CompTIA CompTIA storage+ SG0-001 Questions & Answers

• Question 201:

  Which of the following backup methods would take the LEAST amount of time to complete?

  A. A full and subsequent incremental backup

  B. All differential backups

  C. A full and subsequent differential backup

  D. A full and alternating differential and incremental backup

  Correct Answer: A

• Question 202:

  Which of the following describes a differential backup?

  A. Backs up all data in the backup set

  B. Backs up all data in the backup set since the last incremental backup

  C. Backs up all data in the backup set since the last differential backup

  D. Backs up all data in the backup set since the last full backup

  Correct Answer: D

• Question 203:

  A disk cylinder refers to which of the following?

  A. A vertically aligned track on all disk surfaces within a hard drive.

  B. A vertically aligned sector on all disk surfaces within a hard drive.

  C. The shaft that runs through the center of each disk surface within a hard drive.

  D. The area within the hard drive that encloses all disk platters within the hard drive.

  Correct Answer: A

• Question 204:

  The database group at a highly successful Internet retailer has requested 1TB of space for organic growth in their online order database. The storage array is configured in a RAID 5 configuration. Which of the following is the BEST type of hard drive to use for the RAID array?

  A. 50GB IDE drives

  B. 300GB FC drives

  C. 1TB SATA drives

  D. 3TB SCSI drives

  Correct Answer: B

• Question 205:

  Which of the following would be the appropriate technology an administrator would use to provision the desired amount of space to a server, while only the utilized disk space is consumed on the storage array?

  A. Fat provisioning

  B. Volume groups

  C. Virtual provisioning

  D. Concatenated groups

  Correct Answer: C

• Question 206:

  Which of the following terms describes the scenario in a storage system where one or more LUNs have a process run against them to find identical content to reduce the consumed storage?

  A. Post-process deduplication

  B. Thin space reclaim

  C. In-line deduplication

  D. Zero block reclaim

  Correct Answer: A

• Question 207:

  Which of the following is true of both deduplication and compression?

  A. Data is more resilient to bad blocks and redundancy

  B. Data access is faster for both read and write

  C. Compression and deduplication rates are uniform across data sets

  D. Less physical space is required to store the data

  Correct Answer: D

• Question 208:

  Which of the following terms describes the situation where a single HBA can represent many World Wide Ports Names on a fabric to give a unique World Wide Port name to a number of hosted virtual machines?

  A. VSAN

  B. MPIO

  C. MPLS

  D. NPIV

  Correct Answer: D

• Question 209:

  A storage administrator has provisioned a LUN from a storage system to a new host and created the appropriate zones. The server administrator now states that the host cannot see the new volume. Which of the following is the FIRST item to suggest the server administrator check?

  A. Determine if the host can ping the storage system.

  B. Check the multipathing level.

  C. Submit a change ticket for another volume.

  D. Verify if LUN masking is enabled on the server.

  Correct Answer: D

• Question 210:

  Which of the following storage techniques places frequently accessed data on faster media while placing seldom accessed data on slower media?

  A. Defragmenting

  B. De-duplication

  C. Thin provisioning

  D. Tiering

  Correct Answer: D