Sample questions for the final exam

1. What are the differences between rdist and rsync?

2. Why is it important to have a backup center that is not close to your main facility?

3. What is the difference between native and hosted virtual machine monitors?

4. What are the benefits of using virtualization software?

5. Which four resources have much effect on performance?

6. Describe in detail the reasoning behind using a Full+Incremental Backup policy.

7. Explain the difference between emulation and para-virtualization along with an advantage and disadvantage for each.

1. Since a full backup uses so much more space than an incremental backup, why is it still prudent to do a full backup every few weeks?

2. What disasters do backups mitigate that would not be mitigated by redundancy (such as RAID)?

3. What is the main configuration file for apache?

4. When setting up your virtual machine, using a NAT configuration,to provide network services such as FTP, web server, SSH, etc. What is the most important step in ensuring that external connections can find your virtual machine?

5. Name the three different types (levels) of virtualization and give an example of each.

6. What does line "/share auto_share" in /etc/auto_master mean?

7. What are some advantages of Subversion over CVS?

8. What is NAT and how does it improve network security?

9. What are appropriate temperature and humidity levels for a data center and why?

10. List several steps that a SA can take to prevent themselves from being accountable for suspicious/questionable requests.

11. Name 3 natural disasters that could affect your data center and how you would try to plan for them.

12. Provide and describe 3 types of databases

13. Given the following dump sequence, which tapes are required for restoration? (The numbers represent the backup levels as in the lecture notes. Underline the proper tapes from the following list) 0 4 5 4 4 5 3 9 3