SRM VALLIAMMAI ENGINEERING COLLEGE

(An Autonomous Institution)

SRM Nagar, Kattankulathur – 603 203

DEPARTMENT OF CYBER SECURITY

QUESTION BANK

VIII SEMESTER
1908009 - Information Storage and Management
Regulation – 2019

Academic Year 2023 – 2024(Even Semester)

Prepared by

E.Rajkumar, Assistant Professor (O.G)/CYS

 1908009 - INFORMATION STORAGE AND MANAGEMENT
SEM/ YEAR :VIII SEMESTER / VII YEAR
UNIT – I : STORAGE SYSTEMS
Introduction to Information Storage and Management: Information Storage, Evolution of Storage Technology and
Architecture, Data Center Infrastructure, Key Challenges in Managing Information, Information Lifecycle. Storage
System Environment: Components of the Host. RAID: Implementation of RAID, RAID Array Components, RAID
Levels, RAID Comparison, RAID Impact on Disk Performance, Hot Spares.
UNIT–I [PART-A]
Q.No Question Competence Level
1. What is mean by Information? Remembering BTL1
2. What is mean by data? Remembering BTL1
3. List the types of data? Understanding BTL2
4. List the factors for growth of digital data? Understanding BTL2
5. What is mean by store devices? Understanding BTL2
6. How will you store the data give examples? Analyzing BTL4
7. Summarize about Data Center? Understanding BTL2
8. What are the core elements of data center? Understanding BTL2
9. Discover the Key characteristics of data center elements. Applying BTL3
10. How will you manage the storage infrastructure? Analyzing BTL4
11. Define ILM. Remembering BTL1
12. Analyze the characteristics of ILM. Analyzing BTL4
13. Discover the benefits of ILM Applying BTL3
14. What are the components of storage environment Understanding BTL2
15. What is mean by Information storage Understanding BTL2
16. Define Host. Remembering BTL1
17. What are the physical components of host? Understanding BTL2
18. Name the components of CPU Understanding BTL2
19. Differentiate between RAM and ROM Evaluate BTL3
20. What are the types of communication devices Remembering BTL1
21. How bits are transmitted through the bus? Analyzing BTL4
22. What is mean by bus? Applying BTL3
23. What are the disk drive components Remembering BTL1
24. Name some of the common File systems? Understanding BTL2
25. What is mean by RAID? Remembering BTL1
26. What are the different types of RAID? Remembering BTL1
UNIT–I[PART-B]
Q.No Question Marks Competence Level
1. - Explain in detail about Information storage 13 Understanding BTL2
2. - Discuss in detail about Evolution of Storage Technology and 13 Understanding BTL2
Architecture
3. - Illustrate about Key characteristics of data center elements 13 Applying BTL3
4. Analyze order processing system and explain core elements 13 Analyzing BTL4
of Data center with Example.
5. - Explain in detail about Host and its physical components 13 Understanding BTL2
6. A Analyze the Key management activities in Managing Storage 07 Analyzing BTL4
Infrastructure
B Explain about Key Challenges in Managing Information 06 Understanding BTL2
7. - Explain in detail about Information Lifecycle Management 13 Understanding BTL2
8. Summarize about ILM Implementation 13 Understanding BTL2
9. A Explain about Zoned Bit Recording 07 Remembering BTL1
B Discuss in detail about Logical Block Addressing 06 Remembering BTL1
10. - Illustrate about Connectivity and components of 13 Applying BTL3
connectivity
11. - Explain about Storage and its importance 13 Remembering BTL1
12 - Explain about structure of Physical structure 13 Understanding BTL2
13 - Discuss in detail about various factors that affect the 13 Understanding BTL2
performance of disk drives
14 - Summarize about Logical components of the Host 13 Understanding BTL2
15 - Explain about Various common file systems 13 Understanding BTL2
16 - Evaluate about RAID Array Components 13 Evaluate BTL5
17 Explain about RAID Impact on Disk Performance 13 Understanding BTL2
UNIT-I[PART-C]
1 Discuss in detail about Data Center Infrastructure 15 Understanding BTL2
2 Evaluate Information Lifecycle and implementation of ILM 15 Evaluating BTL5
3 Analyze Components of a Storage System Environment 15 Analyzing BTL4
4 Explain in detail about Disk Drive Components 15 Understanding BTL2
5 Analyze about RAID and explain about RAID Levels 15 Analyzing BTL4
 1908009 - INFORMATION STORAGE AND MANAGEMENT
SEM/ YEAR :VIII SEMESTER / VII YEAR
UNIT–II STORAGE NETWORKING TECHNOLOGIES
Direct–Attached Storage and Introduction to SCSI: Types of DAS, DAS Benefits and Limitations, Disk Drive
Interfaces, Introduction to Parallel SCSI, SCSI Command Model. Storage Area Networks: Fiber Channel, SAN
Evolution, SAN Components, Fiber Channel Connectivity, Fiber Channel Ports, Fiber Channel Architecture, Zoning,
Fiber Channel Login Types, Fiber Channel Topologies.
UNIT–II [PART-A]
Q.No Question Competence Level
1. What is mean by DAS? Remembering BTL1
2. List out Types of DAS Understanding BTL2
3. Differentiate between internal and external DAS ? Evaluating BTL5
4. What are the benefits of DAS? Remembering BTL1
5. Discuss the limitations of DAS Understanding BTL2
6. What is mean by IDE/ATA? Remembering BTL1
7. Discuss the uses of SATA Understanding BTL2
8. Compare IDE/ATA with SCSI. Evaluating BTL5
9. List the layers in SCSI Communication model? Understanding BTL2
10. Draw the CDB structure Evaluating BTL5
11. What is mean by operation code? Remembering BTL1
12. - Discuss about control field? Understanding BTL2
13. What is mean by Fibre Channel? Remembering BTL1
14. What is mean by SAN? Remembering BTL1
15. List the components of SAN. Understanding BTL2
16. What is mean by cabling? Understanding BTL2
17. What are the commonly used interconnected devices? Remembering BTL1
18. What is mean by point to point FC configuration? Remembering BTL1
19. Discuss the purpose of storage arrays? Remembering BTL1
20. Discuss the limitations of FC- AL configuration? Understanding BTL2
21. What are the uses of Fibre channel switced fabric? Remembering BTL1
22. List the fire Channel Ports. Understanding BTL2
23. List out some protocols in FC -4 upper layer Understanding BTL2
24. What is mean by zoning? Remembering BTL1
UNIT–II[PART-B]
Q.No Question Marks Competence Level
1. Explain about DAS and types of DAS? 13 Remembering BTL1
2. Analyze and Exaplain about various disk drive interfaces? 13 Analysing BTL4
3. - Discuss in detail about Evolution of SCSI 13 Understanding BTL2
4. Explain in detail aboutSCSI-3 client server architecture 13 Understanding BTL2
model
5. - Discuss about SCSI Communication model 13 Understanding BTL2
6. A Summarize about SCSI ports 07 Understanding BTL2
B Explain about Parallel SCSI addressing 06 Understanding BTL2
7. - Analyze about SAN and Explain about its evolution 13 Analysing BTL4
8. Describe about Fibre channel arbitrated Loop 13 Understanding BTL2
9. A Explain about Direct Attached Storage 07 Understanding BTL2
B Discuss in detail about nodes and interconnected devices in 06 Understanding BTL2
SAN
10. - Summarize about Fibre channel switched fabric in detail 13 Understanding BTL2
11. Explain about various Fibre channel ports 13 Understanding BTL2
12. - Analyze about Fibre channel protocol stack 13 Analyzing BTL4
13 - Discuss about Fibre channel addressing 13 Understanding BTL2
14 - Discuss in detail about FC Frame. 13 Understanding BTL2
15 - Summarize about FC flow control and classes of service 13 Understanding BTL2
16 - Explain in detail about Core - Edge Fabric 13 Remembering BTL1

17 - Explain about EMC Connectrix 13 Remembering BTL1

UNIT-II[PART-C]
1 Explain in detail about Direct Attached Storage 15 Understanding BTL2
2 Evaluate various SCSI -3 Architecture 15 Evaluating BTL5
3 Analyze about SCSI Command Model and Explain in Detail 15 Analyzing BTL4
4 Explain in detail about various components of SAN 15 Understanding BTL2
5 Explain in detail about FC topologies 15 Understanding BTL2
 1908009 - INFORMATION STORAGE AND MANAGEMENT
SEM/ YEAR :VIII SEMESTER / VII YEAR
UNIT–III ADVANCED STORAGE NETWORKING AND VIRTUALIZATION
IP SAN: iSCSI, FCIP. Content–Addressed Storage: Fixed Content and Archives, Types of Archives, Features and
Benefits of CAS, CAS Architecture, Object Storage and Retrieval in CAS, CAS Examples. Storage Virtualization:
Forms of Virtualization, NIA Storage Virtualization Taxonomy, Storage Virtualization Configurations, Storage
Virtualization Challenges, Types of Storage Virtualization.
UNIT–III [PART-A]
Q.No Question Competence Level
27. What is mean by IP SAN? Remembering BTL1
28. Define iSCSI. Remembering BTL1
29. List the components of iSCSI Understanding BTL2
30. What is mean by Bridged iSCSI Connectivity? Remembering BTL1
31. Expand iSCSI Discovery? Understanding BTL2
32. List the two types of iSCSI names? Understanding BTL2
33. How iSCSI Session can be initiated? Analyzing BTL4
34. Differentiate between Ordering and Numbering in iSCSI communication ? Evaluating BTL5
35. Discuss the use of iSCSI PDU? Understanding BTL2
36. List the levels of the error detection and recovery in iSCSI? Understanding BTL2
37. Discuss about FCIP? Understanding BTL2
38. Define CAS? Understanding BTL2
39. What are the examples of fixed content data? Remembering BTL1
40. List the types of Archives? Understanding BTL2
41. What are the Features and Benefits of CAS? Remembering BTL1
42. How CAS Architecture used ? Analyzing BTL4
43. What is mean by BLOBS ? Remembering BTL1
44. How Content address is created? Analyzing BTL4
45. List the steps involved in the process of data retrieval from CAS? Understanding BTL2
46. What are the Examples of CAS ? Remembering BTL1
47. What are the EMC Centera Models ? Remembering BTL1
48. List the Centera Tools? Understanding BTL2
49. Discuss the importance of EMC Centera Universal Access ? Understanding BTL2
50. What is mean by storage virtualization? Understanding BTL2
51. List the various forms of Virtualization? Understanding BTL2
UNIT–III[PART-B]
Q.No Question Marks Competence Level
12. - Discuss in detail about IP SAN and analyze the variety of 13 Understanding BTL2
situations where IP SAN technologies can be used.
13. Explain detail about iSCSI Protocol Stack 13 Understanding BTL2
14. - Discuss in detail about iSCSI Discovery 13 Understanding BTL2
15. How iSCSI Names used Explain in detail. 13 Analyzing BTL4
16. - Discuss in detail about iSCSI PDU 13 Understanding BTL2
17. A Summarize about Ordering and Numbering in iSCSI 07 Understanding BTL2
B Explain about iSCSI Error Handling and Security? 06 Understanding BTL2
18. - Explain about FCIP Topology 13 Understanding BTL2
19. Elaborate the Performance and security of FCIP 13 Understanding BTL2
20. A Discuss about the Features and Benefits of CAS 07 Understanding BTL2
B Explain the Types of Archives 06
Understanding BTL2
21. - Summarize about the process of Object Storage and Retrieval 13 Understanding BTL2
in CAS
22. - Describe about two CAS example with solutions 13 Understanding BTL2
23. Explain in detail about EMC Centera Tools and EMC Centera Understanding BTL2
Universal Access
13 - Discuss in detail about various Forms of virtualization 13 Understanding BTL2
14 - Evaluate various Storage Virtualization Challenges. 13 Evaluating BTL5
15 - Summarize about Block-Level Storage Virtualization 13 Understanding BTL2
16 - Explain about File-Level Virtualization 13 Understanding BTL2

17 - Explain about Server Virtualization 13 Understanding BTL2

UNIT-III[PART-C]
1 Explain in detail about iSCSI, components and topologies for 15 Understanding BTL2
iSCSI Connectivity
2 Analyze about Content-Addressed Storage and Explain the CAS 15 Analyzing BTL4
Architecture
3 Explain in detail about EMC Centera Architecture. 15 Understanding BTL2
4 Explain about Storage virtualization and Types of storage 15 Understanding BTL2
virtualization
5 Discuss in detail about SNIA Storage Virtualization Taxonomy? 15 Understanding BTL2
 1908009 - INFORMATION STORAGE AND MANAGEMENT
SEM/ YEAR :VIII SEMESTER / VII YEAR
UNIT–IV: BUSINESS CONTINUITY
Introduction to Business Continuity: Information Availability, BC Terminology, BC Planning Lifecycle, Failure
Analysis, Business Impact Analysis, BC Technology Solutions. Backup and Recovery: Backup Purpose,
Considerations, Granularity, Recovery Considerations, Backup Methods and Process.
UNIT–IV [PART-A]
Q.No Question Competence Level
52. What is mean by Information Availability? Remembering BTL1
53. What are the causes of Information Availability? Remembering BTL1
54. How Information availability can be measured? Analyzing BTL4
55. Differentiate between MTBF and MTTR? Evaluating BTL5
56. What is mean by RPO? Understanding BTL2
57. List the stages in BC planning life cycle? Understanding BTL2
58. What is mean by Recovery-Time Objective? Remembering BTL1
59. What is Single Point of Failure? Remembering BTL1
60. Define business impact analysis (BIA)? Remembering BTL1
61. Discuss the various set of tasks in BIA? Understanding BTL2
62. What are the various PowerPath features ? Remembering BTL1
63. List the various PowerPath load-balancing policies? Understanding BTL2
64. How PowerPath performs operations in the event of a path failure, ? Analyzing BTL4
65. What is mean by Backup and Recovery? Remembering BTL1
66. Why Backups are performed? Understanding BTL2
67. What is mean by Disaster Recovery Remembering BTL1
68. How Operational Backup is used? Understanding BTL2
69. What is mean by Backup Granularity? Remembering BTL1
70. List the various Backup Methods? Understanding BTL2
71. Discuss about Backup Process ? Understanding BTL2
72. What are the three basic Backup Topologies ? Remembering BTL1
73. What is mean by Serverless Backup? Remembering BTL1
74. What are the various Backup Technologies ? Remembering BTL1
75. Define Virtual Tape Library? Remembering BTL1
76. What is mean by Physical Tape Library? Remembering BTL1
UNIT–IV[PART-B]
Q.No Question Marks Competence Level
24. - How will you measure Information Availability ?explain in 13 Understanding BTL2
detail.
25. Analyze about BC Terminology and explain in detail 13 Analyzing BTL4
26. - Discuss in detail about Various Backup Methods. 13 Understanding BTL2
27. How Backup is processed explain with an architecture. 13 Understanding BTL2
28. - Explain about Data center infrastructure 13 Understanding BTL2
29. A Explain about Single point of failure 07 Understanding BTL2
B Discuss in detail about Fault Tolerance? 06 Understanding BTL2
30. - Discuss about the Business Impact Analysis and BC 13 Understanding BTL2
Technology Solutions
31. Analyze about I/O Operation with and without Powerpath 13 Analyzing BTL4
32. Explain about Automatic Path Failover 13 Understanding BTL2
33. - Summarize about purpose of Backup in detail 13 Understanding BTL2
34. Explain in detail about Backup Granularity 13 Understanding BTL2
35. - Discuss about Backup and Restore Operations in detail 13 Understanding BTL2
13 - Explain in detail about Backup in NAS Environments 13 Understanding BTL2
14 - Discuss in detail about Physical Tape Library. 13 Understanding BTL2
15 - Summarize about Virtual Tape Library 13 Understanding BTL2
16 - Explain about Direct-attached backup topology 13 Understanding BTL2
17 - Analyze about Mixed backup topology 13 Analyzing BTL4

UNIT-IV[PART-C]
1 Discuss in detail about Information availability, causes and 15 Understanding BTL2
Measuring Information availability
2 Explain in detail about BC Planning Lifecycle 15 Understanding BTL2
3 How will you analyze Failure of the system? Elaborate in detail 15 Analyzing BTL4
4 Explain about Dynamic Load Balancing in detail 15 Understanding BTL2
5 Explain in detail about Backup Topologies? 15 Understanding BTL2
 1908009 - INFORMATION STORAGE AND MANAGEMENT
SEM/ YEAR :VIII SEMESTER / VII YEAR
UNIT–V: REPLICATION
Local Replication: Source and Target, Uses of Local Replicas, Data Consistency, Local Replication Technologies,
Restore and Restart Considerations, Creating Multiple Replicas, Management Interface.
UNIT–V [PART-A]
Q.No Question Competence Level
77. What is mean by Replication? Remembering BTL1
78. Difference between source and target? Evaluating BTL5
79. List the uses of Local Replicas ? Understanding BTL2
80. Discuss about sync daemon. Understanding BTL2
81. What is mean by Data Consistency? Remembering BTL1
82. List the Local Replication Technologies ? Understanding BTL2
83. What are the uses of LVM-Based Replication? Remembering BTL1
84. Discuss the Limitations of LVM-Based Replication? Understanding BTL2
85. Define File System Snapshot ? Remembering BTL1
86. What is mean by Storage Array–Based Replication? Remembering BTL1
87. Define Full-Volume Mirroring. Remembering BTL1
88. Discuss about Pointer-Based Virtual Replication? Understanding BTL2
89. Compare the Local Replication Technologies ? Evaluating BTL5
90. What are the two types of Management interface? Remembering BTL1
91. How Multiple Replicas is created? Understanding BTL2
92. Define Data migration Remembering BTL1
93. Discuss Advantages of LVM-Based Replication? Understanding BTL2
94. What is mean by Pointer-Based Full-Volume Replication? Remembering BTL1
95. Differentiate between Restore and Restart Considerations? Evaluating BTL5
96. Discuss about TimeFinder / Clone ? Understanding BTL2
97. List the various TimeFinder/Mirror Operations ? Understanding BTL2
98. What is mean by Clone Operation? Remembering BTL1
99. What is an Business Continuance Volumes (BCVs)? Remembering BTL1
100. Discuss about Restoration of BCV pairs? Understanding BTL2
UNIT–V[PART-B]
Q.No Question Marks Competence Level
36. - Discuss in detail about Uses of Local Replicas 13 Understanding BTL2
37. Explain in detail about Consistency of a Replicated File 13 Understanding BTL2
System
38. - Discuss in detail about Consistency of a Replicated Database 13 Understanding BTL2
39. Explain about LVM-Based Replication 13 Understanding BTL2
40. - Explain about Full-Volume Mirroring 13 Understanding BTL2
41. A Discuss the advantages LVM-Based Replication 07 Understanding BTL2
B Discuss about Limitations of LVM-Based Replication 06 Understanding BTL2
42. - Explain about Pointer-Based Full-Volume Replication 13 Understanding BTL2
43. Analyze about Multiple Replicas in detail. 13 Analyzing BTL4
44. A Explain about restore considerations? 07 Understanding BTL2
B Discuss about restart considerations ? 06
Understanding BTL2
45. - Summarize about Pointer-Based Virtual Replication 13 Understanding BTL2
46. - How will you Track Changes to Source and Target? Explain in 13 Analyzing BTL4
detail
47. - How will you create Creating Multiple Replicas? Explain in 13 Analyzing BTL4
detail
48. - Discuss in detail about Management Interface 13 Understanding BTL2
49. - Elaborate the uses of Data consistency 13 Understanding BTL2
50. - Elaborate the working of Full-Volume Mirroring 13 Understanding BTL2
51. - Explain about the need of Local replication 13 Understanding BTL2
52. Elaborate the working of Consistency of a Replicated Database 13 Understanding BTL2
UNIT-V[PART-C]
1 Discuss in detail about Data Consistency 15 Understanding BTL2
2 Explain in detail about Host-Based Local Replication 15 Understanding BTL2
3 Analyze about Storage Array–Based Replication 15 Analyzing BTL4
4 Explain about Restore and Restart Considerations 15 Understanding BTL2
5 Explain in detail about Local Replication? 15 Understanding BTL2