Books for Self-Study

As quoted above, books, along with training courses, are needed for exam success. So, we’ve dug Amazon deeper and have come up with the most preferred options:

• EMC Elastic Cloud Storage Complete Self-Assessment Guide

  This guide is available in Kindle format and allows the test-taker to do a real-time assessment of learned subject matter cognizance. Also, there are some high-end tools for this job that let the candidate figure out the lacuna areas and give a chance to improve performance before the actual exam. The author, Gerardus Blokdyk, has done a great job in explaining and assessing the Elastic Cloud Storage domain thoroughly. If paid due diligence, this material can surely improve the final performance of the examinee. So, if you’re aiming at the Dell DES-1B21, then such a book surely deserves a place on your shelf.

• Amazon S3 Cookbook

  As you remember, Amazon S3 is a major exam part and can be mastered with this manual. Over 30 practical examples, covered there, will allow a test-taker to ensure the upright and need-based implementation of Amazon S3 solutions. More so, Naoya Hashimoto, the author, covers Amazon S3 extensively and impressively by outlining such notions as CloudFront, IAM, AWS Simple Monthly Calculators, etc.

Reference: https://education.dellemc.com/content/dam/dell-emc/documents/en-us/DES-1B21_Specialist-Implementation_Engineer_ECS_Exam.pdf

How to Prepare For Specialist - Implementation Engineer, ECS DES-1B21

Preparation Guide for Specialist - Implementation Engineer, ECS DES-1B21

Introduction

This certification benefits any professional implementing and managing ECS solutions. The certification is supported by a core curriculum describing the ECS critical components, features, protocol integrations, product integrations and implementing the solution in a customer environment.

ECS provides a facility for metadata search for objects using a rich query language. This is a powerful feature of ECS that allows S3 object clients to search for objects within buckets using system and custom metadata. While search is possible using any metadata, by searching on metadata that has been specifically configured to be indexed in a bucket, ECS can return queries quicker, especially for buckets with billions of objects.

Achieve the following Associate level certification:

• Associate - Cloud Infrastructure and Services Version 3.0
• Associate - Information Storage and Management Version 2.0
• Associate - Cloud Infrastructure and Services Version 2.0
• Associate - Information Storage and Management Version 3.0
• Associate - Information Storage and Management Version 4.0
• Associate - Information Storage and Management Version 1.0

Pass the following Implementation Exam:

• DES-1B21 Specialist - Implementation Engineer, ECS Exam

This exam focuses on the knowledge and activities involved in implementing and managing ECS solutions. This exam also tests the candidate's knowledge of key ECS components including ECS OS and ECS software, different data client access and ECS product integrations with Data Domain Cloud Tier, Isilon Cloud Pools and Networker CloudBoost. DELL DES-1B21 practice exams and DELL DES-1B21 practice test will prepare you to have complete familiarity with the exam course.

ECS is deployed on a set of qualified industry standard hardware or as a turnkey storage appliance. The main components of ECS are the:

• Fabric - Clustering service for health, configuration and upgrade management and alerting
• Data Services - Services, tools and APIs to support object and file access to the system
• Infrastructure - SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 for the base operating system in the turnkey appliance or qualified Linux operating systems for industry standard hardware configuration
• Storage Engine - Core service responsible for storing and retrieving data, managing transactions, and protecting and replicating data locally and between sites
• ECS Portal and Provisioning Services - API-based WebUI and CLI for self-service, automation, reporting and management of ECS nodes. This layer also handles licensing, authentication, multitenancy and provisioning services such as namespace creation
• Hardware - A turnkey appliance or qualified industry standard hardware