Sample Exam Questions for Migration Specialist Certification

Question 1: A Cirrus CMO appliance has been deployed in a customer environment, and the customer has agreed to use a logical insertion method to place the appliance into the datapath between the Dell EMC PowerMax array and the hosts being migrated. The environment includes several legacy hosts, and the insertion method must support a high level of host granularity. Which insertion type supports this high-level of granularity?
A. Path-based logical insertion
B. Storage-side logical insertion
C. Host-side logical insertion

Question 1: A Cirrus CMO appliance has been deployed in a customer environment, and the customer has agreed to use a logical insertion method to place the appliance into the datapath between the Dell EMC PowerMax array and the hosts being migrated. The environment includes several legacy hosts, and the insertion method must support a high level of host granularity.

Which insertion type supports this high-level of granularity?

A. Path-based logical insertion

B. Storage-side logical insertion

C. Host-side logical insertion

Question 2: A Migration Architect needs to migrate a 500 TB NFSv3 file system containing millions of small configuration files on FlashBlade A to an S3 bucket on FlashBlade B. The primary business requirement is to achieve the fastest possible final sync to minimize cutover downtime. Which migration method meets these requirements while minimizing configuration changes on the source and target systems?
A. Robocopy
B. Native Replication between FlashBlade A and FlashBlade B
C. PARSEC

Question 2: A Migration Architect needs to migrate a 500 TB NFSv3 file system containing millions of small configuration files on FlashBlade A to an S3 bucket on FlashBlade B. The primary business requirement is to achieve the fastest possible final sync to minimize cutover downtime.

Which migration method meets these requirements while minimizing configuration changes on the source and target systems?

A. Robocopy

B. Native Replication between FlashBlade A and FlashBlade B

C. PARSEC

Question 3: A Migration Architect has a requirement from an application vendor to create S3 buckets for an object store and replication between two different sites. The data has to be accessed from both sites for reading and writing objects. With the installation of two FlashBlade storage arrays, what is the required process sequence for this configuration?
A. Creation of S3 multi-site-writable bucket on the FlashBlades in both sites Creation of replica link for empty S3 buckets Start up copy
B. Creation of S3 classic bucket on both FlashBlades in both sites Creation of replica link for empty S3 bucket Start up copy
C. Creation of S3 multi-site-writable bucket on the FlashBlades in both sites Start up copy Creation of replica link for empty S3 bucket

Question 3: A Migration Architect has a requirement from an application vendor to create S3 buckets for an object store and replication between two different sites. The data has to be accessed from both sites for reading and writing objects.

With the installation of two FlashBlade storage arrays, what is the required process sequence for this configuration?

A.

Creation of S3 multi-site-writable bucket on the FlashBlades in both sites
Creation of replica link for empty S3 buckets
Start up copy

B.

Creation of S3 classic bucket on both FlashBlades in both sites
Creation of replica link for empty S3 bucket
Start up copy

C.

Creation of S3 multi-site-writable bucket on the FlashBlades in both sites
Start up copy
Creation of replica link for empty S3 bucket

Question 4: A Migration Architect is preparing to migrate KVM virtual machines from local disk to a FlashArray using iSCSI block storage. To ensure uninterrupted I/O during controller failover or path remediation events, which host-side requirement must be validated before beginning the migration?
A. The KVM hosts have consistent iSCSI session bindings and interface-based login policies configured to prevent path flapping during target re-registration.
B. The `qcow2` backing files are provisioned on block devices with write-barrier support according to Pure best practices to avoid metadata inconsistencies during path recovery events.
C. The KVM hosts must maintain active device-mapper multipath configurations using Pure-supported settings for path grouping, I/O retry intervals, and ALUA policy handling.

Question 4: A Migration Architect is preparing to migrate KVM virtual machines from local disk to a FlashArray using iSCSI block storage.

To ensure uninterrupted I/O during controller failover or path remediation events, which host-side requirement must be validated before beginning the migration?

A. The KVM hosts have consistent iSCSI session bindings and interface-based login policies configured to prevent path flapping during target re-registration.

B. The qcow2 backing files are provisioned on block devices with write-barrier support according to Pure best practices to avoid metadata inconsistencies during path recovery events.

C. The KVM hosts must maintain active device-mapper multipath configurations using Pure-supported settings for path grouping, I/O retry intervals, and ALUA policy handling.

Question 5: After migration of a cluster using LVM to a FlashArray, a Migration Architect needs to test a resource failover. The resource works on one cluster node, but fails to move to a second node of the cluster. The cluster components were operating normally before the data migration. What is likely causing the failure?
A. Host with initiator WWPN members has been created for only one node of the cluster.
B. Host group has been created with two nodes of the cluster initiator WWPN.
C. Export policy is missing for the root access for the second node of the cluster.

Question 5: After migration of a cluster using LVM to a FlashArray, a Migration Architect needs to test a resource failover. The resource works on one cluster node, but fails to move to a second node of the cluster. The cluster components were operating normally before the data migration.

What is likely causing the failure?

A. Host with initiator WWPN members has been created for only one node of the cluster.

B. Host group has been created with two nodes of the cluster initiator WWPN.

C. Export policy is missing for the root access for the second node of the cluster.

Question 6: A Migration Architect completes the NAS (NFS) data migration cutover. The Linux servers are updated, and the filesystem is remounted to the new Everpure system. Minutes later, users report data inconsistencies and missing files. What is a likely cause of the issue?
A. The target storage was NOT mounted as read-only during the last iteration.
B. Input/output (I/O) was NOT suspended on the source system during the final copy iteration.
C. The Linux server was NOT rebooted after updating the /etc/fstab.

Question 6: A Migration Architect completes the NAS (NFS) data migration cutover. The Linux servers are updated, and the filesystem is remounted to the new Everpure system. Minutes later, users report data inconsistencies and missing files.

What is a likely cause of the issue?

A. The target storage was NOT mounted as read-only during the last iteration.

B. Input/output (I/O) was NOT suspended on the source system during the final copy iteration.

C. The Linux server was NOT rebooted after updating the /etc/fstab.

Question 7: A Migration Architect has an existing S3 account/user and bucket that Application Team A uses as an object store. Application Team B now needs access as well, but Team B's access must be read-only. For Application Team B, what should be done to disable writes on buckets?
A. Create a new S3 user with correct read-only policies and designate this user to Team B.
B. Create a new S3 account with correct read-only policies and designate this account to Team B.
C. Create a new S3 bucket, copy the data from the previous S3 bucket, and provide access to Team B.

Question 7: A Migration Architect has an existing S3 account/user and bucket that Application Team A uses as an object store. Application Team B now needs access as well, but Team B's access must be read-only.

For Application Team B, what should be done to disable writes on buckets?

A. Create a new S3 user with correct read-only policies and designate this user to Team B.

B. Create a new S3 account with correct read-only policies and designate this account to Team B.

C. Create a new S3 bucket, copy the data from the previous S3 bucket, and provide access to Team B.

Question 8: A customer is preparing to migrate all VMs in their vSphere 7 environment from a legacy array to new datastores on a newly installed FlashArray. Planning is complete, and the first batch of migrations is underway. However, the customer receives the following error when attempting the first migration: `Storage vMotion license error` Which VMware editions include Storage vMotion as a standard feature?
A. vSphere Essentials
B. vSphere Standard
C. vSphere Essentials Plus

Question 8: A customer is preparing to migrate all VMs in their vSphere 7 environment from a legacy array to new datastores on a newly installed FlashArray. Planning is complete, and the first batch of migrations is underway.

However, the customer receives the following error when attempting the first migration:

Storage vMotion license error

Which VMware editions include Storage vMotion as a standard feature?

A. vSphere Essentials

B. vSphere Standard

C. vSphere Essentials Plus

Question 9: A Migration Architect is migrating block storage and must move a host-connected fabric port into a new production virtual storage area network (VSAN) where the new FlashArray ports are configured. The host resides in a blade chassis with multiple other hosts and uses the chassis's shared Fibre Channel (FC) port to connect to the Cisco SAN fabric. What must be considered when planning this move?
A. Confirm that the new VSAN has available fabric login (FLOGI) resources and that zoning will automatically adapt to the change without requiring additional configuration.
B. The chassis port hosts the World Wide Names (WWNs) of multiple hosts, so appropriate inter-VSAN routing (IVR) configuration is required to maintain connectivity.
C. The source storage port must also be moved to the new VSAN to maintain connectivity.

Question 9: A Migration Architect is migrating block storage and must move a host-connected fabric port into a new production virtual storage area network (VSAN) where the new FlashArray ports are configured. The host resides in a blade chassis with multiple other hosts and uses the chassis's shared Fibre Channel (FC) port to connect to the Cisco SAN fabric.

What must be considered when planning this move?

A. Confirm that the new VSAN has available fabric login (FLOGI) resources and that zoning will automatically adapt to the change without requiring additional configuration.

B. The chassis port hosts the World Wide Names (WWNs) of multiple hosts, so appropriate inter-VSAN routing (IVR) configuration is required to maintain connectivity.

C. The source storage port must also be moved to the new VSAN to maintain connectivity.

Question 10: What is the powershell command to verify permissions on an SMB share?
A. `get-smbshareaccess`
B. `get-acls`
C. `get-dacls`

Question 11: Replication between a physical FlashArray and Everpure Cloud Dedicated (PSC Dedicated) in Azure fails. The customer configured a Site-to-Site VPN and opened TCP/8117 between the sites. However, replication still does NOT initiate. What networking requirement is missing?
A. VPN tunnel must terminate on the System subnet rather than the Replication subnet.
B. Management interfaces must have bidirectional connectivity.
C. The iSCSI subnet must be peered to the on-premises replication network.

Question 11: Replication between a physical FlashArray and Everpure Cloud Dedicated (PSC Dedicated) in Azure fails. The customer configured a Site-to-Site VPN and opened TCP/8117 between the sites. However, replication still does NOT initiate.

What networking requirement is missing?

A. VPN tunnel must terminate on the System subnet rather than the Replication subnet.

B. Management interfaces must have bidirectional connectivity.

C. The iSCSI subnet must be peered to the on-premises replication network.

Question 12: An administrator's VMware environment is running ESXi 6.x attached to a third-party storage array using VMFS 5. The admin team has set up a new VMware environment 7.0.3 running on new ESXi hosts attached to a newly purchased FlashArray running VMFS 6. How should the VMs be migrated safely?
A. Enable Advanced Cross vCenter and Compute & Storage vMotion in the new VMware environment.
B. Enable Advanced Cross vCenter and Compute vMotion in the new VMware environment.
C. Enable Advanced Cross vCenter and Storage vMotion in the new VMware environment.

Question 12: An administrator's VMware environment is running ESXi 6.x attached to a third-party storage array using VMFS 5. The admin team has set up a new VMware environment 7.0.3 running on new ESXi hosts attached to a newly purchased FlashArray running VMFS 6.

How should the VMs be migrated safely?

A. Enable Advanced Cross vCenter and Compute & Storage vMotion in the new VMware environment.

B. Enable Advanced Cross vCenter and Compute vMotion in the new VMware environment.

C. Enable Advanced Cross vCenter and Storage vMotion in the new VMware environment.

Question 13: A Migration Architect needs to configure a path selection policy and I/O operation settings on newly provisioned volumes from a FlashArray. How should these settings be verified on each host?
A. Use the VMware command `esxcli storage nmp device list -d naa.<device NAA>`.
B. Use the VMware command `esxcli storage core path list -d naa.<device NAA>`.
C. Use the Vsphere client.

Question 13: A Migration Architect needs to configure a path selection policy and I/O operation settings on newly provisioned volumes from a FlashArray.

How should these settings be verified on each host?

A. Use the VMware command esxcli storage nmp device list -d naa.<device NAA>.

B. Use the VMware command esxcli storage core path list -d naa.<device NAA>.

C. Use the Vsphere client.

Question 14: A Migration Architect needs to determine if NFSv4 ACLs are used in an NFS export from FlashBlade. How should the Migration Architect mount the filesystem from FlashBlade on Linux, and which utility should be used to discover whether NFSv4 ACLs are used?
A. mount -o vers=4.1 flashblade:/nfs4-enabled-fs/ /mount/local_mountpoint/ and then run nfs4_getfacl /mount/local_mountpoint/
B. mount flashblade:/nfs4-enabled-fs/ /mount/local_mountpoint/ and then run nfs4_getfacl /mount/local_mountpoint/
C. mount -o vers=4.1 flashblade:/nfs4-enabled-fs/ /mount/local_mountpoint/ and then run getfacl /mount/local_mountpoint/

Question 14: A Migration Architect needs to determine if NFSv4 ACLs are used in an NFS export from FlashBlade.

How should the Migration Architect mount the filesystem from FlashBlade on Linux, and which utility should be used to discover whether NFSv4 ACLs are used?

A. mount -o vers=4.1 flashblade:/nfs4-enabled-fs/ /mount/local_mountpoint/ and then run nfs4_getfacl /mount/local_mountpoint/

B. mount flashblade:/nfs4-enabled-fs/ /mount/local_mountpoint/ and then run nfs4_getfacl /mount/local_mountpoint/

C. mount -o vers=4.1 flashblade:/nfs4-enabled-fs/ /mount/local_mountpoint/ and then run getfacl /mount/local_mountpoint/

Question 15: A Migration Architect is presenting a migration plan to a customer with mixed Windows and Linux workloads. The customer wants all hosts migrated during a single maintenance window to accelerate the timeline, but the assessment reveals multiple dependencies that require staggered cutovers. How should the Migration Architect respond to the customer's request for a single-window migration, given the identified technical dependencies?
A. Propose a Wave-Based Approach Group hosts into logical "Move Groups" based on application affinity and shared dependencies (e.g., App/Web/DB), and schedule them into sequential migration waves.
B. Agree to the Big Bang Approach Proceed with the single window but increase the number of migration architects during the cutover. Since modern arrays like FlashArray have high ingest rates, the technical risk of simultaneous data synchronization is negligible compared to the business value of a shorter project.
C. Implement a Storage-Level Snapshot Strategy Use the legacy array's snapshot capability to create a "Gold Copy" of all LUNs 24 hours prior to the window. This allows the team to attempt the full migration, and if the dependency mapping fails, they can instantly revert the entire environment to the previous day's state.

Question 15: A Migration Architect is presenting a migration plan to a customer with mixed Windows and Linux workloads. The customer wants all hosts migrated during a single maintenance window to accelerate the timeline, but the assessment reveals multiple dependencies that require staggered cutovers.

How should the Migration Architect respond to the customer's request for a single-window migration, given the identified technical dependencies?

A. Propose a Wave-Based Approach

Group hosts into logical "Move Groups" based on application affinity and shared dependencies (e.g., App/Web/DB), and schedule them into sequential migration waves.

B. Agree to the Big Bang Approach

Proceed with the single window but increase the number of migration architects during the cutover. Since modern arrays like FlashArray have high ingest rates, the technical risk of simultaneous data synchronization is negligible compared to the business value of a shorter project.

C. Implement a Storage-Level Snapshot Strategy

Use the legacy array's snapshot capability to create a "Gold Copy" of all LUNs 24 hours prior to the window. This allows the team to attempt the full migration, and if the dependency mapping fails, they can instantly revert the entire environment to the previous day's state.

Question 16: A Migration Architect has a stretched Brocade fabric and would like to create new logical switches. Which type of ISL automatically connects VSANs of the same FID, even though they are on different physical switches?
A. A standard ISL
B. XISL
C. ICLs

Question 16: A Migration Architect has a stretched Brocade fabric and would like to create new logical switches.

Which type of ISL automatically connects VSANs of the same FID, even though they are on different physical switches?

A. A standard ISL

B. XISL

C. ICLs