Switching roles, chasing a promotion, or simply proving your skills to yourself — whatever drives you toward the FBAP_002 exam, the Pure Storage FlashBlade Certified Architect Professional (FBAP_002) practice materials from RealVCE meet you there with 75 practice questions and an engine that adapts to your schedule, not the other way around.
Pure Storage FBAP_002 Exam Overview:
| Certification Vendor: | Pure Storage |
|---|---|
| Exam Name: | Pure Storage FlashBlade Certified Architect Professional (FBAP_002) Exam |
| Exam Number: | FBAP_002 |
| Exam Duration: | 120 minutes |
| Real Exam Qty: | 75-76 |
| Exam Format: | Multiple Response, Multiple Choice, Scenario-Based |
| Exam Price: | $129 USD |
| Related Certifications: | FlashArray Architect Professional FlashBlade Architect Associate |
| Certificate Validity Period: | 2 years |
| Passing Score: | 70% |
| Available Languages: | English |
| Recommended Training: | Pure Storage FlashBlade Architect Professional Learning Path FlashBlade Administration and Architecture Training |
| Exam Registration: | Pearson VUE Registration Pure Storage Certification Portal |
| Sample Questions: | ![]() |
| Exam Way: | Online proctored (OnVUE) or in-person at Pearson VUE test centers |
| Pre Condition: | Recommended: 1-2 years of experience designing/deploying FlashBlade solutions; FlashBlade Architect Associate certification recommended but not required |
| Official Syllabus URL: | https://www.purestorage.com/resources/certifications/flashblade-architect-professional.html |
Pure Storage FBAP_002 Exam Syllabus Topics:
| Section | Weight | Objectives |
|---|---|---|
| Management & Monitoring | 18% | - Alerting and reporting - Pure1 management platform usage - Performance monitoring and health checks |
| Requirements Analysis & Use Case Mapping | 20% | - Environmental and infrastructure dependencies - Capacity and performance requirement determination - Matching workloads to FlashBlade capabilities |
| Tuning & Optimization | 17% | - Identifying and resolving bottlenecks - Evergreen software and upgrades - Performance tuning parameters |
| Architecture & Scale-Out Design | 25% | - External network design and configuration - Scale-out architecture and benefits - FlashBlade hardware and internal components |
| Configuration & Deployment | 20% | - System configuration based on workload scenarios - Erasure coding and data protection - File and object access protocols |
Everything to Know About the Pure Storage FlashBlade Certified Architect Professional (FBAP_002) Exam
Which skills does the Pure Storage FlashBlade Certified Architect Professional (FBAP_002) exam test?
The FBAP_002 exam is the official assessment for the Pure Storage FlashBlade Certified Architect Professional (FBAP_002) certification offered by Pure Storage. It checks whether you can apply the knowledge areas in the exam objectives to practical situations, and passing it earns a credential that employers across the industry recognize. For professionals who feel stuck in their current role, it is often the most concrete next step available.
Recommended: 1-2 years of experience designing/deploying FlashBlade solutions; FlashBlade Architect Associate certification recommended but not required
The official outline for the FBAP_002 exam highlights these domains:
- Configuration & Deployment (20%)
- Architecture & Scale-Out Design (25%)
- Tuning & Optimization (17%)
Weighting your study time toward the heavier domains first is a sensible strategy, and the Pure Storage FlashBlade Certified Architect Professional (FBAP_002) practice questions at RealVCE follow the same objective structure.
Pure Storage recommends the following training resources for FBAP_002 exam candidates:
- Pure Storage FlashBlade Architect Professional Learning Path
- FlashBlade Administration and Architecture Training
Pairing official courses with timed practice sessions tends to work well, since one builds knowledge and the other builds exam-day rhythm.
The FBAP_002 exam gives you 120 minutes minutes to answer 75-76 questions. That pace leaves little room for hesitation, which is why rehearsing under a timer — for example with the online test engine at RealVCE, where you can set the session length just like the real test — is such a useful habit.
The online test engine is exclusive to RealVCE and runs on any electronic device — phone, tablet, or computer — with no installation barriers. It recreates the atmosphere of the real FBAP_002 exam: you set the test time the way it will be on exam day, work through the Pure Storage FlashBlade Certified Architect Professional (FBAP_002) practice questions under that pressure, and at the end the engine marks the questions you got wrong and reminds you to practice them again next time. Over a few sessions, that loop turns weak areas into reliable ones.
To pass the FBAP_002 exam you need a score of 70%, and the registration fee is $129 USD. Since each attempt costs the full fee, arriving over-prepared is cheaper than arriving under-prepared — timed mock sessions and repeated review of missed questions are the usual ways candidates close that gap.
Registration for the FBAP_002 exam is handled through the official channels below:
Once your practice scores look consistent, booking a date gives your preparation a firm deadline to work toward.
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Pure Storage FlashBlade Certified Architect Professional (FBAP_002) Sample Questions:

What are Port 31/32 on the XFMs reserved for?
- A. FlashBlade Chassis
- B. Console
- C. Customer Network
- D. Switch interconnectivity ***
Correct Answer: D 🗳️
A customer application requires 4.2GB/s of sustained write performance. What is the minimum number of blades to meet the performance requirement?
- A. 16 blades
- B. 11 blades
- C. 14 blades
- D. 7 blades ***
Correct Answer: C 🗳️
A customer map application is built with a containerized micro-service infrastructure that runs on Windows and accesses storage using SMB.
Each container is stateless, but every end user interaction leaves a set of small text and image files. Each directory keeps all daily transaction files. A process exists to manage file life cycle and periodically delete a directory.
The customer notices that as the customer base grows, the background deletion process backlog also grows.
Which FlashBlade technology should be used to resolve this issue?
- A. Enabling fast-remove for NFS and SMB. ***
- B. Reducing resource utilization for FlashBlade garbage collection.
- C. Enabling concurrent data access for NFS and SMB.
- D. Enabling concurrent data access for NFS and HTTP.
Correct Answer: A 🗳️
What is the maximum file size that is supported by the FlashBlade?
- A. 64TiB ***
- B. 84TiB
- C. 32TiB
- D. 70TiB
Correct Answer: A 🗳️

An architect need to create capacity sizing of FlashBlade to move data from a 6-year old EMC-Dell Isilon. The current Isilon solution consumes almost 1.3PB. There are three workloads:
-Warehouse application (40 TB, estimated compression ratio 2:1, IO size 8K)
-Images (20 TB, estimated compression ratio 1.0:1 average image size 1M)
-Log files (40 TB, estimated compression ratio 4:1, average file size 4k) What is the required FlashBlade configuration?
- A. 15x52TB blades
- B. 7x17TB blades ***
- C. 15x17TB blades
- D. 42x52TB blades
Correct Answer: B 🗳️



