What is a recommended guideline for merging two Fibre Channel fabrics?

A company with departmental Fibre Channel SANs has decided that they now want to merge them
into a large enterprise SAN to assist with resource allocation and improve resource utilization. What
two (2) configuration parameters should the administrator check before connecting the SANs to
minimize service disruption? (Choose two.)

Which conflict would cause fabric segmentation?

Which typical data characteristics would define archival data? (Choose two.)

Your customer has upgraded to faster tape technology and the backup is now taking longer. No
other changes have been made. What is a possible cause of the performance degradation?

What determines the principle switch in a Fibre Channel Fabric?

A HBA has failed in an application server that connects to a Fabric that uses WWPN zoning. Which
two (2) steps should be completed after replacing the HBA to bring the application server back online? (Choose two.)

A customer has a SAS-based storage environment with a SAS domain and some standalone servers,
each with multiple built-in SAS disks. The implementation includes direct routing, table routing and
subtractive routing. Which role does a fanout expander play in subtractive routing?

You are the system administrator of a medium-sized manufacturing company. The chief executive
officer (CEO) is concerned about business continuity in case of a disaster. He constituted a project
team to develop a business continuity and disaster recovery solution. The team is discussing
replication strategies. What two (2) dependencies need to be considered in time-to-create and
incremental re-establishment of a split mirror? (Choose two.)

What should the administrator verify before connecting a stand-alone populated switch to an
existing fabric?