snia s10-300 practice test

SNIA Architect - Assessment Planning & Design Exam

Last exam update: Dec 25 ,2025
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Question 1

A San is supporting Windows and SUN operating system. What should the administrator do to
support the heterogeneous Oss?

  • A. Use zoning to separate hosts.
  • B. Have a different fabric for each OS.
  • C. Use LUN masking to separate hosts.
  • D. Direct attach each host to the storage array
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Question 2

What is the primary objective of the storage capacity planning process?

  • A. To demonstrate the effects of changes in storage service levels.
  • B. To reach agreement with application representatives and management over the storage requirements.
  • C. To produce a capacity plan at agreed intervals which fits into the business planning cycle, e.g. the financial year.
  • D. To calculate the effects on ILM service levels, array and fabric utilization of the estimated demand over the period of the planning horizon.
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Question 3

What information must be gathered during the testing phase BEFORE allowing live customer data on
the storage infrastructure? (Choose two)

  • A. Time to failover, both without and with simulated load.
  • B. Single points of failure in the infrastructure as well as topology mapping
  • C. Hardware and software vendor escalation process including phone-home and /or ticket generation.
  • D. Powerup order, how long from power application to functionality per component, including dependencies.
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Question 4

Company.com is planning to implement a new service, and needs to deploy two servers in a
active/passive cluster maintaining a large repository of data. This data will include three sets of data:
SET 1:Stream type data:3MB Files on average :many thousands
SET 2:Large file data:200KB Files on average: many millions
SET 3:Small file data: 15 KB Files on average:hundereds of millions
The application developer is writing code that is specific to an implementation of clustering that
requires block level access. Which solution does not degrade performance?

  • A. A RAID 5 grouping for set 3, while deploying set 1 and 2 on the same RAID 0+1 set
  • B. Deploying set 1 and 2 as independent RAID 5 groupings, while deploying set 3 as a RAID 0+1 set
  • C. Creating a single RAID 5 grouping on the array and using the OS to partition each of the three sets
  • D. Creating a single RAID 5 grouping on the array and using the array to partition each of the three sets from the same pack of physical har drive.
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Question 5

Company.com is using host based virtualization to mirror critical data between two vendors disk
arrays. Which two scenarios are true? (Choose two)

  • A. The host can use the same HBA to connect to both arrays.
  • B. The customer can adhere to either vendors SAN design rules
  • C. The customer must adhere to both vendors SAN design rules
  • D. The host must use different HBAs with different firmware to connect to each array.
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Question 6

Which three principles best describe data collected during a strategic risk assessment of the Storage
environment (including impacts on RTO/RPO)?

  • A. Identification of loss scenarios
  • B. Probability an include will occur
  • C. Procedures to reduce possibility of error or failure
  • D. Fault tolerant and resilient IT systems and networks
  • E. Documenting acceptable loss levels and severity from a business perdpective.
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Question 7

Company.com needs to develop a fault tolerant solution. They have implemented a two server
Cluster with application failover. They have two split mirror snapshots of their data and have
implemented redundant Fabrics. Which solution should they implement?

  • A. Each server in both Fabrics, each snapshot available to one host
  • B. Each server in both Fabrics, each snapshot available to both host
  • C. Each server in a separate Fabrics, each snapshot available to one host
  • D. Each server in a separate Fabrics, each snapshot available to both host
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Question 8

An error happened in the data center. According to ITIL principles, when is your job as storage
administrator complete?

  • A. When the problem is fixed
  • B. When the cause of the error is determined
  • C. When the problem is identified and the vendor is notified
  • D. When a plan is developed to ensure the error does not reoccur
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Question 9

A client is consolidating a database server into an existing SAN attached array with 73 GB drives and
a default LUN size of 8.8 GB. The server currently uses O/S based volume management on
9 GB LUNs carved from 36 GB drives in a direct attached disk array. The array is connected using two
100 MB/s FC ports. The file systems are set at a default blocksize of 2048. Which would be the most
important to address in your design?

  • A. Adapt to standard LUN sizes, paying migration penalities
  • B. Upgrade connectivity from 100 to 200 GB, incurring upgrade cost
  • C. Account for change in access density from 36 GB to 73 GB drive
  • D. Determine capacity/performance impact of file system parameters
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Question 10

Company.com has created a disaster recovery (DR) plan and is synchronously replicating its data To
remote facility. Which three must be identical between the remote and production site?

  • A. LVM
  • B. Server OS
  • C. File system
  • D. Storage array
  • E. Server hardware
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Question 11

You notice, from continually monitoring a SAN arry, that an array has a number of soft SCSI bus error.
You trace the errors back to a single drive using a vendor's event tool. Which two would correct this?
(Choose two)

  • A. You should pull the drive out immediately and replace it to prevent data corruption on the RAID set.
  • B. Soft SCSI bus errors can be safely ignored as they do not actually denote any service requirements.
  • C. You should research the error to determine the impact and proper response including the vendor in these discussions
  • D. Review the logs from the array to identify if there is a pattern of large numbers of these SCSI errors. A large number of these SCSI bus errors may denote a predictive failure.
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Question 12

Company.com has implemented a disaster recovery (DR) plan with remote standby servers and
synchronous data replication. The customer wants to upgrade to 2 Gb HBAs in a server. What should
be done before shutting down the production server and upgrading the HBA?

  • A. Failover the storage and applications to the remote facility, shut down production servers and upgrade the HBA
  • B. Create a copy-on-write (COW) snapshot and present it to a local host, failover applications, shut down productions servers and upgrade the HBA, delete snapshot.
  • C. Creat a split mirror snaphot and present it to a local host, failover applications, shut down production servers and upgrade the HBA, reestablish the snapshot
  • D. Create a COW snapshot of the production volume and present it to a remote host, failover applications, shut down production servers and upgrade the HBA, delete snapshot
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Question 13

You are conducting an ILM assessment and just completd the consolidation and assignment phase.
What is your next steps?

  • A. Perform gap analysis
  • B. Develop detailed design
  • C. Collect data and requirements
  • D. Prepare actionable recommendations
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Question 14

After lab testing a solution, which two deliverables should be presented to the implementation
team? (choose two)

  • A. List of tested and approved versioning and code
  • B. Performance metric showing maximum performance
  • C. Complete TCO and ROI documentation for the solution
  • D. Tested procedures and process for failover and redundancy
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Question 15

A disaster recovery (DR) Plan includes synchronously replicating data between a production and
Remote site and implementing a to-member extended distance cluster. Company.com uses a
database application that can run in parallel mode. What should Company.com do?

  • A. Start the database in parallel mode so that it runs on both servers;failover the storage in a disaster
  • B. Start the database in parallel mode so that it runs on both servers;you do not need to failover anything.
  • C. Run the database in normal mode on the production cluster member and failover the application and storage in a disaster
  • D. Run the database in normal mode on each cluster member with each accessing local database files; you do need to failover anything.
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