1.
You need to merge two existing FC fabrics. After connecting the ISL to join the fabrics, numerous switches segment. What should be done to prevent the segmentation?
2.
You have determined that the root cause of your problem is related to invalid characters being intermittently transmitted on your 4 Gb FC link. What describes this condition?
3.
You are provisioning storage to a host with multipathing software installed and correctly configured. You discover that there are four paths to LUNs instead of the expected eight paths. Why does this happen?
4.
Which process allows for the reduction of disk space consumption on a shared storage of OS images used by 200 users?
5.
Your company does a full backup on Sunday night and incremental backups from Monday through Saturday at midnight. The full backup requires two tapes and each incremental backup requires one tape. There is a system failure Wednesday morning. How many tapes will be used to restore to the most current backup?
6.
You are asked to secure 2.5 PB of data so that in case of a failed drive replacement, data on the drives is not usable. Which data protection method should be used in this case?
7.
You need to implement a solution for a high transaction database which should have the lowest write latency as possible and still be able to sustain a failure of a single drive in a RAID group. Which type of RAID you would use?
8.
You determine that throughput between a server and an FC storage array is lower than expected. Your privileges only allow you to change the configuration of the HBA on the server. Which configuration setting can you change to increase throughput?
9.
You are asked to set up a server to boot from a SAN. Which setting on the HBA needs to be configured?
10.
A database administrator (DBA) is complaining of slow write performance to a storage array. The DBA would like to have access to real-time performance reporting of the storage array to correlate array performance with database performance. Following SNIA Storage Security Best Current Practices, what should you do while limiting administrative complexity?