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Skills this practice test covers
- Interpret a customer's site requirements and check service tags against the installation checklist.
- Rack a Data Domain head unit with its expansion shelves and cable the shelves to it.
- Configure the management network so administrators can reach the new system.
- Set up backup connectivity over CIFS, NFS, DD Boost, VTL or NDMP for a given scenario.
- Set user roles and authentication, monitoring tools and encryption once the system is running.
- Connect the backup software to the system and apply its policies.
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D-PDD-DY-01 exam content
3 domains · 19 topics · 150 questions
Pre-Deployment Check23 questions
Before the hardware goes into the rack, the engineer confirms that the site and the order are ready. This domain covers reading the customer's site-specific needs, working through the installation checklist and checking the service tags.
Skills tested
- Check rack space, power and cooling, and network prerequisites against the customer's needs.
- Work through the installation checklist before the install starts.
- Verify the service tags and the hardware inventory against the order.
Questions by topic
- Interpret customer site-specific needs and requirements16
- Review the installation checklist and check the service tags7
Deployment77 questions
The largest domain is the physical and first-time setup. Candidates rack the head unit and expansion shelves, cable shelves, power and network, reach the new system, set its management network, and prove that backup connectivity works.
Skills tested
- Mount the head unit and expansion shelves in a rack with the correct rail kits.
- Cable multiple expansion shelves to the head unit in the right SAS shelf cabling topology.
- Reach a new system over a console or serial connection and set its management IP.
- Set up backup connectivity over CIFS, NFS, DD Boost, VTL or NDMP for a given scenario.
- Run basic tests that confirm connectivity and functionality.
Questions by topic
- Install head unit and expansion shelves into a rack12
- Cable expansion shelves and connect power/network11
- Access system and configure management network7
- Given a specific scenario, set up backup connectivity15
- Perform basic testing to verify connectivity and functionality11
- Configure basic management network settings on the appliance3
- Cable multiple expansion shelves to the Dell PowerProtect Data Domain head unit3
- Connect networking cables and power cords5
- Access a Dell PowerProtect Data Domain system4
- Configure basic management network settings on the Dell PowerProtect Data Domain appliance for administrative access6
Post-Deployment50 questions
After the system is running, the engineer makes it ready for daily use. This domain covers system access and user roles, monitoring tools such as alerts and Autosupport, data security such as encryption and Secure Multi-Tenancy, and backup software with its policies.
Skills tested
- Create user roles and set up authentication for system access.
- Configure alerts, email notifications, SNMP and Autosupport.
- Turn on DD OS encryption for data at rest and set up Secure Multi-Tenancy (SMT).
- Configure the backup application and apply protection and data movement policies.
Questions by topic
- Configure system access8
- Configure monitoring tools11
- Implement data security features10
- Configure backup software and apply policies6
- Configure Dell PowerProtect Data Domain system access4
- Apply policies7
- Configure backup software4
Requirements
- No formal prerequisites: anyone can book the exam.
- Recommended: two to six months of hands-on enterprise hardware deployment, such as racking, cabling and network setup.
- Recommended: Dell's Data Domain Concepts and Features and Hardware Installation courses.
- Recommended: the Data Domain System Administration course, or the Implementation and Administration and Advanced Administration courses together.
About the D-PDD-DY-01 exam
Dell's D-PDD-DY-01 exam checks that an engineer can install and configure a Dell PowerProtect Data Domain system at a customer site. It follows one deployment from start to finish: the site check, racking and cabling, network setup, then system access, monitoring, security and backup software. Backup applications reach the system over CIFS, NFS, DD Boost, VTL or NDMP, and the exam covers all five. Passing earns the Dell PowerProtect Data Domain Deploy certification at the Proven Professional level.
Deployment is the largest domain, and the PlanetCert practice test gives it the most questions, led by backup connectivity scenarios and rack and cable work. The explanations separate options that sound alike, such as a CIFS share and an NFS export, or DD Boost and VTL. The protocol scenarios are best worked in Study Mode, since each protocol needs its own settings on both sides. Shelf cabling and monitoring settings are good topics to put to Brainy AI Assistant.
How to earn the certification
- Earns
- Dell PowerProtect Data Domain DeployProven Professional
How to prepare for D-PDD-DY-01
- 1
Walk a site through the checklist
Take the installation checklist and confirm rack space, power and cooling, network details and service tags for a sample site. The Pre-Deployment Check domain asks for exactly this preparation.
- 2
Draw the shelf cabling by hand
Sketch the SAS cabling between a head unit and several expansion shelves, then add the power and network connections. Rack and cable questions make up a large part of the Deployment domain in the practice test.
- 3
Set up each backup protocol once
In a lab or on paper, configure CIFS, NFS, DD Boost, VTL and NDMP in turn, and note what the backup application needs for each. Then run the basic tests that prove the connection works.
- 4
Finish the post-deployment settings
Create user roles, set alerts and Autosupport, and turn on encryption and Secure Multi-Tenancy in DD System Manager. Post-Deployment is the second-largest domain.
- 5
Take a timed run and review misses
Finish with a full D-PDD-DY-01 practice test in Timed Mode and go back over every scenario question that went wrong. Brainy AI Assistant can explain why one protocol or setting fits the scenario better than another.
Start a timed D-PDD-DY-01run
Dell recommends two on-demand courses first: Dell PowerProtect Data Domain Concepts and Features, and Dell PowerProtect Data Domain Hardware Installation. Then comes System Administration, or both Implementation and Administration and Advanced Administration.
Who D-PDD-DY-01 is for
- Implementation and systems engineers who install Data Domain systems at customer sites.
- System administrators who set up new backup storage and connect it to backup software.
- Data protection consultants and solutions architects who plan Data Domain deployments.
- Engineers early in enterprise hardware work who rack, cable and configure new systems.
Typical job titles: Implementation engineer · Systems engineer · System administrator · Data protection consultant · Solutions architect
D-PDD-DY-01 glossary
17 terms from the exam objectives and the vendor's official material, each defined in a sentence.
- Autosupport
- A feature that sends regular system status reports to Dell support and to chosen email addresses.
- CIFS
- A Windows file-sharing protocol that backup applications can use to write to a share on the system.
- DD Boost
- A Data Domain protocol that lets backup software do part of the deduplication work before sending data, which cuts network traffic.
- DD OS
- The operating system that runs on PowerProtect Data Domain systems.
- DD OS encryption
- The DD OS feature that encrypts the data stored on the system's disks.
- DD System Manager
- The web-based interface for configuring and monitoring a Data Domain system.
- Expansion shelves
- Disk enclosures cabled to the head unit to add storage capacity.
- Head unit
- The controller of a Data Domain system, which runs DD OS and manages the disks in the attached shelves.
- Installation checklist
- The list of site, hardware and network items to confirm before an install begins.
- Management IP
- The network address used to reach the system for administration, set during the first configuration.
- NDMP
- Network Data Management Protocol, used to back up network-attached storage directly to the system.
- NFS
- A file-sharing protocol common on Linux and UNIX that backup applications can use to write to an export on the system.
- SAS shelf cabling
- The SAS cable connections that link the head unit to its expansion shelves in a set order.
- Secure Multi-Tenancy (SMT)
- A Data Domain feature that keeps each tenant's data and administration apart on one shared system.
- Service tags
- Dell's unique identifiers on each hardware unit, checked against the order before installation.
- SNMP
- A network management protocol that lets monitoring tools read status from the system and receive its alerts.
- VTL
- Virtual tape library: a feature that presents the system to backup software as a tape library.