1.Which HP B-series SAN switch port topology provides the least number of user ports?
Answer: ring fabric 2. You execute the switchShow command and receive the output shown below. Based on this output, which HP B-Series SAN switch ports are members of the configured trunking group? Answer: ports 4 and 6
3. Review the diagram shown below. In this diagram, label “B” refers to which data protection goal? Answer:
Recovery Point Objective (RPO) 4. Which statements correctly describe a routed fabric and routed fabric services? (Select two.) Answer:
A router in a Meta SAN provides any-to-any connectivity between fabrics.
Each fabric maintains a unique fabric services configuration.
5. To obtain the fabric rules and tables for the HP B-Series SAN switches, which resource should you refer to? Answer:
HP SAN Design Reference Guide 6. What are the advantages of implementing infrastructure-level security (switch zoning)? (Select two.) Answer: It provides best granularity at the LUN level. It safeguards unauthorized access to the storage devices from anywhere on the SAN. 7. You execute the islshow command and receive the output shown below.
Based on this output, what is true about this HP B-Series SAN switch trunking configuration? (Select three.) Answer: The aggregate trunk bandwidth is 6Gbps.
Both the trunk master and its slave links are shown in the output. There is one trunking group that consists of three ISLs (0 -> 0, 1 -> 1, and 5 -> 5). 8. Which IP storage protocol is a gateway-to-gateway network standard that enables the implementation of Fibre Channel functionality over an IP network? Answer: iFCP 9. Which statements about zoning are correct? (Select three.)
Answer: The number of zones and zone members are limited by the sum of switch ports in the fabric. Zoning provides security. Devices may be members of more than one zone 10. What are the special control words that construct Fibre Channel frames called? Answer:
ordered sets 11. Which HP B-Series SAN switch command enables or disables trunking on all ports at the switch level? Answer: portCfgTrunkport
12. What is a storage device port directly attached to a fabric called? Answer: N_Port 13. Which terminology describes the physical arrangement of interconnected hardware devices? Answer:
Network topology
14. Arrange the steps to properly boot SAN components into the correct order. Drag each item in the right column to the corresponding item in the left column. Let the cursor hover over an item to see its full text.
Answer: First Power on the storage arrays. Second Power on the SAN fabric. Third Confirm the target drives are visible. Forth Boot the host system(s) 15. Which security level is appropriate for a single point of management in a
large data center with hosts running multiple types and versions of operating systems? Answer:
Infrastructure 16. Which command resets the HP B-series storage switches back to their factory settings? Answer:
configDefault 17. What is the name of the layer that surrounds the optical (glass fiber) cable’s core? Answer: cladding 18. Which statements are true about using the Top Talker monitors in the SAN Network Advisor? (Select two.) Answer: Top Talkers and an end-to-end monitor cannot co-exist on the same external Fport ASIC.
Top Talkers require the APM license on the switch device. 19. What must be avoided when configuring an HP B-series storage switch in a fabric containing HP-UX and AIX operating systems? Answer:
setting the switch domain ID to 0
20. Which statements correctly describe a Storage Area Network (SAN)? (Select two.) Answer: is redundant and highly available by its nature uses high-performance Ethernet switches to create communication paths 21. Which HP fixed-port Fibre Channel switch is designed and recommended for use in virtualized and consolidated storage environments? Answer:
HP StoreFabric SN6000B switch 22. Which storage tier is called near line, employs backup devices such as tapes and tape libraries, and is ideal for file recovery? Answer: tier 4
23. What is required for an arbitrated loop to be a private loop? (Select two.) Answer:
It must contain only devices that are not fabric-aware. It must contain one FL port and up to 126 NL ports. 24. What is the default data protection level assigned during volume creation, if at least two storage volumes are available in the cluster? Answer: network RAID 10 25. Which term refers to the reduction in the power of the light signal as it is transmitted? Answer: attenuation
26. Which benefits do a redundant fabric design, storage replication, dynamic failover protection, traffic rerouting, and server clustering bring to customers? (Select two.) Answer:
Business continuity High availability 27. When designing a fabric using 8-port, 12-port, 16-port, or 20-port HP H-series SAN switches, how many 8Gb ports per switch can you use as ISLs? Answer:
up to four ports 28. Which SAN security level is most impacted by firmware changes? Answer: device 29. What are the benefits of Fibre Channel routing? (Select two.) Answer:
overcomes individual fabric scaling limits decreases device utilization 30. Which Fibre Channel routing statements are correct? (Select three.) Answer:
HP StoreFabric B-series, C-series, and H-series switches currently support up to five hops.
A multi-function router counts the same as a Fibre Channel switch with respect to the fabric hop count.
The maximum number of hops between switches (including routers) in a Meta SAN is twelve.
Part 2 1. You are using Web Tools to manage your Brocade SAN switches. What must you do to print the zone database summary configuration and to analyze zone configurations? Answer:
Use the Brocade Network Advisor 2. You are managing a large and complex enterprise SAN, where previous application downtime due to SFP-related issues already cost the company a lot of money. You need an online transceiver monitoring and diagnostic tool that monitors optical parameters of SFPs the following HP hardware components to enable you to quickly isolate and troubleshoot the situation. • HP StoreFabric 8Gb and 16Gb Fibre Channel HBAs (QLogic-based) • HPStoreFabricB-series and H-series switches • HP 3Par StoreServ storage What is the correct tool to use?
Answer:
HP Intelligent Infrastructure Analyzer Software*
3. Ordered sets, frames, sequences, and exchanges are building blocks of which functional layer within the Fibre Channel protocol architecture?
Answer: FC-2
4. You are planning a Microsoft Exchange implementation that includes a large number and size of mailboxes. You want to maintain mailbox resiliency and are looking for a lower-cost storage solution. Which storage architecture would best meet your goals? Answer: NAS
5. Match the SAN fabric topology with its correct requirement, attribute, or recommendation.
Answers: ring fabric Limit this topology to a maximum of two hops betwe... core-edge fabric During expansion, connect the ISLs to two or more ... cascaded fabric When expanding outside of this topology, connect t... meshed fabric Monitor this topology because over time, it can re... 6. You are managing a heterogeneous SAN environment with Fibre Channel switches from Brocade, McData, HP, and Cisco. You want to: - Decode and analyze log files from these devices - Create delta analysis reports from these devices - Visualize the status of these devices - Perform conversions between numeric systems and assess the relation between AL_PA and Loop IDs What is the correct tool to use for these tasks? Answer: SAN Network Advisor 7. Review these messages: WARNING ZONE-ZONEGROUPADDFAIL, 3, WARNING - port 7 Out of CAM entries WARNING ZONE-SOFTZONING, 3, WARNING - port 7: zoning enforcement changed to SOFT What do these messages indicate?
Answer:
The zoning configuration has exceeded limits, forcing the port to change from hardwareenforced zoning to software-enforced zoning. The SAN administrator has manually changed the zoning enforcement for the fabric to the access authorization method. 8. A customer wants to reset an HP B-series storage switch back to its HP default configuration settings. What must be done? Answer: Issue the configDefault command and reboot the switch.
9. Review the diagram shown below. In this diagram, label “A” refers to which data protection goal? Answer:
Recovery Time Objective (RTO)
10.When implementing port channeling on the HP C-series switches, what is the maximum number of physical links that a port channel can contain? Answer:
Sixteen 11. Which statements correctly describe the Solid State Drives? (Select three.) Answer:
Single-Level Cell (SLC) drives provide faster write performance and greater reliability. MLC technology is based on two bit values per cell—either zero or one. Four distinct states can be stored in each SLC. 12. Which term refers to an HP B-series routing configuration, similar to a Fibre Channel zone, where devices in different fabrics are grouped together?
Answer: LSAN
13. What is the name of the technique used to increase the overall endurance
of NAND-based Solid State Drives that continuously remaps logical SCSI blocks to different physical pages in the NAND array?
Answer: wear levelling 14. Which SAN security level is most impacted by firmware changes? Answer: host 15. What is the most commonly used SAN Class of Service (CoS)? Answer: Class 2 16. At which functional layer within the Fibre Channel protocol architecture does the 8-bit/10-bit encoding and decoding occur?
Answer: FC-1 17. What is the maximum number of ISLs that can be combined into a single trunking group on HP B-Series SAN switches?
Answer: four 18. Which feature of Storage Area Networks (SANs) enables easy storage consolidation and expansion?
Answer: clustering of multiple servers and their management as a single unit 19. You are using Web Tools to manage your Brocade SAN switches and want to perform cloning operations for zone configurations. However, your access to this feature is denied and an error message displays. Why does this occur?
Answer: Web Tools are not licensed with the EGM license. 20. Which term describes the maximum targeted period in which data might be lost from an IT service due to a major incident?
Answer: Recovery Point Objective (RPO)
21.What does the following HP B-Series SAN switch command accomplish? portcfgtrunkport 4,1 Answer:
It enables the trunking configuration for port 4. 22.What is the practice of connecting multiple devices in a SAN to the same switch port for the reasons of optimizing the switch utilization called? Answer:
Oversubscription 23.Which HP-supported switches are designed to fit into the interconnect bays of the HP BladeSystem c-Class enclosure? (Select two.) Answer:
Cisco MDS Interconnect Fabric Switch Cisco MDS 9222i Multiservice Modular Fabric Switch 24.What automates multi-switch configuration operations across enabled Brocade SAN switches to save time and streamline repetitive operations? Answer: EGM
25.Which metric measures drive reliability in terms of percentage of drive failures in one year? Answer: MTBF
26.What are the two types of expanders used in SAS topologies? (Select two.) Answer:
edge fan-out
