Chapter 7: Planning for High Availability Flashcards
Regardless of how much space you allocate to the storage area, Windows Server 2008 supports a maximum of __________ shadow copies for each volume.
64
Which of the following is the simplest form of disk redundancy?
Disk Mirroring
Which RAID level provides the largest percentage of usable disk space?
RAID 5
Which mechanism allows users to work with copies of files that remain accessible whether the workstation can access the server or not?
Offline Files
How many consecutive heartbeats must fail before convergence occurs?
5
A maximum of __________ nodes can be added to a cluster if computers are running on the x86 or IA64 platform.
8
Which component in Windows Server 2008 enables the system to install software packaged as files with an .msi extension?
Windows Installer 4.0
Which version of Windows Server 2008 must computers be running to create a failover cluster?
Enterprise
Which of the following features can be used to automate the Shadow Copy process?
File Redirection
In which operating system is the Previous Versions Client not available by default?
Windows XP SP1
Which of the following is essentially a series of filters that examine the contents of packets and traffic patterns to and from the network to determine which packets they should allow to pass through the filter?
Firewall
Which role service maintains a database of client sessions and enables a disconnected client to reconnect to the same terminal server?
Session Broker
What is the most commonly used high-availability solution for data storage, primarily because it is far more scalable than disk mirroring and enables you realize more storage space from your hard disks?
Parity-based RAID
Which technique creates multiple resource records using the same name, with a different server IP address in each record?
DNS round robin
Which of the following is part of the recommended hardware environment for a failover cluster?
duplicate servers, shared storage, redundant network connections
Besides application data, which of the following is stored on a failover clusters shared storage?
Witness Disk
Which of the following holds the failover cluster configuration database?
witness disk
What is the term for the ability of entire servers to be redundant so that if anything goes wrong with one computer, another one can take its place almost immediately?
Failover
To use Shadow Copies effectively, where must users store their files?
Server
