Storage Management Survival School, Quiz one

Which is NOT part of Jamie Gruener's planning roadmap?

a. Adding more components to your network
b. Quality of service (QoS)
c. Information Lifecycle Management
d. Modeling costs

According to Jamie Gruener, which is the first consideration you need to make when selecting a storage management tool?

a. Business analysis
b. Cost
c. Functionality
d. The vendor who offers the best gift

What is "Gap Analysis"?

a. The difference between capacity and disk space
b. The difference between virtualized data and actual data
c. What you need to get you from what you have to what you need
d. The difference between the Gap and J. Crew

Which financial analysis metric is the best for a cost analysis?

According to Jamie Gruener, what's the hardest part of storage management planning?

a. Convincing upper management to buy-in
b. Choosing the right product for your specific environment
c. Predicting growth
d. Implementing a plan

Which is NOT a best practice for optimal allocation?

a. Utilizing RAID 1, 1+0
b. Using RAID-5
c. Balancing I/O
d. Consolidation

What is the most popular tool for tracking allocation and configuration?

a. Excel
b. Word
c. Log file system
d. Basset hound

Which are the primary component(s) to the LUN mapping and masking process?

a. Enabling multiple server to see LUN numbers
b. Restricting server access
c. Only A
d. Only B
e. A and B

Which is critical when selecting a storage management tool?

a. Making sure the tool supports multiple levels of user security and privileges
b. Understanding tool licensing and what type of warranty exists
c. Knowing which architecture of the tool including platforms supported
d. All of the above

What is a soft zone?

a. A zone with no shell
b. A zone that follows the device that is part of the zone
c. A zone Where each server/HBA is in a separate zone
d. A zone that gives up a lot of touchdowns