1 . Why is it important for organizations to accelerate their digital transformation efforts?

 Maintain a competitive advantage in digital environment

2 . What is an accurate statement about unstructured data?

 Difficult to extract information from data using traditional application and requires considerable
resources
3. Under the IaaS model, which elements are managed by the provider?
 virtualization , servers , networking
4 . Which cloud computing characteristic allows on demand capacity scaling in real time?
 Rapid Elasticity
5 . An organization wants to migrate to a new payroll application . they lack the skills to deploy
and administer the new application .
Which cloud service model will meet their their need ?
 Software as a service
6 . An organization is evaluating a cloud deployment solution that allows them to select various
cloud service providers . They want to avoid vendor lock – in issues while optimizing
performance and cost
Which recommended cloud deployment model will meet their requirement ?
 Multi – cloud
7 . Which cloud deployment model allows provisioning of a cloud infrastructure only for use by
a single organization having multiple tenants?

 Private cloud
8 . Which technology is used in the media and entertainment industry to enable contant - based
search and create video subtitles using natural language processing ?
 Machine learning
9 . What is true regarding information-centric storage architecture?
 Storage capacity can be increased dynamically without impacting information availability .
10 . What is true about software defined architecture?
 Provides a unified management platform for centralized monitoring and administration

11 . Which logical components are required in compute systems?

 Operating system file system logical volume manager device driver
12 . Which hypervisor component is responsible for assigning system resources to virtual
machine ?
 VMM
 13 . Which system has a chassis with slots holding multiple servers and provides an integrated
power supply, cooling, networking, and management functions?
 Blade computer system
14 . Solid – state (flash ) drive - stores data on semiconductor-based memory
Optical disc drive (HDD) - Stores data on a circular disk with a ferromagnetic
coating
Magnetic disk drive - stores data on a polycarbonate disc with a reflective
coating
Magnetic tape drive - Stores data on a thin plastic film with a magnetic
coating
15 . Which statement describes the purpose of containers?
 Bundles an application with required software libraries to run anywhere
16 . In which format do block – based storage systems store data ?
 Fixed block of 512 bytes each
17 . what is the time taken by the platter of a hard disk drive to position data under the read
/right head?
 Rotational Latency
18 . What is the stripe size of a 5 – disk RAID 5 group with a strip size of 32 KB ?
 128 KB
19 . Which block – based storage system component connects hosts to the storage system ?
 Front – end ports .
20 . What is an advantage of sub-LUN tiering?
 Improved performance
21 . Which statement are both accurate about scale – up NAS system ?
 Provides the ability to independently grow capacity and performance Can add NAS controllers
that contain CPU and memory
22 . What is used to track where objects and metadata are stored in an OSD system ?
 Object Storage database
23 . What is an accurate statement about NAS ?
 Enables both UNIX and Microsoft Windows users to seamlessly share the same data
24 . what are the essential components of an object in an object – based storage system ?
 Data , user – defined attributes , metadata , and object ID
25 . In a Fibre Channel (FC) protocol stack, what is the function of the FC-1 layer?
 Provides transmission words , primitive signals , and link initialization

26 . What is a domain ID represented in Fiber Channel (FC) addressing ?

 Unique number provided to each switch in the fabric .
27 . An IT organization wants to implement a fibre channel ( FC ) SAN that provides high
scalability and better utilizes their data storage systems. They wants to minimize the number of
inter – switch links (ISL) that are required for storage traffic .
Which FC SAN type should be recommended ?
 Core – edge .
28 . In the FC protocol stack , what is the function of the FC – 4 layer ?
 Defines application interfaces and maps storage protocols
29 . An IP SAN uses the Internet Protocol to transport which I/O block type ?
 Storage block I/O data over a LAN
30 . What is an accurate statement about a Converged network Adapter ( CAN ) ?
 Physical adapter that provides the functionality of both a standard NIC and an FC HBA in a single
device .
31 . A company needs to transmit data over long distances between their disparate FC SANs at
multiple geographic locations . Which recommended protocol should be adopted by the
company ?
 FCIP
32 . What is used to implement a fully functional SAN ?
 iSCSI
33 . what is true about an iSCSI HBA ?
 Performs both ISCSI and TCP / IP processing .
34. In a bridged iSCSI network , which type of network enables the iSCSI gateway to connect
servers to storage systems ?
 Server Ethernet ports and storage system N _Port .
35 . Why should organizations use Fibre Channel over IP ?
 To support replication of data across data centers for disaster recovery
36. Why should organizations deploy FCoE network in a data center environment ?
 To reduce the number of cables , NIC cards , and ports
37 . What provides user with self service access to pre – defined storage service ?
 Service catalog

38 . What is a feature of a business continuity solution ?

 Reduces investment costs associated with protecting information vital to business continuance .
 39 . When using the erasure coding technique in an object – based storage system . data is
divided in to 8 data segments and 4 coding segments . What is the maximum number of disk
drive failures against which data is protected by the configuration ?
 4
40. A fiber channel switch has eight ports and all ports must be operational 24 / 7 . However , a
failure of Port 8 occurs on a particular week as follows .
Monday = 11 AM to 12 PM
Thursday = 8 AM to 11 AM
Saturday = 11 AM to 4 PM
Sunday = 10 PM to 1 AM
What is the availability of port 8 in that week ?
 92.8%
41 . An Ethernet switch has eight ports and all ports must be operational for 24 hours; from
Monday through Friday. However, a failure of Port 2 occurs as follows:

 Monday = 5 PM to 9 PM
 Wednesday = 4 PM to 9 PM
 Friday = 6 AM to 9 AM
 Saturday = 9 AM to 1 PM

What is the MTBF of Port 2?

 36
42 . information availability = X / (X+Y)
Refer to the Example :
What do X and Y represent in the formula for Information Availability ?
 MTBF and MTTR
43 . What accurately describes an image – based backup ?
 Recovery at both the virtual machine and file level is supported
44 . What are the functions of the storage node in a backup architecture ?
 Responsible for organizing client data and sending data to a backup device .
45 . Which component initiates scheduled backups during backup operations ?
 Backup Server
46 . Which component sends the restore metadata to the backup server during a recovery
operation ?
 Storage node
47 . What is an advantage of implementing email archiving ?
 Increase the mailbox space by moving old emails to archive storage
 48 . What is a specialized replication technique that enables moving data from one storage
system to another with a data center without incurring downtime ?
 Migration
49 . Which factors affect the recovery point objective (RPO) in a storage system – based
asynchronous remote replication ?
 Size of the buffer and available network bandwidth
50 . During a write spilt operation in continuous data protection (CDP) replication , one of the
I/Os is received by the local CDP appliance . Which component received the offer I/O ?
 Production volume
51 . What is the function of a CDP appliance ?
 Manages both local and remote data replication .
52 . What specialized replication technique enables moving data between storage systems
within a data center , between data centers , and between the data center and the cloud ?
 Data migration
53 . What type of migration is used to move VMs from one compute system to another without
downtime or service disruption ?
 Hypervisor based migration
54 . What is true about synchronous remote replication ?
 Supports locality of reference to conserve link bandwidth .
55 . A company’s assets are continuously under attack . To deploy a security control mechanism
to protect these assets , what should be considered ?
 Easy access to assets by authorized users
56 . An organization wants to secure and protect the data from unauthorized access on a
storage medium.

Which security control helps to secure the data?

 Encryption

57 . What is the advantage of adopting OpenID by an organization ?

 Eliminates the need for the organization to deploy their own authentication system .
58 . Which security control allows a client to access protected resources from a resource server
on behalf of a resource owner ?
 OAuth
59 . What is provided by performing an infrastructure discovery ?
 Creating a list of infrastructure components and their related information
60 . What is an example of an Availability Management task in storage infrastructure
management?

 Designing a new replication solution for data redundancy