Quiz 7

A Terabyte is the same as which of the following values?

1,000,000 MB

List three advantages to using SSD versus mechanical disk drives.

1. Faster than a mechanical disk drive 2. No moving parts like a mechanical disk drive 3. More reliable, not as easy to break

What are logical unit numbers (LUNs) used for within Storage Area Networks?

A Logical Unit Number is a logical unit that of storage that points out where things are. If it was used in a Storage Area Network, it would give the data a number so when the storage area would like to access it the LUNS can find its logical number to give to the storage area networks.

a connection system that uses a printed circuit board instead of traditional cables to carry signals

Backplane

a traditional Windows or DOS disk arrangement, in which the disk is partitioned into primary and extended partitions

Basic Disk

the volume where the \Windows folder is located

Boot Volume

The \Windows folder is located on what volume?

Boot volume

Disks that are formatted using the GUID Partitioning Table (GPT) can hold larger volume sizes, and benefit from increased reliability provided by which feature below?

Cyclic Redundancy Check (CRC)

What feature new to Windows Server 2012 provides the ability to find identical sets of data on a SAN based storage array and reduce the identical sets to a single instance, in order to reduce space?

Data Deduplication

Due to the limitations of MBR partitioning, what type of partition must be created in order to utilize logical drives?

Extended Partition

T or F A parity space storage layout is similar to a RAID 1 volume, in that a parity bit is written to the spare drive.

False

T or The biggest disadvantage in using virtual disks instead of physical volumes is the lack of portability.

False

Which of the following is true about using GPT versus MBR?

GPT supports larger disks than MBR

a storage device that uses high-speed networking technologies

Storage Area Network (SAN)

the method used to create a virtual disk with Storage Spaces

Storage Layout

A hard drive or solid state drive that is physically installed inside of a workstation would generally be considered to be what type of storage?

Local Storage

What type of storage typically shares files utilizing standard network protocols, such as Server Message Block (SMB), Network File System (NFS), and File Transfer Protocol (FTP)?

Network Attached Storage

a logical unit of storage that can be formatted with a file system

Partition

A simple space storage layout is similar to which non-fault tolerant RAID technology?

RAID0

An administrator wants to utilize a RAID volume that provides redundancy using disk striping with parity. What type of RAID should the administrator select?

RAID5

Which disk subsystem is considered to be the most reliable for use in enterprise and high-utilization environments?

SAS

a volume that usually resides on a single basic or dynamic disk

Simple Volume

What type of volume utilizes two or more physical disks, and fills each disk sequentially, rather than using striping?

Spanned Volume

a volume that extends across two or more physical disks

Spanned Volume

a volume that contains the files a computer needs to find and load the Windows OS

System Volume

Why might you want to use cloud storage instead of traditional storage?

The cloud storage is backed up into google or something so even if your device is destroyed, you can still log into your information on another device and access all of your files unlike with traditional storage, where you would lose your information until to the point where you last backed up.

If a disk pool becomes full, how does Windows Server 2012 respond?

The disk pool is moved to an offline state until more physical storage is added

What are the most common network technologies for implementing a SAN?

The two most common network technologies for implementing a SAN are iSCSI and Fibre Channel.

Which of the following is NOT true about SSD drives compared to mechanical drives?

They come in much larger capacities

a method for creating virtual disks in which the virtual disk expands dynamically

Thin Provisioning

Which Linux command will mount a virtual disk into the file system?

mount mydisk.img /mnt/vdisk

Which of the following is NOT a Linux/Unix file or disk management command?

xterm