Storage Management

This set of multiple choice questions and answers on Storage Area Network focuses on Storage Management aspects. One should practice our complete set of questions and answers continuously for 2-3 months for through understanding of SAN Fundamentals and various exams and interviews.

1. Storage management comprises of
a) SAN Management
b) Data protection
c) Disk operation
d) All of the mentioned

2. Identify the storage devices
a) Switch
b) RAID Arrays
c) Tape drives
d) All of the mentioned

3. Which protocols are used for Storage management
a) SNMP
b) LDAP
c) POP3
d) All of the mentioned

4. Identify the difficulties the SAN administrator incur while dealing with diverse vendors
a) Proprietary management interfaces.
b) Multiple applications to manage storage in the data center.
c) No single view.
d) All of the mentioned

5. How do Storage administrators ensure secure access to storage devices:
a) By using Zoning
b) By putting a physical lock on the storage device
c) By keeping devices shutdown when not in use
d) All of the mentioned

6. Effective Storage management includes
a) Securities
b) Backups
c) Reporting
d) All of the mentioned

7. Identify the tasks involved in Storage Capacity management
a) Identifying storage systems are approaching full capacity.
b) Monitoring trends for each resource
c) Tracking Total capacity, total used, total available
d) All of the mentioned

8. Identify the tasks involved in Storage Performance Management.
a) Have performance thresholds been exceeded for the storage systems?
b) Is above causing IT to not meet its service level objectives
c) Each Server and logical disks in each server, processor utilization
d) All of the mentioned

9. Effect of open standards like SMI(s)
a) Standardization drives software interoperability and interchange ability
b) Breaks the old-style dependence on proprietary methods, trade secrets, and single providers
c) Builds a strong foundation on which others can quickly build and innovate
d) All of the mentioned

10. Task of Distributed Management Task Force is
a) To promote interoperability among the management solution providers
b) Acts as an interface between the various budding technologies and provide solution to manage various environments
c) To promote interoperability among the management solution providers as well as acts as an interface between the various budding technologies and provide solution to manage various environments
d) None of the mentioned

11. SMI-S Standard uses
a) Java RMI
b) CIM-XML/HTTP
c) CORBA
d) .NET