Chapter 5 Study Guide

1. If you need to provide a storage server with fault tolerance through the use of multiple paths
between the server and the actual storage, what feature should you install?
a. Multipath IO
2. What Windows Server 2016 feature allows Storage Spaces to place copies of data on separate
enclosures ensuring that if an entire disk enclosure fails, the data is maintained?
a. Enclosure awareness
3. A hard drive or solid state drive that is physically installed inside of a workstation would
generally be considered to be what type of storage?
a. Local storage
4. When you are configuring data deduplication, you must choose a usage type for the volume you
are configuring. Which of the following are valid data deduplication usage types?
a. Virtualized Backup Server
b. General purpose file server
c. Virtual Desktop Infrastructure
5. What Windows Server feature provides block-level file replication between storage devices,
primarily for the purpose of fault tolerance and disaster recovery?
a. Storage replica
6. What allows you to manage a group of iSCSI devices from a central server?
a. iSNS Server
7. Virtual disks available for adding to a storage pool are listed as part of the primordial pool.
a. False
8. Which of the following sends commands to a logical storage space consisting of one or more
virtual disks?
a. iSCSI initiator
9. Thin provisioning allocates all configured space immediately, ensuring that space is available for
the specified virtual disk.
a. False
10. What authentication protocol can be used to allow an iSCSI target to authenticate to the iSCSI
initiator?
a. Reverse CHAP (Challenge-Handshake Authentication Protocol)
11. What technology reduces the amount of storage needed to store an organization’s data?
a. Data deduplication
12. Which of the following represents a valid IQN?
a. Iqn.1911-05.com.microsoft:SAN.domain1.local
13. What feature available in Storage Spaces lets you combine traditional mechanical HDDs with
SSDs to get better performance?
a. Tiered storage
14. What Windows Server 2016 feature provides the ability to find identical sets of data on a SAN
based storage array and reduce the identical sets to a single instance to reduce space?
a. Data deduplication
15. Storage Replica supports local storage such as SAS or SATA disks, and iSCSI or Fibre Channel-
based SAN storage.
a. True
16. The iSCSI initiator will reconnect to a target automatically each time Windows starts unless you
configure it not to.
a. False
17. Before you enable data deduplication, what tool can you use to determine if data deduplication
would benefit the tested volumes or network share you specify?
a. DDPEval.exe
18. Select the PowerShell cmdlet that would enable data deduplication on volume G for general file
server usage.
a. Enable-DedupVolume-Volume G:
19. An advantage of Storage Spaces versus traditional storage is the ability to easily expand the
amount of storage available for your virtual disks.
a. True
20. Which of the following are valid allocation types when adding a physical disk to storage space?
a. Automatic disk
b. Manual disk
c. Hot Spare disk
21. Which of the following is a reference ID to a logical drive used by the iSCSI initiator?
a. iSCSI LUN
22. What volume is available during Storage Replica’s one-way replication?
a. Source volume
23. If a disk pool becomes full, how does Windows Server 2016 respond?
a. The disk pool is moved to an offline state until more physical storage is added.
24. Which of the following modes of replication, supported by Storage Replica, replicates data
between sites over high-latency networks and provides no guarantee that data will be identical
when a failure occurs?
a. Asynchronous replication
25. What specific command can you use to register a server running Server Core with an iSNS
server?
a. iSCSIcli.exe
26. Which of the following is a minimum requirement to implement Storage Replica on your
servers?
a. NTFS or ReFS with GPT partitioning
b. 1 Gbps network connection
c. Log volume with at least 8 GB free space
27. If the contents of a file change, which type of replication will replicate only the parts of the file
that changed?
a. Block-level replication
28. Which of the following is a component of an IQN?
a. The string “iqn” followed by a period
b. The name of the iSCSI target or initiator
29. Which components make up the iSCSI target software in Windows Server 2016?
a. iSCSI target server
b. iSCSI target storage provider
30. A physical disk that is available for adding to a storage pool is considered to be a member of
what initial pool?
a. Primordial pool
31. What Windows Server 2016 technology combines the benefit of solid state drives with the low
cost and high capacity of hard disk drives?
a. Storage tiering
32. Which of the following modes of replication requires a very low latency network connection and
ensures data remains in synch with zero data loss in the event of a failure at the source site?
a. Synchronous replication
33. Which of the following is true about tiered storage?
a. Storage tiers require fixed provisioning
b. One SSD can be used with multiple virtual disks
34. What PowerShell cmdlet will allow you to review the status of a running deduplication job?
a. Get-DedupJob
35. When restoring a volume with data deduplication, which type of volume restores can be used?
a. Selective
b. Full volume