Which of the following would a company implement in order to ensure that critical system data backups are available in case the datacenter is lost due to a natural disaster?
A. Snapshots
B. e-vaulting
C. OnsiteD2D
D. OnsiteD2D2T
Which of the following are hot-pluggable devices in a storage array? (Select TWO)
A. HBA
B. Power supply
C. Disk
D. Drive chassis
E. ISL
Which of the following data replication technologies has the GREATEST impact on an application's I/O performance to the source data?
A. Synchronous
B. ISL trunking
C. Semi-synchronous
D. Asynchronous
The storage technician is setting up a zoning implementation within a Fibre Channel fabric and needs to implement a feature on the switches for granting authorization to data between different zones through a unique device identifier. Which of the following would need to be implemented to satisfy this requirement?
A. Port Zoning
B. Redundant Fabrics
C. LUN Masking
D. WWN Zoning
An administrator would like to encrypt the communication between servers and the target in an iSCSI SAN. Which of the following would accomplish this?
A. TPM Module
B. iPSec
C. EFS
D. CHAP
Which of the following network technologies should an administrator use to replicate data between datacenters across the Pacific ocean?
A. CWDM
B. VSAN
C. MAN
D. WAN
A SAN administrator is setting thresholds on trunks composed of four ISLs per trunk group. To allow for the loss of one ISL, which of the following values should be used for the bandwidth threshold of each ISL?
A. 50%
B. 67%
C. 78%
D. 90%
In a redundant fabric configuration, which of the following is the MINIMUM number of single port HBAs that a server must have, to sustain a single fabric failure?
A. 1
B. 2
C. 4
D. 8
An administrator has 4 SAS drives that the manufacturer lists at 140 IOPS. How many IOPS combined would these drives have in a single RAID 0+1?
A. 140 Read or 140 Write IOPS
B. 280 Read or 140 Write IOPS
C. 560 Read or 280 Write IOPS
D. 560 Read or 560 Write IOPS
Which of the following is LVM used for when mirroring or striping?
A. Mount point
B. Disk group
C. Logical volume
D. File system
Which of the following storage configurations is the MOST secure with regards to unauthorized access to the storage?
A. DAS storage array connected to a single stand alone server
B. NAS storage array attached to an isolated network
C. Hybrid storage array running multi-protocols
D. SAN with different levels of user access enforced by individual passwords
Assuming that unique keys exist for each tape backup job, which of the following is the BEST advantage of using Tape encryption in regards to expiring tapes?
A. Tapes that are expired only need to be reformatted to make the data inaccessible.
B. Tapes that are expired only need the keys destroyed to make the data inaccessible.
C. Tapes that are expired only need to be overwritten without reformatting to make the data inaccessible.
D. Tapes that are expired must be degaussed to make the data inaccessible.
In a performance tiered storage environment, which of the following types of data should reside on the top tier?
A. Data requiring high I/O
B. Encrypted data
C. Mission critical data
D. Frequently archived data
In an HSM archive application, which of the following is the BEST candidate for migration?
A. A 1 MB file that is 360 days old.
B. A file stored on a server that will expire in 10 days.
C. A 250 MB file that has not been referenced for 90 days.
D. A 1 MB file that is 120 days old.
Which of the following backup techniques is MOST likely to require the LEAST amount of data transfer during each backup cycle?
A. File incremental
B. Block incremental
C. File differential
D. Block differential