1.
A storage administrator notices that a server is intermittently losing access to its storage over a single path. Which of the following statistics on an FC switch would have a high count value in this situation?
2.
To increase storage performance, a storage administrator is setting up a new LUN for an application. This application usually has a high number of reads compared to the number of writes being performed. Which RAID level would provide the BEST performance for this volume, while still maintaining fault tolerance?
3.
A storage administrator is auditing an environment and finds that an unknown person accessed the company silo and removed a number of tapes. These tapes had sensitive company IP and PII on them, now putting the company in a legally precarious situation. Which of the following could the administrator do to ensure that lost data is not usable by an unauthorized person in the future?
4.
A storage administrator is receiving reports that nightly backups are impacting system performance during the beginning of the business day. All servers are backed up via the network to a backup server that writes directly to tape. Network administrators indicate there is plenty of bandwidth to the backup server even when the system slows down. Which of the following can be implemented to BEST speed up backups?
5.
Which of the following technologies would work BEST for a company spread across a number of locations in a city to connect all their networks?
6.
An administrator is attempting to recover corrupted data from a four disk RAID group. However, the administrator does not know which RAID level was used. When investigating the volumes, the administrator notes that there is a duplicate of all data on two of the disks. Which of the following RAID levels was in use?
7.
Given an array with sixteen 300GB drives, a storage administrator needs to know how much raw usable space can be made available while still maintaining a highly available RAID configuration with two hot spares. Which of the following is the MAXIMUM capacity that can be allocated and at which RAID level?
8.
A server has dual power supplies, dual mirrored hard drives, multi-pathed multiple NICs, and a dual port HBA for access into a SAN. Which of the following components is a single point of failure?
9.
A new storage array is being cabled into a rack. The array has dual controllers, each disk tray has dual power supplies, and there are two in-rack PDUs (C and D). Which of the following is the BEST method for hooking up power?
10.
An administrator needs to assign LUN IDs for two new LUNs from the same storage array. The first LUN is being presented as LUN 0 to multiple hosts. The second LUN is being dedicated to a single server which is also included in the group of hosts LUN 0 is presented to. Which of the following is the LOWEST LUN ID that can be assigned to the second LUN?