Hardware
Storage
Network Communications
Network Security
Troubleshooting
100
In this server form factor, all server components are housed within a single case.

What is a tower?

100

This type of storage is available locally to a server without using a network.

What is DAS storage?

100

These are the layers of the OSI model.

What is application, presentation, session, transport, network, and data link and physical?

100

This process proves the identity of a person.

What is authentication?

100

TPM firmware detects a boot configuration change.

What is POST failure?

200

This hardware increased the potential server density in a server room or data center.

What is rack-mounted equipment?

200

These are the types of disk interfaces (5).

What is SAS, SATA, SCSI, USB?

200

This communication layer is used without user knowledge or consent. 

What is the application layer?

200

This type of control was put into place to secure authentication and authorization to use network resources such as shared resources.

What is logical access control?

200

Throttling slows down the CPU as temperature increases, resulting in poor performance.

What is a processor failure?

300

This is a metal or plastic folding component that is attached to the back of rack-mounted equipment.

What is a cable management arm?

300

Most hard disk platters have either a 2.5 or 3.5 inch diameter.

What is the standard hard disk dimension?

300

This layeris involved whether a wired or wireless connection is used for connectivity.

What is the physical layer?

300

This database houses all user accounts.

What is the active directory domain?

300

RAID array drive failures can result in slow file I/O performance.

What is storage failure?

400

This small server form factor is a circuit board containing its own processors, memory and network capabilities, and in some cases, a small amount of storage, but no power supply or cooling mechanisms.

What is a Blade Server?

400

This enables storage consumption by hosts over a standard TCP/IP network.

What is iSCSI?

400

This layer is responsible for end-to-end data transmission.

What is the transport layer?

400

Windows server uses this most common permissions.

What is NTFS?

400

Memory buffer overrun due to unpatched software.

What is the blue screen of death?

500

This groups physical disks together as a logical unit to increase disk performance and/or to provide dis-level fault tolerance.

What is a RAID controller?

500

You use this form of measurement for future planning of storage.

What is base 2 or base 10?

500

This layer contains bridges and network interface cards.

What is the data link layer?

500

NTFS permissions can be applied to these types of server form factors.

What is a drive, folder, or file?

500

Runaway processes keep consuming resources.

What is a memory leak?

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