Friday, May 9, 2014

INFORMATION STORAGE MANAGEMENT AND DISASTER RECOVERY (ISMDR) MAY 2012 INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY SEMESTER 8

INFORMATION STORAGE MANAGEMENT AND DISASTER RECOVERY (ISMDR) MAY 2012 INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY SEMESTER 8


Con. 3632-12.                                    (REVISED COURSE)                            GN-7448

                                                                    (3 Hours)                                [Total Marks : 100]

N.B.: (1) Question No.1 is compulsory.
         (2) Solve any four questions from remaining six questions.
         (3) Assume suitable data wherever necessary.

1. (a) The average I/O size of an application is 64 KB. The following specifications are available
          from the disk manufacturer: average seek time = 5 ms, 7,200 rpm, transfer rate =
         40 MB/s. Determine the maximum IOPS that could be performed with the disk for
         this application.Taking this case as an example, explain the relationship between disk
         utilization and IOPS. [10 Marks]
     (b) What are the component of NAS? Explain NAS Implementations. [10 Marks] 

2. (a) Explain disk drive component with neat diagram. [10 Marks]
    (b) Explain SNIA storage virtualization taxonomy with its configuration
         implementations. [10 Marks]

3. (a)Explain Object Storage and Retrievals in CAS. [10 Marks]
    (b) Explain storage security domains with reference to threats, availability, controls
         and examples. [10 Marks]

4. (a) Explain the parameters and components for monitoring the storage infrastructure with
         monitoring examples. [10 Marks]
    (b) Explain remote replication technologies with neat diagrams. [10 Marks]

5. (a) Explain business continuity terminologies. [10 Marks]
    (b) Explain RAID levels in detail with neat diagram. [10 Marks]

6. (a) Explain various fibre channel ports with neat diagram. [10 Marks]
    (b) Explain the architecture of intelligent storage system in detail. [10 Marks]

7. Write short notes on the following(any 4): - [20 Marks]
     (a) Backup Granularity
     (b) Zoning
     (c) Topologies for iSCSI connectivity
     (d) Storage management activities
     (e) Uses of Local Replicas

Also see Information storage management and disaster recovery question papers for December 2012       

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