Certification Exam Blueprint

This blueprint shows the topics that are covered by the Isilon Clustered Storage Associate and Isilon Clustered Storage Professional exams.

Concepts

• Core OneFS
  • Data layout
  • Data protection
  • The restriper
  • Architecture
  • MCP
  • Caching
  • Journaling
• File sharing
  • NFS
  • HTTP
  • FTP
  • CIFS
• Authentication
  • NIS
  • LDAP
  • Active Directory
  • Local users and groups
• Hardware and network
  • Node hardware
  • Switches
  • Network topologies
• Alerting
  • Alert levels
  • Alert behavior
• Monitoring
• Software modules
  • SyncIQ
  • SnapshotIQ
  • SmartConnect Advanced
  • SmartQuotas
• Network configuration
  • FlexNet profiles
  • Internal network operation

Configuration

• Installation
  • Physical installation
  • Initial configuration
    • Wizard
    • Adding nodes
    • Running OVT
• Administration
  • Directory services
  • Active Directory configuration
    • Anonymous mode
    • Domain mode
    • Local Users mode
  • LDAP configuration
  • NIS configuration
  • Local users and groups
• File services
  • Windows
    • Create and manage shares
    • Advanced settings
  • NFS
    • Create and manage exports
    • NFS configuration
  • FTP
  • HTTP
    • DAV configuration
• FlexProtect configuration
  • Changing protection settings
• Monitoring
  • Cluster tools
  • SNMP
• Alerting
  • Viewing alerts
  • Email and SNMP alerts
• Network configuration
  • FlexNet profiles Subnets, Pools and Rules
  • Internal networks
• Miscellaneous
  • Cluster reboot/shutdown
  • Telnet
  • Cluster name
• Node management
  • Adding nodes
  • Removing nodes
  • Smartfailing nodes
• Disk hot-swap
• Write cache configuration
• File and directory permissions
• Restriper management
  • Changing priorities / schedules
• Upgrading
• Software modules
  • SyncIQ
  • SnapshotIQ
  • SmartConnect Advanced
  • SmartQuotas
• Troubleshooting
  • Tools