PROLIANT SERVER FOUNDATION TEST
2026 TEST BANK UPDATED QUESTIONS
AND ANSWERS COMPLETE SOLUTION
RESOURCE GRADED A+
⩥ DAS advantages. Answer: Low cost
Simple setup
⩥ DAS disadvantages. Answer: Does not scale well
Potential single point of failure
Difficult to manage for larger enviroments
⩥ NAS Advantages. Answer: efficient file storage and management
Added to existing LAN and can coexist with SANs
⩥ NAS Disadvantages. Answer: No block storage
Does not scale well
Relies on TCP/IP
⩥ SAN Advantages. Answer: Best performance compared to NAS and
DAS
Fault tolerant
,Highly scalable
Centralized Management
Uses separate network from LAN
Shared access to storage pools, backup, restore, and DR services
⩥ SAN disadvantages. Answer: High CAPEX
More complex to deploy than DAS and NAS
⩥ Cloud storage advantages. Answer: Can access data from anywhere
and any device with an internet connection.
Convenient file sharing and scalability.
⩥ Cloud storage disadvantages. Answer: internet connection is required
to access files
potential security concerns relating to data privacy
can get expensive as storage needs scale up.
⩥ Storage Resource Manager (SRM). Answer: Tool used by datacenter
managers for storage capacity planning
⩥ Hard drive types. Answer: SATA (SATA 3 top speed of 6Gbs)
SAS ( SAS-4 Top speed 22.5 Gbps and SAS is compatible with SATA
interface)
, SSD (Faster than SAS and SATA, uses non volatile flash storage instead
of mechanical drives)
NVME (Also uses non volatile flash storage)
E3 ( Enterprise and DataCenter Small Form Factor. new SSD design for
PCIe storage drives. fastest SSD as it uses PCIe Gen5)
⩥ BOSS. Answer: Boot optimized storage solution. Raid solution used
to boot the server's OS. It uses one or two M.2 NVMe drives for fast
initialization and auto rebuild.
⩥ NVDIMM. Answer: Non-volatile Dual In-Line Memory Module
retains information during service outages. It uses a battery to preserve
power during an outage.
⩥ Intel Optane persistent memory. Answer: SSD that has faster storage
performance than NVMe SSDs because of its massive memory capacity
enabling more data to pass through the memory bus
⩥ Intel Optane Persistent Memory module. Answer: Intel optane
memory used as a DIMM to vastly increase performance compared to
standard DIMMs
⩥ Backplane. Answer: Communication board that connects multiple
hard drives to a single controller
2026 TEST BANK UPDATED QUESTIONS
AND ANSWERS COMPLETE SOLUTION
RESOURCE GRADED A+
⩥ DAS advantages. Answer: Low cost
Simple setup
⩥ DAS disadvantages. Answer: Does not scale well
Potential single point of failure
Difficult to manage for larger enviroments
⩥ NAS Advantages. Answer: efficient file storage and management
Added to existing LAN and can coexist with SANs
⩥ NAS Disadvantages. Answer: No block storage
Does not scale well
Relies on TCP/IP
⩥ SAN Advantages. Answer: Best performance compared to NAS and
DAS
Fault tolerant
,Highly scalable
Centralized Management
Uses separate network from LAN
Shared access to storage pools, backup, restore, and DR services
⩥ SAN disadvantages. Answer: High CAPEX
More complex to deploy than DAS and NAS
⩥ Cloud storage advantages. Answer: Can access data from anywhere
and any device with an internet connection.
Convenient file sharing and scalability.
⩥ Cloud storage disadvantages. Answer: internet connection is required
to access files
potential security concerns relating to data privacy
can get expensive as storage needs scale up.
⩥ Storage Resource Manager (SRM). Answer: Tool used by datacenter
managers for storage capacity planning
⩥ Hard drive types. Answer: SATA (SATA 3 top speed of 6Gbs)
SAS ( SAS-4 Top speed 22.5 Gbps and SAS is compatible with SATA
interface)
, SSD (Faster than SAS and SATA, uses non volatile flash storage instead
of mechanical drives)
NVME (Also uses non volatile flash storage)
E3 ( Enterprise and DataCenter Small Form Factor. new SSD design for
PCIe storage drives. fastest SSD as it uses PCIe Gen5)
⩥ BOSS. Answer: Boot optimized storage solution. Raid solution used
to boot the server's OS. It uses one or two M.2 NVMe drives for fast
initialization and auto rebuild.
⩥ NVDIMM. Answer: Non-volatile Dual In-Line Memory Module
retains information during service outages. It uses a battery to preserve
power during an outage.
⩥ Intel Optane persistent memory. Answer: SSD that has faster storage
performance than NVMe SSDs because of its massive memory capacity
enabling more data to pass through the memory bus
⩥ Intel Optane Persistent Memory module. Answer: Intel optane
memory used as a DIMM to vastly increase performance compared to
standard DIMMs
⩥ Backplane. Answer: Communication board that connects multiple
hard drives to a single controller
