UGRD-IT6302 Integrative Programming and Technology 1 Midterm Exam

A tape library does not contain:

Answer: RAID Array

For long term storage (archival) of data which of the following storage devices is generally used:
Answer: Tape Cartridges

What will be used by SAN to provide connectivity between hosts and storage?
Answer: FC or iSCSI

Which of the following provides byte level striping?

Answer: RAID 5

Select the correct option regarding tape drive

Answer: Tape drives can stream data at a very fast rate

Communication channel is shared by all the machines on the network in

Answer: broadcast network

Two devices are in network if:

Answer: a process in one device is able to exchange information with a process in another
device

Identify a network file protocol in the below mentioned set.

Answer: CIFS

RAID Level 6 has dual parity where as RAID Level 5 has single parity and both does block level
striping
Answer: False

Pick the false statement

Answer: RAID Level 5 provides block level striping and error correction information

What protocol is used to find the hardware address of a local device?

Answer: ARP

Which topology is best suited for medium sized enterprise.

Answer: NAS

RAID Level 7 does Asynchronous cached striping with dedicated parity.

Answer: TRUE
Which of the following is not a likely configuration of a Client-Server System?
Answer: Single Client- Multiple Server System

Which of the following is false about tape devices?

Answer: Tape drives allow random access of data

In the Client-Server architecture, the component that processes the request and sends the
response is
Answer: Server

The URL Connection class can be used to read and write data to the specified resource referred
by the URL.
Answer: True

A __________ is a device that forwards packets between networks by processing the routing
information included in the packet.
Answer: router

The execution of the functions on a single server or across servers on the network is called:
Answer: TP-Heavy

Which storage technology requires downtime to add new hard disk capacity
Answer: DAS

Which of the following does not refer to middleware?

Answer: (e) JAVA and C

Communication channel is shared by all the machines on the network in

Answer: broadcast network

I/O requests to disk storage on a SAN are called

Answer: Block I/Os

What does a VLAN do?

Answer: Provides multiple broadcast domains within a single collision domain

A client device designed so that most processing and data storage occurs on the client side
describes
Answer: Fat Client

TP monitor done its responsibilities with the help of which protocol?

Answer: Two-Phase Commit Protocol
Which one of the following extends a private network across public networks?
Answer: virtual private network

What is the most basic level of storage?

Answer: DAS

Which of the following Company manufactures RAID devices?

Answer: LSI

Which one of the following extends a private network across public networks?
Answer: Both IP address of Server & Port number

NetBEUI is an enhanced version of ------ Protocol

Answer: NetBIOS

TCP, FTP, Telnet, SMTP, POP etc. are examples of?

Answer: Protocol

In computer network nodes are:

Answer: the computer that terminates, originates and routes the data

In SAN storage model, the operating system view storage resources as —— devices
Answer: SCSI

Which of the following statements regarding Client-server computing are true?

Answer: The Client server environment is typically homogeneous and single-vendor. The
hardware flat form and operating system of Client and Server are usually the same

Disk controller driver in DAS architecture is replaced in SAN either with ——

Answer: Any one of the above

This is the practice of collecting computer files that have been packaged together for backup, to
transport to some other location, for saving away from the computer so that more hard disks can
be made available, or for some other purpose.
Answer: Archive

The execution of the functions on a single server or across servers on the network is called:
Answer: All are roll backed regardless of whether they issue any one

Nested RAID provides better performance characteristics than the RAID levels that comprise
them
Answer: True
This is the process of assigning storage, usually in the form of server disk drive space, in order
to optimize the performance of a storage area network.
Answer: Storage Provisioning

Which one of the following computer network is built on the top of another network?
Answer: overlay network

This is a repository for the storage, management, and dissemination of data in which the
mechanical, lighting, electrical and computer systems are designed for maximum energy
efficiency and minimum environmental impact.
Answer: Data Center

Which three statements describe differences between Storage Area Network (SAN) and
Network Attached Storage (NAS) solutions? Choose three.

a. SAN is generally more expensive but provides higher performance

b. NAS uses TCP/IP for communication between hosts and the NAS server

c. NAS requires additional hardware on a host: a host bus adapter for connectivity

d. SAN uses proprietary protocols for communication between hosts and the SAN fabric
Answer: A, B, D

When collection of various computers seems a single coherent system to its client, then it is
called:
Answer: distributed system

Network congestion occurs when:

Answer: in case of traffic overloading

A NAS solution is most appropriate for what type of data environment

Answer: Shared access

Which one of the following extends a private network across public networks?
Answer: virtual private network

Simply stated, these are large boxes that hold lots of hard disks.
Answer: Disk Array

The principle of serial equivalence for distributed transactions says that:

Answer: When several transactions are executed concurrently, the result should be the same as
if they had been executed in sequence
A list of protocols used by a system, one protocol per layer, is called:
Answer: protocol stack