050-696 · Question #136
Click the Exhibit button to begin. Which elements of the file system design shown in the exhibit violate Novell's recommendations? (Choose 2.)
The correct answer is B. The design should have more than one volume. F. User and application directories should be moved to a volume other than SYS. Novell requires at least one volume beyond SYS and mandates that user and application directories reside on a separate data volume, not on SYS.
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Options
- AThe LOGIN directory isn't needed.
- BThe design should have more than one volume.
- CThe ETC directory should be placed under the USERS directory.
- DThe APPS directory should be placed under the SYSTEM directory.
- EThe QUEUES directory should be moved under the PUBLIC directory.
- FUser and application directories should be moved to a volume other than SYS.
How the community answered
(51 responses)- A4% (2)
- B76% (39)
- C12% (6)
- D6% (3)
- E2% (1)
Why each option
Novell requires at least one volume beyond SYS and mandates that user and application directories reside on a separate data volume, not on SYS.
The LOGIN directory is a required default directory created on SYS during installation that provides unauthenticated users access to the login utility before they have network credentials, making it necessary.
Novell's design guidelines require a minimum of two volumes - the mandatory SYS volume plus at least one additional data volume - so a single-volume design violates this fundamental recommendation.
The ETC directory is a standard system directory on SYS used for configuration files and should remain there; placing it under USERS would be incorrect and non-standard.
The APPS directory should reside on a dedicated data volume separate from SYS, not under SYSTEM, which is reserved for NetWare OS files and NLMs.
The QUEUES directory is used for print queue spool files and should reside on a data volume, not nested under PUBLIC, which is reserved for utility executables.
Placing user home directories and application directories on SYS violates Novell's core recommendation to reserve SYS exclusively for system files; user or application data on SYS risks filling the volume and crashing critical server services.
Concept tested: Novell recommended multi-volume file system design
Source: https://www.novell.com/documentation/nw65/index.html?page=/documentation/nw65/inst_nw/data/hinfovol.html
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