Cristo Munzenga

1. Which paradigm enables the IT department to function as a utility to the business?

a) IT-as-a-Service
b) Cloud Services
c) Software-defined
d) Virtualization

2. Match the technologies with their respective description

Technology Description
A: Proper implementation requires
5G (1) understanding its components and their
communications across various standards.
B: Intelligent machines enable real-time
Big Data (2) processing of data from cloud computing and
big data.
C: Creates an ecosystem for technical and
IoT (3) business innovation that transforms markets
like automobiles and smart cities.
D: Analysts apply statistical and machine
AI/ML (4) learning techniques to deliver predictive
analytics.

3. Which statement is NOT correct about Do-It-Yourself Approach? [Dual Choice]

a) Greenfield enables a business to migrate infrastructure to a different technology or
vendor
b) Greenfield provides better cost benefit than Brownfield
c) A converged software is used to manage the different components
d) Organizations can switch vendors if performance or service levels are insufficient

4. Which ISS feature refers to the capability it has of scaling-up and out and use data
reduction?
a) Intelligence
b) Efficiency
c) High Performance
d) Data Protection

5. General-purpose servers present incompatibility when sharing files with clients that are
virtual machines, this is one reason for their replacement over NAS systems.
a) True
b) False

6. Which one is a unique number that is provided to each switch in the fabric?
a) Interface ID
b) Port ID
c) Domain ID
d) Area ID

7. Mr. Denis is an IT administrator at “FutureNearYou Inc.” and is struggleling about many

unnecessary I/O operations to the organization storage system from different IT
department, so he needs to isolate the storage pools for multiple IT services. Which
solution should he use? [Use Case]
a) Link Aggregation
b) Block-based Storage System
 c) NVMe
d) VSAN

8. What is the Mass Storage partition of SSD used for?

a) Store SSD’s operational system
b) Store the controller data
c) Store structured and unstructured data
d) Perform I/O operations

Cláudio Rufino

1 - One of the Key Features of OSD Storage Systems is data protection. What techniques
does it use to protect data? [Multiple choice]
a) Replication
b) Dynamic Disk Sparing
c) Cache Protection - Mirroring
d) Erasure Coding
2 - Which of the following represents IaaS? [Multiple choice]
a) S3
b) Microsoft Azure SQL
c) Google Compute Engine
d) AWS Elastic Beanstalk
3 - Applications access data in the form of blocks. A file has metadata so an application or
user can correctly access and use the raw, block file data. Metadata adds other important
information that is associated with the file datatype. (True or False)
a) True
b) False
4 - When we say that Amazon S3 is a REST service, what does that imply?
a) S3 communicates via WebSocket to perform standard operations.
b) Commands such as GET, POST, PUT, and DELETE are used in a client/server model to
access, modify, transfer, and store data.
c) REST APIs communicate via FTP to perform standard operations such as file access, and
read or write commands and transfer requests.
d) It does not use a REST API.
5 - What are the encoding methods used in the F1 layer? [Multiple choice]
a) Frame synchronization
b) Bit by bit
c) 8b/10b
d) 64b/66b
6 - In what range can the size of an FC frame vary in bytes?
a) [1; 2112[
b) [0; 2112]
c) [0; 2148]
d) [36; 2148]
7 - What is one of the main advantages of using port zoning?
 a) Flexibility
b) Availability
c) Security
d) Collaboration
8 - In Software-Defined Data Center Architecture, which planes represent the following
items: CLI, GUI, API?
a) Service Plane
b) Management Plane
c) Control Plane
d) Data Plane

Cambamba Paciência

1. In the Do-It-Yourself (DIY) approach, which two advantages can organizations

gain by integrating best-in-class infrastructure components? [Multiple Choice]
a) Enhanced vendor lock-in
b) Increased configuration options
c) Standardized vendor solutions
d) Ability to select vendors of choice

2. Match the following concepts related to Software-Defined Data Center with their
respective outcomes or benefits: [Drug in Drop]
Item Description
A: Ensures continuous operation despite
1. Resource Pooling
failures.
B: Allows rapid adjustment of resources
2. Fault Tolerance
based on demand.
C: Consolidates resources for
3. Policy-Based Management
Improved efficiency and utilization.
D: Centralizes control for consistent policy
4. Dynamic Scaling
application.

3. What is a benefit of link aggregation?

a) Improves ISL utilization by increasing the network traffic on a specific ISL.
b) Optimizes fabric performance by distributing network traffic across ISLs.
c) Yields a higher throughput by combining two parallel ISLs into a single physical ISL.
d) Saves bandwidth by restricting traffic to a specific potentially congested ISL.

4. Wich technology decouples the OS, applications, and users state from a physical
compute system?
a) Application Virtualization
b) Thin Client Virtualization
c) Storage Virtualization
d) Desktop Virtualization

5. What does an area ID represents in Fibre Channel (FC) addressing?

a) Group of switch ports
 b) Switch within a group
c) Port with a group
d) Group of switches

6. Which Storage Tiering process scans primary storage to identify data that matches
predefined policies before transferring it to secondary storage or cloud?
a) Cache Tiering
b) Tiering Within a Storage System
c) Tiering Between Storage Systems
d) Policy-Based Storage Tiering

7. Which FC SAN zoning type is determined by the physical switch port to which the node
is connected?
a) WWN zoning
b) WWN zoning and Port zoning
c) Mixed zoning
d) Port zoning

8. What is an attribute of an OSD gateway?

a) Presents file and block-based storage interfaces to applications.
b) Presents iSCSI and Fibre Channel-based storage interfaces to applications.
c) Presents HTTP and XML storage interfaces to applications.
d) Presents REST and SOAP-based storage interfaces to applications.

Francisco Vunge

1-identify the cloud use case in which a company use a public cloud to scale its network and resources to
manege ands handle peack seasanal traffic?
A) Flexivel scaling
B) Flexibility of access
C) Cloud busrting
D) Infrastruture as a service(Iaas)
2-drup in drop. Match the column A with the column B
Column A Column B
1-service plane A-perform the data processing and I/O
operations
2-management plane B-provide the programming logic and police that
the data plane follow
3-control plane C- allow the user to autonoumosly request service
from the catalog
4-data plane D- perform administrative operations and
changing the policies

3-which of the following describe acurrately sub-Lun tiering?(multiple choice)

A) Move inactive data from tier0 to tier1
B) Move entire active data Lun from tier1 to tier0
C) A Lun is broken into smaller segments and tiered at that level
D) Move inactive data to tier0
4-Block disk device store row data and metadata. (True or false)
A) True
B) False
5-Write the data In the cache of both controllers must be written to the disk. However writing to disk can
be done later. What cache write I/O operation is this?
A) Read miss
B) Write-back operation
C) Read hit
D) Write-through operation

6- Mr Sabino has a company. Unfortunately the storage capacity of his NAS system is becoming more
and more insufficient. He want to connect two new nodes to old node. Which of the followings switch
should Mr. Sabino use in order to connect nodes with each other?(use case)
A) Multiprotocol switch
B) Ethernet swich
C) FC swich
D) Infiniband Swich

7-what is true about metadata service.(select all that apply)

A) Is responsible for generating the ID from the content of the file
B) Mapping file system namespace
C) Mapping the object ID
D) Manegind a set of disk on which the user data is stored
8- A company created a logical private path between node ports using the name of FC HBA ports and its
target. Which of the followings zoning has the company created?
A) Port zoning
B) WWN zoning
C) Fabric zoning
D) Mixed zoning

Baracho Matondo José Artur

1. What is the key difference between Middlware and Gateway ?

a) a)Gateway provides de connectivity inside IOT network, while Middleare manages the traffic
b) b)Gateway provides the communication with an external network while Middleware provides the
communication with both(external and internal)
c) Middleware ensure the connectivity in a IOT network while gateway manges the all the traffic
d) Middleware enhances performance by providing greater throughput, lower latency, ultra-high
reliability and Gateway Automate many network behaviors.

2. Comparing the SDDC to a restaurant, what would this technology look like on the menu?
 a) Management Plane
b) Serive Plane
c) Data Plane
d) Virtual Infractrusture

3. 500 M new enterprise applications will be delivered using cloud native approaches by 2025 ?
a) TRUE
b) FALSE

4. Is a collection of IT resources that includes both hardware and software. You can deploy these
resources either in a single data center, or across multiple geographically dispersed data centers that are
connected over a network. Which technology Happen this?
a) Edge Computing
b) Cloud Computing
c) Virtual Machine
d) Container

5. Performs the Content processing and I/O operations. What techonology is this?
a) Virtualization
b) SDDC
c) Data Plane
d) Control plane

6. Among other services, He can perform the function of a networked file server, and file system. The
service offers tiered data storage, including long-term archive storage. Which protocol is this?
a) CFIS/SMB
b) Amazon S3
c) NFS
d) HDFS
7. Estabeleça a relação entre os itens e as suas respetivas descrições. [Drug in Drop]
Item Descrição
A: Stores the VM’s configuration data,
including VM name, location, BIOS
information, guest OS type, number of CPUs,
1.Log File
memory size, number of adapters and
associated MAC addresses, and SCSI
controller type..
B: Stores the content of a VM’s disk drive. A
VM can have multiple virtual disk files, each
1. Configuration File
of which appears as a separate disk drive to
the VM
C: Stores the memory contents of a VM and is
2. State File used to resume a VM that is in a suspended
state.
D: Used to keep a record of the VM’s activity
3. Virtual Disk File
and is often used for troubleshooting
 purposes

8. Mr Baracho is enjoying his new company IT Infracstruture. They have created a SAN what have a
high performance. But Mr Baracho notes that their storage capacity is finishing, so he want to buy a
power max and connect them to a compute systems. The Power Store is in Luanda and Mr Baracho Want
to connect to the Power Max what is in Cabinda, what is the best and key Choice?
a) MM Fiber
b) FC Channel
c) SM Fiber
d) FCIP

Sabino Solias

1-Which port is known as a expasion port?

A-Extension P.
B-E
C-FC HBA.
D-A

2-Select not corrects about FC SAN devices Ports(Multiple choice).

A-A generic port on a switch can operate as E_Port or an F_Port.
B-Two storage systems can be connected using F_Ports.
C- N_Port is also known as Node Port.
D-N_Port may be a compute system Port that is connected to a switch in a switched fabric.

3-What are some variants of a private cloud(Multiple choice).

A-Private.
B-Externally hosted.
C-Hybrid.
D-On-premise.

4 -This technique is based on identifying the specific data to relocate to the appropriate
storage type to meet service level requirements at a minimal cost.
A-Thin provisioning.
B-Thick Provisioning.
C-Storage tiering.
D-RAID.

5-How do enterprise NAS systems connect to external high performance block-based storage
system(Multiple choice)?
A-NVMe
B-SCSI
C-iSCSI
D-FC SAN

6-Select not corrects about block-level storage virtualization(Multiple choice):

A-Virtual volumes from a storage pool are assigned to a storage system.
B-The compute systems access the virtual volume as if they were accessing the physical storage
attached to them.
C-Rarely the virtualization layer is managed via a dedicated virtualization appliance to which
the compute systems and storage system are connected.
D-Virtualization layer maps virtual volumes to LUNs.

7-Select corrects about File-based storage systems (Multiple choice).

A-File-based storage systems are general purpose-built.
B-A file-based storage system enables Linux, Unix and window users to share data more
efficiently.
C-A specialized operating system optimized for file serving is intalled on the storage.
D-The controller is responsible for configuration of RAID set, create LUNs, installing file system
and exporting the file share on the network.

8-About the components of block-based storage system, select corrects(Multiple choice):

A-A disk array are only accessible by the storage system system controllers.
B-Higher storage capacity, scaling and I/O performance are achieved by adding DAEs.
C-The disk array only contains SSDs and never HDDs.
D-Back-end ports are connected to the shelves of physical disk and devices in each DAE through
link controll cards.

Benedito Tiago
1. Provides additional security, and protects the OS from potential corruptions and problems
that may arise due to changes to the file system and registry. ( Single Choice )
a) Simplified application deployment and management
 b) Eliminate OS modifications
c) Store Controler
d) Simplified OS image management

2. Used to keep a record of the VM’s activity and is often used for troubleshooting purposes (
Single Choice )
a) Configuration File
b) Store Controler File
c) Virtual Disk File
d) Log File
3. There are two variants of private cloud: on-premise and externally hosted
a) True
b) False

4. Each I/O request must wait for the completion of the I/O requests that preceded it. ( Single
Choice )
a) NVMe
b) SCM
c) SSD
d) HDD

5. A LUN is broken down into smaller segments and tiered at that level. Provides effective cost
and performance benefits.
a) Thick LUN
b) Thin LUN
c) Sub-LUN
d) Under-LUN

6. Estabeleça a relação entre os itens e as suas respetivas descrições. [Drug in Drop]

Item Descrição
A: Assigning storage resources to compute
Thin LUNs 1 systems based on capacity, availability, and
performance requirements.
B: After identifying the data, the pointers are
Cache Tiering 2 created, and the data is moved to the destination
storage tier..
C: Enables creation of a large capacity
Storage provisioning 3
secondary cache using SSD.
D: Do not require all the physical storage to be
Storage Tiering 4 allocated to them at the time they are created
and presented to a compute system.

7. Storage tiering, eliminates the need of hard disk drives e Improves the performance of
hard disk drives.
a) True
b) False