A Server Administrator Has Been Asked to Make Recommendations for Purchase

question 651

Multiple Choice

A server administrator has been asked to make recommendations for purchase of a new database server that will be processing all of the company accounts. One area of concern from prior experience is the storage type used by the database server. The server is expected to have a large number of transactions that occur, but will not require a large amount of capacity for the data storage. Given these requirements, which of the following storage criteria are MOST important? (Select TWO) .

• A) Capacity
• B) RPM
• C) IOPS
• D) Seek time and latency
• E) Form factor
• F) Bus width

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