Storage Intermediate Quiz 4

Striping with single parity to protect against one drive failure Striping with dual parity to survive two simultaneous disk failures Mirroring data across multiple sites for high-availability disaster recovery

A dedicated network connecting storage resources to host servers The internal mechanical structure of a hard drive or flash array A specialized protocol for encrypting data within cloud environments

Moving point-in-time data to secondary tape storage for long-term retention Creating a writable copy of a snapshot for testing or recovery purposes Merging multiple historical snapshots into a single compressed volume

Encrypting individual storage blocks to prevent unauthorized data access Removing redundant data patterns to improve storage capacity efficiency Fragmenting data with redundant segments to recover from hardware failures

Hardware or software used to manage data flow and storage operations A management interface used to monitor cloud-based storage performance A secondary high-speed drive dedicated solely to read/write caching

Managing high-speed block-level data transfers within a Fibre Channel SAN Providing client systems with file-level access to network-based storage Storing unstructured data objects within a distributed cloud architecture

Buffering frequently accessed data in memory to accelerate read requests Committing data directly to physical disks before confirming completion Storing data in cache temporarily before flushing it to permanent disks

Integrating SSDs and HDDs to balance performance with total cost Connecting multiple cloud storage providers into a single management pane Linking two separate SAN fabrics to create a redundant storage network

A software-based cache layer used to increase overall system throughput A logical volume of storage presented to a host for data management A performance metric used to calculate the latency of storage arrays

Applying encryption to data sets residing on an inactive physical disk Compressing data packets before they are transmitted to a cloud site Securing information while it is being transmitted across the network