NFS, CIFS, SMB Protocol Interview Questions & Answers

This set of SAN questions and answers helps anyone preparing for SNIA & CompTIA Storage+ certification exams. One should practice our complete set of questions and answers continuously for 2-3 months for thorough understanding of SAN Fundamentals and various exams and interviews.

1. Which command is used to view NFS shared directories?
a) share
b) shareall
c) sharetab
d) dfshares
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2. Which file would you edit to mount an NFS filesystem at system boot time?
a) /etc/fstab
b) /etc/dfs/dfstab
c) /etc/vfstab
d) /etc/nfstab
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3. Which command would mount the directory utilities from the server named sanfoundry on the local mount point /opt/sf
a) mount -f nfs /sf:sanfoundry /opt/sf
b) mount -F nfs sanfoundry:/sf /opt/sf
c) mount -F nfs sanfoundry:/opt/sf /sf
d) mount /opt/sf sanfoundry:/sf
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4. CIFS runs over the following protocols:
a) TCP/IP
b) FTP
c) SNMP
d) DNS
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5. CIFS doesn’t support the following
a) Oplocks
b) Batch command
c) Unicode support
d) Stateless
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6. CIFS is used in the following OS
a) Windows
b) Unix
c) Netware
d) All the mentioned
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7. CIFS was originally derived from
a) PCB
b) NTFS
c) SMB
d) NIS
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8. CIFS authentication is done by
a) Kerberos
b) NTLM
c) Both LDAP and NTLM
d) Both Kerberos and NTLM
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9. SMB was originally developed by
a) IBM
b) Microsoft
c) 3COM
d) Intel
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10. RPC is used for
a) transporting data over the network
b) executing program on different computer
c) reporting process control
d) none of the mentioned
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