SNIA Architect Assessment, Planning & Design

A four switch Fabric with 8 ports per switch using a full-mesh connectivity approach will have 20 Ports available for Fabric attached devices. How many ports will be available using the full mesh approach when increasing the number of switches from four to six?

What is not affected by distance?

Company.com needs to protect against data corruption. You must assume that it could take the company up to three hours to determine that their data is corrupted. They want to have a snapshot every hour. The production data is not write intensive. If a split mirror snapshot is used, incremental establishment takes 15 minutes. Which solution fulfils their needs and is the most cost effective?

Company.com is configuring a host to have access to three virtual devices. The customer wants to strip these devices into one logical volume. Which three choices are valid?

You are troubleshooting a disaster recovery plan for your data center. Your current configuration is one with a SAN that includes a local and remote data center. Recently the data center was moved further away. You are experiencing reduced throughput and link utilization is now at 35 percent. What cause this?

For a high availability storage network what should you do?

Company.com needs to create a tape backup strategy for a file system. On average the file system will be 60% full. Array based virtualization will be used to create the snapshot, which will only be used for the tape backup. Write activity on the production volume will be minimal during the backup process. Which will provide the least impact to the production application?

Some system servers contain valuable and frequently accessed data, manuals, and engineering drawings. These files do not change very often, but they need to be kept on reasonably fast, reliable storage to serve the needs of users. What would be an acceptable method of presenting these files for use?

Which statement is correct?

You have been tasked with identifying upgrade options for your networked storage. Which two should you do?