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A trading company has implemented a cloud based observability platform to enhance monitoring and alerting for their infrastructure. The company has the goal to proactively identify anomalies and improve collaboration during investigations. They are successfully scraping real-time metrics from all components of their critical trading service. This includes the front-end application and marketing analysis, to the back-end networks and storage arrays. These metrics have been scraping successfully from all components for the last 14 days. Which action should the architect recommend next?

An organization requires all replication data between FlashArrays to be encrypted in transit.  What should an architect advise the organization to meet this requirement?

An architect is designing a Fibre Channel storage network for a FlashArray. It is important that during events, such as a controller reboot, hosts do NOT suffer from permanent path loss. Which action should the architect take to meet this requirement?

An architect is implementing an archive document solution using FlashBlade Object Store. The solution must ensure that all versions of the documents are available within this mission critical application. Users must be able to download, modify, and upload documents at all times. How should the architect meet this requirement?

An organization is considering changing from their current CAPEX (Capital Expenditure) model to a Storage as-a-Service (STaaS) model with Pure. Refer to the organization’s requirements below: Minimal upfront capital investmentFlexibility with the cloud in a hybrid operating modelGuaranteed SLA for performance and capacity Which Pure Evergreen subscription would fit all requirements?

Billing for quarterly water usage is shown below.  Year          Q1          Q2          Q3         Q42023         64            70           88          532024         86            95         104          71 Based on the data in the above table, we obtained the following forecast model using the seasonal and trend components (seasonal with trend):                                          Y =90 + 2*t – 10*Q1 + 15*Q2 – 50*Q3.   Using the given model, what is the water usage for the first quarter (Q1) of 2026?

An organization wants to turn on SafeMode protection for local snapshot protection for 50% of its local volumes.Which planning methodology should an architect recommend to estimate the potential capacity considerations on the local array?

An organization has the following requirements:Data available at two arrays with the ability to send copies to a third siteData copies at the second site NOT permanently activeAbility to failover to second site quickly with minimal Recovery Time Objective (RTO) The organization currently has a Round Trip Time (RTT) of 15ms. Which Pure FlashArray replication topology should an architect use to meet these requirements?

The nurse has notes that the physician has a diagnosis of presbycusis on the client’s chart. The nurse plans care knowing the condition is:

An architect is designing a Portworx solution and wants to use their FlashArray in the environment. The company has already enabled the CSI for Portworx and has the FlashArray visible to the hosts in the Kubernetes cluster via their Fibre Channel SAN.What should the architect recommend that will allow Portworx to see the FlashArray?