Aug-2026 FREE Pure Storage FlashArray-Storage-Professional PRACTICE QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS UPDATES [Q19-Q38]

Q19. RFC2307 enables cross-protocol support for which two protocols?

Q20. What is the Pure Storage recommended Maximum Transmission Unit (MTU) size for the replication ports on a FlashArray?

Q21. A storage administrator has presented VMFS datastores from a FlashArray with 10TB of raw capacity.
Why would the administrator see system space when logging in to the FlashArray GUI?

Q22. A storage administrator is troubleshooting a FlashArray that is critically low on space. They have successfully deleted and eradicated a large volume, but used space keeps increasing.
What is a possible cause?

Q23. If an NFS client can mount the FA File export shares with the IP address, but not the fully qualified domain name, what is most likely causing the issue?

Q24. An administrator is preparing an array pair for ActiveDR and is trying to calculate the total minimum bandwidth requirement.
What percent of bandwidth above the incoming write rate should be allocated to accommodate for unexpected write bursts and still maintain near-sync RPO?

Q25. How would a FlashArray administrator view external latency for write requests for a specific volume?

Q26. During a test failover using ActiveDR, what content will be presented to the target pod?

Q27. An administrator is setting up FA File using the FlashArray GUI. The company is an NFS only shop and needs to configure their remote user authentication.
Which of the following GUI locations should the administrator use to configure access?

Q28. A customer with an X50R2 array connected to 110V power is due for an upgrade to the latest controller generation.
What is required to allow this upgrade to proceed?

Q29. Where can a snapshot be copied out to?

Q30. A customer is managing a VMware environment and has recently copied a snapshot from a Pure Storage array to a new volume. When attempting to mount this volume on a VMware virtual machine, the operation fails.
How should this be resolved?

Q31. An X20R4 array containing 10 x 4.5TB DirectFlash Modules is running out of capacity. The customer found a data pack scheduled for a FlashArray//C array and has inserted it into the array. The customer is unable to admit the new capacity.
What is a possible reason for this?

Q32. A storage administrator needs to determine what actions were taken on the array by the previous shift and is only able to access the FlashArray via CLI.
Which command provides that information?

Q33. What is the best practice for configuring VMFS UNMAP for ESXi 6.7 or later?

Q34. An administrator needs to enable Remote Assist (RA) on Purity version 6.8.4 to facilitate remote troubleshooting. Due to security restrictions, only certain commands can be executed on the array.
What type of access should the administrator grant when enabling RA?

Q35. A storage administrator is tasked with providing real-time data and alerts to the Network Operations Center (NOC) dashboard.
What source should the information come from to provide real-time data?

Q36. What happens when you demote the original source pod?

Q37. Which protection group cannot be ratcheted for SafeMode?

Q38. Twelve stretched pods are synchronously replicating between an ActiveCluster (AC) FlashArray pair. A new unstretched pod is created and then is stretched, but the operation fails.
What is the most likely cause of the operation not completing successfully?