Career Benefits

Candidates who want to advance their careers in the VPLEX domain should pursue the Dell EMC certificate. So, E20-260 VPLEX Specialist Exam for Implementation Engineers is primarily for Dell partners and employees who want to concentrate their professional growth related to VPLEX product. Through completing this Dell EMC certification exam, you can land jobs such as Storage Engineers, Server Storage Administrators, and Network Storage Systems-Technical Support Engineers / Managers.

Resources to Prepare for the Exam

Online courses, instructor-Led classes, and video-based learning are highly recommended before you take the exam. So, the MR-1WP-VPLEXFD VPLEX Concepts and Features one-hour course will provide you with actual information regarding the VPLEX family of products including features, use cases, management options, as well as architecture, and capabilities.

You can also take practice exams available on the Dell website. In addition to that, listed below are some books you can refer to while preparing for E20-260 VPLEX Specialist Exam for Implementation Engineers.

• Building a Future-Proof Cloud Infrastructure: A Unified Architecture for Network, Security, and Storage Services [1st Edition] by Silvano Gai

  This book can be used as an additional source for exam preparation and will also be beneficial for those who are working with cloud infrastructure to help them handle day-to-day tasks. The author demonstrates how to use critical shared services, micro-segmentation, NAT, firewall, load balancing, segment routing VPNs, RDMA, etc. It also focuses on encryption and storage compression as well as business benefits. When reading it, you will better understand modern concepts of network design, the pros and cons of different hardware approaches, specifics of the cloud security services, and many more.

• EMC VPLEX GeoSynchrony. Administration Guide

  This study guide is a great resource if you are planning to take the VPLEX Specialist Exam for Implementation Engineers. This material will help you to understand the VPLEX concepts and configure a CLI workspace. The book elaborates on the Failures in Geosystems without/with VPLEX Witness, the principles of user account management, specifics of working with distributed devices, data migration, volume expansion, network configuration, and cache vaults, to name just a few areas. In addition, EMC VPLEX security configuration, hardware installation, mobility, and upgrade paths are discussed.

• Information Storage and Management: Storing, Managing, and Protecting Digital Information in Classic, Virtualized, and Cloud Environments by EMC Education Services

  This book discusses the features of a storage system as well as the various storage system models. The new material examines developments in current technology, and updates and vital information on emerging innovations. It allows one to learn more about continuous data protection, big data, storage tiering, unified storage, business continuity and security, and many other topics. The book also reflects on the importance of VPLEX products and goes into depth about storage models including Network Attached Storage (NAS), Storage Area Network (SAN), Object-Based Storage, and virtualization at different infrastructure components. You can find it on the Amazon website in the Kindle or Hardcover versions.

VPLEX Concepts (13%)

• Terminology and settings for VPLEX
• I/O Operations on the VPLEX
• VPLEX implementation of VS2 and VS6 technologies, as well as VS2 to VS6 upgrade
• Hardware and software design of VPLEX product

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