4. Storage

Block Storage — Quiz

Test your understanding of block storage with 5 practice questions.

Practice Questions

Question 1

In a provisioned IOPS block storage service, what performance characteristic is guaranteed to the user?

Question 2

Which network storage protocol provides block-level access over TCP/IP and is commonly used by cloud block storage services?

Question 3

A write-intensive application issues 1500 write IOPS on a RAID 6 array. If the RAID 6 write penalty is 6 I/O operations per logical write, what is the total disk I/O operations per second generated?

Question 4

Which RAID level combines striping across multiple RAID 5 sets to balance performance and fault tolerance?

Question 5

Restoring a volume from snapshots takes 40 seconds for the full snapshot and 8 seconds for each incremental snapshot. For a chain of 5 incremental snapshots, what is the total restore time?