Deck 9: Hard Drive Technologies

Question 1

How many PATA drives-including hard drives, optical drives, and tape drives-can be connected to a single ATA controller?

A)One
B)Two
C)Four
D)Six

Answer 1

B

Question 2

What is the maximum PATA device cable length?

A)18 inches
B)1 meters
C)2 meters
D)3 meters

Answer 2

A

Question 3

Which SATA variety runs up to 16 GBPS?

A)SATA 1.0
B)SATA 2.0
C)SATA 3.0
D)SATA 3.2

Answer 3

D

Question 4

Which unit measures hard drive spindle speed?

A)Revolutions per minute (RPM)
B)Bytes per second (BPS)
C)Reads per second (RPS)
D)Writes per second (WPS)

Question 5

What is the maximum SATA device cable length?

A)18 inches
B)1 meter
C)2 meters
D)3 meters

Question 6

Which SATA variety runs at 6 GBPS?

A)SATA 2.0
B)SATA 1.0
C)SATA 3.0
D)SATA 6.0

Question 7

What hard drive technology typically implements a 1.8-, 2.5-, or rarely a 3.5-inch form factor?

A)SSD
B)PATA
C)SCSI
D)SATA

Question 8

_______________ technology is commonly used in desktop and laptop hard drives, memory cards, cameras, USB thumb drives, and other handheld devices.

A)Terminal
B)Magnetic
C)Solid-state
D)Copper

Question 9

How many tiny read/write heads service each platter in a traditional hard disk drive (HDD)?

A)Two
B)Three
C)Five
D)Eight

Question 10

Which ATA revision introduced Self-Monitoring, Analysis, and Reporting Technology (S.M.A.R.T.)?

A)ATA-2
B)ATA-3
C)ATA-6
D)ATA-7

Question 11

What type of power connector do all PATA drives use?

A)Mini
B)Standard Molex
C)P1
D)Sub

Question 12

At what speed does the SATA 1.0 specification perform?

A)1.0 GBPS
B)1.5 GBPS
C)2.0 GBPS
D)2.5 GBPS

Question 13

What is the maximum eSATA device cable length?

A)18 inches
B)1 meters
C)2 meters
D)3 meters

Question 14

Which term specifies a type of nonvolatile flash memory that current SSD devices use to retain data when power is turned off or disconnected?

A)ATAPI-6
B)ATA-7
C)AHCI
D)NAND

Question 15

What type of cable does a 66 MBps or faster PATA drive require?

A)40-pin ribbon cable
B)80-wire cable
C)4-pin Molex
D)32-bit twisted pair

Question 16

SSDs can install as add-on _______________ cards.

A)ISA
B)PCI
C)AGP
D)PCIe

Question 17

At what speed does the SATA 2.0 specification perform?

A)1.5 GBPS
B)2.0 GBPS
C)3.0 GBPS
D)6.0 GBPS

Question 18

How many wires are in the SATA interface?

A)Four
B)Eight
C)Seven
D)Eighty

Question 19

The most important advance in SATA involves _______________.

A)platter oxidation
B)ohm ratings
C)magnetic interference
D)data throughput

Question 20

Which version of SATA ties capable drives directly into the PCI Express bus on motherboards?

A)SATA 1.0
B)SATA 2.0
C)SATA 3.0
D)SATAe

Question 21

You are installing two PATA drives.How should you set the jumpers?

A)Set one to master and the other to slave.
B)Set one to primary and the other to secondary.
C)Set one to first and the other to second.
D)Set one to master and the other stand-alone.

Question 22

What tool can you use in Windows to configure and manage hard drives and RAID levels?

A)FDISK
B)Disk Management
C)AHCI
D)Device Manager

Question 23

In technical terms, _______________ technology and devices are based on the combination of semiconductors and transistors used to create electrical components with no moving parts.

Question 24

Drive bay _______________ sit at the front of a bay and blow air across the drive.

Question 25

A traditional hard disk drive (HDD) is composed of individual disks, or aluminum platters that are coated with a(n) _______________ medium.

Question 26

Faster drives mean better system performance, but they can also cause the computer to_______________.

Question 27

Hard drives run at a set _______________, with the spinning platters measured in revolutions per minute (RPM).

Question 28

How many failures can RAID 0 withstand and remain functional?

A)Zero
B)One
C)Two
D)Up to three

Question 29

What is the minimum number of drives needed to implement RAID 5?

A)One
B)Two
C)Three
D)Four

Question 30

Which term refers to the mirroring technique in which each drive has its own controller?

A)Disk duplexing
B)Disk striping
C)Disk striping with parity
D)Super-disk mirroring

Question 31

Which drive technology rules the roost in the server market?

A)Self-Monitoring, Analysis, and Reporting Technology (S.M.A.R.T.)
B)Advanced Host Controller Interface (AHCI)
C)Redundant array of independent (or inexpensive) disks (RAID)
D)Small computer system interface (SCSI)

Question 32

_______________ (without parity) means spreading the data among multiple (at least two) drives.

A)Disk striping
B)Disk mirroring
C)Disk duplexing
D)Parity

Question 33

How many functional failures can RAID 10 withstand and remain functional?

A)One
B)Up to two
C)Up to four
D)Up to 10

Question 34

Many folks refer to traditional HDDs as magnetic hard drives, or sometimes _______________-based hard drives.

Question 35

What is the minimum number of drives needed to implement RAID 6?

A)Two
B)Three
C)Four
D)Five

Question 36

To install solid-state drives into a desktop or tower with 3.5-inch drive bays, _______________ are available to make the job easy.

A)magnetic pins
B)channel fillers
C)three-inch nylon screws
D)form-factor adapters

Question 37

A common SATA numbering method uses the term _______________ for each controller.

A)pins
B)channels
C)lanes
D)banks

Question 38

The Disk Management program in Windows Server versions can configure drives for _______________, and it works with PATA or SATA.

A)RAID 0+1
B)RAID 0 or 10
C)RAID 0, 1, or 5
D)RAID 5 or RAID 10

Question 39

Disk mirroring/duplexing is also known as _______________.

A)RAID 0
B)RAID 1
C)RAID 2
D)RAID 3

Question 40

Which term is a type of controller that has chips with its own processor and memory?

A)CMOS Northbridge controller
B)BIOS controller
C)Hardware RAID intelligent controllers
D)Software RAID virtual controllers

Question 41

Windows supports _______________, drives that combine flash memory and spinning platters to provide fast and reliable storage.

Question 42

SATA creates a point-to-point connection between the SATA device and the SATA controller, the _______________.

Question 43

Disk _______________, spreading data across multiple drives, by itself provides no redundancy.

Question 44

The latest version of SATA, SATA Express (SATAe) or SATA 3.2, ties capable drives directly into the _______________ bus on motherboards.

Question 45

_______________ is also called RAID 1+0 and sometimes called a "stripe of mirrors."

Question 46

The maximum SATA-device cable length is _______________ inches.

Question 47

ATA hard drives are often referred to as _______________ drives.

Question 48

As per the PATA standard, if there is only one hard drive, the drive's jumper is set to master or _______________.

Question 49

Disk striping with parity protects data by adding extra information, called _______________ data, that can be used to rebuild data if one of the drives fails.

Question 50

Regardless of the external interface, you will find an ordinary SATA drive inside the _______________ (the name used to describe the casing of external hard drives).

Question 51

_______________is a disk-optimization feature for SATA drives that enables faster read and write speeds.

Question 52

The _______________ specification supports a communication connection between the operating system and the SSD directly through a PCIe bus lane, reducing latency and taking full advantage of the wicked-fast speeds of high-end SSDs.

Question 53

RAID that distributes data and parity information evenly across all the drives is known as _______________.

Question 54

_______________ extends the SATA bus to external devices.

Question 55

_______________ is the ability to replace a bad drive without disturbing the operating system.

Question 56

Advanced Host Controller Interface (AHCI) mode is enabled at the _______________ level and generally needs to be enabled before you install the operating system.

Question 57

The process of reading and writing data at the same time to two drives is called _______________.

Question 58

With a PATA hard drive that uses a jumper setting called cable select, the position at the end of the cable is the _______________ and the one in the middle is the slave.

Question 59

PATA drives dominated the industry for more than a decade, but have been replaced by _______________ drives that send data in serial, using only one wire for data transfers.

Question 60

Software RAID means the _______________ is in charge of all the RAID functions.

Question 61

What is disk duplexing?

Question 62

What is the purpose of the Advanced Host Controller Interface (AHCI)?

Question 63

Hard drive cables have a colored stripe that corresponds to the number-one pin-called _______________-on the connector.

Question 64

What advanced SATA features does Advanced Host Controller Interface ?(AHCI) usage unlock?

Question 65

Motherboards provide support for the SATA hard drive controllers via the system BIOS, but they require configuration in _______________ for the specific hard drives attached.

Question 66

Which PATA standard provides support for very large hard drives and what are the maximum capacities of supported storage size and data transfer speed?

Question 67

Briefly describe the purpose of the Windows trim function.

Question 68

What is S.M.A.R.T.?

Question 69

Describe four problems associated with the parallel ATA interface.

Question 70

Briefly describe the various SSD memory technologies.

Question 71

Rather than using a master/slave concept, how does SATA function?

Question 72

If the controllers are enabled and the drive is properly connected, the drive should appear in CMOS through a process called_______________.

Question 73

What items can impede airflow?

Question 74

The flat ribbon cables impeded airflow and could be a pain to insert properly.

Question 75

Why is airflow an important consideration in system builds?

Question 76

The cables had a limited length, only 18 inches.

Question 77

You could not hot-swap PATA drives.You had to shut down completely before installing or replacing a drive.

Question 78

What are the specifications and matching speeds of three common SATA-specific varieties?

Question 79

The technology had simply reached the limits of what it could do in terms of throughput.

Question 80

The _______________ on SATA controller and power cables makes it impossible to install either incorrectly.