Queue Depths can be defined as which of the following?
A. A value of the FICON status menu
B. The number of pending SCSI commands
C. A type of issue with large bandwidth
D. The number of Layer 2 processes on the fiber
Data on a storage system was last replicated at 8:00 AM and the storage system had a major failure at 9:33 AM. The failure caused all changes to the data between 8:00 AM and
9:33
AM to be lost. The data loss was deemed acceptable based on the 2 hour:
A.
Mean Time to Data Loss (MTDL)
B.
Mean Time Between Failures (MTBF)
C.
Recovery Point Objective (RPO)
D.
Recovery Time Objective (RTO)
The storage administrator is planning for growth and wants to ensure that the system's applications will not crash due to not having enough disk space. The storage administrator is also trying to avoid creating waste by installing more physical disk capacity than is required. Which of the following solutions would the storage administrator implement?
A. LUN provisioning
B. VLAN assignments
C. Thin provisioning
D. Load balancing
A support method which will automatically notify the support vendor of a problem would be an example of which of the following monitoring types?
A. Call home
B. fcping
C. NPIV
D. SMI-S
When putting new equipment on a raised floor, which of the following needs to be considered from a safety perspective?
A. Space requirements
B. Weight requirements
C. Cooling requirements D. Power requirements
Which of the following is the BEST time to schedule a backup to run on the SAN?
A. When resources are available and services are idle
B. At midnight as people are not at work
C. At noon as most people are not at their desks
D. When data is being read but not written
An administrator is responsible for setting up monitoring of multi-vendor SANs. Which protocol will allow for secure, threshold-based trap alerting?
A. SMS
B. SNMPv3
C. SMI-S
D. SMTP
A storage administrator has reclaimed several LUNs from an old server that was decommissioned. All LUNs were reclaimed from the same 8+1 RAID 5 group. Which of the following can the administrator do to improve performance for the remaining LUNs?
A. Reinitialize the disk
B. Defragment the group
C. Move the group to another controller
D. Recreate the group
Setting thresholds for Tx/Rx on E-ports so that the administrator can log alerts for this value will be a good way to:
A. predict when the servers have reached capacity.
B. predict when more ISLs are needed.
C. know when the storage array is full.
D. know when it is time to replace fiber cables.
An administrator needs to present the same LUN to multiple servers. Which of the following will support the requirement? (Select TWO).
A. All servers are running the same operating system.
B. The file system on the LUN is cluster aware.
C. All but one of the servers is READ only.
D. All HBAs are running the same firmware version.
E. All servers are part of the cluster.