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Pure Storage FBAP_002 Exam Syllabus Topics:
| Section | Weight | Objectives |
|---|---|---|
| Topic 1: Designing | 33% | - Determine appropriate FlashBlade configurations - Determine capacity and performance requirements - Map use cases to appropriate storage classes |
| Topic 2: Planning | 28% | - Determine rack and power requirements - Determine workflows with scale-out architecture - Identify networking components and supported cabling |
| Topic 3: Support and Monitoring | 10% | - Monitor and manage devices and data using Pure1 - Modify performance parameters |
| Topic 4: Discovery | 29% | - Identify environmental hardware and software dependencies - Understand FlashBlade scale-out benefits - Identify customer use-cases and storage requirements |
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The Pure Storage FlashBlade Certified Architect Professional (FBAP_002) syllabus is split into 4 domains, anchored by Support and Monitoring (10%), Discovery (29%), and Designing (33%). The full breakdown sits in the syllabus section above — treat it as the checklist that decides where your study hours go.
The FBAP_002 exam, officially the Pure Storage FlashBlade Certified Architect Professional (FBAP_002) Exam, is Pure Storage's benchmark for proving you can work with its technologies in professional settings; passing it awards the FlashBlade Architect Professional certification, which sits at the Professional level. Because the credential is issued by the vendor itself, it carries weight with employers that self-assessed skills simply cannot match. It also opens the road toward Pure Storage FlashBlade Architect Professional Certification.
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Pure Storage FlashBlade Certified Architect Professional (FBAP_002) Sample Questions:
A customer has 7x52TB FlashBlade, which is ~70% full. One 52TB blade is added.
Which two results should the architect expect? (Select two.)
- A. System throughput increase by ~1GB/s. ***
- B. The RAID rebuilt will impact performance.
- C. New storage will be available after 24 hours.
- D. The system automatically rebalances data across all 8 blades. ***
- E. All NFS export will be sent a reset to show the additional space.
Correct Answer: A,D 🗳️
A customer is interested in deploying Splunk for their infrastructure logs. They will not be replicating the Splunk environment to another site, anticipate a 2TB per day ingest rate, and want to be able to easily scale their indexers independent of their storage.
How should the architect recommend that the customer deploy Splunk?
- A. Spluck Classic on FlashArray
- B. Spluck Classic on FlashBlade
- C. Spluck SmartStore on FlashArray
- D. Spluck SmartStore on FlashBlade ***
Correct Answer: D 🗳️
A customer has hundreds of TB of data that they need to archive for 20 years. The customer will need to completely destroy the data. They will only to access the data once or twice during the 20 years. The data is very sensitive. It would be a serious security breach if anyone accessed the data during that time. The customer is considering NAS.
Why should the architect recommend another solution?
- A. NAS storage will make complete data destruction impossible.
- B. NAS will be to expensive compared to other satisfactory solution.
- C. NAS storage mediums will degrade too much during the required 20 year of archive. ***
- D. NAS will NOT meet the isolation and security requirements.
Correct Answer: C 🗳️
A customer is developing a AI workflow that Ingests sensor data to FlashBlade NFS from its cloud edge collection point for furthers analysis.
The customer's HPC cluster mounts NFS to train the data but S3 to label.
Which challenge will the architect experience with this design?
- A. NFS and S3 cannot share export rules.
- B. NFS and S3 must use different data VIPs.
- C. NFS and S3 are NOT a shared namespace. ***
- D. NFS and S3 cannot be enabled concurrently.
Correct Answer: B 🗳️
A customer offers subscription access to E-books. The customer wants to be able to enable and disable access to the E-book efficiently.
What should the architect do?
- A. Create an NFS share that uses AD for authentication that can be disabled later.
- B. Create and object store with a user account and secret key that will be deleted in the future.
- C. Create a presigned object URL that can be disabled with an API call. ***
- D. Create and SMB share that uses AD for authentication and manually disable account at a later time.
Correct Answer: C 🗳️
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