Question 1

What is an accurate statement about Governance?

• A. Restrict access to certain users
• B. Ensure removal of security risks
• C. Authorize policy-making decisions
• D. Demonstrate adherence to polices

Question 2

Which exhibit represents a Type 1 hypervisor?

• A. Option A
• B. Option B
• C. Option C
• D. Option D

Question 3

An Ethernet switch has eight ports and all ports must be operational for 24 hours, from Monday
through Friday. However, a failure of Port4 occurs as follows:

Monday = 8 PM to 9 PM

Wednesday 7 PM to 9 PM

Thursday = 6 AM to 9 AM

Saturday = 4 PM to 7 PM
What is the MTTR of Port 4?
A. 2 hours
B. 3 hours
C. 28 hours
D. 38 hours

Question 4

What accurately describes an iSCSI HBA?

• A. Performs both iSCSI and TCP/IP processing
• B. Requires CPU cycles for TCP/IP processing
• C. Requires a software adapter with built-in functionality
• D. Enables transmission of data through iSCSI tunneling

Question 5

When using the erasure coding technique in an object-based storage system, data is divided into 12
data segments and 4 coding segments.
What is the maximum number of disk drive failures against which data is protected by the
configuration?

• A. 3
• B. 4
• C. 8
• D. 12

Question 6

What is a key advantage of cloning a virtual machine (VM)?
A. Ability to run new VMs simultaneously with the same IP address.
B. Reduces the time required to create multiple copies of a VM.
C. Improves the performance of an existing VM and new VMs.
D. Eliminates the need to create multiple snapshots for a VM.

Question 7

A company is using an intrusion detection and prevention system (IDPS) to scan and analyze
intrusion events.
Which IDPS technique uses a database that contains known attack patterns?

• A. Role-based
• B. Profile-based
• C. Signature-based
• D. Anomaly-based

Question 8

DRAG DROP
In a backup operation, what are the correct sequence of steps after the backup server initiates the
scheduled backup process?

Question 9

In an archiving environment, how is a content address created in a content addressable storage (CAS)
system to store an object?

• A. From the metadata of an object.
• B. By using the logical address of the memory space.
• C. From the binary representation of an object.
• D. By using the physical address of the storage device.

Question 10

What is a benefit of link aggregation?

• A. Optimizes fabric performance by distributing network traffic across ISLs.
• B. Improves ISL utilization by increasing the network traffic on a specific ISL.
• C. Yields a higher throughput by combining two parallel ISLs into a single physical ISL.
• D. Saves bandwidth by restricting traffic to a specific potentially congested ISL.

Question 11

In a compute-based storage area network (SAN), what is a function of the metadata manager?

• A. Holds cluster-wide mapping information and load balancing in a compute-based SAN.
• B. Performs the I/O operations on the local storage of a compute system as requested by a client.
• C. Provides an interface to the software-defined storage controller.
• D. Controls all data read and write operations in a compute-based SAN.

Question 12

Why is it important for organizations to store, protect, and manage their data?

• A. Reduce the amount of data to be replicated, migrated, and backed up.
• B. Rapidly develop and deploy modern applications for business improvement.
• C. Develop new business opportunities by leveraging existing data.
• D. Reduce the complexity in managing the data center environment.

Question 13

A Fibre Channel switch has eight ports and all ports must be operational 247. However, a failure of
Port 5 occurs on a particular week as follows:

Monday = 11 AM to 12 PM

Thursday = 7 AM to 11 AM

Saturday = 11 AM to 1 PM
What is the availability of Port 5 in that week?
A. 93%
B. 94.1%
C. 95.8%
D. 97%

Question 14

Which layer of the OSI model provides the functional and procedural methods to transfer data
between network entities?

• A. Data link
• B. Presentation
• C. Session
• D. Application

Question 15

What is an accurate statement about variable prefetching?

• A. Many blocks that have recently been written to storage by the compute system are retrieved and placed in cache.
• B. Many non-contiguous blocks that are not currently required can be retrieved from cache in advance.
• C. Storage system prefetches data in multiples of the original I/O request size from the compute system.
• D. Storage system prefetches many non-contiguous blocks of data, with varied sizes, from cache.