2. Implement Storage Solutions

Question 1

FAT

Answer 1

File Allocation Table

4GB max partition size

Question 2

FAT32

Answer 2

File Allocation Table 32

32GB max partition size

Question 3

ReFS

Answer 3

Resilient File System

Designed to maximize data availability, scale efficiently to large data sets across diverse workloads, and provide data integrity by means of resiliency to corruption.

Question 4

NTFS

Answer 4

Windows NT File System

Question 5

MBR

Answer 5

Master Boot Record

Limited to 2TB and 4 primary partitions OR 3 primary and 1 extended

Question 6

GPT

Answer 6

GUID Partition Table

Recommended for configurations larger than 2TB

Question 7

Basic disks

Answer 7

Divided into partitions; easily convert to dynamic disks

Question 8

Dynamic disks

Answer 8

Divided into volumes; destructive conversion to basic disks

Question 9

Simple volume

Answer 9

Uses only one disk or a portion of a disk

Question 10

Spanned volume

Answer 10

Simple volume that spans multiple disks with a maximum of 32

Question 11

Striped volume

Answer 11

Stores data in stripes on two or more disks. Fast but not fault tolerant.

Question 12

Mirrored volume

Answer 12

Fault tolerant because exact copy of data is on another disk

Question 13

RAID-5 volume

Answer 13

Stored in stripes across three or more disks, is fault tolerant.

Question 14

Volume set

Answer 14

Created from volumes that span multiple drives by taking the free space on those drives to create what looks like a single drive.

Question 15

Storage Pools

Answer 15

A group of physical disks that allow an administrator to delegate administration, expand disk sizes and group disks together

Question 16

Storage Spaces

Answer 16

Allow an administrator to take free space from Storage Pools and create virtual disks called Storage Spaces. Allows control, resiliency and storage tiers.

Question 17

RAID

Answer 17

Redundant Array of Independent Disks

Question 18

RAID versions supported by Windows Server 2016

Answer 18

RAID-0
RAID-1
RAID-5

Question 19

RAID-0

Answer 19

Disk striping on up to 32 disks. Fast data, no fault tolerance.

Question 20

RAID-1

Answer 20

One-for-one mirroring of data across disks. Halves total storage available.

Question 21

RAID-5

Answer 21

Disk striping with parity across minimum of 3 disks up to 32 disks. Approximately one hard drive is consumed by parity information.

Question 22

Mount Points

Answer 22

Used to bypass limitations of 26 drive letters. Allows a volume to be accessed from a folder on another existing disk.

Question 23

MPIO

Answer 23

Multipath I/O allows multiple paths to the same storage device providing redundancy

Question 24

Microsoft DSM

Answer 24

Microsoft Device Specific Module is a driver that communicates with storage devices and applies load-balancing policies

Question 25

iSCSI

Answer 25

Internet Small Computer System Interface is an interconnect protocol used to establish and manage a connection between a computer (initiator) and a storage device (target). Allows block-level access. Default port 3260

Question 26

CIFS

Answer 26

Common Internet File System

Question 27

NFS

Answer 27

Network File System allows use of Windows shares with multiple OS such as Linux

Question 28

iSNS

Answer 28

Internet Storage Name Service allows for central registration of an iSCSI environment because it automatically discovers available targets on the network. Its purpose is to help find available targets on a large iSCSI network.

Question 29

Thin provisioning and Trim

Answer 29

Trim automatically reclaims free space that is not being used by thin-provisioned disks

Question 30

Fibre Channel

Answer 30

Similar abilities as iSCSI storage but requires dedicated fibre-optic hardware.

Question 31

NPIV

Answer 31

N-Port Identification Virtualization is a fibre channel facility allowing multiple N-port IDs to share a single physical N-Port

Question 32

NAS

Answer 32

Network Attached Storage provides access to data at the file level vs the block level and are easy to install/maintain

Question 33

VDS

Answer 33

Virtual Disk Service is a set of APIs which provides a centralized interface for managing various storage devices

Question 34

DCB

Answer 34

Data Center Bridging allows hardware control over the flow and prioritization of data on the ethernet infrastructure

Question 35

bcdedit.exe

Answer 35

Command-line utility which lets you modify the boot options in the Boot Configuration Data (BCD) store

Question 36

Data deduplication

Answer 36

Process of segmenting redundant data into data chunks and creating markers that direct the computer system to the data blocks within the data store. (Data stored only once)