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) cables 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 celleither 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