SG0-001 Practice Questions

Which of the following data replication technologies has the GREATEST impact on an application's I/O performance to the source data?

Which of the following must be done before powering down a storage array?

Which of the following supports commands such as open, close, append, and delete, and is commonly accessed via a drive letter, mount point, or UNC semantic?

Which of the following is the BEST way to increase performance of a storage array?

Which of the following should be unique when installing dual controller heads?

Which of the following are advantages of iSCSI over Fibre Channel SAN implementations? (Select TWO)

Which multi-server storage infrastructure is BEST for high I/O, random based access, and low latency applications?

Which of the following is a security risk inherent to using port zoning?

An initiator can be defined as which of the following?

Which of the following layers of the FCP are replaced by Ethernet when using FCoE?

Which of the following replication types depends on receiving an ACK from the remote system and guarantees a zero data loss solution?

An application's characteristics are write/read intensive, random access, and small data objects. In this situation, which of the following disk types would be BEST suited?

Disk Cache is BEST utilized to accelerate I/O in which of the following? (Select TWO)

The storage technician is setting up a zoning implementation within a Fibre Channel fabric and needs to implement a feature on the switches for granting authorization to data betwe...

Rack stabilization ensures which of the following?

Which of the following technologies would be used to connect to traditional Direct Attached Storage (DAS)?

Which of the following allows FC-SAN devices to query for the addresses of the other devices?

A logical volume:

Which of the following allows an administrator to predict SAN utilization in order to plan the storage department's capital expenditure target?

When loading equipment into a new rack, which of the following should be considered?

Which of the following administration tools would be the BEST choice for scripting commands?

Which of the following explains why a backup tape drive might be "shoe-shining" during a backup?

Two Fibre Channel directors are being installed in a rack. The rack has two power buses, each attached to a separate Power Distribution Unit (PDU). The directors have dual power su...

When connecting multiple NICs from a server to a switch and eventually to an iSCSI target, each NIC receives its own IP address, and an iSCSI Initiator-Target link is established f...

A server needs to be connected to a new SAN via iSCSI, but the system administrator is unable to see any of the LUNs from the server. Which of the following can the system administ...

An administrator would like to encrypt the communication between servers and the target in an iSCSI SAN. Which of the following would accomplish this?

Which of the following data replication technologies should an administrator use between two storage arrays 1000 miles apart?

Which of the following set of terms are correctly applied to an archiving solution versus backup solution?

A SAN administrator is troubleshooting a synchronized data mirroring issue between the primary and DR datacenters. The datacenters use routed FCIP traffic over a WAN for the mirror...

Which of the following network technologies should an administrator use to replicate data between datacenters across the Pacific ocean?

After working for the past six months, a server no longer can see its storage. A switch port where the server is connecting indicates that there is no connection. An administrator...

Which of the following features can be used to reduce storage usage for a volume that has been assigned to a host and been completely formatted (e.g. not quick formatted)? (Select...

An administrator is tasked with selecting new storage architecture. The company values data transfer speeds over capacity. Which of the following should the administrator select fo...

A new LUN is added to a mission critical host from the storage array on which the host is currently already accessing 2 LUNS; which of the following is the FIRST step required to u...

In a SATA environment, which of the following types of data transfer is performed? (Select TWO).

Which of the following statements is true about LTO tapes?

Which of the following port types is used for connecting two switches in the same fabric?

Which of the following RAID levels can sustain any double disk failure?

Which of the following is the MINIMUM number of disks needed to implement RAID 5?

An administrator has assigned a LUN to a host with two WWPNs. The WWPNs are attached to separate fabrics on the SAN. In a zone on each fabric the WWPN is assigned to two targets, a...

Which of the following deduplication methods will minimize host CPU utilization? (Select TWO)

A new storage network is being designed. Which of the following would be the MOST appropriate process to address storage planning?

A server appears to be writing data to a storage system slower than it used to. Which of the following practices would BEST help to validate that there is a problem?

For provisioning SAN volumes to high performance OLTP databases, which of the following describes a best practice?

Which of the following technologies enables a single HBA to be used by multiple virtual machines with each one addressed independently on a SAN?

Which of the following network device functions can reduce host CPU utilization?

Multiple SAN-attached LUNs are allocated to a host. The LUNs are then mapped to the operating system as a single disk by which of the following?

When deploying a LUN from a storage array to a host over a SAN, which of the following steps must be done for the host to see the LUN? (Select TWO).

A mission-critical server with a dual-port HBA is used in a highly available SAN environment. The SAN administrator has been advised this server has a single point of failure. Whic...

Which of the following configurations is aimed at increasing data availability and protecting a storage system from becoming unavailable due to a partial network outage?