[March 18, 2025] Pass FAAA_005 Pure Storage FlashArray Architect Associate Exam With Free Questions
The FAAA_005 Pure Storage FlashArray Architect Associate Exam is designed to validate your expertise in architecting and deploying Pure Storage FlashArray solutions. As enterprises continue to demand high-performance, scalable, and resilient storage solutions, professionals with proven knowledge in FlashArray architecture are in high demand. This certification ensures that candidates understand essential concepts, including storage provisioning, performance optimization, data protection, and integration with various environments.
If you’re planning to take the FAAA_005 Pure Storage FlashArray Architect Associate Exam, it’s essential to get familiar with the exam structure, key objectives, and practice questions. Below, we provide a set of sample questions to help you assess your readiness before taking the actual exam.
Free Practice Questions for the FAAA_005 Exam
1.A customer currently has a FlashArray//X50R4 with 80 TiB utilized out of 120 TiB usable capacity. The customer needs to add a 46 TiB SQL workload with an expected DRR of 3.85 to this system.
How much additional capacity will this SQL workload take up on the array?
A. 177 TiB
B. 46 TiB
C. 28 TiB
D. 12 TiB
Answer: A
2.A customer wishes to reduce the amount they spend on cloud storage from Azure public cloud. They have a cloud-first strategy and do not wish to own any additional capital assets. The applications data mainly consists of 100 TB of Database data.
Which product satisfies this requirement?
A. Evergreen//Flex
B. Evergreen//Forever
C. Cloud Block Store
D. Portworx DBaaS
Answer: C
3.A customer needs to be able to replicate from on-prem into the public cloud. They want to use the cloud as their DR site with failover and fallback capabilities.
Which Pure Storage feature should the customer use?
A. Snapshot replication to replicate between a FlashArray on site and Cloud Block Store
B. Purity//FA CloudSnap periodic offload of snapshots to AWS
C. ActiveCluster FC replication between a FlashArray on site and Evergreen//One
Answer: A
4.What architectural design simplifies controller upgrades from FlashArray//XR2 to //XR3?
A. Common controller chassis for both models
B. InfiniBand connectivity between controllers
C. NVRAM modules in both controllers
D. Re-use of existing HBAs to prevent WWN changes
Answer: A
5.Refer to the exhibit.
What does the depicted value 77.24 T represent?
A. Total useable space
B. Total raw space on the array
C. The guaranteed capacity
D. Total deduplicated space
Answer: C
6.A customer is reviewing their disaster recovery strategy and want to replicate their data to a secondary datacenter. They have stated that they have internal SLAs around RPO and RTO that they are not currently meeting.
Which two FlashArray features should the SE focus on? (Choose two.)
A. FlashRecover
B. ActiveCluster
C. CloudSnap
D. ActiveDR
Answer: A, D
7.Refer to the exhibit.
A customer is experiencing latency in the VMware environment connected to this array.
What should the SE recommend?
A. Add DirectFlash Modules as the system is disk bound
B. Upgrade the controllers
C. Add network cards to alleviate network congestion
D. Check the ESXi host
Answer: D
8.Which Evergreen//Forever benefit allows a customer to trade in an existing 12 TB shelf for a new 60 TB shelf while only paying for a 48 TB increase?
A. Capacity Consolidation
B. Flat is Fair Maintenance
C. Right-Size Guarantee
D. Love Your Storage
Answer: C
9.Pure Storage’s Right-Size Guarantee protects the customer for how long?
A. 30 days starting from the date of arrival
B. 6 months starting from the date of arrival
C. 12 months starting from the date of arrival
D. Until the Evergreen subscription expires
Answer: C
10.A customer that produces video media content needs to replace their multi-rack HDD-based storage
array used for video archive.
Which Pure Storage solution will meet the customer’s needs in the most cost-effective way?
A. FlashArray//X
B. FlashArray//XL
C. FlashArray//C
Answer: C
For a full version of the FAAA_005 practice exam, including detailed explanations and additional practice questions, check out the complete guide here!
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