NS0-701 NetApp Certified Cloud and Storage Services Engineer Professional Practice Questions
Prepare for NS0-701 with more than an answer.
- Exam fee
- $200 USD
- Level
- Professional
- Valid for
- 24 months
Domains covered on the exam 5
- Fundamentals20%
- Implementation20%
- Automation20%
- Monitoring20%
- Troubleshooting20%
- 1
You are deploying a Cloud Volumes ONTAP (CVO) High Availability (HA) pair in AWS across multiple Availability Zones to ensure maximum fault tolerance. Which TWO specific components or configurations are strictly required for this deployment architecture? (Select TWO)
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Correct answer: A, B
To enable seamless failover of data access (NFS/SMB/iSCSI) between nodes in different subnets/AZs, AWS CVO HA requires Floating IPs that exist outside the VPC CIDR block, coupled with VPC route table modifications.
A CVO HA pair in AWS requires an HA Mediator instance to maintain quorum and facilitate automated storage failover without split-brain scenarios. Best practice dictates placing this in a third AZ.
- 2
During a routine capacity review, an administrator notices that a volume on an Azure-based Cloud Volumes ONTAP instance is nearing 95% utilization. The administrator decides to use the BlueXP console to resolve this. What is the standard operational procedure to add capacity using BlueXP?
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Correct answer: D
BlueXP abstracts the complexity of storage management. When an administrator increases the volume size directly from the BlueXP UI, the system automatically checks aggregate capacity and will provision additional cloud disks (managed disks) to the aggregate if required, ensuring a seamless capacity expansion.
- 3
A storage architect is configuring Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP to balance performance and cost. The workload has a large volume of cold data, but the active dataset requires high IOPS. The architect sets up a primary SSD storage tier and a capacity pool tier. Which volume tiering policy should be applied so that all newly written data goes to the SSD tier, but user data blocks that become cold over time are moved to the capacity pool?
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Correct answer: C
The 'Auto' tiering policy (based on FabricPool technology) writes new data to the performance SSD tier. A background scanner then monitors data access patterns; blocks that remain unread beyond a defined cooling period are moved to the capacity pool. The 'Snapshot-only' policy only tiers snapshot blocks, and 'All' tiers everything immediately.
- 4
A cloud architect is preparing to deploy a NetApp BlueXP Connector in an AWS environment to manage Cloud Volumes ONTAP (CVO). The organization enforces a strict least-privilege security model. Which of the following is the most appropriate method to grant the required permissions to the BlueXP Connector EC2 instance?
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Correct answer: A
The best practice and most secure method to provide permissions to the BlueXP Connector in AWS is to attach an IAM Instance Profile to the EC2 instance. This avoids the use of long-lived, static access keys and adheres to cloud security best practices by using temporary credentials managed by AWS.
- 5
When planning the network security groups for a new Cloud Volumes ONTAP (CVO) deployment in Azure, which TWO outbound firewall rules are strictly required for the BlueXP Connector to successfully deploy and manage the CVO nodes? (Select TWO)
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Correct answer: B, C
The BlueXP Connector must be able to communicate internally with the deployed CVO nodes within the Azure VNet for provisioning and ongoing management tasks.
The BlueXP Connector requires outbound internet access over HTTPS (port 443) to communicate with the BlueXP SaaS backend, NetApp AutoSupport, and the cloud provider APIs (Azure APIs in this case).
- 6
A financial services company needs to host a high-performance database in Microsoft Azure. The requirements mandate sub-millisecond latency, first-party Azure service integration for simplified billing, and the ability to dynamically scale storage performance without migrating data. Which NetApp Cloud Data Services solution optimally meets these criteria?
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Correct answer: C
Azure NetApp Files (ANF) is a first-party Microsoft Azure service that provides bare-metal performance with sub-millisecond latency. It allows dynamic changes to performance tiers (Standard, Premium, Ultra) on the fly without data migration, perfectly matching the scenario requirements. CVO is an IaaS offering and does not meet the 'first-party service' requirement.
