File Storage and NAS Solutions Quiz

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Quiz covering Cloud Storage Architecture

What you'll be asked

  1. Which of the following cloud storage types is most commonly used to provide a shared file system that can be accessed simultaneously by multiple virtual machine instances?
  2. When migrating an on-premises legacy application that relies on local file paths and POSIX compliance to the cloud, which storage solution is the most suitable?
  3. What is a primary performance characteristic of cloud-based Network Attached Storage (NAS) compared to block storage?
  4. Which protocol is natively used by Linux-based cloud file systems to enable file sharing across multiple instances?
  5. You are architecting a solution where hundreds of compute nodes need to read and write to a shared dataset. You notice that as you scale past 50 nodes, the throughput on the NAS solution plateaus. What is the most likely architectural bottleneck?

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