A technician is tasked to build a server requiring the fastest possible performance. Which of the
following would achieve this requirement? - Answer SSD
A technician is called upon to add storage to a database server. The database administrator needs the
maximum performance for accessing many small files. Which of the following specifications should the
technician focus on when selecting the drive to add to the server? - Answer Seek time
A hardware compatibility list recommends striping with double parity as storage for an application. In a
test environment, a technician realizes that a different RAID level can be used to compensate for a
limited number of available disks. Which of the following is the closest RAID level the technician should
deploy while minimizing the number of disks and maintaining fault tolerance? - Answer 5
An emergency power off accidentally occurs in a datacenter during a fire alarm test. On recovery, the
server administrator notices that an external storage array is performing consistency checks on all the
volumes configured in the array. Which of the following components of the storage array has MOST
likely failed or faulted? - Answer Battery backed cache
A server administrator wants to isolate a SAN hosted LUN to be visible to only a single host. Which of the
following methodologies would be used to present the LUN to only that host? - Answer LUN masking
A system administrator has determined that more storage is needed for company data. The storage
requires the highest speed data transfer rate with maximum performance. Which of the following
solutions MUST be implemented to meet the business requirements? - Answer FC SAN
An administrator is developing a storage growth plan for a new file server. Which of the following should
be implemented on the server so that storage growth is restricted? - Answer Disk quotas
A server administrator is researching the purchase of SSD for a server. The administrator receives a
report from the datacenter technician detailing current storage requirements and future growth
planning estimates as follows: