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Dell Technologies Certified Specialist - Implementation Engineer, PowerProtect Data Manager
Backup on the most deployed deduplication target in Europe, which absorbed the old Avamar and Data Domain tracks: Data Manager as the control plane against the appliance as the store, variable-length deduplication and what Boost changes, agentless against agent-based protection, then protection policies with their objectives, replication and cloud tier, instant access recovery, retention lock and cyber recovery, and reading protection compliance rather than job success.
What you get
Papers are cut from the bank and weighted like the real exam, and no question appears in two of them. Every wrong answer comes back on later days until you have it right.
What the exam covers
| Architecture, the deduplication target and asset sources | Not published |
| Protection policies, recovery, security and operations | Not published |
Two sample questions
1. Which requirement should determine the recovery method chosen?
- The recovery point objective set for the data itself
- The recovery time objective agreed for the service — correct
- The deduplication ratio measured on the appliance
- The retention period demanded by the regulator
Why: How quickly the service must be restored determines which recovery method is viable.
2. What does registering vCenter as an asset source provide?
- Discovery of the virtual machines available to protect — correct
- A licence covering every machine in the cluster
- A copy of the datastore metadata kept on the appliance itself
- Automatic assignment of machines to policies
Why: Discovery produces the inventory that policies then select from, by name, by tag or by rule. Assignment remains a deliberate act unless a rule makes it automatic.
The real D-PDM-DY-A exam
| Length | 90 minutes |
|---|---|
| Questions | 54 |
| Pass mark | 63% |
| Price | Purchased per attempt through the Dell certification portal |
| Recommended before you sit it | None enforced. Backup fundamentals and the PowerProtect Data Manager courses are assumed. |
| Valid for | 2 years |
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