Question 1

Click the Exhibit button.   Which RAID level is shown in the exhibit?

Accepted Answer

A)  RAID 4 
B)  RAID 5 
C)  RAID 0 
D)  RAID 6 
A)  RAID 4 
B)  RAID 5 
C)  RAID 0 
D)  RAID 6

Question 2

A number of servers are experiencing slower than expected performance. Analyzing the server, switch, and storage logs do not indicate any issues. You have been asked by the customer to address this issue. What will improve performance?

Accepted Answer

A)  Increase the current queue depth setting from 1. 
B)  Change the frame size from 2148 bytes, 
C)  Decrease the buffer-to-buffer credits setting. 
D)  Enable write caching functionality for the device driver. 
A)  Increase the current queue depth setting from 1. 
B)  Change the frame size from 2148 bytes, 
C)  Decrease the buffer-to-buffer credits setting. 
D)  Enable write caching functionality for the device driver.

Question 3

You have replaced an HBA and are trying to add it to an existing zone using the FC switch GUI interface. You are unable to do so. Why is this happening?

Accepted Answer

A)  The OS login has not occurred. 
B)  The Web login has not occurred. 
C)  The fabric login has not occurred. 
D)  The port login has occurred. 
A)  The OS login has not occurred. 
B)  The Web login has not occurred. 
C)  The fabric login has not occurred. 
D)  The port login has occurred.

Question 4

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?

Accepted Answer

A)  Incorrect zoning 
B)  Incorrect multipathing policy 
C)  Incorrect LUN masking 
D)  Incorrect LUN size 
A)  Incorrect zoning 
B)  Incorrect multipathing policy 
C)  Incorrect LUN masking 
D)  Incorrect LUN size

Question 5

Your organization operates in a regulated environment and contracts with a service provider to manage tape backup media for highly confidential, secure data. Using SNIA Storage Security Best Practices, which two statements are correct? (Choose two.)

Accepted Answer

A)  Tape backup media is stored in a secure, temperature controlled vault. 
B)  The service provider keeps unencrypted backup media locked during transport. 
C)  All removable media is encrypted and backup media locked during transport. 
D)  The customer manages the chain of custody. 
A)  Tape backup media is stored in a secure, temperature controlled vault. 
B)  The service provider keeps unencrypted backup media locked during transport. 
C)  All removable media is encrypted and backup media locked during transport. 
D)  The customer manages the chain of custody.

Question 6

A server has lost half of its paths to its LUN on a storage system. The help desk determines that one of the two HBAs was just replaced. The SAN administrator has modified the zoning with the new WWPN of the replacement HBA port, but the missing paths have still not recovered. Which action would you perform next?

Accepted Answer

A)  Rescan disks on the server. 
B)  Reconfigure persistent binding on the server. 
C)  Reboot the server. 
D)  Modify the host definitions for LUN masking on the storage system. 
A)  Rescan disks on the server. 
B)  Reconfigure persistent binding on the server. 
C)  Reboot the server. 
D)  Modify the host definitions for LUN masking on the storage system.

Question 7

A storage subsystems Web browser management interface reports that the subsystem has become degraded and remotely opens a service request with the vendor. Your vendors level three storage support engineer wants to remotely access your storage subsystem for troubleshooting. What is a SNIA Storage Security Best Current Practices solution?

Accepted Answer

A)  Open firewall ports to allow the vendor's support engineer to access the Web browser management interface. 
B)  Provide the vendor's support engineer with a temporary user ID that has sudo access to become a super user on the storage subsystem; this ensures an audit trail for all remote support activities. 
C)  Provide the vendor's support engineer with a shared remote control session where you can monitor what the support engineer is doing while troubleshooting the subsystem without needing to share credentials. 
D)  Provide a temporary user ID to allow the vendor's support engineer to access the Web browser management interface remotely over HTTP/TLS. 
A)  Open firewall ports to allow the vendor's support engineer to access the Web browser management interface. 
B)  Provide the vendor's support engineer with a temporary user ID that has sudo access to become a super user on the storage subsystem; this ensures an audit trail for all remote support activities. 
C)  Provide the vendor's support engineer with a shared remote control session where you can monitor what the support engineer is doing while troubleshooting the subsystem without needing to share credentials. 
D)  Provide a temporary user ID to allow the vendor's support engineer to access the Web browser management interface remotely over HTTP/TLS.

Question 8

Click the Exhibit button.   Referring to the configuration shown in the exhibit, when will the servers oversubscribe the connections between the storage array and the switch?

Accepted Answer

A)  When the 6th server is added to the configuration 
B)  When the 7th server is added to the configuration 
C)  When the 8th server is added to the configuration 
D)  When the 9th server is added to the configuration 
A)  When the 6th server is added to the configuration 
B)  When the 7th server is added to the configuration 
C)  When the 8th server is added to the configuration 
D)  When the 9th server is added to the configuration

Question 9

A small business with an IP SAN and NAS storage is experiencing slow response times on the servers which have NAS storage resources. Which two should the storage administrator monitor to determine the root cause? (Choose two.)

Accepted Answer

A)  Latency per NAS port 
B)  IOPS per NAS port 
C)  Link speed per NAS port 
D)  MBps per NAS port 
E)  I question the question 
A)  Latency per NAS port 
B)  IOPS per NAS port 
C)  Link speed per NAS port 
D)  MBps per NAS port 
E)  I question the question

Question 10

Click the Exhibit button.   The physical interface shown in the exhibit is taken from which transport protocol?

Accepted Answer

A)  Ethernet 
B)  FCP 
C)  FCoE 
D)  InfiniBand 
A)  Ethernet 
B)  FCP 
C)  FCoE 
D)  InfiniBand

Question 11

The latest storage utilization report shows that 80% of the current 500 TB of enterprise storage is allocated. The storage administrator must specify the amount of additional storage needed for local copies for approximately half of the active storage. How much additional storage should the administrator request?

Accepted Answer

A)  400 TB 
B)  300 TB 
C)  200 TB 
D)  100 TB 
A)  400 TB 
B)  300 TB 
C)  200 TB 
D)  100 TB

Question 12

You are using asynchronous storage replication to protect your critical database server. There are no replication agents installed on the database server. After a disaster, you are unable to bring up the database at the DR site. What is the cause?

Accepted Answer

A)  The database requires replication from a second storage array. 
B)  The database requires synchronous storage replication. 
C)  Two copies of databases are required at the DR site to be able to replay transaction logs. 
D)  An installed agent is required for the database to be quiesce and replicated in crash-consistent state. 
A)  The database requires replication from a second storage array. 
B)  The database requires synchronous storage replication. 
C)  Two copies of databases are required at the DR site to be able to replay transaction logs. 
D)  An installed agent is required for the database to be quiesce and replicated in crash-consistent state.

Question 13

A line of business (LOB) executive informs you that a new application requires 99.999% (five 9s) of up-time from both planned and unplanned outages before a service level objective (SLO) will be breached. What is the amount of permissible downtown per week?

Accepted Answer

A)  20.16 minutes 
B)  .605 seconds 
C)  5.04 minutes 
D)  6.06 seconds 
A)  20.16 minutes 
B)  .605 seconds 
C)  5.04 minutes 
D)  6.06 seconds

Question 14

Click the Exhibit button.   Which protocol is represented by the frame shown in the exhibit?

Accepted Answer

A)  FCoE 
B)  iSCSI 
C)  Ethernet 
D)  Fibre Channel 
A)  FCoE 
B)  iSCSI 
C)  Ethernet 
D)  Fibre Channel

Question 15

You have two new FC switches from the same vendor and want to connect them together. You have ensured that the domain IDs are unique, switch names are unique, and the firmware levels are identical. When you connect the ISL cables from one switch to the other, the fabric does not merge. What should be confirmed?

Accepted Answer

A)  Ensure the ISL ports are E_Ports. 
B)  Ensure the ISL ports are B_Ports. 
C)  Ensure the ISL ports are F_Ports. 
D)  Ensure the ISL ports are N_Ports. 
A)  Ensure the ISL ports are E_Ports. 
B)  Ensure the ISL ports are B_Ports. 
C)  Ensure the ISL ports are F_Ports. 
D)  Ensure the ISL ports are N_Ports.

Question 16

Click the Exhibit button.   Which protocol is represented in the exhibit?

Accepted Answer

A)  iSCSI 
B)  IPv6 Ethernet 
C)  IPv4 Ethernet 
D)  FCoE 
A)  iSCSI 
B)  IPv6 Ethernet 
C)  IPv4 Ethernet 
D)  FCoE

Question 17

The storage administrator is required to create five zones within the FC SAN. Which Fibre Channel server would be used to do this?

Accepted Answer

A)  Fabric Login server 
B)  Name server 
C)  Management server 
D)  Fabric Controller 
A)  Fabric Login server 
B)  Name server 
C)  Management server 
D)  Fabric Controller

Question 18

A company has a storage subsystem that supports a variety of replication options. They have purchased an identical array and placed it at a secondary site 50 km away and will provide the shortest RPO. Which statement is correct?

Accepted Answer

A)  Asynchronous replication is the only replication option for distances over 50 km. 
B)  Synchronous replication is the only replication option for distances over 50 km. 
C)  Snapshots allow for data to be quickly captured, copied, and mounted from one storage array to another and is the ideal solution for all distances. 
D)  Synchronous replication will keep the arrays closely synchronized and is ideal for short distances. 
A)  Asynchronous replication is the only replication option for distances over 50 km. 
B)  Synchronous replication is the only replication option for distances over 50 km. 
C)  Snapshots allow for data to be quickly captured, copied, and mounted from one storage array to another and is the ideal solution for all distances. 
D)  Synchronous replication will keep the arrays closely synchronized and is ideal for short distances.

Question 19

A company wants to implement a database which requires a storage subsystem with no more than 2 ms write latency and 1 ms read latency. Which type of drive would you use?

Accepted Answer

A)  SATA 
B)  FC 
C)  SSD 
D)  ATA 
A)  SATA 
B)  FC 
C)  SSD 
D)  ATA

Question 20

A new server needs to start from LUN 1 instead of LUN 0. Which HBA setting must be configured?

Accepted Answer

A)  Selectable Boot 
B)  Persistent Binding 
C)  Enable Target Reset 
D)  LUNs per Target 
A)  Selectable Boot 
B)  Persistent Binding 
C)  Enable Target Reset 
D)  LUNs per Target

Click the Exhibit button. Which RAID level is shown in the exhibit?

A number of servers are experiencing slower than expected performance. Analyzing the server, switch, and storage logs do not indicate any issues. You have been asked by the customer to address this issue. What will improve performance?

You have replaced an HBA and are trying to add it to an existing zone using the FC switch GUI interface. You are unable to do so. Why is this happening?

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?

Your organization operates in a regulated environment and contracts with a service provider to manage tape backup media for highly confidential, secure data. Using SNIA Storage Security Best Practices, which two statements are correct? (Choose two.)

Click the Exhibit button. Referring to the configuration shown in the exhibit, when will the servers oversubscribe the connections between the storage array and the switch?

A small business with an IP SAN and NAS storage is experiencing slow response times on the servers which have NAS storage resources. Which two should the storage administrator monitor to determine the root cause? (Choose two.)

Click the Exhibit button. The physical interface shown in the exhibit is taken from which transport protocol?

You are using asynchronous storage replication to protect your critical database server. There are no replication agents installed on the database server. After a disaster, you are unable to bring up the database at the DR site. What is the cause?

A line of business (LOB) executive informs you that a new application requires 99.999% (five 9s) of up-time from both planned and unplanned outages before a service level objective (SLO) will be breached. What is the amount of permissible downtown per week?

Click the Exhibit button. Which protocol is represented by the frame shown in the exhibit?

Click the Exhibit button. Which protocol is represented in the exhibit?

The storage administrator is required to create five zones within the FC SAN. Which Fibre Channel server would be used to do this?

A company has a storage subsystem that supports a variety of replication options. They have purchased an identical array and placed it at a secondary site 50 km away and will provide the shortest RPO. Which statement is correct?

A company wants to implement a database which requires a storage subsystem with no more than 2 ms write latency and 1 ms read latency. Which type of drive would you use?

A new server needs to start from LUN 1 instead of LUN 0. Which HBA setting must be configured?

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Click the Exhibit button. Which RAID level is shown in the exhibit?

A number of servers are experiencing slower than expected performance. Analyzing the server, switch, and storage logs do not indicate any issues. You have been asked by the customer to address this issue. What will improve performance?

You have replaced an HBA and are trying to add it to an existing zone using the FC switch GUI interface. You are unable to do so. Why is this happening?

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?

Your organization operates in a regulated environment and contracts with a service provider to manage tape backup media for highly confidential, secure data. Using SNIA Storage Security Best Practices, which two statements are correct? (Choose two.)

Click the Exhibit button. Referring to the configuration shown in the exhibit, when will the servers oversubscribe the connections between the storage array and the switch?

A small business with an IP SAN and NAS storage is experiencing slow response times on the servers which have NAS storage resources. Which two should the storage administrator monitor to determine the root cause? (Choose two.)

Click the Exhibit button. The physical interface shown in the exhibit is taken from which transport protocol?

You are using asynchronous storage replication to protect your critical database server. There are no replication agents installed on the database server. After a disaster, you are unable to bring up the database at the DR site. What is the cause?

A line of business (LOB) executive informs you that a new application requires 99.999% (five 9s) of up-time from both planned and unplanned outages before a service level objective (SLO) will be breached. What is the amount of permissible downtown per week?

Click the Exhibit button. Which protocol is represented by the frame shown in the exhibit?

Click the Exhibit button. Which protocol is represented in the exhibit?

The storage administrator is required to create five zones within the FC SAN. Which Fibre Channel server would be used to do this?

A company has a storage subsystem that supports a variety of replication options. They have purchased an identical array and placed it at a secondary site 50 km away and will provide the shortest RPO. Which statement is correct?

A company wants to implement a database which requires a storage subsystem with no more than 2 ms write latency and 1 ms read latency. Which type of drive would you use?

A new server needs to start from LUN 1 instead of LUN 0. Which HBA setting must be configured?

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