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Choose the best response for each question.
In a converged Storage Spaces Direct deployment, how do separate compute hosts access the storage cluster's data?
Through Scale-Out File Server SMB 3 shares hosted by the storage cluster.
Through direct access to the storage pool from each separate compute host.
Through a shared SAN that exposes the same capacity drives to both clusters.
You need a two-node Storage Spaces Direct cluster to retain local data redundancy on the surviving node after the other node fails. Which layout meets this requirement?
Two-way mirror.
Three-way mirror.
Nested two-way mirror.
Cluster validation identifies an unsupported storage controller before you enable Storage Spaces Direct. What should you do next?
Continue if every intended capacity drive reports CanPool as True.
CanPool
True
Resolve the supportability failure and rerun validation before continuing.
Enable the storage pool and use a Healthy status instead of the validation report.
Healthy
The failover cluster and quorum witness are configured, and validation passes. Which cmdlet enables Storage Spaces Direct and creates its cluster storage pool?
Test-Cluster
New-Volume
Enable-ClusterStorageSpacesDirect
You need a mirror-accelerated parity volume in the module's four-node HDD-capacity scenario. How should you select storage tier templates?
Select templates by their friendly names without examining their media type or resiliency settings.
Use Get-StorageTier to select mirror and parity templates with the required media type and redundancy.
Get-StorageTier
Select two mirror templates and use one as the capacity tier for the mirror-accelerated parity volume.
A failed drive is replaced, and Storage Spaces Direct starts repairing redundancy. Which information best shows whether the repair is progressing?
Storage job state, completion percentage, and processed-byte counters.
CSV owner-node assignments and the number of clustered virtual machines.
Provisioned volume sizes and the configured file-system labels.
You're following the module's rolling maintenance workflow. Storage repair is still running after the serviced node resumes. What should you do before servicing the next node?
Continue as soon as the serviced node reports Up, regardless of the storage job state.
Up
Continue once clustered workloads have moved, even if storage repair is still active.
Wait for repair and resynchronization to finish, then verify that the virtual disks are healthy.
Storage latency and CPU usage rise after a network change. You suspect that SMB Direct isn't being used. Which pair of commands best investigates that storage-network hypothesis?
Get-VirtualDisk and Get-Volume
Get-VirtualDisk
Get-Volume
Get-SmbMultichannelConnection and Get-NetAdapterRdma
Get-SmbMultichannelConnection
Get-NetAdapterRdma
Get-StoragePool and Get-StorageTier
Get-StoragePool
Which recovery requirement makes independent backups necessary even when Storage Spaces Direct uses mirroring?
Recovering earlier data after accidental deletion or ransomware changes.
Rebuilding redundant data after replacing a failed capacity drive.
Allowing virtual machines on different nodes to use common CSV paths.
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