EMT Practice Test

1. Question Content...

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Question1: 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?

Question2: 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?

Question3:
An engineer is logged into the CMC with an SSH session. From there the engineer gets the output shown in the exhibit and the session appears to be hung up. What should the engineer do to fix the issue?

Question4: An engineer is trying to use OpenManage Essentials to automate the deployment of 100 bare metal servers. The engineer purchased the OME - Server Configuration Management license after point of sale and now has all of the licenses needed.
What is the most efficient way to install the licenses?

Question5: 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.)

Question6: 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?

Question7: 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.)

Question8: An engineer needs to configure a redundant CMC network link into to a newly installed FX2 chassis. CMC port 1 is up and working. The engineer only has one management switch available for CMC connections.
The engineer plugs CMC port 2 into the management switch and leaves the data center. The network engineer reports extreme traffic on the network and is unable to connect to any other switches.
How should the engineer fix this problem quickly and maintain redundancy?

Question9: 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?

Question10: 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?

Question11: 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?

Question12:
An engineer is configuring VLT between two MXL switches. The engineer runs a show vlt brief command on one of the MXLs and receives the status shown in the exhibit. What should the engineer verify to fix the issue?

Question13: 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?

Question14: Network A is on VLAN 10. Network B is on VLAN 20. The physical environment is as follows:
Chassis is uplinked to top of rack switch
Switch configuration:
- The uplink is untagged on VLANs 10
- Port 1 of server A on the fabric is untagged on VLAN 10
- Port 1 of server B on the fabric is untagged on VLAN 10
Customers on network B should only connect to server B Customers on network A should only connect to server A Which three changes need to be made to meet the requirements?

Question15: 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?

Question16: An engineer needs to utilize the Server Configuration Profile (SCP) feature with the racadm command line tool to rapidly deploy a configuration to multiple servers. How should the engineer complete this task?

Question17: 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.)

Question18: 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 can be managed individually. Also, future servers can be added to network with the minimal amount of configuration.
The following steps have been completed:
- Cabled port 9 between the two IOMs
- Cabled ports 10 and 11 on both IOMs to the ToR
- Configured a team on NIC ports 1 and 2 on the server
How should the IOMs be configured?

Question19: A new engineer is accessing three FX2s chassis through CMC that have been stacked and grouped.
The CMC IP information is as follows:
lead=10.10.10.10
member 1=10.10.10.11
member 2=10.10.10.12
The engineer connects to the CMC at 10.10.10.11, but is unable to manage the group. What does the engineer need to do to manage the group?

Question20: 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?

Question21: 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?

Question22: 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?

Question23: 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?

Question24: 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?

Question25: 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?

Question26: 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?

Question27: 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?

Question28: 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?

Question29: 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.)

Question30: 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?

Question31: 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?

Question32: An engineer needs to install SupportAssist for OpenManage Essentials. Which protocol needs to be enabled on all target devices to properly communicate with this management tool?

Question33: A customer has a VRTX with Shared PERC External cards cabled as shown in the exhibit. Which connection needs to be swapped to fix the cabling?

Question34: 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?

Question35: 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.)

Question36: 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?

Question37: 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?

Question38: 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?

Question39: 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?

Question40: 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?

Question41:
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?

Question42: 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?

Question43: 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?

Question44: Two Shared PERC External cards are in a dual fault tolerant configuration. When the active controller fails, the virtual drive becomes inaccessible. Why is the virtual drive inaccessible?

Question45: 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?

Question46:
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.)

Question47: 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.)

Question48: 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?

Question49: What are three valid methods of capturing the configuration of a server node for re-deployment through CMC?

Question50: An FX2 has one compute node and three storage needs. The server sees only half of the drives in the FD332 in SLOT 3. The chassis needs to be configured to see all drives in all storage nodes. What should an engineer do to accomplish this task?

Question51: 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?

Question52: 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?

Question53: 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?