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D-ISM-FN-01 · Question #123

What is an accurate statement about variable prefetching?

The correct answer is D. Storage system prefetches many non-contiguous blocks of data, with varied sizes, from cache. See the full explanation below for the reasoning.

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Question

What is an accurate statement about variable prefetching?

Options

  • AMany blocks that have recently been written to storage by the compute system are retrieved and
  • BMany non-contiguous blocks that are not currently required can be retrieved from cache in
  • CStorage system prefetches data in multiples of the original I/O request size from the compute
  • DStorage system prefetches many non-contiguous blocks of data, with varied sizes, from cache.

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(54 responses)
  • A
    4% (2)
  • B
    13% (7)
  • C
    6% (3)
  • D
    78% (42)

Topics

#variable prefetching#non-contiguous blocks#cache management#I/O optimization

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