Storage course HCIA

1 – Storage technology trends

1.1 Which of the following are data types?

Structured data
Semi – structured data
Unstructured data
Massive amounts of data

1.2 Which of the following statements about storage are correct?

Storage refers to disks

Storage systems consists of storage hardware, software, and solutions

Storage types include block storage, file storage, and object storage

File storage provides block services

1.3 Which are characteristics of cloud storage?

Convergence

Open

Scale-up

Elasticity

1.4 Which of the following are the objectives of integrating AI into storage?

Simple

Efficient

High power consumption

Easy to use

2 – Storage Basic Technologies

2.1 Which of the following statements about Huawei OceanStor all-flash storage is false?

Supports SSDs and NVMe disks F

Supports SAS disks V

Supports HDDs F

Supports palm-sized SSDs V

2.2 Which RAID level would you recommend if a user focuses on reliability and random write
performance?

RAID 10

RAID 1

RAID 0

2.3 Which networks are included in FC topologies?

Arbitrated loop network

Point-to-point network

Switching network

Dual-switching network

2.4 Which PCIe versions are available currently?

PCIe 1.0

PCIe 2.0

PCIe 3.0

PCIe 4.0

2.5 Which of the following are file sharing protocols?

HTTP protocol

iSCSI protocol

NFS protocol

CIFS protocol

2.6 Which of the following are included in distributed storage networking?

Management network

Frontend service network

Frontend storage network

Backend storage network

2.7 Which of the following protocols are commonly used in SAN networking?

FC

iSCSI

CIFS

NFS
2.8 Which of the following storage services are supported by Huawei distributed storage (such as Huawei
OceanStor 110D)?

Block storage

File storage

Object storage

HDFS storage

Linked storage

2.9 What are the types of SSDs?

SLC

MLC

TLC

QLC

2.10 Which of the following can be used to measure the performance of an HDD?

Disk capacity

Rotation speed

Data transfer rate

Average access time

2.11 Scale-up is a method in which disk enclosures are continuously added to existing storage systems to
cope with increasing data volumes

Right

2.12 Data access will remain unaffected wen any disk in a RAID 10 array fails

Right

3– Storage Common Advanced Technologies

3.1 Which status must a pair be before consistency splitting during LUN migration?

Migrating

Stop

Normal

Migrated
3.2 Which of the following migration policies can be set for LUNs?

Automatic migration

Migration to the higher-performance tier

Migration to the lower-performance tier

No migration

3.3 Which of the following statements are correct?

Synchronous replication synchronizes data in real time to maximize data consistency and minimize
data loss in the event of a disaster

Asynchronous replication performs periodic data synchrnization, minimizing service performance

deterioration caused by data transmission latency

HyperReplication does not require a license

Synchronous replication uses snapshots for replication

3.4 Which of the following statements about consistency groups are correct?

If multiple LUNs at the primary end have write dependency relationships, replication consistency
groups must be configured to ensure that the secondary LUN salso have write dependecy
relationships

Consistency group is only used to manage the replication relationship between multiple LUNs

If one member in a consistency group is faulty, all members in the consistency group are unavailable

3.5 SmartTier cannot be enabled for a storage pool whose member disks are of the same type

Right

3.6 A source LUN can form multiple HyperClone pairs with different target LUNs. A target LUN can be
added to only one HyperClone pair

Right

4– Storage Business Conti nuity Soluti ons

4.1 Which is not a common backup topology?

LAN-Base

LAN-Free

Server-Free

Server-Base
4.2 Which are not common backup types?

Full backup

Incremental backup

Extension backup

Elastic backup

4.3 Data replication is the core of a DR technology. On which three layers are replication devices
distributed?

Application layer

Host layer

Network layer

Storage layer

4.4 When designing a DR solution, set RTO to 0 to ensure that services are not interrupted

Wrong

5 – Storage System O&M Management

5.1 The management IP address of a storage device is 192.168.5.12. Which of following should be entered
in the address box of the browser to log in to the storage device?

192.168.5.12

http://192.168.5.12

https://192.168.5.12

https://192.168.5.12:8088

6.2 Which of the following are common management software?

DeviceManager

eSight

Smartkit

eService

6.3 DeviceManager can monitor the performance of controllers, front-end ports, and back-end ports

Right

6.4 SmartKit integrates various tools required for deploying, maintaining, and upgrading IT devices,
helping service and maintenance engineers perform precise operations on these devices, improving work
efficiency

Right
6 – Scenario-Based Practi ce

6.1 Which of the following commands can be used to view license information?

License shown

Show license

Show information

Show general

6.2 Which of the following can be exported from DeviceManager?

System Log

Disk log

Configuration info

Diagnostic File

6.3 Which of the following statements about LUNs and LUN groups of Huawei OceanStor all-flash storage
devices are correct?

Support multiple LUNs creation

Support thick LUNs

When creating a LUN using DeviceManager, you can select the application typer corresponding to
the LUN

LUN group can contain only one LUN

6.4 Which of following can be controlled using SmartQoS policy?

Bandwidth

IOPS

Delay

Capacity
Storage Course Mock exam

Which statements is NOT true about information?

Information is the same as data

Information is different from data

Information is processed data

Information is used to eliminate random uncertaintly

Which statements are NOT true about RAID write penalty?

For RAID 5, if data on any disk in the strip changes, the parity data is reclculated

RAID 6 has two parity bits. Therefore, compared with RAID 5, RAID 6 is more affected by write
penalty

Write peanlty greatly affects the performance of SSDs

Compared with RAID 1, RAID 5 has poorer read performance due to write penalty

Which of the following statements is true about NFS?

The NFS service must be started before the RPC service. Otherwise, NFS cannot register port
information with RPC

The RPC service manages NFS port allocation in a unified manner

RPC provides information sharing during the NFS working process

During the NFS working process, requests from the client can skip RPC and be directly sent to the
server

Which of the following is NOT true about NAS?

Offers a nuiform way to access files over an network

Traffic between the NAS device and the workstation should be separated from traffic from the
workstation and the internet

NAS storage capacity is dedicated to the NAS device

NAS storage capacity can be block based storage

Which of the following statements is NOT true about RAID 10 working principles?

RAID 10 consists of nested RAID 1 + RAID 0 levels and allows disks to be mirrored (RAID 1) and then
striped (RAID 0)

RAID 10 group consists of an even number of disks

When data is written to the RAID 10 group, data blocks are concurrently written to sub-groups
through mirroring

RAID 10 can restore data if any two disks are faulty

During storage planning and deployment, an enterprise has high requirements on read/write
performance, data redundancy, and data recovery capabilities. The enterprise wants to ensure that data
can be recovered when a single disk is faulty. In addition, the capacity usage of disks in the RAID group
consisting of six disks must be greater than or equal to 60%. Which RAID levels can NOT be selected to
meet the preceding requirements?

RAID 1

RAID 5

RAID 6

RAID 50

Which of the following is a type of volatile storage?

RAM

Hard Disk

Magnetic Tape

DVD

Which of the following is not a layer of SCSI Target Model?

Network Layer

Port Layer

Middle Layer

Device Layer

Which of the data storage types is NOT classified based on data access frequency?

Online storage

Nearline storage

Offline storage

Unified storage

Which of the following statements about DAS is NOT correct?

Storage device connects to a host using the SCSI-based bus architecture

DAS is unfavorable to storage resource sharing

The host CPU has a work load when storing data

Long-distance transmission is supported between a host and a storage device

Which of the following statements is NOT true about eSight?

eSight uses a component-based architecture. Users can select desired components based on the
site requirements

eSight supports unified management for Huawei servers, storage devices, virutalization devices,
switches, routers, WLAN devices, and firewalls

eSight uses the B/S architecture

 eSight supports only Huawei devices

Which of the following statements about NDMP protocol is NOT true?

It is an open protocol based on enterprise-level data management

It is oriented for data backup and recovery

It supports CIFS-or NFS-based file backup

It does not support backup to the tape library

Which of the following statements is NOT true about RAID striping?

The striping technology divides contiuous data into multiple blocks and saves them to different disks

Stripe consists of one or more consecutive sectors in a disk, and multiple stripes from a strip

The striping technology evenly distributes I/O loads to multiple physical disks

After striping, a RAID group can provide a faster speed than a single disk

Compared with traditional RAID, which of the following is NOT a feature of RAID 2.0+?

Block virtualization enables data to be automatically and evently distributed on disks in a storage
pool, preventing unbalanced loads

Independent global or local hot spare disks must be manually configured

If a disk is fault, RAID 2.0+ uses thin reconstruction to further shorten the reconstruction time

Many-to-many reconstruction is supported. Reconstructed data is written to multiple disks in

parallel

A company deploys a new storage device and plans to use NFS for file sharing. Which of the following
statements is true about NFS?

NFS is supported by Windows and Linux

NFS supports data transmission over Fibre Channel networks

Transmission distance must not exceed 100 m

NFS does not support access control

Which statements are NOT true about cables in a storage system?

One end of the optical fiber can be connected to a Fibre Channel HBA, and the other end can be
connected to a Fibre Channel switch or storage device

Serial cables are used to connect expansion ports and connect controller enclosures to disk
enclosures

Mini SAS HD cables are used to connect PCIe ports on controllers in a controller enclosure to data
switches

There are mini SAS HD electrical cables and mini SAS HD oprtical cables

Which statements are NOT true about the disk usage of a storage system?

SSDs belong to the high-performance tier and are used to store frequently accessed data
 NL-SAS disks belong to the capacity tier and are used to store data that is least frequently accessed

SAS disks belong to the high-performance tier and are used to store frequently accessed data

NL-SAS disks belong to the capacity tier and are used to store data that is accessed at a medium
frequency

A new ThinLUN of 100 GB is created. The option “Initially Allocated Capacity” was set to 50 GB. Which of
the following statements are NOT true about this LUN?

No more than 50 GB can ever be written to this volume

The LUN, like all ThinLUNs, does not occupy any space at creation time

The LUN will allocate 50 GB of storage capacity even if the LUN was not formatted

The LUN must be fully formatted first and then consumes 100 GB of storage capacity

Which of the following statements about LAN-based backup are true?

Instruction flows are transmitted over the LAN whereas data flows are not

The backup agent affects the performance of application servers

Backup data is based on LANs, affecting network performance

Backup jobs must be separately maintained, complicating management and maintenance

During data center construction, a media company purchased storage devices from multiple vendors. Yhe
CTO wants to centrally manage these devices through storage virtualization. Which of the following
functions are provided by storage virtualization?

Hiding the complexity of physical devices

Enabling servers to directly access storage hardware

Supporting unified deployment and management

Reducing the limitations of physical storage capacity

An enterprise establishes active-active data centers in city A and city B. If the active-active arbitration
mode of the storage (such as Huawei OceanStor hybrid flash storage) is static priority mode, site A is the
static priority site. Which of the following statements are NOT true?

If the link between two storage systems is down, both sites A and B continue providing services

If site A is fault, site B automatically takes over services

If site B is fault, site A automatically takes over services

If links between the host and site A and between the host and site B are down, the HyperMetro pair
status is normal

The official website of an enterprise cannot be accessed. Maintenance personnel find thet two NL-SAS
HDDs in the disk array are in the alarm state at the same time, causing a data loss. To avoid such
problems, which configurations can be used by the enterprise on the premise that the disk capacity
utilization cannot be higher than 70%?

RAID 6 group in 2D+2P mode

 RAID 5 group in 4D+P mode

RAID 6 group in 4D+2P mode

RAID 6 group in 6D+2P mode

Which of the following statements are NOT true about the structure and functions of the hard disk
components?

Disk platter is responsible of storing data in binary form

The actuator is responsible of moving the Read/Write arm

The spindle is responsible for sending commands to the disk head

The disk connector is responsible of connection and rotation of the platter

When CLI is used to configure Huawei hybrid flash storage, which of the following operations are involved
in creating storage space?

Create a storage pool

Create a host

Create a LUN

Create a LUN group

Which of the following are correct regarding the differences of IP SAN and FC SAN?

IP SAN uses iSCSI protocol for data transmission

FC SAN uses FC protocol for data transmission

IP SAN can connect to FC SAN without any additional protocols

Both encapsulates the SCSI command with their underlying protocol before transmission

Which of the following statements are true about Huawei OceanStor all-flash storage systems?

When creating a LUN, you must plan the owning controller for the LUN to implement load balancing
among controllers in the system

OceanStor all-flash storage systems support front-end interconnect I/O modules to straightly send
host I/Os to the most appropriate controller

The caches on all controller nodes form a global cache

Data in each LUN is evently distributed across the caches on all nodes

Which of these are NOT O&M standard systems?

Information technology infrastructure library (ITIL)

International Organization for Standardization 2000 (ISO2000)

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA)

Which of the following are limitations of DAS, compared with SAN?

Poor scalability

Large ivestment

Difficult resource sharing

Decentralized management

Which of the following statements are NOT true about the extent in RAID 2.0+ technology?

An extent can be 128 MB, but a grain is alwais 64 KB

An extent can be as small as 512 KB and as large as 128 MB

An extent can be as small as 512 KB and as large as 64 MB

An extent can be as small as 64 MB and as large as 512 MB

An engineer maps the storage system to the file server to store various enterprise files. One day, the file
system is attacked by viruses and files cannot be opened. To access the files, theengineer performs a
snapshot rollback. Which of hte following statements are true?

Snapshot rollback can quickly restore data

Some data may be lost during a snapshot rollback

If there are writes to the source LUN during a snapshot rollback, the rollback is performed after the
writes are complete

When no host reads or writes data, the snapshot data is rolled back to the source volume in
sequence

Which of the following statements about SAS are true?

SAS is a point to point protocol

SAS and SATA device can’t be connected in the same system

Expanders are used to connect to multiple devices

SAS is the serial standard of SCSI

A bank purchases a new storage device. During the RAID level configuration, the bank requires that data
reliability be improved and parity data be stored on different disks. Which RAID levels can NOT meet the
requirements?

RAID 3

RAID 0

RAID 5

RAID 6
When configuring the initial capacity allocation for a storage system where the storage tiering is enabled,
which of the following allocation policies are NOT suggested?

Copy all data to the performance tier and allow the system to migrate the data

Copy all the data to the capacity tier and allow the system to migrate the data

Enable automatic allocation if there are no statistics regarding I/O monitoring of the data access
frequency

Enable allocation based on storage tiers if it is known that the data should belong to which storage
tier

On the IP SAN of an enterprise, the host resource usage is always high. It is found that the initiator
software on the host occupies a large number of resources to converti SCSI packets into TCP/IP packets.
What are the solutions that can NOT solve the preceding problem?

Change the 10GE network to a 25GE network

Replace the NIC with a TOE NIC

Replace the NIC with an iSCSI HBA

Expand the capacity of the storage device

Which of the following disk interface technologies does NOT use serial interface technology?

ATA

SATA

SAS

SCSI

Which of the following components are NOT responsible for rotating the disk platter in the disk drive?

Spindle

Actuator

Control Circuit Board

Read/Write Arm

A bank enables SmartTier for the bill transaction system. During I/O monitoring, it is found that the
written data is frequently accessed. Which configurations help optimize performance?

Capacity allocation preferentially from the high-performance tier

Migration to the high-performance tie

Capacity allocation preferentially from the capacity tier

Migration to the low-performance tier

Which of the following statements are correct?

RAID group is like a physical volume that consists of multiple disks

One logical volume can be created on a physical volume

Multiple logical volumes can be created on a physical volume

LUN can reside on multiple RAID groups

In the storage system of an Internet company, services A and B compete for cache and network resources,
prolonging the wait time for other services. To solve this problem, cache partitioning and traffic control
need to be configured. Service A is used for processing transactions and requires instant responce.
Service B is used for analyzing and querying data. Which of the following configurations are NOT correct?

When configuring cache partitions, ensure that the cache of service A is larger than that of service B

When configuring cache partitions, ensure that the cache of service B is larger than that of service A

Set the QoS priority of service B to be higher than that of service A

Set the QoS priority of service A to be higher than that of service B

An application server is connected to the LUN in a storage system which contains data with different
access frequencies. Complaints about the slow I/O are received from users. After the diagnosis, it is found
that the migration policy has not been configured for that LUN. which of the following are NOT the
proper methods to solve this issue?

Do not configure any nigration policy, because that i twill further slow down the I/O process of the
LUN due to migration traffic

Configure the migration policy under which the data with less I/O activity can be migrated to the
high-performance tier

Enable the automatic migration policy for the LUN if there is no special requirement, under which
the data can be auto analyzed and migrated accordingly to suitable performance tier

Configure the migration process to be done off-peak to prevent further I/O slow down due to data
migration during business hours

SmartCompression reorganizes data to save storage space and improve the data transfer, and storage
efficiency without any data loss

True

In the Server-Free backup network, the backup data stream is transmitted over a existing LAN network

False

In NAND flash memory technology, OLC is cheaper than TLC and supports frequent rewriting. Storage
class memory (SCM) provides high-speed read/write and is ideal for server memory space

False

Long periods of service interruption due to the lack of disaster recovery system will can cause financial
losses and reputation issues to the business

True
When RAID 2.0+ is used, a thick LUN consists of extents and a thin LUN consists of grains

True

Huawei OceanStor all-flash storage systems use the SmartMatrix architecture, which allows all disks to
share all front-end and back-end interfaces modules. Failure of any disk does not affect services

False

A backup set is a group of data that is backed up in a batch. A backup set can be used for full backup, but
can not be used for incremental backup

False

An enterprise creates three 20 GB thin LUNs for the online transaction system, email system, and backup
system in a 60 GB storage resource pool. As the company is in its infancy, there is very little data on the
online transaction system and email system. However, the amount of legacy data to be imported to the
backup system is about 40 GB, which exceeds the capacity of the corresponding thin LUN. As a result,
data fails to be written to the backup system

True

A snapshot is a copy of the source data at a point in time. Snapshots can be generated quickly and only
occupy a small amount of storage space

True

Storage controllers are only connected to disk enclosures within the fibre channel networks

False

SAN provides file sharing services through protocols such as NFS and CIFS

False

XML, HTML, and JSON represent types of structured data

False

SmartQoS can prioritize critical applications in storage resource allocation by limiting the resources
allocated to non-critical applications

True

An engineer plans to configure RAID 6 for a NAS storage system. 4 disks are sufficient for this
configuration

True

The esternal storage system is directly connected to the host bus, involving the high-speed cache and
memory required for CPU computing, and the disk and CD-ROM drive that are directly connected to the
computer main board

False

Disasters can happen anywhere at anytime. Implementation of back-up systems will minimize the impact
of sudden unexpected disasters

False
When 500 bytes of data is written to RAID 5 and the sector size of HDDs in the RAID group is 512 bytes,
data verification is not required beacuse the amount of data to be written is small

False

Raid 50 writes the data to disks in strips and then creates images for written data

False

A grain is logical storage space in a chunk group. It is the minimum unit for hotspot data statistics and
migration. The size of grains can only be 64 KB

False

The failure of an HDD is more predictable than that of other disk technologies

False