IT Infrastructure & Networking Flashcards

Which HP ProLiant Gen10 security feature stores server-unique cryptographic keys and certificates in a dedicated chip to protect against firmware tampering?

Answer: Silicon Root of Trust

HP's Silicon Root of Trust embeds cryptographic verification into the server silicon, ensuring firmware authenticity from power-on before the OS loads.

An HP Aruba 2930F switch receives traffic tagged with VLAN 100 on a trunk port, but VLAN 100 is not in its VLAN database. What will the switch do with this traffic?

Answer: Drop the tagged frames silently

If a trunk port receives frames tagged with a VLAN ID not in the local VLAN database, the switch drops those frames.

In HP 3PAR StoreServ, what does 'Adaptive Flash Cache' do?

Answer: Uses SSD as a read cache tier to accelerate spinning disk performance

HP 3PAR Adaptive Flash Cache uses SSD-based read caching to accelerate frequently accessed data stored on spinning disks.

Which protocol does HP iLO use by default for secure remote console access over a web browser?

Answer: TLS/HTTPS

HP iLO uses TLS-encrypted HTTPS for all web-based remote management access, ensuring console session security.

What distinguishes HP FlexNetwork from a traditional three-tier network architecture?

Answer: FlexNetwork integrates wired, wireless, and WAN management into a unified policy framework

HP FlexNetwork architecture unifies wired, wireless, and WAN access under a single policy and management framework, simplifying multi-domain network operations.

An administrator wants to ensure that storage traffic between HP servers and an HP MSA storage array does not compete with user data traffic on the same network. Which solution should be implemented?

Answer: Implement a dedicated storage VLAN or separate storage network (SAN)

A dedicated storage VLAN or SAN (Fibre Channel or iSCSI) isolates storage traffic from general user traffic, preventing contention and improving performance.

In HP Composable Infrastructure, what role does the 'Composer' module play in HP Synergy?

Answer: It acts as the software-defined intelligence managing resource pools and templates

The HP Synergy Composer is the management appliance that orchestrates composable resources, applying profiles and templates to dynamically assembled infrastructure.