EMT Practice Test

1. Question Content...

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Question1: An engineer is performing system updates on a large number of systems using OpenManage Essentials.
The engineer has been instructed NOT to update network adapter firmware at this time.
How can the engineer exclude a firmware update while still using the Dell Online Catalog source?

Question2: An engineer is installing two PCIe NICs into an existing VRTX chassis. Node 1 has three PCIe cards assigned to it already. After installation, the engineer is unable to assign the two new NICs to node 1.
What should the engineer do to assign the two PCIe NICs to node 1?

Question3: An engineer deploys an FX2 and plugs cables from GB1 and STK/GB2 into the management network switch for path and NIC redundancy. When the chassis is powered up, the management network is adversely affected.
What should the engineer do to fix this issue?

Question4: AN engineer needs server 1 in the chassis to be able to communicate on the default untagged VLAN 1 and tagged VLANs 10, 20, and 50. The engineer has port 1 configured with the following settings:
interface TenGigabitEthernet 0/1
mtu 12000
switchport
vlan tagged 10,20,50
flowcontrol rx on tx off
During testing, the engineer is unable to communicate with anything on VLAN 1.
How should the engineer fix this issue?

Question5: An engineer configures an Alert Action in the CMC to send an email on Warning and Critical events.
Chassis fan and power events are showing up as expected. Server-specific failures such as memory module failures only indicate that the server has gone into a Critical or Warning state.
What additional configuration needs to be done to be informed via email of the detailed server failure?

Question6: An engineer is migrating an existing server node from an M1000E to a VRTX chassis. An error message appears during POST. The system will continue to boot, but can NOT see any of the chassis shared storage or PCIe devices mapped to the server slot. The engineer has already removed the original fabric interfaces in mezzanine slot B and C from the original system configuration.
Which action must the engineer complete to allow the node to see chassis storage and mapped PCIe devices?

Question7: An engineer is deploying Dell SupportAssist to manage a data center.
After downloading and installing Dell OpenManage Essentials with SupportAssist, which two steps must be done to complete this task? (Choose two.)

Question8: A VRTX server is being set up for a new customer and configured with four blades. After a shutdown from a power outage, blades do NOT power up automatically upon power restore. Blades can be powered up either manually or via CMC.
Which setting should be verified to make sure blades automatically power up upon power restore?

Question9: An engineer is deploying a new server node into an existing chassis for a virtualization cluster. The existing cluster nodes have many modified BIOS settings to meet workload needs.
How should the engineer quickly deploy the new server node with matching BIOS settings?

Question10: An engineer receives two new I/O Aggregators (IOAs) in default mode. The engineer needs to make sure the uplink ports only pass tagged traffic in VLANs 100 and 200.
Which option allows the engineer to accomplish this task?

Question11: An engineer is adding an additional server to a chassis with 15 existing servers. The new server will NOT power on in any slot, even known good.
Existing server configuration
- Dual processor
- 256GB Memory
- PERC RAID Controller
- 2x 1TB 7200RPM SATA HDD
- QLogic Dual Port 10GbE Network Daughter Card (Fabric A)
- QLogic 16Gb Fibre Channel Mezz Card (Fabric B)
New server configuration
- Dual processor
- 192GB Memory
- No RAID
- Internal SD Card
- Intel Quad Port 1GbE Network Daughter Card (Fabric A)
- QLogic Dual Port 10GbE CNA Mezz Card (Fabric B)
The details of the chassis are as follows:
- Four 2700W Power Supplies
- Redundancy Policy is configured for Power Supply Redundancy
- Plugged into 220V AC
Power Monitoring logs show the original server's max draw as 418W each.
Which problem needs to be addressed to fix this issue?

Question12: An engineer is deploying a chassis with four IOAs and connecting it to the top of rack (ToR) switch. The deployment mandate requires that the switches be presented as one logical unit. Future servers can be added to network with the minimal amount of configuration.
The following steps have been completed:
- IOAs are daisy-chained using ports 9 and 10
- Cabled ports 11 and 12 on IOA 1 to the ToR
- Configured a team on NIC ports 1 and 2 on the server
How should the IOMs be configured?

Question13: An engineer needs to replicate BIOS and NIC settings for server nodes installed in the chassis.
Which CMC feature should an engineer use to perform this task?

Question14:
Refer to the exhibit.
An engineer is configuring an I/O Aggregator (IOA) for use on a network that has VLANs. The IOA in SLOT A2 is NOT being used currently.
All blades appear to communicate on the network EXCEPT for blades 1b and 1d.
What does the engineer need to do so that blades 1b and 1d can communicate?

Question15: An engineer is redeploying an PS-M4110 storage array in an M1000e chassis. The engineer chooses Configure Array from the CMC. All settings are unavailable.
What should the engineer do to allow the CMC to configure the array?

Question16: An engineer is troubleshooting a VRTX with the following configuration:
- Dual Shared PERC Internal cards in a fault tolerant configuration
- Nodes installed in SLOTS 1 and 2
- Virtual adapters set to Multiple Assignment
- Two virtual drives set to Full Access on SLOTS 1 and 2
The OS of the node in SLOT 1 shows more than the two disks assigned to it.
What should the engineer do to fix this issue?

Question17: A VRTX server comes with two server modules. The customer requests to assign three PCIe Adapters per each server module. While performing this configuration, the engineer is unable to assign more than two PCIe Adapters per server module.
What is the cause of this issue?

Question18: An engineer needs to limit the power consumption of a chassis without powering down any server nodes.
Which step should the engineer take to perform this task?

Question19: A VRTX has the following physical disks:
- 8 300 GB SSDs
- 10 300 GB 15,000 rpm HDDs
An engineer needs to create two virtual disks for a file server: a system volume and a data volume.
The customer wants to maximize performance of the system volume and maximize redundancy of the data volume.
The customer also wants both virtual disks to survive one drive failure without the customer's intervention.
Which option is most appropriate to meet the requirements?

Question20: An engineer needs to connect two MXL switches that both have SFP+ add-on module.
Which cable will complete this task?
A:

B:

C:

D:

Question21: An engineer needs to configure server 1 to communicate on tagged VLANs 10, 20, and 30 and untagged VLAN 50. The server is in SLOT 1 of an FX2s chassis with two FN410s IOAs. The switches are currently set to default settings.
Which command should be entered in each IOA to perform the engineer's task?

Question22: An engineer needs to perform hardware configuration, including RAID, on a new batch of 30 identical server nodes. OpenManage Essentials is installed, and the sever nodes have been discovered via iDRAC.
The engineer needs the most efficient way to replicate the configuration from a single configured system without losing connectivity to the iDRAC.
How should the engineer perform this task?

Question23: An engineer is deploying a chassis with multiple servers. None of the servers can communicate with others within the chassis.
The engineer observes the following:
- The chassis is configured with an I/O Aggregator (IOA) and the servers are using 10GbE network adapters in the same fabric
- The server network interfaces show no link
- The IOA is powered on and shows a healthy status
- No external uplinks have been connected
- The IOA shows all internal ports are down
Which step is required to bring up the internal ports and establish server connectivity within the chassis?

Question24: An engineer needs to configure a full height blade server and iSCSI traffic. The blade has two dual port NDCs. The M1000e chassis only has switches in A fabric.
A1 - Production traffic:
174.1.0.0/16 network
Server facing switch ports use tagged VLANs 10, 30, 50
A2 - iSCSI traffic:
10.0.0.0/24 network
Untagged traffic
Switch is set to access VLAN 20
The engineer needs to set up the host to operate on the iSCSI network using two ports.
Which ports should be used?

Question25: An engineer is installing a server node with a quad port 1GbE NIC into SLOT 3 on a VRTX chassis with a
1GbE Pass-Through Module (PTM) in Fabric A.
During POST of this server, a message indicates that ports 3 and 4 of the NIC are being disabled. The system completes the boot process and is otherwise operational.
What is causing this message?

Question26: An engineer has been given a new chassis and needs to configure the iDRACs on all servers prior to deploying an OS on them. The iDRACs need to be configured with IP addresses and a new root password.
What is the most efficient method to perform this task?

Question27: An engineer needs to connect ports 49 and 53 on an MXL to a top of rack (ToR) switch in an LACP port channel. The ToR switch has ports 46 and 60 configured in port channel 100.
Which configuration will successfully bring up the port channel on the MXL?

Question28: An engineer needs to use OME to monitor 4000 servers in the environment.
Which two tasks should the engineer perform to improve OME performance and scalability? (Choose two.)

Question29: An engineer is in front of an FX2 chassis and notices the I/O indicator on the left ear of the chassis is flashing amber.
What are two possible causes? (Choose two.)

Question30: An engineer has a blade chassis (VRTX) and is having connectivity issues.
The chassis has blades in SLOTS 1 and 2. A switch is installed in the chassis.
- Port channel 1 is for Server 1 interfaces
- Port channel 2 is for Server 2 interfaces
- Server interfaces are members of VLANs 10, 50, and 100
- External interfaces are in a port channel
- External interfaces are configured to pass traffic on VLAN 10, 50, and 100 Configuration info from Server interfaces and port channels:
Server Ports:
Switchport: enable
Administrative Mode: trunk
Operational Mode: up
Access Mode VLAN: 1
Port Channels 1 and 2:
Switchport: enable
Administrative Mode: access
Operational Mode: up
Access Mode VLAN: 1
Servers can NOT communicate with the network outside of the switch. Other systems can NOT communicate with the servers inside the chassis. The two servers can communicate with each other.
What does the engineer need to do to establish server communication?

Question31: In VRTX the following features are enabled:
1. Server Module Firmware Update
2. Remote syslog
3. iDRAC Single Sign-on.
4. Server configuration
5. Chassis grouping
6. Enclosure level backup
Which license type is required?

Question32: An engineer needs to put chassis switches on a LAN that has already been configured for latency sensitive applications and to enable lossless links.
How should the engineer accomplish this?

Question33: An engineer is installing an M1000e chassis and connecting it to the network in the top of rack (ToR) switch. The entire company's infrastructure is on a single subnet configured as follows.
- IPs 10.0.1.0/24
- Gateway 10.0.1.1
- DNS 10.0.1.3
- DHCP 10.0.1.4
- OS IPs 10.0.1.10-99
The engineer configures the CMC to use IP 10.0.1.100 and the iDRACs to use the next 16 IPs.
The customer notices the CMC and the iDRAC are having intermittent connectivity issues. The following troubleshooting steps have been completed:
- Replaced cables from CMCs to ToR
- Failed over CMC
- Configured and tried different ports in ToR
- Connected the laptop directly to the CMC
Direct connection to the CMC does NOT show any connectivity issues.
What should be done to fix the connectivity issues?

Question34: An engineer is installing 10Gb modules into a pair of MXL switches.
Which cable is correct for this installation?
A:

B:

C:

D:

Question35: An engineer needs to update BIOS in the following environment:
- Over 100 servers are spread over 10 chassis
- All servers are in the same data center
- The only maintenance window is late Sunday evening when OS patches are applied and servers are rebooted
- Less than 10 minutes of additional downtime per server is allowed
What is the most effective update strategy?

Question36: An engineer is updating the IOM Infrastructure Device firmware from the CMC GUI. The IOMINF device is NOT listed as a device that can be updated.
What is causing this issue?

Question37:
Refer to the exhibit.
An engineer receives a pair of the modules shown to install in a pair of MXL switches.
Which cables does the engineer need for this module?

Question38: An engineer needs to re-purpose the storage of the chassis. Data must NOT be lost when a drive fails. The configuration needs to allow for redundancy with the maximum amount of usable space.
What should the engineer create to perform this task?

Question39: An engineer needs to assign two PCIe NICs and a GPU to a server node in a VRTX chassis.
Which two steps are required to complete this task? (Choose two.)

Question40: A VRTX has storage set up as a RAID 10 in a 16-drive disk group. Each drive is 1.6 TB for a total of 12.8 TB space in the disk group. There are currently 14 virtual disks of 600GB each. The engineer needs to create three more virtual disks. The engineer successfully creates two virtual disks but is unable to create the third because there are NO physical disks to choose from.
What must the engineer do to create the final virtual disk?

Question41:

Refer to the exhibit.
An engineer needs to configure iSCSI boot on a blade.
iSCSI boot is NOT working.
Which two steps should the engineer take to fix the issue? (Choose two.)

Question42: An engineer has connected a monitor, keyboard, and mouse to a VRTX chassis. The engineer is unable to see or control the first blade.
What must the engineer do to control the first blade with a connected monitor, keyboard, and mouse?

Question43: An engineer is building a new cluster and is using software-defined storage. The FX2 has 4x FC430s and
2x FD332 sleds. The blades are ready to add storage.
How should the engineer configure the FD332 sleds to be used for local storage?

Question44:
Refer to the exhibit.
An engineer sets up FCoE boot on their server. The server fails during post.
What needs to be added to the NIC settings/option ROM to make booting successful?

Question45: An engineer is configuring a new FD332 storage sled into an existing chassis in SLOT 3. The engineer is unable to create any RAID arrays although the drives are detected.
Which task should be completed to create RAID volumes?

Question46: An engineer is troubleshooting a blade server in an FX2s. The compute sled in SLOT 3 will NOT power on.
The engineer has taken the server down to minimum to POST. The server still does NOT power on. The engineer then swaps sleds SLOT 2 and 3. The iDRAC initializes in SLOT 2 but SLOT 3 is stuck at initializing the iDRAC.
What are two possible sources of the issue? (Choose two.)

Question47: Company servers are in the branch offices located at different geographic locations. All servers are running ESXi hypervisor. The are no network connections between the branch office and central office.
What is the most cost effective way to update firmware in each location?

Question48: An engineer is configuring a new FD332 storage sled into an existing chassis in SLOT 3. The FD332 is NOT being detected by the assigned node.
Which two tasks must an engineer complete so that the FD332 is detected by the node? (Choose two.)

Question49: An engineer has a new blade chassis that is ¾ full. The chassis has six power supplies. The chassis at peak power usage needs at minimum four power supplies. Redundancy is NOT a concern.
The engineer needs a policy to meet the current needs and provide enough power to a fully populated chassis.
Which policy should the engineer choose?

Question50: An engineer is responsible for data center bare metal deployment. The engineer deploys hundreds of servers each week and must repeatedly deploy a standard hardware (HW) configuration and put the OS on the bare metal servers.
How should the engineer automate some of these tasks?

Question51: A password to the CMC root account on an M1000e server chassis has been misplaced.
What should be done to restore administrative access to the CMC?

Question52: An engineer is installing a known good PCIe storage adapter in SLOT 1 of an FX2 chassis with four half height nodes. Node 1 is NOT detecting the adapter.
What must the engineer do so that node 1 can detect the adapter?

Question53: A new M1000e is being deployed in the data center. All initial power and data cabling is complete. The engineer checks the CMC Chassis Health and sees that one of the six PSUs displays as Failed (No AC).
An AC cable is connected, and the power distribution unit produces good AC output.
What two tasks should be completed to troubleshoot this issue? (Choose two.)

Question54: An engineer is running an inventory report on a VRTX chassis group for a customer. When the engineer views the report, the engineer notices the inventory of one of the VRTX is missing one of its nodes.
What is the cause?

Question55: An engineer installs a second Shared PERC Internal card into a VRTX and is performing post installation tasks.
The Fault Tolerant Status is NOT Healthy/Normal as expected.
What is the cause?

Question56: An engineer enters a data center to configure an uplink between an I/O Aggregator (IOA) and an upstream switch. The IOA and upstream switch are configured for spanning tree. The engineer applies the following configuration to the uplink port:
interface TenGigabitEthernet 0/12

switchport

flowcontrol rx on tx off

spanning-tree rstp edge-port

As soon as the engineer plugs in the cables, it creates a loop and brings down the network.
Which commands should be entered on the IOA to fix loop?

Question57: Only one of the server nodes in the FX2s chassis can see the FD332.
How should the chassis be configured so that both nodes can see the storage?

Question58: A new node is added to a VRTX to create a compute cluster. This node needs to access the same virtual disk as an existing node in the VRTX.
Which two settings need to be modified to allow the node access? (Choose two.)

Question59: An engineer is redeploying a blade chassis, and is logged into the CMC web interface. The engineer has configured the iDRACs for the blade servers.
When the engineer tries to log into one of the iDRACs, the connection fails. The engineer can ping the CMC from the engineer's workstation but can NOT ping the iDRACs. The engineer tries to ping the iDRAC IP from the CMC itself using the diagnostic tool, but that also fails.
Which two tasks should the engineer perform? (Choose two.)

Question60: An engineer responsible for server lifecycle management (e.g. Monitor, Update, Deploy) needs to build a monitoring strategy for a multi-vendor data center. The company has an established third party software as the monitoring and help desk system.
Which option should be used to integrate Dell Server hardware into this monitoring architecture?

Question61: A customer has five VRTXs in a chassis group that they need to disband. The engineer disbands the chassis group from the group leader, but a networking interruption prevents two of the VRTXs from getting the signal to leave the group.
What should the engineer do to finish disbanding the chassis group?

Question62: An engineer needs to configure network port partitions for four networks that will be used on the server.
- Partition 1 - Management network
- Partition 2 - VM Live Migration network
- Partition 3 - Production VM network
- Partition 4 - Development VM network
The engineer needs to make sure the following conditions are met:
- Management and Live Migration networks do NOT exceed 1Gb
- Production VM network can use 10Gb but is guaranteed 5Gb during heavy use
- Development VM network has maximum bandwidth capability when NOT in use by the other networks Which network port partition bandwidth settings should the engineer set?

Question63: An engineer needs to enable automated proactive support from Dell for ProSupport entitled assets discovered in OpenManage Essentials.
What additional software should the engineer install?

Question64:
Refer to the exhibit.
An engineer receives a pair of the modules shown to install into a pair of MXL switches.
Which cables does the engineer need for this module?