What is an accurate statement about VSAN trunking?
Allows network traffic from multiple VSANs to traverse a single interswitch link
Enables an F_Port to transfer multiple VSAN traffic over a single port channel
Provides VSANIDs to F_Ports to include them in the VSANs
Forwards FC frames between F_Ports that belong to the same VSAN
What accurately describes the flow control mechanism in an FC SAN?
Both transmitting and receiving ports agree on the number of buffers available during port login
Negotiation occurs between an E_Port and an F_Port, and between two N_Ports
Credit value is incremented when a frame is transmitted and decremented upon receiving a response
Receiver Ready (R_RDY) is sent from the receiving port if available credits reach zero
What is enabled by the N_Port ID virtualization (NPIV)?
A single physical N_Port to obtain multiple FC addresses
A single virtual N_Port to act as a physical Ethernet port
A virtualization layer to map virtual volumes to LUN IDs
A single physical N_Port to act as a virtual HBA port
What is a benefit of N_Port virtualization (NPV)?
Reduces the number of domain IDs in a fabric
Eliminates the overhead of fabric services in an FC SAN
Enables online expansion of virtual volumes
Allows an N_Port to transfer multiple VSAN traffic
Which fabric login type enables two N_Ports to exchange service parameters to establish a session?
PLOGI
PRLI
FLOGI
WWPN
Which type of login is performed between an N_Port and an F_Port in a Fibre Channel SAN environment?
Which fabric login type occurs between two N_Ports to exchange FC-4 upper layer protocol related parameters?
WWNN
How does an iSCSI initiator discover its targets?
Initiator sends a query to an iSNS server for a list of available targets
Initiator receives the iSCSI names of its targets from the primary DNS server
Initiator uses the data center bridging exchange protocol for the discovery
Initiator sends SCSI commands and the target responds by sending its name
What is a benefit of configuring EX_Ports on each Fibre Channel over IP (FCIP) gateway in an FCIP tunnel implementation?
Enables FC-FC routing through the FCIP tunnel without merging the fabrics
Merges the fabrics at either end of the FCIP tunnel to create a single large fabric
Transfers VSAN tagged traffic over the FCIP tunnel without FC protocol overhead
Creates eight virtual FC links on the FCIP tunnel that can be paused and restarted independently
Which lossless Ethernet functionality helps Converged Enhanced Ethernet (CEE) devices to convey and configure their features with the other CEE devices in the network?
Data center bridging exchange protocol
Enhanced transmission selection
Priority-based flow control
Congestion notification
In an FCoE environment, which functionality provides a framework for the allocation of bandwidth to different network traffic classes?
What is a component of an FCoE switch?
Ethernet Bridge
Virtual N_Port
Converged Network Adapter
FCIP Forwarder
What is a function of a Fibre Channel Forwarder in an FCoE SAN?
Applies zoning configurations and provides fabric services
Transfers FCoE traffic over an FC SAN
Encapsulates IP packets into FC frames
Provides both NIC and FC HBA functionality
What is an accurate statement about VLANs and VSANs in an FCoE environment with an existing FC SAN?
A dedicated VLAN must be configured for each VSAN
VLANs configured for VSANs must carry regular LAN traffic
Default VLAN must map to all VSANs defined in the FCoE switch
A minimum of four VLANs must be created to isolate VSAN traffic
Which action takes place during the login phase in an FCoE SAN?
VN_Ports obtain FC addresses
Nodes locate the Fibre Channel Forwarder
Initialization protocol starts transporting FC data
VN_Port to N_Port pairing is established
What is an accurate statement about a fabric-provided MAC address (FPMA) used in an FCoE SAN
FCoE switches provide MAC addresses to VN_Ports during node login
FC switches provide MAC addresses to VE_Ports dynamically during discovery
Compute systems provide MAC addresses to the VF_Ports on FCoE switches
Both VF_Ports and VE_Ports obtain MAC addresses from FC switches
What is determined by the recovery point objective in a business continuity solution?
Frequency of the backup
Type of backup devices
Type of disaster recovery site
Distance between the primary and disaster recovery sites
A system has three components and all three components need to be operational for 24 hours; Monday through Friday. During a particular week, failure of component 3 occurred as follows: Tuesday = 8 AM to 1 PM Thursday = 5 PM to 10 PM Friday = 5 AM to 10 AM What is the mean time between failures on component 3 for that week?
5 hours
35 hours
40 hours
51 hours
A system has three components and all three components need to be operational for 24 hours; Monday through Friday. During a particular week, failure of component 1 occurred as follows: Tuesday = 8 AM to 11 AM Thursday = 8 PM to 10 PM Friday = 5 AM to 9 AM What is the mean time between failures on component 1 for that week?
3 hours
37 hours
53 hours
In which stage of the business continuity planning life cycle does an organization identify critical business processes and assign recovery priorities?
Analyzing
Establishing objectives
Designing and developing
Implementing
What refers to an IT infrastructure's ability to function based on business expectations during its specified time of operations?
Information availability
Disaster recovery
Compliance adherence
Business agility
What is a benefit of backing up data to a disk library?
Provides improved backup and recovery performance
Provides built-in portability to meet offsite requirements
Supports the shoe shining effect for improved backup performance
Pre-configured and dedicated appliance is only used for backups
What is an accurate statement about three-way NDMP backup in a NAS environment?
Backup data is sent directly from NAS to the backup device
Backup data is sent to the backup device through the application servers
A dedicated backup device is required for each NAS
All NAS systems should have the same operating environment
An organization performs a full back up every Sunday and cumulative backups on the remaining days. On Thursday, a data corruption occurs that requires a data restoration from the backup copies. How many backup copies are required to perform this restoration?
1
2
3
4
An organization performs a full back up every Sunday and incremental backups on the remaining days at 9:00 AM. However, at 10 PM on Friday, a data corruption occurs that requires a data restoration from the backup copies. How many backup copies are required to perform this restoration?
5
6
An administrator has defined a backup policy. Full backups will be performed at 8 PM every Monday and incremental backups performed at 8 PM the remaining days. How many backup copies are required to restore the files if they were accidentally deleted on Friday morning?
What is a function of the NDMP server in an NDMP-based backup approach?
Reads the data from the storage device and sends the data to the backup device
Reads the data from the backup server and sends the data to the backup device
Instructs the NAS head to start the backup operation
Instructs the backup agent on the client to send the data to the backup device
Which component is required for a “recovery-in-place” backup approach?
Disk-based backup target
Agent-based backup client
NDMP server
Data deduplication server
What is a benefit of a “recovery-in-place” backup approach in a virtualized data center?
Provides instant recovery of a failed virtual machine
Reduces the recovery point objective
Eliminates redundant data during virtual machine backups
Eliminates the backup window
What is an advantage of performing cumulative backups compared to incremental backups for the same data?
Facilitates faster restores
Facilitates faster backups
Reduces the storage space required for backups
Eliminates the need for full backups
What is an accurate statement about a virtual tape library?
Legacy backup software can be used without additional modules or changes
Portability of physical tapes to offsite locations is supported
Only sequential data access for both backup and recovery is supported
Regular maintenance tasks associated with a physical tape drive are required
An organization plans to deploy a new backup device in their data center. The organization wants the new backup device to support their legacy backup software without requiring any changes to the software. In addition, the organization wants the backup device to provide random data access for better performance. Which backup device should be recommended?
Virtual tape library
Tape-based backup appliance
Tape library
Optical juke box
What contains the information about backup configuration and backup metadata?
Backup catalog
Proxy server
Tracking database
Backup image
What is an advantage of the changed block tracking backup technique?
Reduces the backup window
Enables restoration to any point-in-time
Eliminates the need for data deduplication
Increases backup device performance
What is an accurate statement about incremental forever backups?
Requires only one initial full back up
Requires periodic full back ups
Backup is not created directly from the production data
Copies the data that has changed since the last full back up
Why is it important for organizations to maintain a copy of data at a remote site?
Ensure disaster recovery
Provide operational recovery
Ensure data archiving to meet regulatory requirements
Provide flexibility to use stub files for production operations
An organization has several virtual machines (VMs) deployed in their data center. The VM files are stored on a block-based storage system. The applications on the VMs are impacted during VM backup because the backup agents on the VMs are consuming a large amount of resources. Which alternate backup solution is recommended to address this issue?
Image-based backup
Three-way NDMP backup
Two-way NDMP backup
Target-based deduplication backup
Backup device can be shared among multiple NAS heads
Each NAS head should have a dedicated backup device
Backup data traverses at least three NAS heads before reaching the backup device
Backup is performed only when three or more NAS heads are present
Which type of storage system is built specifically for storing fixed content?
Content addressed storage
Block-based storage
File-based storage
Unified storage
An organization plans to deploy a deduplication solution by retaining their legacy backup application. They are concerned about the application servers’ performance and a long backup window during backups. Which deduplication solution(s) should be recommended to the organization?
Post-process
Source-based global deduplication
Variable-length segment and source-based
Fixed-length block and source-based
What is an accurate statement about the function of an archiving server?
Enables the ability to configure policies for archiving data
Installs agents on the archiving storage device
Scans the data that can be archived on application servers
Creates stub files on an archiving storage device
