Which of the following cable types has the HIGHEST possible throughput?

A. Single-mode fiber

B. CAT6

C. CAT5

D. TwinAX

An Internet service provider must support highly available storage arrays. Which of the following technologies supports the ability to swap hardware without downtime?

A. Hot pluggable components

B. Fiber attached storage controllers

C. RAID 5 configuration

D. Dual power supply

A server with two HBAs is connected to two identical fabrics and configured as active- active, load balanced with automatic failover. Under normal conditions, traffic is moving across both fabrics equally. During a maintenance window to upgrade code on the switches, Fabric A is taken offline. This server reports all paths lost. The switch on Fabric B shows no light on the port connected to HBA B. Which of the following should be the FIRST step to troubleshoot the problem?

A. Check HBA B on the server.

B. Remove the server from production.

C. Replace the cable on Fabric A.

D. Replace the switch in Fabric B

Which of the following BEST describes an advantage of a hot pluggable scenario?

A. Pluggable when system is down

B. Disk drive can be changed at anytime

C. Disk drives can be swapped while doing backup

D. Disk drive has a hot spot

Which of the following maybe a contributing factor to a higher than average disk failure rate?

A. High cache hit ratio

B. Inadequate cooling

C. Non-redundant power

D. Improper RAID level

Which of the following terms describes the scenario in a storage system where one or more LUNs have a process run against them to find identical content to reduce the consumed storage?

A. Post-process deduplication

B. Thin space reclaim

C. In-line deduplication

D. Zero block reclaim

A disk cylinder refers to which of the following?

A. A vertically aligned track on all disk surfaces within a hard drive.

B. A vertically aligned sector on all disk surfaces within a hard drive.

C. The shaft that runs through the center of each disk surface within a hard drive.

D. The area within the hard drive that encloses all disk platters within the hard drive.

Which of the following disk drives can be installed into SAS disk enclosures? (Select TWO).

A. PATA

B. SAS

C. SATA

D. FC

E. SCSI

Which of the following is a term used to describe the access type used to populate data on a tape drive?

A. Block level

B. WORM

C. Tape object level

D. File level

In order to avoid shoe-shining, which of the following techniques can be used?

A. De-duplication

B. Multistreaming

C. Compression

D. Multiplexing