EMC E20-554 : Isilon Design Specialist Exam for Technology Architects

  • Exam Code: E20-554
  • Exam Name: Isilon Design Specialist Exam for Technology Architects
  • Updated: Aug 10, 2026
  • Q & A: 81 Questions and Answers

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EMC E20-554 Exam Syllabus Topics:

SectionObjectives
Solution Design Considerations- Cluster design and scalability planning
- Customer requirements analysis and sizing
Performance and Scalability- Performance optimization techniques
- Cluster scaling and workload distribution
Data Protection and Availability- Erasure coding and data protection schemes
- Snapshots, replication, and backup integration
Networking and Protocols- NFS, SMB, and HDFS protocol support
- Network architecture for Isilon clusters
Implementation and Troubleshooting- Deployment planning and best practices
- Common issues and troubleshooting methods
Isilon / OneFS Architecture Fundamentals- OneFS operating system fundamentals
- Scale-out NAS architecture concepts

EMC Isilon Design Specialist Exam for Technology Architects Sample Questions:

1. You have 1000 users for an application that reads and writes files averaging between one and four MB in size. Each user requires 24 MB of RAM. You want to add another 1000 users for this application, and in preparation for them, you run the isi statistics command. You discover that the average CPU utilization is 20%; aggregate throughput averages 700 MB/s and the disk QueueD average is 1.5. Your cluster currently has five X200 (12 GB RAM, 1 TB drive) nodes, uses N+2:1 protection and 1 GigE networking.
What should you do to accommodate the next 1000 users?

A) Add five additional X200 (12 GB, 1 TB drive) nodes
B) Upgrade two of the 1 GigE NICs to 10 GigE on each node.
C) Upgrade each X200 node to a total of 24 GB of RAM.
D) Add five A100 (24 GB RAM) accelerator nodes.


2. A company currently has numerous file servers providing home directories for its employees. Some departments have their own file servers. All corporate users authenticate using Active Directory. The engineering department has their own untrusted AD domain for their file servers.
The company is looking for a consolidated solution that requires minimal changes to the environment, and that creates a single namespace for the home directories.
What is the recommended solution that will meet this company's requirements?

A) Consolidate onto a single cluster and merge the domains.
B) Configure two separate clusters, one for each AD domain.
C) Utilize SmartPools to create two pools to separate the domains.
D) Implement an Isilon cluster and utilize Access Zones.


3. You are sizing an Isilon cluster for a new customer. Analyzing their workflow you determine that they have a large block random read workload.What is the most important factor to consider when sizing this solution?

A) Latency
B) Bandwidth
C) Headroom
D) IOPS


4. -- Exhibit -
We have been engaged by a research hospital to help upgrade their Isilon installation. They currently have 12 previous generation Isilon nodes with 200TB of capacity and run on a 1Gbps network. They currently have 6 Illumina Hi-Seq Sequencers and an HPC cluster to process data. They would like to expand Isilon to 2PB of active data and 1PB of archive data. They use a third party data and metadata management service (IRODs) to stage data for analysis. The Isilon cluster is mainly used for analysis work with the HPC cluster.
-- Exhibit -
Before making any changes, the customer would like a graphical presentation of their existing array performance to present to management.What is the best tool to gather this information?

A) InsightIQ
B) netstat
C) tcpdump
D) isi_netlogger


5. Your customer is moving from a Restaurant/Bar business model to a Restaurant/Casino business model. You are helping architect the upgrade of a current 4-node X200 48 TB Isilon cluster, with 50% utilized for their video surveillance operations.
They want to upgrade from 15 FPS (NTSC) in H.264 codec, with a 15 days retention policy to 30 FPS (NTSC) in H.264 codec, with a 30 days retention policy.
How many nodes of the same type will you need to add in order to meet the required changes and not exceed 70% raw capacity?

A) 8 nodes
B) 12 nodes
C) 4 nodes
D) 16 nodes


Solutions:

Question # 1
Answer: A
Question # 2
Answer: D
Question # 3
Answer: B
Question # 4
Answer: A
Question # 5
Answer: A

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