NS0-520 Exam Preparation Material | NetApp Certified Implementation Engineer - SAN, ONTAP

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Question#1

A 4-node ONTAP FAS9000 cluster was used to serve I/O from six RedHat 7.3 servers. The servers were configured with maximum, queue depth.
For production purposes, an additional 60 similarly configured hosts were added to the environment. Later, the hosts started reporting random QFull errors, and the aggregated performance degraded.
Which two solutions would alleviate the QFull errors and performance problems? (Choose two.)

A. Remove Selective LUN Mapping (SIM) from the 4-node FAS9000 cluster.
B. Download the latest FC HBA driver, firmware, and BIOS, and deploy them on the hosts.
C. Configure and use additional FC target HBAs in the FAS9000 cluster.
D. Reduce FC HBA gueue depth on the hosts.

Question#2

Which commands allow you to enable NetApp deduplication and verify space savings?

A. sis on <vol>, sis start <vol>, df s <vol>
B. asis on <vol>, asis start <vol>, df s <vol>
C. sis on <vol>, sis start <vol>, df r <vol>
D. sis on, sis start, df p <vol>

Question#3

Your customer asks you how to connect a host for SAN access to the newly installed AFF A400 system.
In this scenario, which two statements are correct? (choose two)

A. Direct Connection to the nodes from the hosts with ISCSI is supported
B. Direct Connection to the nodes from the hosts with ISCSI is not supported
C. Direct Connection to the nodes from the hosts with FC is not supported
D. Direct Connection to the nodes from the hosts with FC is supported

Explanation:
ISCSI-Direct-attachment: In a direct-attached configuration, one or more hosts are directly connected to the controllers.
You cannot directly attach FC or FC-NMVE SAN hosts to single nodes without using an FC switch.
You can find more information on this link:
https://docs.netapp.com/ontap-9/index.jsp?topic=%2Fcom.netapp.doc.dot-cm-sanconf%2FGUID-193CC377-5C6F-4D3C-B42E-CE71AB6AA77F.html

Question#4

What are two examples of supported NetApp FC configurations? (Choose two.)

A. a single NetApp node directly connected to a single host
B. a single switched environment with a NetApp node connected to only one host
C. a dual switched environment with a NetApp node connected to multiple hosts
D. a single NetApp node directly connected to multiple hosts

Question#5

An administrator has six VMware hosts, each with dual HBAs that are connected to a dual fabric using single initiator multiple target zoning. Four nodes are being added to the existing 4-node ONTAP cluster.
In this scenario, what is the minimum number of FC zones that need to be updated on each fabric switch?

A. 6
B. 8
C. 4
D. 2

Exam CodeNS0-520
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Exam Code: NS0-520
Q & A: 234 Q&As
Updated:  Sep 22,2026

 

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