SG0-001 Practice Questions

Which typical data characteristics would define archival data? (Choose two.)

What is the primary reason for making an adjustment to the queue depth?

What is a recommended guideline for merging two Fibre Channel fabrics?

Which three (3) processes occur during a fabric merge? (Choose three.)

Click the Exhibit button. You are integrating a local tape backup solution in your IT environment. What can cause the Gigabit Ethernet to become the bottleneck in this backup envir...

A four-way cluster is attached to two fabrics. Each member has two HBAs connected to each fabric. Each fabric has two subsystem connections. Each cluster member is a primary for on...

A customer has a SAS-based storage environment with a SAS domain and some standalone servers, each with multiple built-in SAS disks. The implementation includes direct routing, tab...

You have recently upgraded a tape drive on a older switch to operate at 120MB/s from 80MB/s. Prior to purchasing the tape drives, you tested server dumps to a disk array across mul...

You have an existing disk subsystem with 16 drives that provides volumes for six Windows hosts on 2Gb/s links. You decide to add another 16 drive tray to double the number of raw h...

You are about to allocate storage to a host that includes adding new paths, devices, and zones to the configuration. What must be done prior to making any changes to the configurat...

You are installing a x8 PCI-E HBA into a server and notice that you only have a x16 slot available. What is the impact of this action?

What concept can reduce the number of ports required for ISLs?

Which two (2) processes occur during a fabric merge? (Choose two.)

In a multiple switch fabric, how should the error detection (E_D_TOV) and resource allocation (R_A_TOV) time out values be set?

Which portion of the 24-bit (aabbcc) fiber channel address identifies the area?

A company has been expanding its SAN physically throughout its campus headquarters. Distributed servers throughout the campus access storage nodes that are also distributed. What a...

What metric is used when determining how many storage subsystem ports can be attached to a single host port?

A company has implemented a stretch cluster between two sites that are 100km apart in conjunction with synchronous data replication. What are two (2) operational benefits of this i...

University IT has its storage subsystems and fabric switches distributed throughout the campus. Each college and department provides their own systems and staff. Central IT provide...

You have been asked to conduct a high-level inventory of a remote fibre channel SAN fabric. Your manager is worried that the remote site may include HBAs manufactured from a now ba...

You are implementing a remote synchronous replication strategy over the FC SAN for disaster recovery. Which two must you consider? (Choose two.)

Users are complaining the response times are out of range on a retail application. Performance monitoring of the storage subsystem indicates that there are no problems. A check of...

Given three hard drives, which of the following RAID levels would provide fault tolerance and the MAXIMUM amount of capacity?

A common way to ensure confidentiality of data while being transmitted across an Ethernet network would be:

Which of the following disk technologies does NOT use moving magnetic media for storing data?

The storage system has been provisioned and a rescan of the devices has been performed within the operating system. A technician sees twice as many devices than were provisioned. W...

Which replication method requires the LEAST amount of space?

Which of the following tools would BEST be used to troubleshoot storage latency issues on a Windows server?

Which of the following technologies allows Fibre Channel traffic to be carried over Ethernet networks?

A server is having random issues communicating with a Fibre Channel direct attached storage system. Which of the following items should the technician replace FIRST?

A customer has asked the SAN consultant for help with zoning best practices for a large datacenter. The consultant recommends zones based on which of the following?

Which of the following would be considered a poor candidate for deduplication?

Which of the following administration tools should a technician use to setup an IP address on a new Fibre Channel switch?

Which of the following can be applied to data stores to conserve storage capacity and/or bandwidth?

A storage technician is asked to separate various network segments to group various hosts between layer 2 devices. Which of the following Ethernet network topologies would MOST lik...

Which of the following RAID levels is used for replicating and sharing data among disks and requires a MINIMUM of four disks?

Which of the following describes a RAID level 5 implementation?

Which of the following describes the location within the current accessible file system to which a new file system is made accessible?

A system administrator has been tasked to create a new LUN for a system that will store sensitive information. The system connects to the SAN via switched fabric. Which of the foll...

Which of the following is a layer-two protocol used by networked devices to advertize their capabilities?

A system administrator has completed the configuration of the fiber channel switch. All switch ports have been configured the same way, since they connect similar server hardware w...

A system administrator is tracking the size of data stored on a thin LUN and notices that the LUN is running out of space although the server's file system does not show the same a...

In a switched fabric environment there is a need for security control of the FC switching infrastructure. Which of the following should be implemented to give the STRONGEST level o...

Node A is a member of SAN Zone 1 and SAN Zone 2. Node B is a member of SAN Zone 2. Node B has just been replaced and the storage administrator is troubleshooting connectivity issue...

In logical volume management, which of the following is the HIGHEST level of abstraction?

In a highly available SAN configuration that guarantees no data loss, which of the following replication approaches is required?

Which of the following measurements should be used when benchmarking performance between SAN vendors?

Which of the following describes the automatic moving of data between high-cost and low-cost storage devices?

SNMP logs on a storage device show a duplex mismatch alert. Which of the following is the MOST likely cause?

Which of the following attributes can be applied to storage data to save disk space? (Select TWO).