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WorksheetsICT554 - Storage Management
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 10mins
What is the definition of Storage in IT Infrastructure
A place to hide information in computer
An electronic holding place for instructions and data – which microprocessor can access quickly
Which is a primary storage
Random Actual Memory
Read Only Memory
Random Access Memory
Hard Disk
Characteristic of Secondary storage( Hard Disk, Magnetic tapes) Select 2
Non-volatile
Temporary Storage
Needs Electricity To Store Data
Permanent Storage
What is the 4 V's of Big Data
Video,Vocal,Volume,Voracity
Volume,Variety,Velocity,Veracity
Vision,Villain,Vicks,Voltron
Velocity,Video,Variety,Veracity
Cloud storage infrastructure is more cost-efficient and secure than Physical storage
True
False
Which of these describe an Off-line storage?
i) Volatile
ii) Cannot be accessed once removed
iii) External form of storage
iv) USB pen drive
i & iii
i, ii & iii
ii, iii & iv
All of the above
The goal of Storage management is to Define, maintain & track data & data resources in an organizational environment
False
True
No idea
Or
When does this types of data storage first introduced respectively?
(Floppy Disk, Cloud Storage, Flash Drive, SD Card)
1984, 1892, 1994, 1950
2000, 1920, 1990, 1880
1999, 2012, 2002, 1998
1971, 2013, 2000, 1999
Individual units, separate storage, application servers, networking and backup appliances that are interlinked is called
Traditional Infrastructure
Converged Infrastructure
Hyper-converged Infrastructure
Hyper-converged Infrastructure is suitable for Small-medium enterprises. Why?
Cost effective
Flexible
Easily managed by 1-2 IT person
Volatile
Challenges of Storage Management
Low storage utilization
Apply and enforcing data retention policy efficiently
Managing storage in various complex physical and virtual environment
Managing and finding information as demanded
Operational process of Storage Management
Data Backup
Restore
Recovery operations storage resource management
Rollback
Define Backup
Process of reversing data that is written back to its previous state.
Providing aid to help or support someone or something
Process of periodically saving data in some other device which is different from its own hard disk
How to solve data growth problems?
Increase operational efficiency with a storage manager that offers end-to-end visibility and centralized control
Reduce cost by integrating storage management software instead of having many different ones
Maximize storage utilization across various platforms and arrays
Criteria to make a backup
What types of data
Backup Frequency
Duration of Backed up data
Analyze backup
Example of Natural disaster
Viral
Accident
Fire
Burglary
Can data lost due to natural disaster be recovered?
Complete recovery is difficult but precautions can be taken prior to accidents to minimize losses
Complete recovery is easily achievable without early precaution measures.
Impossible as the data is lost naturally
Yes if God wills it.
Which of these is not a Man made disaster?
Virus
Theft
Earthquake
Walkout
Methods of testing Disaster Recovery Plan
i) Walk-through
ii) Simulations
iii) Checklist
iv) Parallel testing
v) Full interruption
i , ii & iii
iii, iv & v
i, ii & iv
All of the above
Benefits of Storage Manager (Software, not employee)
Comprehensive data protection
Reduce overall cost of retaining large number of easily retrievable data files for a longer period
removes manual file pruning(deletion) which is time consuming
Reduce needs to purchase the amount of data storage
