San Multiple Choice Questions:-
1. 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.
a. Storage lab
b. Data Center
c. Data warehoused
. Fabric
Answer:b
2. 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.
a. Storage Provisioning
b. Data mining
c. Storage assignment
d. Data Warehousing
Answer: a
3. Simply stated, these are large boxes that hold lots of hard disks.
a. Host
b. Tape library
c. Switch
d. Disk Array
Answer:d
4. This consists of the precautions taken so that the effects of a disaster will be minimized.
a. Data retrieval
b. Disaster recovery
c. Archive
d. Replication
Answer:b
5. 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.
a. Backup
b. Archive
c. Migration
d. Compression
Answer:b
6. Pick the false statement. RAID Level 1 provides disk mirroring
b. RAID Level 2 provides bit-level striping with Hamming code ECC
c. RAID Level 4 provides block-level striping
d. RAID Level 5 provides block-level striping and error correction information
Answer:d
7. Which of the following provides byte level striping?
a. RAID 6
b. RAID 4
c. RAID 2
d. RAID 5
Answer:d
8. State true or false
a. Nested RAID provides better performance characteristics than the RAID levels that comprise them (true/false) – True
b. RAID Level 6 has dual parity whereas RAID Level 5 has single parity and both does block-level striping( true/false) – False
c. RAID Level 7 does Asynchronous cached striping with dedicated parity(true/false) – True
Answer:d
9. Which of the following is false about tape devices?
a. A tape drive is a data storage device that reads and writes data stored on a Magnetic tape
b. Tape drives are used for archival storage of data
c. Tape media has low unit cost and long archival stability
d. Tape drives allow random access of data
Answer:d
10. Select the correct option regarding tape drive
a. Tape drives have a fast average seek times
b. Tape drives can stream data at a very fast rate
c. Archival life of data stored on tape is around 5 years
d. Tape drives can be used t store data on optical disks
Answer:b
11. A tape library does not contain
a. Tape Drive
b. Bar Code Reader
c. Robotic Arm
d. RAID Array
Answer:d
12. Which of the following is not true about a tape silo?
a. Libraries provide large storage capacity at a very cheap rate
b. They have slow access time
c. Tape libraries are primarily used for backups and as the final stage of digital archiving
Answer:b
13. 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
d. Tape Cartridges
Answer:d
14. Which of the following Company manufactures Tape Library?
a. Quantum
b. Brocade
c. NetApps
d. Cisco
Answer: a
15. Which of the following Company manufactures RAID devices?
a. Qlogic
b. LSI
c. FalconStor
d. Quantum
Answer:b
16. What is the most basic level of storage? SAN
b. DAS
c. NAS
d. ISCSI
Answer:b
17. 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
18. 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
19. 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
20. Demerits of DAS are. Choose two.
a. Interconnect limited to 10km
b. Excessive network traffic
c. Distance limitations
d. Inability to share data with other servers
Answer:c, d
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21. Which topology is best suited for the medium-sized enterprise.
a. NAS
b. SAN
c. DAS
Answer: a
22. Disk controller driver in DAS architecture is replaced in SAN either with ——
a. FC Protocol
b. iSCSI
c. TCP/IP stack
d. Anyone of the above
Answer:d
23. Which storage technology requires downtime to add new hard disk capacity
a. DAS
b. SAN
c. NAS
d. None of the above
Answer: a
24. In SAN storage model, the operating system view storage resources as —— devices
a. FC
b. SCSI
c. SAN
d. None of the above
Answer:b
25. Identify a network file protocol in the below-mentioned set.
a. FC
b. CIFS
c. SCSI
d. NAS
Answer:b
26. What will be used by SAN to provide connectivity between hosts and storage?
a. FC
b. iSCSI
c. FC or iSCSI
d. SCSI
Answer:c
27. In FC structure which layer maps block I/O SCSI commands into FC frames?
a. FC-4
b. FC-1
c. FC-0
d. None of the above
Answer: a
28. What are the major benefits of SAN?
a. Centralized backup
b. Storage consolidation
c. LAN-less backup
d. Share resources
e. All of the above
Answer:e
29. Which data storage technology offers the best performance?
a. SAN
b. NAS
c. DAS
d. None of the above
Answer: a
30. Identify the data storage technology used in the below data center?
a. NAS
b. SAN
c. DAS
d. None of the above
Answer:b
31. 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
32. Which of the following is a sequential access storage device?
a. Hard Disk
b. CD-ROM
c. Tape Cartridge
d. Main Memory
Answer:c
33. Which of the Following is not an off-line storage device?
a. Tape Cartridge
b. Flash Memory
c. Tape Library
d. CD-ROM
Answer:c
34. Pick the wrong statement about the hard disk?
a. Hard disk has multiple platters and each platter has two read/write heads one on each side
b. It’s a non-volatile & random access storage device
c. The hard disk can only have IDE or USB interface
d. Data Transfer rate is over 80 MBPS
Answer:c
35. Which of the following statements about various hard disks is wrong?
a. SATA Disks support faster transfer rates and have support for hot swapping
b. USB Hard disks store data on flash memory
c. ATA hard disks cannot be connected externally to the computer
Answer:b
36. Which of the following is false?
a. NVRAM has a built-in battery which keeps power applied to it even after the power is switched off.
b. Flash memory can be electrically erased and reprogrammed
c. Flash memory is used in memory sticks
d. Flash disk can only have a USB interface.
Answer:d
37. Which of the following is not true about JBOD?
a. JBOD can combine hard disks of different sizes into a single unit without loss of any capacity.
b. If a drive in a JBOD set dies then it may be easier to recover the files on the other Drives
c. JBOD supports data redundancy
d. JBOD doesn’t have any storage controller intelligence
Answer:c
38. Pick odd one out
a. Mirroring
b. Striping
c. Error-correction
d. fault tolerance
Answer:d
39. Which one of the following is not an advantage of RAID?
a. Data Security
b. Increased & integrated capacity
c. Improved performance
d. Effective data capacity increases
Answer:d
40. Pick the false statement about RAID 0
a. Provides no redundancy
b. Provides data striping
c. improves performance
d. Provides fault tolerance
Answer:d