Chapter 8 — Answers

1. True
2. Storage Area Network (SAN):
3.  
   1. Direct-Attached Storage (DAS)
   2. Network-Attached Storage (NAS)
4. False
5. Disk controller:
6.  
   1. Small Computer System Interface (SCSI)
   2. Fiber Channel (FC)
7. True
8. High Availability (HA):
9.  
   1. RAID 1
   2. RAID 5
10. True
11. Advanced Technology Attachment (ATA), also known as Integrated Drive Electronics (IDE):
12.  
    1. CD-ROM
    2. DVD-RAM
13. The idea behind the concept of data deduplication (dedup) is to provide disk space savings.
14. Storage Spaces Direct (S2D) is a new Microsoft feature in Windows Server 2016 that enables you to group disks into storage pools, thus creating software-defined storage called storage spaces.
15. Distributed File Systems (DFS) enable the sharing of data from your server in an authorized and controlled way.