WebQuest Project - Questions to Answer 1. The acronym HIT stands for Health Information Technology. 2.

What are the 12 functional areas in a nursing home that may benefit from computer information storage? 1. Systematic Storage of Information 2. Computerized Presenations 3. Simulations 4. Gives you a Wider horizon of Research 5. Computerized Self-Evaluation 6. Interactive Learning 7. Stock of Medicines 8. Clinical Records 9. Follow-ups 10. Organized Information 11. Instantly Accessible 12. Diagnostics on patients conditions. 3. What are at least five reasons why long term care providers have not adopted computer/networking solutions? 1. Hard to switch from paper to computer 2. Training is costly 3. Expensive deployment 4. Need more employees 5. Hard to merge data 4. What are five barriers to HIT adoption? Lack of time to acquire 1. Knowledge about systems 2. Physician skepticism 3. Lack of computer skills 4. Financial costs. 5. What is SAS? (75 of your words minimum) SAS is driven by SAS programs, which define a sequence of operations to be performed on data stored as tables. Although non-programmer graphical user interfaces to SAS exist (such as the SAS Enterprise Guide), these GUIs are most often merely a front-end that automates or facilitates the generation of SAS programs. The functionalities of SAS components are intended to be accessed via application programming interfaces, in the form of statements and procedures.

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What is the minimum number of NIC's required for a file server connected to a SAN? Each device requires a NIC.

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Which OS's are suitable for managing NAS? Most operating Systems are compatible besides MAC.

8. Explain NAS, how it works and give examples of 2 products. Include NOS's and management software in your answer. ( 75 of your wordsminimum) A network-attached storage (NAS) drive is a dedicated storage device that uses its own operating system and software to provide centralized storage and file sharing over a computer network. The two application protocols most commonly associated with NAS are Sun Network File System (NFS) and Common Internet File System (CIFS). Both NFS and CIFS operate in client/server fashion

9. Explain the operation of RAID 0, 1, 5, 10, 0+1. (75 of your words minimum) 11 Raid 0: It is the Stripped Disk Array with no fault tolerance and it requires at least 2 drives to be implemented. Due to no redundancy feature, RAID 0 is considered to be the lowest ranked RAID level. Raid 1: It is the Mirroring (Shadowing) Array meant to provide high performance. RAID 1 controller is able to perform 2 separate parallel reads or writes per mirrored pair. It also requires at least 2 drives to implement a non-redundant disk array. Raid 5: RAIDS 5 is Independent Distributed parity block of data disks with a minimum requirement of at least 3 drives to be implemented and N-1 array capacity. Raid 10: RAID 10 is classified as the futuristic RAID controller with extremely high Reliability and performance embedded in a single RAID controller. The minimum requirement to form a RAID level 10 controller is 4 data disks. The implementation of RAID 10 is based on a striped array of RAID 1 array segments, with almost the same fault tolerance level as RAID 1. RAID 10 controllers and arrays are suitable for uncompromising availability and extremely high throughput required systems and environment. Raid 0+1: It is the RAID array providing high data transference performance with at least 4 disks needed to implement the RAID 0+1 level. It's a unique combination of stripping and mirroring with all the best features of RAID 0 and RAID 1 included such as fast data access and fault tolerance at single drive level.

10. What are the two main protocols used to access data across a network? Torrent or VPN. 11. What are the 8 elements of a FAN? 12 Storage Devices File serving devices Namespaces File optimization Servcies File security and DRM services File management services End Clients. 12. iSCSI is a: a. Type of disk storage b. Type of interface card c. Protocol d. Raid configuration 13. Define, explain and give examples of DAS and the interfaces used. (75 of your words minimum) Direct-attached storage (DAS) is computer storage that is directly attached to one computer or server and is not, without special support, directly accessible to other ones. The main alternatives to direct-attached storage are network-attached storage (NAS) and the storage area network (SAN). 14. Explain the purpose of a storage sever and the typical hardware and software components. (75 of your words minimum) It is simply devoted to file sharing. It stores data that uses a method to which it can be made available to clients on the network. It does not have the ability to provide any of the activities that a server in server -centric system often provides like e-mail, authentication or file management tasks. 15. What type of switch is used with an iSCSI SAN? Ports with Gigabit are required. 16. Explain the difference between data block transfers and file transfers. (25 of your words minimum) Block level storage presents itself to servers using industry standard Fibre Channel and iSCSI connectivity mechanisms. ile level storage is usually accessible using common file level protocols such as SMB/CIFS (Windows) and NFS (Linux, VMware). In the block level world, you need to create a volume, deploy an OS, and then attach to the created volume; in the file level world, the storage device handles the files and folders on the device. 17. What is the maximum distance for a Fibre Channel SAN? 10 KM is the max distance for single mode fiber. 18. Which storage technology, SAN or NAS, uses data block transfers? NAS

19. Which network protocol (fibre channel or iSCSI) is faster at transferring data across the network? FIBER CHANNEL 20. What is eSATA? (25 of your words minimum) External Serial Advanced Technology Attachment is an external interface for SATA technologies. It competes with FireWire 400 and universal serial bus (USB) 2.0 to provide fast data transfer speeds for external storage devices. 21. What is the fastest transfer rate for SATA? 157 MB/S 22. What is a driving force behind companies and corporations looking to outsource their data storage requirements? 23. What is the anticipated data transfer rate for FC and the network speed in 2009? 10GB/S 24. What is meant by the statement that iSCSI is a disruptive technology? iSCSI SAN technology is poised to disrupt the current hardware hierarchy by offering cheaper more flexible solutions to data storage. 25. What type of switches are required for a SAN using fibre channel? SAN-switch Qlogic with optical Fibre Channel connectors 26. What are two popular SAN-based storage types? 14

27. Native fibre channel technology provides extended distance connectivity of up to __10_____ km. 28. What are three key availability benefits of SAN? ATA Over Ethernet Fiber Channel Protocol Fibre Channel Protocol 29. The advantage of SAN over NAS is: SAN is just a block device. You need a file system to manage data on it. NAS comes with a file system on the server side. Unlike SAN, NAS can be accessed simultaneously out of the box. 30. What is the highest storage capacity of AIT-3 with compression? 260 GB 31. Explain the process in assigning LUNs to an iSCSI subsystem and assigning LUNs for a Fibre Channel subsystem, To assign a LUN 1. 2. 3. 4. In the console tree, click LUN Management. In the Results pane, select the LUN you want to assign. In the Actions pane, click Assign LUN. Follow the steps in the Assign LUN Wizard pages.

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