Deck 8: Cloud Storage

Question 1

Cindy has a scheduled job to back up the web server every day at 1 am. Every hour she wants to run another backup to archive anything that has changed since the full backup. Which of the following describes the hourly backup process she wants to implement?

A) Cumulative
B) Incremental
C) Additive
D) Differential

Answer 1

D

Question 2

Eddie is creating a new virtual machine on the cloud service provider his company uses. One of the specs that he's looking at describes the number of read and write operations that can be completed over certain periods of time. Which of the following specs is he comparing?

A) RTT
B) RPM
C) IOPS
D) CDN

Answer 2

C

Question 3

Fictional Corp is expanding their presence to Europe. As part of their expansion, they realized that they need to consider some changes to the design of the cloud infrastructure they host on a cloud service provider. Which of the following might they decide to implement?

A) Multi-regional storage
B) Local Storage
C) Regional Storage
D) Offsite Storage

Answer 3

A

Question 4

Tracey has built a private cloud in her organization with restrictions in place to prevent provisioning more disk space than is physically available. Which of the following describes this principle?

A) SOS provisioning
B) JIT provisioning
C) Thin provisioning
D) Thick provisioning

Question 5

Joe has been asked about one of the storage systems his company maintains. This system writes the data to storage in one region and periodically copies the data to another region. What term can he use to describe this configuration?

A) Duplicating replication
B) Synchronous replication
C) Asynchronous replication
D) Always On replication

Question 6

Fictional Corp archives all of the video footage from its IP cameras that is older than 1 week. This footage is very rarely ever accessed. Which of the following is the best solution for how they should store this data?

A) Cold storage
B) Warm storage
C) Hot storage
D) Compressed storage

Question 7

Beau has a small external RAID array connected to his workstation to store local backups of the applications that he develops. Which of the following describe the type of storage solution he is using?

A) NAS
B) DAS
C) SAN
D) SAD

Question 8

Rick needs to expand the storage for his company's large private cloud. Which of the following types of storage do they most likely use?

A) NAS
B) DAS
C) SAN
D) SAD

Question 9

Terrance is designing storage for a startup company and needs to ensure from the beginning that it will be able to handle high levels of variety in high volumes and arriving in high velocity. Which of the following technologies is he designing for?

A) Transient data
B) 3V data
C) Big data
D) DAS

Question 10

Martin wants to maintain an exact copy of the data from one of the data storage locations in a separate location for disaster recovery purposes. The copy of the data will not be actively used unless the systems have to failover to the copy. Which of the following describes the type of redundancy he is wanting to implement?

A) Duplexing
B) Mirroring
C) Snapshot
D) Tokenization

Question 11

Daniel is looking for a good solution to store the log files from servers in his organization. He knows that the log files will never change. Which of the following describes the type of data he is looking to store and manage?

A) WORM
B) IOPS
C) TTFB
D) RTT

Question 12

Alexandra has scheduled a full backup of one of the servers she manages for the first day of every month. Every week after that, any data that has changed since the previous backup of any kind is backed up. Which of the following describes these weekly backups?

A) Piecemeal
B) Incremental
C) Additive
D) Differential

Question 13

Julia is designing a new customer relationship management application that will contain a number of types of information: customer list, products, inventory, orders, etc. Which of the following best suits the method of how she may want to store this data?

A) DAS filesystem
B) NAS filesystem
C) Flat file database
D) Relational database

Question 14

Startup Inc. is developing a new application that they intend to use a cloud service provider to host. Initially, they plan on only launching the app in the United States and then growing from there once they have reached critical mass. Which of the following storage designs might they use initially in order to save on costs?

A) Multi-regional storage
B) Local storage
C) Regional storage
D) Offsite storage

Question 15

Roz is looking to save disk space on the servers by migrating log files older than 30 days to another server. Which of the following might she use to combine the files into one file that is smaller than the combined size of the originals?

A) Trimming
B) Resizing
C) Compression
D) Stacking

Question 16

Juanita wants to create a data replication system where the data is constantly written to two locations at the same time. Which of the following describes this type of configuration?

A) Duplicating replication
B) Synchronous replication
C) Asynchronous replication
D) Always On replication

Question 17

Roberta is trying to find a way to save space on the SAN that acts as storage for all of the home directories in her organization. Which of the following might help Roberta accomplish this goal?

A) Transfiguration
B) Deduplication
C) Commutation
D) Parallelism

Question 18

Trent is designing the technology infrastructure to use at his company's new small office in the Caribbean. After researching the ISPs in the area, he sees that the amount of bandwidth available at that specific location is going to be rather limited. Which of the following may he want to install in order to provide local file storage for the office?

A) NAS
B) DAS
C) SAN
D) SAD

Question 19

Sophia needs to make sure that everything on certain systems gets backed up once per week. What is the technical term that is used to describe this type of backup?

A) Complete
B) Exhaustive
C) Full
D) Thorough

Question 20

Lorna manages a private cloud with 500 terabytes of storage. However, the servers in the cloud have a total provisioned footprint of 800 terabytes. Which of the following describes the provisioning model that she is using?

A) SOS provisioning
B) JIT provisioning
C) Thin provisioning
D) Thick provisioning

Question 21

Ivan is responsible for making tape backups of one of the on-premises servers in the data center and then taking the tapes to a lockbox at a local bank for safe keeping. Which of the following describes the type of backup that he is doing?

A) Remote
B) Local
C) Online
D) Offline

Question 22

Doreen wants to configure the new application she is deploying to use object storage for the logs. Which of the following object-based storage should she choose?

A) Append blob
B) Block blob
C) Page blob
D) Cloud Filestore

Question 23

Kendra has received the list of requirements from the Finance department for a new application that is being developed. The application will be hosted on a cloud service provider, and she needs to ensure that she is able to guarantee that the application is up and running when they need it. Which of the following documents might she create to outline exactly what they are going to provide that will also help in determining the necessary infrastructure and timelines for performing backups?

A) MTD
B) SLA
C) RTO
D) RPO

Question 24

Edgar is about to make some changes to a virtual machine. However, he knows that some of the changes may not be successful and wants a quick way to restore back to the original configuration and data in the case of failure. Which of the following strategies could allow Edgar to accomplish this goal?

A) Snapshot
B) Block blob
C) Page blob
D) Append blob

Question 25

Sid wants to create a new copy of a server so that he can test some patches to the server outside of the production environment. Which of the following describes the method described?

A) Storage mirroring
B) Cloning
C) Synchronous replication
D) Asynchronous replication

Question 26

Fictional Corp has an on-premises data center where content is written once and then referenced by its content rather than by its location on a disk. Which of the following types of storage are they most likely using?

A) DAS
B) CAS
C) NAS
D) SaaS

Question 27

Greg is analyzing a server and notices that the storage space is now 90 percent full. He wants to save some space by deleting some of the historical records on the server. Which of the following might prevent him from doing so?

A) Sensitivity of the data
B) Compliance with regulations
C) Visibility of the data
D) Compression of the data

Question 28

Nicki is creating an object storage type to store VM disks. Which of the following is the best object-based solution to store these types of data?

A) Append blob
B) Block blob
C) Page blob
D) Cloud Filestore

Question 29

Fictional Corp is operating at redundancy level RF3. How many resource failures can they tolerate and still maintain operation?

A) 0
B) 1
C) 2
D) 3

Question 30

A large social media platform is planning on converting from filesystem storage to object storage for the many photos that users upload. Which of the following types of object-based storage might they choose?

A) Append blob
B) Block blob
C) Page blob
D) Cloud Filestore

Question 31

Fictional Corp has just received a shipment of 100 four-terabyte hard drives for the creation of a new application service. Which of the following will have an effect on the total amount of storage capacity that they can provide for this new service?

A) HA
B) AZ
C) SLA
D) FCoE

Question 32

Sylvester has several very critical web applications that he is responsible for. These applications are hosted in the company's on-premises data center. He wants to ensure that if something happens to one of the applications or the data that it can be recovered as fast as possible. Which of the following would allow him the quickest recovery time?

A) Remote
B) Online
C) Offline
D) Offsite