What is a characteristic of synchronous remote replication?

A. Source is minutes ahead of the remote replication.

B. Source buffers the data and sends it depending on a cycle time.

C. Source and remote replication always have identical data.

D. Synchronous replication only used for extended

distances.

Which statement defines Serial-Attached SCSI (SAS) and SATA connectivity?

A. SAS storage devices can plug into SATA backplanes.

B. SATA storage devices can not plug into SAS backplanes.

C. SAS backplanes can accommodate both SAS and SATA devices.

D. SATA backplanes can accommodate both SAS and SATA devices.

You no longer have any port availability in the company's switch fabric. There is a

decommissioned switch available. When it is installed, there is a segmentation error. What is the

cause of the problem?

A. The wrong cable type was used to connect the switches.

B. The cable was connected into the wrong port on the target switch.

C. A duplicate zone name exists on the switch you are adding.

D. The domain priority is inconsistent.

From a business perspective a well managed archive is particularly important in which situation?

A. in the event of loss of power at the primary data center

B. when an administrator accidentally formats the wrong file system

C. in the event of litigation

D. when a user accidentally deletes an important email

What are two advantages of IP storage networking? (Choose two.)

A. Uses existing Ethernet technologies.

B. Supports up to 126 devices.

C. Lowers propagation delay.

D. Leverages system administrator knowledge

What is the basic order of a snapshot creation process?

A. flush file system, take snapshot, backup the volume, release the application

B. flush file system, quiesce the application, take snapshot, backup the volume

C. quiesce the application, flush file system, take snapshot, backup the volume

D. flush file system, quiesce the application, flush the file system, take snapshot, backup the

volume

What might be considered the most important criteria when designing an OLTP implementation

for a financial services customer?

A. data integrity

B. data redundancy

C. disk latency of less than 15ms

D. high availability

Which two RAID types use parity for data protection? (Choose two.)

A. RAID 0

B. RAID 1

C. RAID 3

D. RAID 5

E. RAID 10

Which two have World Wide Names? (Choose two.)

What is the maximum distance of a 50-micrometer multimode fiber with a 850nm shortwave laser

at 1 Gbps?

A. 500 meters

B. 300 meters

C. 150 meters

D. 70 meters

Common enterprise tape cartridges such as LTO or DLT contain which components?

A. leader pin, write protect switch, supply reel, access door

B. leader pin, read/write head assembly, supply reel, access door

C. leader pin, write protect switch, supply reel, pickup reel

D. leader pin, read/write head assembly, supply reel, pickup reel

What is the function of the "head" on the disk drive?

A. It is used to read or write data onto the disk media.

B. It is used to seek to the area where the requested data is located.

C. It is where the data is stored or retrieved.

D. It is a standard unit of measurement on the disk media.

Which tier provides highest availability and highest performance?

A. tier 4

B. tier 3

C. tier 2

D. tier 1

What is the maximum throughput of a 4 phy SAS wide port that has 3 Gbps links?

A. 300 MBps

B. 1200 MBps

C. 1800 MBps

D. 2400 MBps

What is a common type of symmetric key ciphering when securing stored information?

A. DEC

B. AES

C. Turing

D. SSL

What describes RAID 0?

A. mirroring

B. parallel access with parity

C. striping

D. independent access with interleaved parity

Which two are common characteristics of DAS? (Choose two.)

A. direct access to data is available from single server

B. only available through SCSI/SAS interfaces

C. storage capacity is captive to a single server

D. storage is accessible by any host anywhere on the network

E. attached to the host computer by a switch

Which hardware component provides the interface between the storage network and the server

backplane?

A. gigabit link module

B. interposer card

C. inter-switch link

D. host bus adapter

What are two advantages of IP storage networking? (Choose two.)

A. greater security exposure

B. lower cost infrastructure

C. can use existing network management tools

D. lower CPU overhead

Which is considered tier 2 storage in a datacenter with three (3) storage tiers?

A. tape vault

B. Fibre Channel disk array with dual controllers

C. Nearline storage

D. intelligent storage virtualization

What are two advantages of SAN when compared to NAS? (Choose two.)

A. No retraining is required to manage.

B. Servers and storage can scale independently.

C. Provides file and object level access.

D. Enables audit trails for change management.

E. Provides block level access.

What are two protocol options for transporting Fibre Channel over an IP network? (Choose two.)

A. FCIP

B. FCAL

C. SES

D. iSNS

E. iFCP

What requires the user to correctly install electrical terminators on both ends of the bus?

A. Sbus

B. SCSI bus

C. PCI bus

D. Fibre Channel

What happens when a SATA disk drive which has the ability to operate at 1.5 and 3.0 Gbps is

plugged into a SAS expander port with the ability to operate at 3.0 and 6.0 Gbps?

A. The SATA device will not operate.

B. The SATA drive will power down.

C. The SAS expander port shuts down and reports an error to the management application layer

using the SMP protocol.

D. The SAS expander port and SATA device will automatically perform speed negotiation and run

at 3.0 Gbps.

Your existing tape infrastructure uses block level technology. You need to restore a set of files but

not the entire volume. How can this be accomplished without compromising the existing data on

the server?

A. Backup the server; restore the original volume; then restore the recent backup.

B. Restore the tape over the existing volume.

Only extra files that do not exist will be added.

C. Build out a new server that mimics the existing server and restore the files to that newly

created server.

D. Restore to an alternate location such as a newly allocated drive. Copy the files you need onto

the volume.

Which RAID level is the most commonly used for file servers, application servers, Web servers,

databases, and other transaction-oriented applications?

A. RAID 1

B. RAID 3

C. RAID 4

D. RAID 5

Which utility typically enables abstraction of storage within a server?

A. switch zoning

B. Logical Volume Manager (LVM)

C. SAN appliance

D. SMI-S monitoring tool

Your current backup solution includes a backup server and six tape drives within a tape library.

The routers are connected to the SAN and the servers are zoned on the SAN to see the array.

The server sends a set of commands to the tape routers causing the routers to talk directly to the

volumes and copy them to the tape drives. Which backup infrastructure type would describe this

process?

A. D2D (disk-to-disk)

B. 3PC (3rd party copy)

C. SSO (shared storage option)

D. D2R2T (disk-to-router-to-tape)

What is one advantage of hardware RAID controllers?

A. Volume management is performed by the host.

B. Volume management is performed by the switch.

C. Parity calculation by the server and cache memory on the RAID controller increases read and

write performance.

D. Dedicated cache memory increases server write performance.

Which connectivity types are associated with block level access?

A. DAS and SAN

B. NAS and SAN

C. LAN and SAN

D. NAS and DAS

Which host adapter configuration parameters is set to create redundant logical "paths" between

the server and the storage device?

A. LUN-pathing

B. Zone-pathing

C. Multipathing

D. Cluster failover paths

Which subset of target devices allows for scalability beyond the 15 device limit in parallel SCSI?

A. target ports

B. I-T-L Nexus

C. logical units

D. Command Descriptor Blocks

A UNIX server has recently been unable to mount its file systems after the HBA driver has been

replaced and driver has been upgraded. What is the cause of the problem?

A. The switch zoning was based on port assignments.

B. The switch using worlwide naming has not been updated.

C. The disk array firmware was not updated.

D. The file system table was not updated to reflect the changes in device IDs.

You must implement a backup infrastructure for a remote office. This office has enough data to fill

a single tape each night. You can remotely schedule and control your backup server and run your

backups throughout the night. The staff at this site is not technical and will not touch the

equipment. You only need to store the last five days worth of data on these tapes. What solution

minimizes purchase and administrative costs?

A. Deploy a tape autoloader with enough tape slots to support a new tape for each night.

B. Deploy a set of five individual tape drives to the backup server each with a tape preloaded then

rotate the tape drive you use each night.

C. Deploy a tape library with multiple tape drives to ensure quick backup and enough tape slots to

support a new tape each night.

D. Deploy a single direct attached tape drive to the backup server and instruct onsite personnel

how to swap tapes to ensure a new blank tape is available each night.

Which HBA configuration parameter represents the global value of outstanding commands?

A. task-depth

B. queue-depth

C. target-queue-throttle

D. lpfc_lun_throttle

What is the maximum distance of a 50-micrometer multimode fibre with a 850nm shortwave laser

at 2 Gbps?

A. 500 meters

B. 300 meters

C. 150 meters

D. 70 meters

Which Fibre Channel protocol layer handles 8/10 bit encoding?

A. FC-0

B. FC-1

C. FC-2

D. FC-3

What describes RAID 3?

A. independent access with dedicated parity

B. parallel access with parity

C. independent access with interleaved parity

D. striping

Serial-Attached SCSI (SAS) supports which two link speeds? (Choose two.)

A. 1.0625 Gbps

B. 1.5 Gbps

C. 2.125 Gbps

D. 3.0 GbpsE

E. 4.25 Gbps

Which activity is performed by a Storage Device Manager?

A. logical unit number (LUN) masking

B. volume group configuration

C. file system configuration

D. name server management

What does a NAS head do?

A. It prevents volume virtualization.

B. It connects other NAS devices to the LAN.

C. It connects to a LAN attached tape device.

D. It connects to block storage devices

Which three types of disk drive uses the SCSI Command Language? (Choose three.)

A. SCSI

B. SATA

C. SAS

D. ATA

E. Fibre Channel

Which are two benefits of using storage based replication? (Choose two)

A. minimal or no host and network load

B. host software dependent

C. host platform independent

D. storage platform independent

E. minimal storage network load

What are two advantages of NAS? (Choose two.)

A. is not limited to the throughput of the LAN

B. is appropriate for block level access

C. uses existing network infrastructure

D. more scalable and flexible than DAS

E. is not impacted by traffic on the LAN

Which two disk interfaces have high-availability connections (dual-ports) on the disk? (Choose

two.)

A. SATA

B. SAS

C. SCSI

D. ATA

E. Fibre Channel

What two types of disk drives would NOT be used to store your company's database application

and source files when reliability is the most important factor? (Choose two.)

A. SCSI

B. SATA

C. SAS

D. ATA

E. Fibre Channel

What is the maximum distance of a 9-micrometer singlemode fiber with a 1300nm longwave laser

at 4 Gbps?

A. >50k meters

B. 10k meters

C. 5k meters

D. 2k meters

How many zone sets can be active in a fabric at a single time?

A. one

B. two

C. three

What could be the possible problem if the expected disk drives do not appear to the Fibre

Channel host adapter?

A. adapter BIOS was not enabled

B. device driver revision is incorrect

C. drive spin up was not enabled

D. LUN was not masked by array software

Which statement describes archiving?

A. Archiving is implemented for UNIX-based mail systems.

B. Archiving provides copies of current data to be used in the event of a disaster.

C. Archiving selectively stores frequently used files and data on high performance media.

D. Archiving stores infrequently used files and data on lower performance media.

Which classification of storage virtualization is implemented in the storage array?

A. file/record virtualization

B. file system virtualization

C. disk virtualization

D. sector virtualization

Which characteristic differentiates an IP Storage adapter from a traditional Network Interface

Card (NIC)?

A. 2 Gbps data rate

B. TCP/IP offload engine (TOE)

C. Jumbo frames

D. link aggregation

In Fibre Channel, what does the port type FL mean?

A. Fabric Link

B. Fabric Lane

C. Fabric Long

D. Fabric Loop

Which can be included in a zone?

A. WWPN

B. E ports

C. Name server

D. Logical Units

A company needs to backup its data without application interruption. Cost and application

performances are both important. The data can be backed up at night when the applications are

not write intensive. What must be done to meet these requirements?

A. Create a split mirror snapshot, mount the snapshot to the same host, back the snapshot up to

tape.

B. Create a copy on write snapshot, mount the snapshot to a different host, back the snapshot up

to the tape.

C. Create a copy on write snapshot, mount the snapshot to the same host, back the snapshot up

to the tape.

D. Create a split mirror snapshot, mount the snapshot to a different host, back the snapshot up to tape.

What is the maximum potential bandwidth of a Fibre Channel connection in a 4 Gb SAN?

A. 400 Mbps

B. 400 MBps

C. 800 Mbps

D. 800 MBps

What is the definition of asynchronous replication?

A. Does not require acknowledged copy of data on primary and secondary storage before the

write is acknowledged to the host.

B. Requires acknowledged write of data on primary storage only and data is forwarded to

secondary site as network capabilities permit.

C. Requires acknowledged write of data on primary and secondary storage before the write is

acknowledged to the host.

D. Does not require acknowledged write of data on primary storage before data is forwarded to

secondary site as network capabilities permit.

After installing a new switch in the fabric, what will have to be performed by the system

administrator?

A. decommission the Name Server

B. rename the Zone Server

C. update and install device drivers in all HBA attached to the switch

D. create and activate required zone set on the switch

What are the distance limitations of parallel SCSI?

A. 3 meters to 1.5KM

B. 25 meters to 1.5KM

C. 1.5 meters to 25 meters

D. 1.5 meters to 12.5 meters

Which three RAID levels will experience significant write-performance penalties? (Choose three.)

A. RAID 1

B. RAID 3

C. RAID 4

D. RAID 5

E. RAID 6

In an FC SAN environment, what are two ways to protect data on an array connected by a switch

to multiple hosts? (Choose two.)

A. LUN masking

B. zoning

C. drive encryption

D. SSL and TLS

E. partition keys

Which storage networking environment uses file access through a standard Ethernet network?

A. SAN

B. NAS

C. CAS

D. DAS

Which two link speeds are supported by SATA devices? (Choose two.)

A. 1.0625 Gbps

B. 1.5 Gbps

C. 2.125 Gbps

D. 3.0 Gbps

E. 4.25 Gbps

A complete backup was done on Sunday. Monday's process backed up all changes since

Sunday's backup. Tuesday's process backed up all changes since Sunday's backup including

files that have changed on Monday. What type of backup is this?

A. Full

B. Differential

C. Incremental

D. Clone

Which two describe a NAS "head" or gateway? (Choose two.)

A. integrated disk storage

B. connection to an IP network

C. replication facilities to tier 2 storage

D. "file serving" to clients and servers

E. snapshot feature set for efficient backup and recovery

Which statement best describes an advantage of virtual tape libraries (VTL) in comparison to disk

to disk (D2D) backup solutions?

A. Disk array does not respond to backup software command just as if it were a tape drive or a

tape library.

B. Virtual tape is automatically sent to off-site vault after backup finishes.

C. Existing backup applications and processes can be used with VTL.

D. Disk array works as a "temporary cache" for the backup software.

What are the steps to restore a complete backup that is using incremental method and has run

three times already?

A. latest full must be restored

B. latest incremental and all subsequent must be restored

C. latest full and all subsequent incremental backups must be restored

D. latest full and latest incremental backup must be restored

What is the main difference between PCI-X and PCI-E?

A. PCI-X is serial and PCI-E is parallel

B. PCI-E is serial and PCI-X is parallel

C. PCI-X is 32-bit and PCI-E is 64-bit

D. PCI-E is 32-bit and PCI-X is 64-bit

Which is considered tier 3 storages in a datacenter with three (3) storage tiers?

A. tape vault

B. Fibre Channel disk array with dual controllers

C. Nearline storage

D. intelligent storage virtualization

Which statement describes the "cylinder" in the disk drive?

A. Where the data is stored or retrieved.

B. Used to read or write data onto the disk media.

C. Used to seek to the area where the requested data is located.

D. A group of concentric slices through the physical disks.

Which method protects data by maintaining separate copies of the data on two or more disks?

A. backup to disk

B. mirroring

C. parity RAID

D. NDMP

Given that the devices used in the backup are accessed using fully independent paths through

the fabric and ports at the array. Which backup strategy has the least impact on performance and

offers the most improved availability to a production application running in an active/standby

cluster?

A. backup at the standby host from a split-mirror point-in-time copy

B. backup at the primary host from a snapshot of a clone point-in-time copy

C. backup at the standby host from a delta-snapshot of the production disks

D. backup at the primary host from a multi-point snapshot of the production disks

A customer complains that they experience severe performance issues with their OLTP database

using an iSCSI storage device. What is the cause of the problem?

A. The database files are mounted and running on a file access protocol via iSCSI.

B. The network connection is on a dedicated network.

C. They are using a software initiator.

D. They are using a TCP offload engine rather than an HBA.

Which two performance criteria are used to determine the selection of a device for a tiered

storage level? (Choose two.)

A. performance (IOPs)

B. age of data

C. user profile

D. availability/reliability

E. power consumption (watts/GB)

What is the maximum distance of a 50-micrometer multimode fiber with a 850nm shortwave laser

at 4 Gbps?

A. 500 meters

B. 300 meters

C. 150 meters

D. 70 meters

In Fibre Channel, what does the port type NL mean?

A. Node Loop

B. Node Link

C. Node Long

D. Node LISM

What does the acronym SATA mean?

A. Serial Advanced Technology Attachment

B. SCSI Attached Tunneled Architecture

C. Serial Attached Tunneled Architecture

D. Serial Attached Technology Architecture

Which RAID level is ideal for video production and live video streaming, image editing, video

editing, prepress applications, and any application requiring high throughput?

A. RAID 1

B. RAID 3

C. RAID 5

D. RAID 6

Which approach is commonly used for disaster recovery applications?

A. snapshots

B. RAID 5

C. replication

D. mirroring

Which RAID levels combine mirroring and striping?

A. RAID 0/1

B. RAID 3

C. RAID 4

D. RAID 5

What describes RAID 5?

A. striping

B. mirroring

C. parallel access with dedicated parity

D. independent access with interleaved parity

What are two advantages of IP storage networking? (Choose two.)

A. greater security exposure

B. lower cost infrastructure

C. can use existing network management tools

D. lower CPU overhead

Which component in an IP storage application requires configuration management?

A. HBA

B. VLAN

C. ISL

D. VSAN

Which bus requires proper termination for stable operation?

A. SAS

B. Fibre Channel

C. SATA

D. SCSI

Which statement describes the relationship between SAS and SATA devices regarding storage

capacity?

A. SATA devices have less storage capacity than SAS devices.

B. SAS devices have less storage capacity than SATA devices.

C. SATA and SAS devices have the same storage capacity.

D. SAS devices have less performance than SATA drives.

What do typical Fibre Channel host adapter settings include?

A. LUN mask, zoning, and world wide name

B. host adapter BIOS, spin up delay, and enable selectable boot

C. host adapter BIOS, world wide node name and world wide port name

D. spin up delay, host adapter ID and Fibre Channel address

Which three types of disk drive would be used to run your company OLTP applications? (Choose

three.)

A. SCSI

B. SATA

C. SAS

D. ATA

E. Fibre Channel

What is the port type of all ports in a Fibre Channel Arbitrated Loop?

A. F port

B. FL port

C. N port

D. NL port

Which disk drive interfaces are considered to be parallel interfaces? (Choose two).

A. SCSI

B. SATA

C. SAS

D. ATA

E. Fibre Channel

Which tier of storage and associated cost would store a company's mission critical online data?

A. tier one, lower cost per gigabyte

B. tier one, higher cost per gigabyte

C. tier two, higher cost per gigabyte

D. tier two, lower cost per gigabyte

A company has implemented a high availability tape backup process that uses snapshots. The

snapshots are backed up to tape. When checking the backup, the data is found to be corrupt.

Which option would fix this problem in future backups?

A. Quiesce the application before backing up the data.

B. Unmount the file system before backing up the data.

C. Quiesce the application before creating the snapshot.

D. Store tapes offsite instead of within library.

What is the function of zoning?

A. Allows certain N ports to be visible to each other.

B. Allows certain logical units to be visible to a HBA.

C. Defines which path data will take through the network.

D. Allows certain logical units mounted to the host.

What does STP stand for in the SAS architecture?

A. Serial Tunneled Protocol

B. SAS Tunneled Protocol

C. SATA Tunneled Protocol

D. SCSI Tunneled Protocol

What does the acronym PCI mean?

A. PC interface

B. peripheral component interconnect

C. peripheral common interconnect

D. PC interconnect

You are designing a storage solution for an application where performance is not critical, but

availability is essential. You have decided to use high capacity SATA disks. Which RAID

configuration will offer the greatest protection against disk failure?

A. RAID 4

B. RAID 5

C. RAID 6

D. RAID 0

Where is LUN masking is performed?

A. Fibre Channel Switch

B. Disk Controller

C. Network Interface Card

D. Fibre Channel Director

Which protocol is used to allow a NAS device to backup to a LAN attached backup device?

A. iSCSI

B. NFS

C. CIFS

D. NDMP

You are configuring a host to attach to a SAN-based storage device for the first time. The storage

is not visible. What is the cause of the problem?

A. The storage device does not have a license for SAN attached devices.

B. The reconfiguration command has not yet been executed.

C. One of the two Fibre Channel cables is disconnected from the host.

D. The HBA driver has not been configured or installed correctly

Which three Fibre Channel components have World Wide Names? (Choose three.)

A. HBA port

B. storage device port

C. physical port in a hub

D. physical port in a switch

E. tranceiver

What describes the basic rpm and storage capacity of an enterprise class disk drive when

compared to entry level disk drives?

A. lower rpm and higher storage capacity

B. higher rpm and higher storage capacity

C. lower rpm and lower storage capacity

D. higher rpm and lower storage capacity

Which Fibre Channel protocol layer handles Flow Control and Classes of Service?

A. FC-0

B. FC-1

C. FC-2

D. FC-3

Which protocol can be used for backups on an IP based network?

A. FCIP

B. NDMP

C. iFCP

D. SES

Which statement correctly identifies the relationship among these tape storage components:

a library, an autoloader and a drive?

A. A drive is a component of an autoloader, while an autoloader is a component of a library.

B. A tape drive is always directly connected to a server while autoloaders and libraries are SAN

attached.

C. A library can support multiple drives; an autoloader can support multiple tapes; a tape drive is

a stand-alone unit.

D. A tape drive is always directly connected; a library is always SAN connected; an autoloader

can be either directly or SAN connected.

Members of a zone may be addressed by which two attributes? (Choose two.)

A. physical location on the switch

B. worldwide port name

C. serial number

D. MAC address

E. SCSI ID

What are the steps to restore a complete backup that is using differential method?

A. latest full and latest differential backup must be restored

B. latest full and all subsequent differential backups must be restored

C. latest full must be restored

D. latest incremental must be restored

Which two components are required in a NAS operating system? (Choose two.)

A. user processes

B. network interfaces

C. replication interfaces

D. application scheduling

E. storage management

Which term describes a security measure designed to establish the validity of a transmission,

message, or originator, or a means of verifying an individual's authorization to receive

information?

A. encoding

B. encryption

C. authentication

D. crypto-shred

Which can be included in a zone?

A. WWPN

B. E ports

C. Name server

D. Logical Units

Which statement describes a Fibre Channel HBA?

A. A device that interfaces Fibre Channel with a Gigabit Ethernet.

B. A device that interfaces Fibre Channel to a SCSI bus.

C. A device that interfaces Fibre Channel with Ethernet storage arrays.

D. A device that interfaces Fibre Channel with a computer system

What is the service provided by a disk array?

Which device enables a Fibre Channel host to connect to a parallel legacy SCSI storage device?

A. Fibre Channel Bridge

B. SCSI extender

C. Fibre Channel Director

D. Fibre Channel Switch