global File Cache integration (A) and cross-region replication (D) are not necessary for this specific requirement of supporting more users in the same region.

For an application-aware data management solution for Kubernetes clusters that can be deployed on-premises on the customer's own hardware, the following two solutions should be deployed:

NetApp ONTAP AFF (C): ONTAP AFF systems provide enterprise-grade storage with Kubernetes integration, allowing the customer to manage Kubernetes workloads with advanced data management features like snapshots and replication.

NetApp Astra Control Center (D): Astra Control Center is designed for on-premises environments and provides application-aware data management for Kubernetes clusters. It helps with backup, restore, and migration for containerized applications on the customer's infrastructure.

Azure NetApp Files (A) and Astra Control Service (B) are cloud-based solutions and are not designed for on-premises deployments.

To prevent the deletion of volumes and snapshots by a rogue administrator without the option to assign a trusted administrator, the customer should implement:

SnapLock Enterprise (B): SnapLock is a feature that provides WORM (Write Once, Read Many) protection, ensuring that volumes or snapshots cannot be deleted or modified for a set retention period, even by administrators.

Tamperproof NetApp Snapshot copies (D): Snapshots in ONTAP can be made tamperproof to protect data from deletion or modification, securing them against rogue administrators.

Multi-admin verification (A) requires approval from multiple administrators, which the customer does not want. Role-based access control (C) helps manage permissions but does not provide protection against a rogue administrator with elevated permissions.

In this scenario, the customer has 100TB of used capacity on an on-premises AFF volume, and 80% of the data is cold and tiered to Amazon S3 using BlueXP tiering. After tiering, 80TB of cold data is tiered to Amazon S3, leaving 20TB of hot data on the AFF system. When BlueXP backup and recovery performs the first full backup, it backs up all the data (100TB). Since the backup is a full copy and independent of the tiering process, the total ingress traffic into AWS is 80TB (tiered data) + 100TB (full backup), resulting in 180TB of total ingress.

NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP supports NetApp Volume Encryption (NVE) with the cloud provider's key vault for encryption key management. NVE provides encryption at the volume level and integrates with external key management systems, such as AWS KMS, Azure Key Vault, and Google Cloud KMS, making it the appropriate encryption solution for cloud deployments.

NetApp Aggregate Encryption (NAE) (C) is used for on-premises environments. Transparent Data Encryption (TDE) (A) is commonly used for database encryption, and Onboard Key Manager (OKM) (B) is a different key management solution not tied to cloud key vaults.