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Create an image depicting various storage technologies like hard drives, solid-state drives, data deduplication processes, and a network arrangement of iSCSI devices in an IT infrastructure setting.

Storage Solutions Mastery Quiz

Test your knowledge on storage technologies, including data deduplication, tiered storage, and iSCSI configurations with our comprehensive quiz. Perfect for IT professionals and students alike, this quiz will challenge your understanding of Windows Server 2016 storage features.

Key Topics:

Data Management Techniques
iSCSI Protocols
Storage Spaces
Disk Management

20 Questions5 MinutesCreated by OptimizingStorage42

What technology reduces the amount of storage needed to store an organization’s data?

Data synchronization

Data deduplication

File synchronization

Data duplication

Select the PowerShell cmdlet that would enable data deduplication on volume G for general file server usage.

Start-DedupVolume -Volume G:

Enable-DedupVolume -G:

Enable-DedupVolume -Volume G:

Start-Dedup -Volume G:

Which of the following is true about tiered storage? (Choose all that apply.)

Storage tiers require fixed provisioning

It supports automatic trim and unmap

One SSD can be used with multiple virtual disks

It combines the high capacity of SSDs with the speed of iSCSI disks

Which of the following is a reference ID to a logical drive used by the iSCSI initiator?

iSCSI qualified name

IQN identifier

iSCSI target ID

ISCSI LUN

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?

storage awareness

Storage duplication

enclosure awareness

Data deduplication

Before you enable data deduplication, what tool can you use to determine if data deduplication would benefit the tested volumes or network shares you specify?

SCSIcli.exe

Diskspd.exe

DDVol.exe

DDPEval.exe

Which of the following represents a valid IQN?

SAN.domain1:local.1911-05.iqn

1911-05.com.iqn:domain1.local.SAN

Iqn.1911-05.com.microsoft:SAN.domain1.local

domain1.local.iqn:SAN.microsoft.com

Which of the following are valid allocation types when adding a physical disk to a storage space? (Choose all that apply.)

Automatic disk

Manual disk

Hot Spare disk

Replicated disk

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?

Local storage

Direct-Attached Storage

Network Attached Storage

Storage Area Network

Which components make up the iSCSI target software in Windows Server 2016? (Choose all that apply.)

iSCSI target disk

iSCSI target server

iSCSI target storage provider

ISCSI LUN

What allows you to manage a group of iSCSI devices from a central server?

ISNS Server

iSCSI Target Server

NFS iSCSI role service

NFS data store

What Windows Server 2016 technology combines the benefit of solid state drives with the low cost and high capacity of hard disk drives?

Storage tiering

Simple space

Disk pooling

Storage layouts

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?

Disk pooling

Data deduplication

Data multiplexing

Storage optimizing

Which of the following is a component of an IQN? (Choose all that apply.)

The string "iqn" followed by a period

The iSCSI LUN identifier

The name of the iSCSI target or initiator

The iSCSI target storage provider name

If a disk pool becomes full, how does Windows Server 2016 respond?

More space is automatically provisioned from available drives in the primordial pool

Affected volumes are marked as read-only until more space is provisioned

The disk pool is moved to an offline state until more physical storage is added

The server notifies all users with data in the disk pool to encourage data cleaning activities

A physical disk that is available for adding to a storage pool is considered to be a member of what initial pool?

Available pool

Open pool

Free volumes pool

Primordial pool

What feature available in Storage Spaces lets you combine traditional mechanical HDDs with SSDs to get better performance?

iSCSI SAN

Features on demand

Thin provisioning

Tiered storage

When restoring a volume with data deduplication, which type of volume restores can be used? (Choose all that apply.)

Selective

passive

Optimized

Full volume

What authentication protocol can be used to allow an iSCSI target to authenticate to the iSCSI initiator?

Reverse CHAP

MSCHAPv2

Kerberos

PEAP

Which of the following sends commands to a logical storage space consisting of one or more virtual disks?

iSCSI initiator

iSNS server

iSCSI target

iSCSI qualified name

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