Data Storage Technologies and Networks (Quiz 1)
Data Storage Technologies and Networks (Quiz 1)
1. Which of the following raid levels provides maximum usable disk space?
Select one:
a. RAID 1
b. RAID 0
c. RAID 6
d. RAID 5
2. In Flash Memory, content is changed from 0 to 1 by:
Select one:
a. By erasing content of the cell before writing 1
b. By erasing content of the cell
c. By writing 1 to cell
d. By block erase operation and rewriting the content of the block – Not sure
3. Which of the following is a storage array dedicated to serving file data over protocols such as NFS
and SMB/CIFS?
Select one:
a. All-flash array
b. NAS array
c. SAN array
d. Multi-protocol array
4. In order to survive two simultaneous drive failures, which RAID level should you choose?
Select one:
a. 5
b. 6
c. 1
d. 0
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5. Which of the following drives will provide the fastest access to data?
Select one:
a. 15K RPM
b. 5.4K RPM
c. 10000 RPM
d. 7200 RPM
6. Mounting of file system is__________________________
Select one:
a. Attaching portion of the file system into a directory structure
b. Deleting a file system
c. Removing the portion of the file system into a directory structure
d. File system creation
7. What is the capacity overhead of a standard RAID 1? – Not sure
Select one:
a. 12.5%
b. 25%
c. 50%
d. 75%
8. Which of the following is a technique commonly employed by flash vendors in order to improve
the performance of flash drives? – Not sure
Select one:
a. Triple Level Cell flash (TLC)
b. Flash over-provisioning
c. Write amplification
d. Write Endurance
9. If the mean time to failure of a single disk is 1,00,000 hours, then the mean time to facilure of
some disk in an array of 100 disks will be:
Select one:
a. 100 hours
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b. 10 hours
c. 10 days
d. 1000 hours
10. Disk Drive – Access Time is defined as
Select one:
a. Seek time + rotational delay
b. Seek time + rotational speed
c. Latency + Seek time
d. Seek time + Transfer time
11. Which of the following is sequential access storage device
Select one:
a. Main Memory
b. CD-ROM
c. Tape Cartridge
d. Hard Disk
12. How many simultaneous drive failures can RAID 0 recover from? – Not sure
Select one:
a. Three
b. One
c. None
d. Two
13. Which of the following is not a benefit of storage arrays (when compared with local storage)? –
Not sure
Select one:
a. Simplified management of storage capacity
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b. Lower cost
c. Parallelized performance of multiple drives
d. Pooled resources
14. Which of the following is workloads does flash memory perform the best at when compared to
mechanical drives? – Not sure
Select one:
a. Random write
b. Sequential write
c. Random read
d. Sequential read
15. Which of the following technologies will provide the lowest latency?
Select one:
a. PCIe Solid State Card (SSC)
b. 5.4K RPM spinning disk
c. Solid State Drive (SSD)
d. 15K RPM spinning disk
16. Which abstraction scheme is used to present a uniform address space from a disk drive?
Select one:
a. Device Mapper
b. Logical Block Addressing (LBA)
c. Logical Volume Manager (LVM)
d. Single-Level Cell (SLC)
17. Which of the following technologies does flash storage, especially all-flash arrays, enable? – Not
sure
Select one:
a. Deduplication
b. Replication
c. Tiering
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d. Snapshots
18. Which of the following is applicable to Enterprise class solid state devices?
Select one:
a. Warranty terms are same as all Solid state devices
b. They have the simple controller firmware
c. They have more overprovisioned capacity
d. They have same amount of cache is not less than consumer class devices
19. Which logical operation is used for computing parity?
Select one:
a. Exclusive NOR
b. Exclusive OR
c. Inclusive NOR
d. Inclusive OR
20. Which of the following statement is true about Striping?
Select one:
a. Striping reduces the disk performance
b. Striping parallelises I/O operation
c. Striping helps in data recovery
d. A stripe is stored on a single disk
