HPE1-H05 Advanced HPE Compute and HPE Storage Practical Exam Practice Questions
Prepare for HPE1-H05 with more than an answer.
- Passing score
- 60%
- Level
- Master ASE (practical/companion exam)
Domains covered on the exam 6
- Help customers assess current environment to make new or expansion recommendations.10%
- Help the customer locate and identify necessary environment information.10%
- Design a new solution for an existing environment.20%
- Configure a solution to align with security best practices.10%
- Provide disaster recovery advice.10%
- Hands On: Configure data ops manager / host mapping.40%
- 1
You are designing a new HPE Synergy solution for a high-performance computing environment. The solution requires a fully populated Synergy 12000 Frame with 12x SY 480 Gen11 compute modules equipped with high-wattage CPUs. To ensure maximum N+N power redundancy across dual facility power feeds, what is the required power supply configuration for the frame?
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Correct answer: C
The HPE Synergy 12000 Frame supports up to six Titanium power supplies. For a fully populated frame running high-wattage compute modules, all six power supplies must be populated and configured in an N+N (3+3) redundancy mode across two separate facility AC feeds to ensure the frame survives a complete failure of one power feed.
- 2
A customer is migrating a mixed workload consisting of traditional block storage (VMware VMFS) and large-scale file sharing (SMB/NFS) to a single storage architecture. They anticipate extreme, unpredictable growth in capacity but relatively flat performance requirements. Which HPE storage architecture should you design to optimally size and scale for this environment?
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Correct answer: B
HPE Alletra MP (Multi-Protocol) features a disaggregated, shared-everything architecture. It natively supports both block and file workloads on the same hardware. Because compute (controller nodes) and capacity (JBOFs) are disaggregated, the architect can scale capacity independently of performance, perfectly matching the customer's unpredictable capacity growth constraint.
graph TB subgraph Compute["Compute Layer (Performance)"] CN1[Controller Node 1] CN2[Controller Node 2] end subgraph Fabric["100GbE NVMe-oF Switch Fabric"] SW1[Switch A] SW2[Switch B] end subgraph Capacity["Capacity Layer (Storage)"] JBOF1[NVMe JBOF] JBOF2[NVMe JBOF] JBOF3[NVMe JBOF] end Compute --> Fabric Fabric --> Capacity - 3
You are validating a proposed HPE GreenLake for Block Storage solution for a customer who wants to move away from capital expenditure (CapEx) cycles and manual LUN provisioning. Which TWO benefits directly address these specific customer requirements? (Select TWO)
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Correct answer: A, B
HPE GreenLake for Block Storage solves manual LUN provisioning via intent-based provisioning (the admin specifies workload, capacity, and protection level, and AI handles the placement). It solves the CapEx cycle issue via a pay-per-use, as-a-service billing model.
HPE GreenLake for Block Storage solves manual LUN provisioning via intent-based provisioning (the admin specifies workload, capacity, and protection level, and AI handles the placement). It solves the CapEx cycle issue via a pay-per-use, as-a-service billing model.
- 4
When designing a new VMware ESXi cluster using HPE ProLiant DL380 Gen11 servers, the customer requests that all front drive bays remain available for software-defined storage (vSAN). They still require a highly available, hardware-mirrored boot solution for the hypervisor. Which HPE component should be included in the design?
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Correct answer: B
The HPE NS204i-u is a dedicated, hardware-mirrored (RAID 1) NVMe boot device that does not consume front drive bays. It is specifically designed for OS/hypervisor boot in environments like vSAN where front drive bays are dedicated to capacity and cache tiers.
- 5
A storage architect is investigating intermittent high latency on an HPE Alletra 9000 array that supports a critical OLTP database. Using HPE InfoSight, the architect observes that while write latency remains consistently under 1ms, read latency occasionally spikes to 15ms during batch reporting jobs. What is the most likely root cause of this behavior?
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Correct answer: B
In storage arrays like the HPE Alletra 9000, writes are immediately acknowledged once they hit the non-volatile cache (resulting in low write latency). However, large batch reporting jobs typically generate massive sequential reads. If these reads are not already cached, they result in cache misses, forcing the array to fetch data directly from the backend NVMe drives. This sudden influx of backend I/O causes read latency spikes.
flowchart TD A[Host Read Request] --> B{Data in Cache?} B -->|Yes| C[Serve from Cache: < 1ms] B -->|No| D[Fetch from NVMe Backend] D --> E[Backend Contention: > 10ms] E --> F[Serve to Host] - 6
While assessing an aging ProLiant Gen10 rackmount environment for a potential migration to an HPE Synergy platform, the customer states their primary goal is to minimize top-of-rack cabling while fully supporting 100GbE to the aggregation switches. Which Synergy fabric module should be recommended to meet this specific requirement?
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Correct answer: C
The HPE Virtual Connect SE 100Gb F32 Module provides 100GbE uplinks to the aggregation switches while heavily consolidating the internal cabling footprint of the Synergy frame. The F8 module only supports up to 40Gb uplinks, and the Interconnect Link Modules are used to link frames together, not to provide primary uplinks to the core network.
