SG0-001 Online Practice Questions and Answers

A SAN administrator is troubleshooting a connectivity issue between a new server and a FC switch. The link is running at 8Gbps and uses a 90 meter (295 feet) optical cable. Which of the following is the FIRST item the administrator should check or perform?

A. Upgrade the switch firmware to the latest level.

B. Verify the cable is OM-3 and not OM-2

C. Run a temporary cable to bypass a patch panel.

D. Replace the server's host bus adapter.

Which of the following defines the difference between fibre channel switch fabric and fibre channel arbitrated loop technologies?

A. Bandwidth vs.I/O

B. B. Speed vs. Distance

C. Shared vs. Dedicated

D. Coax vs. Fiber

There are two FC switches in an ISL configuration, and the fabric has a segmented fabric error. Which of the following is the MOST likely cause?

A. FC switch IP addresses are the same on each switch

B. FC switch names are the same on each switch.

C. FC switch FWs are different on each switch.

D. Domain IDs are not unique on each FC switch

For which of the following technologies is trending and forecasting MOST important?

A. VSAN

B. Thin provisioning

C. Multtpathing

D. LVM

Which of the following disk technologies does NOT use moving magnetic media for storing data?

A. SAS

B. SSD

C. SATA

D. FC

SNMP logs on a storage device show a duplex mismatch alert. Which of the following is the MOST likely cause?

A. Misconfigured NIC

B. Incorrect VLAN

C. Broken cable

D. Bad port

Which of the following is true for load balancing?

A. Load balancing cannot be provided without an effective RAID configuration.

B. A dual-port HBA will always provide load balancing.

C. A dual-port HBA to an array capable of active/active sessions.

D. I/O sent from a host through two ports to an array will provide load balancing.

Which of the following features allows for multiple servers to be backed up to a single tape drive?

A. Multi-streaming

B. Compression

C. Multiplexing

D. Shoe-shining

A storage administrator has reclaimed several LUNs from an old server that was decommissioned. All LUNs were reclaimed from the same 8+1 RAID 5 group. Which of the following can the administrator do to improve performance for the remaining LUNs?

A. Reinitialize the disk

B. Defragment the group

C. Move the group to another controller

D. Recreate the group

Which of the following disk types is MOST cost effective for near line storage?

A. SATA

B. SSD

C. SAS

D. SCSI