204 Advanced Storage Device Administration

204.1 Configuring RAID

Weight 2

Candidates should be able to configure and implement software RAID. This objective includes using and configuring RAID 0, 1 and 5.

Key Knowledge Areas

   * Software raid configuration files and utilities 

204.2 Adjusting Storage Device Access

Weight 1

Candidates should be able to configure kernel options to support various drives. This objective includes software tools to view & modify hard disk settings.

Key Knowledge Areas

   * Tools and utilities to configure DMA for IDE devices including ATAPI and SATA
   * Tools and utilities to manipulate or analyse system resources (e.g. interrupts) 

204.3 Logical Volume Manager

Weight 3

Candidates should be able to create and remove logical volumes, volume groups, and physical volumes. This objective includes snapshots and resizing logical volumes.

Key Knowledge Areas

   * Tools in the LVM suite
   * Resizing, renaming, creating, and removing logical volumes, volume groups, and physical volumes
   * Creating and maintaining snapshots
   * Activating volume groups