| 1: | What are the three primary components of storage networking? |
| A1: | Answer: Storing, connecting, and filing |
| 2: | True or false: Buses guarantee the order of delivery. |
| A2: | Answer: True |
| 3: | Which of the following is not part of the storing component: volume management, virtualization, zoning, host bus adapters, or block I/O? |
| A3: | Answer: Zoning |
| 4: | True or false: Disk drives do not need a controller. |
| A4: | Answer: False |
| 5: | What is the difference between initiator and target controllers? |
| A5: | Answer: Initiators generate commands and send them to targets; targets respond to those commands. |
| 6: | What kinds of storage devices and subsystems create storage address spaces? |
| A6: | Answer: They all do. |
| 7: | What are the primary two things filing is responsible for? |
| A7: | Answer: Filing organizes where data is stored in a storage address space, and it presents that data to users and applications and it provides access control for files and directories. |
| 8: | Explain the different roles of file systems and operating systems. |
| A8: | Answer: Operating systems manage time (when processes run), and file systems manage space (where data is located). |
| 9: | What is the application difference between SAN and NAS? |
| A9: | Answer: SANis the application of storing in a network, and NASis the application of filing in a network. |
| 10: | True or false: Storing and filing have to use different networks. |
| A10: | Answer: False |