Cloud Ch 4

A technical team is updating its storage arrangement by moving to a network solution. The team is less concerned about maximum capacity and more concerned about speed. Which of the following options would produce the greatest throughput?

150 MiB/s, or mebibytes per second, would produce the fastest throughput. Throughput refers to the data transfer speed, or the number of bits read or written per second.

What will a cloud administrator most likely create before uploading individual files to a cloud storage?

A bucket

A cloud administrator is migrating a significant amount of server data from company-controlled premises to a cloud environment. As such, capacity is a primary concern, but the company will access the data very infrequently and so, a specific data model will not be required. Which storage type would be best for this requirement?

Blob storage is most useful for storing very large amounts of data in an unstructured manner. As the data remains massive and would not require frequent access, cool or archive-tiered blob storage makes the most sense.

A Windows technician is configuring a new customer relationship management application. To complete the setup, the technician must push all necessary folders to a remote team. Which of the following systems would the technician most likely use to complete this task?

CIFS

A cloud administrator wants to use a network share to store files in the common Windows sharing format, which a web server will create but does not want to use a traditional file server. The administrator prefers using a serverless option so there are fewer cloud instances to manage. What storage protocol can the administrator use for this purpose?

CIFS

A storage administrator is architecting a solution that will provide quicker access to users. Which of the following replication strategies will support this? (Select all that apply.)

Content delivery network (CDN) replication replicates cloud-stored data to datacenters near users to provide quick access. This is a common strategy to enhance the user experience. Distributed file system replication replicates server-stored data to servers near the anticipated users to provide quick access.

A backup administrator is researching options to store backup data in the cloud. Other than the cloud's potential to become an offsite storage solution in a disaster recovery scenario, what would not benefit from using a Storage as a Service (STaaS) cloud subscription? (Select all that apply.)

Data control Vendor lock-in

A cloud administrator managing company resources wants to maximize storage efficiency while preserving the quality of graphic design archives. Which method could be used to achieve this goal?

Deduplication

A startup company requires a cheap cloud storage solution to accommodate its initially low overhead. The company only uses a few basic servers and primarily operates off of basic workstations. Which of the following storage options would make the most sense for the company right now?

File

Which of the following are examples of block storage? (Select all that apply.)

GCP Persistent Disk AWS EBS

An organization would like to add a new storage system to house its array of graphics productions and marketing materials. Leadership prefers a solution that would provide high performance and fault tolerance, with rebuild times minimized in case of a data loss scenario. Which of the following would best suit this need?

Hardware RAID 10

A Microsoft administrator must reconfigure storage by access requirements for a company. Which of the following tiers are potential options for the administrator to utilize as storage segments? (Select all that apply.)

Hot Archive

A company is currently switching its network protocols after a successful breach. Attackers stole a small amount of PII resulting from a packet sniffing attack. Which solution will help the company prevent this attack moving forward?

IPsec

If a company requires a storage solution that possesses both redundancy and maximum storage efficiency (to keep costs down), which of the following options would make the most sense?

RAID 5 is a striping with parity configuration. It supports redundancy and utilizes less total hardware. File blocks striped across multiple drives also allows certain performance advantages. Organizations use these to make more efficient storage use

A backup administrator on the team requested more storage capacity for backup media. Instead of increasing storage capacity, another backup administrator on the team enabled the deduplication feature. How will this feature benefit the team's storage needs?

Removes duplicate data blocks

A small company would like to minimize excess hardware maintenance expenditures during its growth stage. The company currently maintains physical drives for its entire operation, which throughout the growth process, has become increasingly expensive. When considering a cloud solution, what should the company consider for its storage needs?

STaaS

A department utilizing a large file system for its storage would like to avoid running out of space and subsequently necessitating the need for additional storage. Of the units within the department, the development team requires the most storage for projects, while the other teams can utilize much less with proper storage management. What would be an ideal option to ensure that the other departments do not overuse their space allocation?

Storage filesystem quota

An administrator is configuring a SAN. Which of the following would permit the fastest possible performance while also providing redundancy?

Switched Fibre Channel

Following a storage configuration upgrade, a number of applications have begun performing slower than expected. A technician tests the read/write performance, and the results show up to 20% slower speeds than projected. Which of the following is most likely the culprit of this performance degradation?

The IOPS is exceeding its cap

A company has asked an administrator to suggest options that would allow the company to have an almost entirely logical solution from the current physical hardware in place. The company has already procured a host of virtualization resources, including VMs, hypervisors, vCPUs, and vNICs. Which method would permit the company to add a virtual storage option to the entire solution?

With hyperconvergence, compute, storage, and network resources are inseparable and managed as a single unit. This is in contrast to converged resources, which an administrator can separate into their constituent parts. Hyperconverged storage allows the company to accomplish its intent of combined logical storage.

A cloud technician is analyzing storage tiers for a critical Structured Query Language (SQL) instance which requires high performance. Which of the following would best suit the technician's needs?

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