The Dell PowerScale Design exam checks whether you can turn a customer's needs for performance, capacity and features into a working PowerScale storage design. Dell aims it at storage architects, pre-sales engineers and others who plan these clusters. Dell gives "Platform Infrastructure" the biggest share, about 36 percent of the exam, for the OneFS file system and Job Engine, SmartConnect networking and building clusters from node types. Practice it first with D-PSC-DS-01 exam questions, then move on to "PowerScale Management, Identity Management, and Advanced Applications", another 24 percent.
| The Dell PowerScale Design Certification | |
|---|---|
| Certification | Dell PowerScale Design v2 |
| Technology | Dell PowerScale storage and its OneFS operating system, listed under Dell's Storage certifications |
| Job roles | Implementation specialists, infrastructure administrators, pre-sales engineers, product specialists, storage architects, storage implementation engineers, systems engineers and technical consultants |
| Exams required | D-PSC-DS-01 only |
| The D-PSC-DS-01 Exam | |
| Exam name | Dell PowerScale Design |
| Exam code | D-PSC-DS-01 |
| Current exam version | Version 2 of Dell's PowerScale Design exam |
| Questions on the real exam | 50 |
| Time allowed | 90 minutes |
| Scoring | Dell does not publish a passing score for this exam |
| How you take it | Proctored, at a Pearson VUE test center or online through OnVUE |
| Exam fee | 230 USD |
| Languages | English, French, Japanese and Simplified Chinese |
| Our D-PSC-DS-01 Practice Questions | |
| Practice questions in our bank | 344 questions |
| Matched to | Kept in line with the current D-PSC-DS-01 skills outline |
| Question bank updated | Nov 7, 2026 |
| Formats | PDF and practice test (browser-based or Windows desktop), both in one purchase |
| Free demo | Available for both the PDF and the practice test |
| Free updates | 90 days from purchase, with longer periods available at checkout |
Try the free D-PSC-DS-01 demo of the PDF and practice test, see how you handle the design questions, then decide.