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1. What is the most basic level of storage

a. SAN
b. DAS
c. NAS
d. ISCSI
Answer:b
2. A NAS solution is most appropriate for what type of data environment
a. Secured Access
b. Shared access
c. Remote access
d. Parallel access
Answer:b
3. I/O requests to disk storage on a SAN are called
a. File I/Os
b. SAN I/Os
c. Block I/Os
d. Disk I/Os
Answer:c
4. Which topology is best suited for medium sized enterprise.
a. NAS
b. SAN
c. DAS
Answer:a
5. Which storage technology requires downtime to add new hard disk capacity
a. DAS
b. SAN
c. NAS
d. None of the above

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Answer:a
6. Identify a network file protocol in the below mentioned set.
a. FC
b. CIFS
c. SCSI
d. NAS
Answer:b

7. Which two RAID types use parity for data protection?

a. RAID 1
b. RAID 4
c. RAID 1+ 0
d. RAID 5
Answer:b, d
8. Which one of these is characteristic of RAID 5?
a. Distributed parity
b. No Parity
c. All parity in a single disk
d. Double Parity
Answer:a
9. What is the unique characteristic of RAID 6 (Choose one)?
a. Distributed Parity
b. Striping
c. Two independent distributed parity
d. Mirroring
Answer:c
10. Which of the following raid levels provides maximum usable disk space?
a. RAID 1
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b. RAID 0
c. RAID 5
d. RAID 6
Answer:b
11. An array of disks is more likely to fail compared to a single disk. How is it that
RAID arrays still manage to provide more data protection compared to a single
disk?
a. Using either mirroring or striping
b. Using either mirroring or parity
c. Using better quality disks
d. Using dedicated hardware
Answer:b
12. Which of the following provides byte level striping?
a. RAID 6
b. RAID 4
c. RAID 2
d. RAID 5
Answer:d
13. A tape library does not contain
a. Tape Drive
b. Bar Code Reader
c. Robotic Arm
d. RAID Array
Answer:d

14. For long term storage (archival) of data which of the following storage devices
is generally used
a. Hard Disk
b. CD Rom
c. Floppy Disk
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d. Tape Cartridges
Answer:d
15. Which of the following Company manufactures Tape Library?
a. Quantum
b. Brocade
c. NetApps
d. Cisco
Answer:a
16. Which of the following Company manufactures RAID devices?
a. Qlogic
b. LSI
c. Falconstor
d. Quantum
Answer:b

16.Which of the following is not a non volatile storage device?

a. Memory Stick
b. Hard Disk
c. Random Access Memory
d. NVRAM
Answer:c

17. Which of the following is sequential access storage device?

a. Hard Disk
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b. CD-ROM
c. Tape Cartridge
d. Main Memory
Answer:c
18. Pick odd one out
a. Mirroring
b. Striping
c. Error-correction
d. fault tolerance
Answer:d
19. Pick the false statement about RAID 0
a. Provides no redundancy
b. Provides data striping
c. improves performance
d. Provides fault tolerance
Answer:d

20.What is the maximum number of loop ports that can participate in an

arbitrated?
a. 128
b. 127
c. 256
d. 0
Answer: b
21. Which FC layer is responsible for exchange/frame and sequence
management?
a. Layer 0
b. Layer 1
c. Layer 2
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d. Layer 4 (ULP)
Answer: c

23. What is the significance E-Port?

a. Creates an arbitrated loop
b. Extends the fabric by connecting to other fabrics
c. Represents un-initialized state of a port
d. Represents port with disconnected FC link
Answer:b

24. Which of the following enforces access control in SAN/FC switches?

a. Zoning
b. Trunking
c. Flow control
d. Class of service
Answer:a

25. Which of the below is component of SAN

a. Ethernet switch
b. Fibre Switch
c. Ethernet Card
d. None of the above
Answer:b

26. What components on SAN can be virtualized

a. Disk
b. Tape Drive
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c. Tape Library
d. All the above
Answer:d

27. A SAN network can have

a. 1 FC switch
b. 2 FC switch
c. There can be many FC switches
d. No FC switch
Answer:c

28. What is a Logical Unit?

a. subset of Target device
b. subset of Initiator
c. Subset of Device Server
d. Component of Interface
Answer:a
29. What is SCSI?
a. Small Computer Simple Interface
b. System Computer Select Interface
c. Small Computer System Interface
d. Small Computer System Interconnect
Answer:c

30. Length of Logical Unit number is

a. 8 bit
b. 16 bit
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c. 32 bit
d. 64 bit
Answer:d

31. What is the maximum number of loop ports that can participate in an
arbitrated?
a. 128
b. 127
c. 256
d. 0
Answer:b

32. In FC, which of the following are analogous to IP address in data networks?
a. Node WWN
b. Port WWN
c. Fabric address
d. Well known addresses
Answer:c
33. Who determines the WWN of FC end point
a. Vendor
b. Fabric controller
c. Node/Loop ports participating in the FC connection
d. None of the above
Answer:a
34. Which of the following is the use of trunking?
a. High bandwidth creation between switches
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b. Flow control
c. In order delivery
d. Timing service
Answer:a
35. CIFS runs over the following protocols:
a. TCP/IP
b. FTP
c. SNMP
d. DNS
Answer:a
36. CIFS doesnt support the following
a. Oplocks
b. Batch command
c. Unicode support
d. Stateless
Answer:d
37. CIFS is used in the following OS
a. Windows
b. Unix
c. Netware
d. All the above
Answer:d
38. RPC is used for
a. transporting data over the network
b. executing program on different computer
c. reporting process control
d. None of the above
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Answer:b
39. This is the pooling of physical storage from multiple network storage devices
into what appears to be a single storage device that is managed from a central
console.
a. Server Provisioning
b. Data mining
c. Disk/Tape virtualization
d. None of the above
Answer:c

40. Without this practice, backing up data is virtually useless.

a. Data Archival
b. Data Retrieval
c. Data quality assurance
d. Data Recovery
Answer:b

41. Journaling is preferred for

a. Faster file system recovery
b. Faster write operation
c. Storing logs
d. Storing metadata
Answer:a

42. Fileystem is created using command

a. Mkfs
b. Format
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c. Fsck
d. defrag
Answer:a

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