February 2010
Think you know all there is to know about data centers? Snake Tray challenges you to match wits with this month's Data Centers Jeopardy contest.
Each month, Cabling Installation & Maintenance will draw one lucky Data Center expert at random from all the correct answers received, who will win a prize courtesy of Snake Tray. This month's prize is a $200 gas card.
View the complete rules of Cabling Jeopardy.
1. Which statement below is false?
2. With space at a premium, it is standard practice to run both power and communication in the same cable tray especially where the data center is built on slab without a raised floor.
3. Because not every piece of active equipment exhausts out the back, other solutions of cooling include the following:
1. Increase airflow by blocking air escapes in the floor/increase depth of raised floor.
2. Where space permits, spread equipment out over unused portions of the data center floor.
3. Where security is not a concern, use open face racks. Where security is a concern utilize locking cabinets with mash front and rear panels.
4. Use perforated tiles with smaller openings, allowing for an increased velocity of air to move into the cabinets.
Which of the above statements are true?
4. A data center that has multiple power and cooling distribution paths, but only one path active, redundant components, concurrently maintainable, 99.982% availability would be considered a:
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