364.1 Hardware and Resource High Availability (weight: 2) LPIC-3-HIGH-AVAILABILITY Practice Questions (Page 5)

Questions 21–22

1. 21application · medium

   A storage administrator is evaluating the health of a fleet of disks in a backup appliance. The administrator wants to identify disks that are most likely to fail within the next few months so they can be replaced during the next maintenance window. Which S.M.A.R.T. data is most useful for this predictive assessment?

   • AThe current temperature of each disk, because overheating is the primary cause of mechanical failure.
   • BThe S.M.A.R.T. overall health status (PASSED/FAILED), because it summarizes all attributes into a single reliable indicator.
   • CThe raw values of Reallocated_Sector_Ct, Current_Pending_Sector, and Offline_Uncorrectable, because they directly indicate physical media degradation.
   • DThe Power_On_Hours attribute, because disks fail primarily due to age and usage time.
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2. 22application · medium

   A storage administrator is reviewing S.M.A.R.T. data for a disk that has been in service for three years. The administrator sees that the Reallocated_Sector_Ct raw value has increased from 0 to 25 over the past month. The normalized value is still 100, and the threshold is 0. What does this trend indicate?

   • AThe disk is fine because reallocated sectors are a normal part of disk operation and do not indicate failure.
   • BThe disk is experiencing physical media degradation and should be monitored closely or replaced.
   • CThe disk is healthy because the normalized value is still well above the threshold.
   • DThe disk has a firmware issue that is causing false S.M.A.R.T. readings.
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