NS0-505 Online Practice Questions and Answers

When you arrive on a customer site, you discover that the customer network administrator has called in

sick. While required power has been provided and all of the components ordered have been physically

accounted for, the network will not be operational today.

Which would be the most useful tool to complete your rack and stack and initial configuration of the system?

(Choose the best answer.)

A. a Serial Port cable

B. a CD containing the 10.86 version of SANtricity

C. a standalone switch or hub

D. None of the above, come back tomorrow.

What is SMAgent? (Choose the best answer.)

A. a host server process that enables storage system management with the storage data path

B. an OS-dependent collection of utilities for servers attached to SANtricity-managed storage systems

C. a GUI or CLI run on a host server used for storage system management

D. a host I/O performance modeling interface

E. inter-process communication that supports computer program subroutines

What is a best practice recommendation for the automated system monitor? (Choose the best answer.)

A. It should only run on one client connected to the storage system.

B. It should be stopped during storage system normal operations.

C. It should be stopped during a controller firmware upgrade.

D. It should only be run on Windows server systems.

E. It should run on all storage manager clients.

What measurement refers to how much data can be handled in a given time period? (Choose the best answer.)

A. Read modify write

B. Throughput

C. IOPS

D. Parity

E. I/O alignment

Hot spares provide which function? (Choose the best answer.)

A. both b and c

B. efficiency for volumes

C. reserve capacity for disk pools

D. reserve capacity for volume groups

E. None of the above

Which storage manager feature scans the system for issues, reports them, and suggests procedures that will correct the issue?

A. Recovery guru

B. Event Log

C. Diagmon

D. Performance monitor

E. Storage array diagnostics

All non-I/O related activity on the storage system is recorded in the _____________. (Choose the best answer.)

A. Storage Array Profile

B. Event Log

C. DACstore

D. Cache backup device

E. NVSRAM

What does the storage system use to preserve cache data in the event of a complete controller failure? (Choose the best answer.)

A. Cache mirroring

B. Flash read cache

C. Pre-fetch caching

D. Read caching

E. Write caching

Review the diagram.

Is this cabling correct or incorrect, and why? (Choose the best answer.)

A. The cabling is incorrect because the controllers are cabled from the host port.

B. The cabling is incorrect because it usesthe top-down bottom-up cabling method.

C. The cabling is correct because it follows the recommended E-Series cabling method.

D. The cabling is incorrect because they have been daisy-chained.

What mechanism governs control of the E-Series storage premium features? (Choose the best answer.)

A. simple password system

B. special USB flash drive that must be inserted into the controllers

C. small toggle switches on the controller boards inside the system

D. key file obtained from vendor and passed to system via SANtricity

E. online database requiring the controllers to access the internet to activate features