NFS, CIFS, SMB – 2

This set of SAN questions and answers helps anyone preparing for SNIA & CompTIA Storage+ certification exams. One should practice our complete set of questions and answers continuously for 2-3 months for thorough understanding of SAN Fundamentals and various exams and interviews.

1. Which command is used to view NFS shared directories?
a) share
b) shareall
c) sharetab
d) dfshares

2. Which file would you edit to mount an NFS filesystem at system boot time?
a) /etc/fstab
b) /etc/dfs/dfstab
c) /etc/vfstab
d) /etc/nfstab

3. Which command would mount the directory utilities from the server named sanfoundry on the local mount point /opt/sf
a) mount -f nfs /sf:sanfoundry /opt/sf
b) mount -F nfs sanfoundry:/sf /opt/sf
c) mount -F nfs sanfoundry:/opt/sf /sf
d) mount /opt/sf sanfoundry:/sf

4. CIFS runs over the following protocols:
a) TCP/IP
b) FTP
c) SNMP
d) DNS

5. CIFS doesn’t support the following
a) Oplocks
b) Batch command
c) Unicode support
d) Stateless

6. CIFS is used in the following OS
a) Windows
b) Unix
c) Netware
d) All the mentioned

7. CIFS was originally derived from
a) PCB
b) NTFS
c) SMB
d) NIS

8. CIFS authentication is done by
a) Kerberos
b) NTLM
c) Both LDAP and NTLM
d) Both Kerberos and NTLM

9. SMB was originally developed by
a) IBM
b) Microsoft
c) 3COM
d) Intel

10. RPC is used for
a) transporting data over the network
b) executing program on different computer
c) reporting process control
d) none of the mentioned