| 1: | What are the two major transport protocols used in network file systems? |
| A1: | Answer: NFS and CIFS |
| 2: | True or false: NFS was originally designed to run over UDP. |
| A2: | Answer: True |
| 3: | What kind of locking does NFS provide? |
| A3: | Answer: Advisory locking |
| 4: | True or false: CIFS is a published industry standard. |
| A4: | Answer: False |
| 5: | What is the benefit of a stateful protocol? |
| A5: | Answer: Processes interrupted by communications failures can be resynchronized. |
| 6: | Name one of the two primary applications for network file systems. |
| A6: | Answer: Centralized data management and data sharing |
| 7: | True or false: Name space virtualization resolves naming conflicts from different clients. |
| A7: | Answer: False. Name space virtualization allows different groupings of file system objects at client systems. |
| 8: | What is SAMBA used for? |
| A8: | Answer: SAMBA allows Linux systems to function as file servers for Windows clients. |
| 9: | What protocol was developed for backing up NAS? |
| A9: | Answer: NDMP |
| 10: | How does data management differ from storage management? |
| A10: | Answer: Data management works with data objects such as files and directories. Storage management tends to work with block storage and storage address spaces. |