Appendix C. Answers to Review Questions
Chapter 1
1. What company invented the modern hard disk drive?
Answer: IBM.
2. Who published the SMI-S?
Answer: The SNIA.
3. List two competitive advantages enabled by storage networks.
Answer: Any two of the following are correct: increased throughput, improved flexibility, higher scalability, LAN-free backups, server-free backups, advanced volume management.
4. What is an IP-SAN?
Answer: An IP network designed specifically to transport only iSCSI traffic.
5. What block-level storage protocol is commonly used in desktop and laptop PCs?
Answer: ATA.
6. What is the latest version of the SCSI protocol?
Answer: SCSI-3.
7. What is the term for an adapter that processes TCP packets on behalf of the host CPU? ...
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