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Systems Management
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Systems Management

Review

The purpose of this review is to check for understanding. Select the best answer for each question. The page will indicate correct and incorrect answers as selections are clicked.

1) What is the primary purpose of systems management?


To monitor potential misuse of computer resources.


To allow network administrators to remotely update system firmware across a large deployed base.


To simplify and reduce the cost of operating a network of computers.


To identify systems on a corporate network that are in need of upgrades to memory or hard drive space.



2) List (mentally, or on paper) some of the capabilities of systems management software.


Click the box to see more; check your list to see how many you remembered.



3) Which term refers to a system to be managed?


Management Client


Managed Node


Resource Node


Root System



4) Which term refers to a system from which others can be managed?


Management master


Central node


Management station


Master node



5) Which of the following are Systems Management Protocols?


DMP      SNMP   DPI
   

LVD   CIP   SNMF
   

CIM   PNP   DMI
   


6) Which of the following data structures is associated with SNMP?


MIB         MOF         MIS         MID    
           


7) Which of the following data structures is associated with DMI?


MIS         MOS         MIF         MOF    
           


8) Which of the following data structures is associated with CIM?


MIS         MOS         MOF         MIB    
           


9) What is an "agent"?


A software module that compiles information about the system on which it is installed and makes that information available to a management station.


A computer that can be remotely controlled by a management station.


A software module on a management station that polls the network to identify managed nodes.


Firmware that monitors the state of hardware components and reports that state to management software.



10) Which term identifies a file that describes for SNMP the manageable attributes of a particular manufacturer's device?


Internet MIB.


Standard MIF.


Vendor MIF.


Vendor MIB.


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