What is Software Defined Storage?
A. virtualized storage with a service management interface
B. virtualized storage with a Fibre Channel interface
C. virtualized storage with an Ethernet interface
D. physical storage with a service management interface
What is the purpose of a host bus adapter (HBA)?
A. to provide host backups to tape media
B. to connect a host to a switch
C. to connect a switch port to front end storage
D. to use a host CPU to interface with storage controllers
What describes the process of moving data between different classes of disks and storage, based on policy?
A. IOPS monitoring
B. storage tiering
C. data clustering
D. LUN migration
What are two NAS file access protocols? (Choose two.)
A. FCP
B. SMB
C. iSCSI
D. NFS
Which two statements about jumbo Ethernet frames are correct? (Choose two.)
A. A jumbo frame is an Ethernet frame with a payload greater than 1500 bytes.
B. Jumbo frames are always a fixed standard length of 9000 bytes.
C. Jumbo frames can increase the latency on a network due to the transmission of larger frames
D. Jumbo frames enable the transmission of iSCSI packets on the IP network.
Which statement is correct regarding LUNs?
A. a representation of segmented storage space to be provided to their servers
B. a scenario where log file servers reach maximum disk capacity
C. a method for encapsulating Fibre Channel frames
D. a method for optimizing LAN traffic
A customer hires you to create an incremental backup scheme. Which solution would you recommend to the customer?
A. Create a backup scheme that will do a full backup and then only backup selected files.
B. Create a backup scheme that will do a full backup and then only backup changed data since the last backup.
C. Create a backup scheme that will do a full backup and then only backup changes since the full backup.
D. Create a backup scheme that will do a full backup and then only backup files selected by the host owner.
What are two characteristics of Challenge-Handshake Authentication Protocol (CHAP)? (Choose two.)
A. CHAP uses a parity algorithm to jumble the credentials for security.
B. CHAP uses a Point-to-Point Protocol (PPP) method.
C. CHAP uses a hash mechanism so the clear text authentication piece is never sent.
D. CHAP is required for iSCSI initiator authentication
What are the requirements for a boot from SAN? (Choose two.)
A. The host server and storage should be from the same vendor
B. Only CNAs can be used
C. An active path to the LUN is required.
D. Zoning of the LUN containing the OS image is required
A customer is considering mixing disk technologies in the same storage array to provide additional capabilities that they require. In this scenario, what would be a benefit of doing this?
A. to perform deduplication before writing data to the HDDs
B. to allow for more encrypted data to be stored on the array
C. to improve the performance of the array
D. to perform compression before writing data to the HDDs