S10-201 Online Practice Questions and Answers

A company has merged its two existing SANs that were in adjacent buildings. The data center in each location had been utilizing at least half of its total SAN bandwidth. Now they now plan to migrate all production data to one data center and replicate that data across the new ISLs to the other data center which will now only be used for for disaster recovery purposes. What is the potential impact to performance after completing this reconfiguration?

A. no change to SAN performance

B. increased performance for production traffic

C. decreased performance for production traffic

D. ISL oversubscription will determine performance

When preparing to merge two fabrics, which two items should be checked before connecting the fabrics? (Choose Two.)

A. zones sets are activated

B. timeout values are set properly

C. new configurations are enabled to allow the merge

D. fabrics are colocated to prevent segmentation

E. interoperability modes are configured per vendor instructions

What are two (2) valid steps when adding a new host to an existing fabric? (Choose two.)

A. create new zone

B. remove zone members

C. add new zone member

D. deactivate the zone set

E. merge new zone

You have been asked to add 2 new PCIX cards into an existing server architecture and notice that they run at different clock speeds. The system has both shared and dedicated PCI bus slots available. In order to maximize performance, which PCI cards should be installed in which slots? (Choose two.)

A. PCIX bus slots are speed independent

B. PCIX 133 installed in a dedicated bus slot

C. PCIX 100 installed in a dedicated bus slot

D. PCIX 100 installed in a shared bus slot

E. PCIX 133 installed in a shared bus slot

You have been asked to review your fabric management plan for effectiveness and efficiency, and to ensure that you are meeting its stated requirement. What should you check to see if you are meeting the defined SLAs?

A. viability of 1Gb/s FC technology to minimize problems with support

B. backup and recovery test results and their impact on fabric infrastructure

C. actual expenditure on fabric services against the predicted expenditure

D. frequency of fabric failures and the number of services impacted

A company has been expanding its SAN physically throughout its campus headquarters. Distributed servers throughout the campus access storage nodes that are also distributed. What are two (2) results of this expansion? (Choose two.)

A. increase in data accessibility

B. decrease in resource utilzation

C. increase in SAN I/O latency

D. increase in application availability

E. decrease in application availability

A company has merged its two existing SANs that were in adjacent buildings. The data center in each location had been utilizing at least half of its total SAN bandwidth. Now they now plan to migrate all production data to one data center and replicate that data across the new ISLs to the other data center which will now only be used for for disaster recovery purposes. What is the potential impact to performance after completing this reconfiguration?

A. no change to SAN performance

B. increased performance for production traffic

C. decreased performance for production traffic

D. ISL oversubscription will determine performance

What metric is used when determining how many storage subsystem ports can be attached to a single host port?

A. fanin

B. buffer credits

C. fanout

D. ISL oversubcription

A customer's database environment includes remote synchronous mirroring across a DWDM link. Which two (2) business management requirements will be met by the implementation? (Choose two.)

A. cost

B. service

C. continuity

D. availability

E. configuration

A company with departmental Fibre Channel SANs has decided that they now want to merge them into a large enterprise SAN to assist with resource allocation and improve resource utilization. What two (2) configuration parameters should the administrator check before connecting the SANs to minimize service disruption? (Choose two.)

A. verify time out values match

B. verify principle switch priorities match

C. verify domain ID assignments are unique

D. verify auto negotiation is enabled