SNMR University Questions

Dec’17, May’17, Dec’16, May’16

*Page Numbers w.r.t. Wiley

1. Not Repeated.
2. Repeated Once.
3. Repeated Twice.
4. Repeated Thrice.

1. Introduction to Storage Systems

5 marks
1. Design and Implement ILM for Storage Management System. (13-15)

10 marks
1. Explain ILM for Loan Management System with neat diagram.
2. Explain ILM for Online Order Processing with the help of diagram.
3. Explain ILM and its benefits. (13, 15). How ILM can be implemented as a strategy for
Hospital Management System.

2. Basics of Storage System Network

5 marks

1.
(34-35)
2. Zone Bit Recording. (30)
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 3. Data Protection
10 marks

1.
(62-63)

2.
3. Explain the steps for write penalty calculation and list the read and write penalty for
different RAID Levels.

4.
5. Explain in detail the different RAID levels with neat diagram.​ Also list out the advantages
and disadvantages for all RAID levels. (48-60)
6. Explain RAID levels​ along with the comparison of all RAID levels. (48-60, 63)

4. Intelligent Storage System

5 marks
1. ISS. (84)

10 marks
1. Explain in detail different components required to design ISS. (84-92)
2. Explain ISS ​and its types. (84, 98-100)

5. Storage Network Architecture

5 marks
1. IP Storage. (145)
2. VIA. (154)
3. FC SAN. (136)
4. FC Ports. (121)
5. Comparison of FC SAN, iSCSI, NAS.

10 marks
 1. Explain FC Protocol Stack​ and FC SAN topologies. (119, 136)
2. Explain IP Storage Standards. (146-149)
3. Explain FC Data Transfer and Control Flow with the help of diagram. (124,126)
4. Explain SCSI Communication and Command model. (116)
5. Explain in detail FC Protocol Stack with neat diagram. (119)

6. Network Attached Storage

5 marks
1. NAS. (177)
2. Local File System and Network File System. (167, 176-177)
3. Journaling and Snapshot. (169-170)

7. Storage Virtualization
5 marks
1. Symmetric and Asymmetric Virtualization Models. (226)

10 marks
1. Explain Block level and File level Storage Virtualization in detail with neat diagram.
(221-223)
2. Explain Architecture and Implementation related limitations of Storage Virtualization.
(213-214)
3. Differentiate between Symmetric and Asymmetric Storage Virtualization and Block level
and File level Storage Virtualization.
4. Explain Symmetric and Asymmetric Virtualization with the help of diagram. (226-233)

8. Storage Network Backup and Recovery

5 marks
1. Explain different types of Backup with real time examples.
2. NDMP. (266)
3. Backup operations. (258)

10 marks
1. Explain BC Planning Lifecycle with an example. (251)
2. Explain BC planning Lifecycle in detail with neat diagram. (251).​ Give comparison
between RPO and RTO. (249-250)
3. Explain NDMP. (266)
4. What is Information Availability and Information Unavailability. (246-247). ​Explain BC
Planning Lifecycle. (251)
 9. Information Retrieval in Storage Network
5 marks
1. Components​ and Parts of Information System. (300-302)

10 marks
1. Explain different components of Information and its types. (300, 303)
2. Define Information System. List out the components of Information System. (300). What
is the difference between General Purpose and Specialized Information System?

10. Document and Query Forms

5 marks
1. Document Surrogate. (317-319)
2. Document term Matrices.

10 marks
1. Explain different Data Compression techniques in detail. (321-326)

11. The Matching Process

5 marks
1. Explain Boolean Queries with an example. (352-353)
2. Vector based Matching. (353)

10 marks
1. Explain Boolean Queries​ and Vector Queries in detail. (352, 353)
2. Differentiate Boolean based and Probabilistic based matching processes. (352, 357)
3. Explain Boolean based matching process in detail. (352)

12. Text Analysis

5 marks
1. Stemming. (377)
2. Types of Indexing. (371-373)

10 marks
1. Explain Multilingual Retrieval System. (378-379)