Which type of fabric topology does the exhibit represent?

What does the "X" represent in the exhibit?

A company plans to deploy a new application in their environment. The new application requires 2 TB of storage space. During peak workloads, the application is expected to generate 4500 IOPS with a typical I/O size of 4 KB. The capacity of each available disk drive is 250 GB. In addition, the maximum number of IOPS a drive can perform at with a 70% utilization is 90 IOPS.
What is the minimum number of disk drives needed to meet the application's capacity and performance requirements for a RAID 0 configuration?

What does an area ID represent in Fibre Channel (FC) addressing?

A customer wants 24x7 availability for a business application that uses a file system.
Which operation ensures a consistent replica of the file system?