ISM Quiz

How do Storage administrators ensure secure access to storage devices:

• By using Zoning

• By putting a physical lock on the storage device

• By keeping devices shutdown when not in use

• All of the mentioned

Identify the tasks involved in Storage Capacity management

a) Identifying storage systems are approaching full capacity.

b) Monitoring trends for each resource

c) Tracking Total capacity, total used, total available

• a & b

• a & c

• a, b, c

• only b

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.

• Backup

• Archive

• Migration

• Compression

Point out the false statement. Volume can

• Span across different partitions/disks

• Span across different disk arrays

• Be created on tape device

• Be a shared volume

Which of the following statement is false?

• iSCSI is limited to local LAN

• iSCSI can run both on 1GB and 10GB networks

• iSCSI requires Fibre Channel HBA on the host

• iSCSI requires network card on the host

Which of the following company manufacture San Fabric switches

• Emulex

• Cisco

• JNI

• All the above

Which of the following backup technique is most space efficient?

• Full backup

• Incremental backup

• Differential backup

• All of the mentioned

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

• File I/Os

• SAN I/Os

• Block I/Os

• Disk I/Os

To decide on a backup strategy for your organization, which of the following should you consider?

• RPO (Recovery Point Objective)

• RTO (Recovery Time Objective)

• Both RPO & RTO

• None of the mentioned

Which of the following is false?

• The more important the data, the greater the need for backing it up

• A backup is as useful as its associated restore strategy

• Storing the backup copy near to its original site is best strategy

• Automated backup and scheduling is preferred over manual operations