Deck 8: Supporting Hard Drives

Question 1

The ____-conductor IDE cable has half the number of pins as it has wires.

A)40
B)60
C)80
D)100

Answer 1

C

Question 2

Almost all hard drives sold today for desktop computers are magnetic hard drives.

Answer 2

True

Question 3

____ is a system BIOS feature that monitors hard drive performance,disk spin up time,temperature,distance between the head and the disk,and other mechanical activities of the drive in order to predict when the drive is likely to fail.

A)S.M.A.R.T.
B)D.A.R.T.
C)S.T.A.R.T.
D)S.P.I.N.

Answer 3

A

Question 4

Each side,or surface,of one hard drive platter is called a ____.

A)bubble
B)wing
C)tail
D)head

Question 5

____ transfers data directly from the drive to memory without involving the CPU.

A)RMA
B)DAM
C)SMA
D)DMA

Question 6

____ mode involves the CPU and is slower than DMA mode.

A)DMZ
B)PIO
C)RMA
D)PIN

Question 7

The total number of ____ on the drive determines the drive capacity.

A)sectors
B)wedges
C)platters
D)controllers

Question 8

A hard disk drive (HDD),most often called a hard drive,comes in two sizes for personal computers: the 1.8" size is used for laptop computers and the 2.5" size is used for desktops.

Question 9

The ATA interface standards are developed by Technical Committee T13 and published by ____.

A)ISO
B)IEEE
C)IETF
D)ANSI

Question 10

Windows Vista technology that supports a hybrid drive is called ____.

A)ReadyRAM
B)ReadySpin
C)ReadyDrive
D)ReadyDisk

Question 11

With ____,you can connect and disconnect a drive while the system is running.

A)wet-swapping
B)cold-swapping
C)hot-swapping
D)block-swapping

Question 12

During the ____ formatting process,you specify the size of the partition and what file system it will use.

A)low-level
B)high-level
C)medium-level
D)physical

Question 13

Hardware problems usually show up at POST,unless there is physical damage to an area of the hard drive that is not accessed during POST.

Question 14

____ on a circuit board inside the drive housing is responsible for writing and reading data to these tracks and sectors and for keeping track of where everything is stored on the drive.

A)Wetware
B)ROM
C)Firmware
D)Software

Question 15

The top and bottom of each disk of a magnetic hard drive have a(n)____ that moves across the disk surface as all the disks rotate on a spindle.

A)read head
B)read/write head
C)access head
D)platter device

Question 16

External ____ is up to six times faster than USB or FireWire.

A)SATA
B)SCSI
C)IDE
D)DMA

Question 17

A ____ drive has one,two,or more platters,or disks,that stack together and spin in unison inside a sealed metal housing that contains firmware to control reading and writing data to the drive and to communicate with the motherboard.

A)magnetic optical
B)floppy
C)magnetic hard
D)magnetic image

Question 18

Solid state hard drives cost more and are less rugged than magnetic hard drives.

Question 19

____ is a standard for communication between a subsystem of peripheral devices and the system bus.

A)SAS
B)SATA
C)SCSD
D)SCSI

Question 20

If you are replacing a floppy drive,you must inform BIOS setup by accessing setup and changing the drive type.

Question 21

Match each term with the correct statement below.
a.Hybrid hard drive
f.Cluster
b.FAT
g.Actuator
c.File system
h.NTFS
d.Block mode
i.Basic disk
e.Solid state drive
Moves the read/write heads across the disk surfaces in unison

Question 22

The first sector on the disk,called the boot sector or ____ record,contains the information about how the disk is organized and the file system used.

A)base
B)interface
C)slave
D)boot

Question 23

Match each term with the correct statement below.
a.Hybrid hard drive
f.Cluster
b.FAT
g.Actuator
c.File system
h.NTFS
d.Block mode
i.Basic disk
e.Solid state drive
A table on a hard drive or floppy disk that tracks how space on a disk is used to store files

Question 24

A technology that configures two or more hard drives to work together as an array of drives is called ____.

A)FLAG
B)RAID
C)RAIN
D)RAISE

Question 25

Each FAT entry lists how each ____________________ (or file allocation unit)on the disk is currently used.

Question 26

If you are mounting a hard drive into a bay that is too large,a ____ kit can help you securely fit the drive into the bay.

A)reversal bay
B)drive connecting
C)universal bay
D)bay adapter

Question 27

Match each term with the correct statement below.
a.Hybrid hard drive
f.Cluster
b.FAT
g.Actuator
c.File system
h.NTFS
d.Block mode
i.Basic disk
e.Solid state drive
A single hard drive that works independently of other hard drives

Question 28

Match each term with the correct statement below.
a.Hybrid hard drive
f.Cluster
b.FAT
g.Actuator
c.File system
h.NTFS
d.Block mode
i.Basic disk
e.Solid state drive
Uses both solid state and magnetic technologies

Question 29

When using an 80-conductor cable-select cable,the drive nearest the motherboard is the ____.

A)master
B)slave
C)subordinate
D)major

Question 30

Match each term with the correct statement below.
a.Hybrid hard drive
f.Cluster
b.FAT
g.Actuator
c.File system
h.NTFS
d.Block mode
i.Basic disk
e.Solid state drive
Designed to provide greater security and to support more storage capacity than the older file system

Question 31

A computer's ability to respond to a fault or catastrophe,such as a hardware failure or power outage,so that data is not lost is known as ____________________.

Question 32

Track and sector markings are written to a hard drive before it leaves the factory in a process called ____________________ formatting.

Question 33

Match each term with the correct statement below.
a.Hybrid hard drive
f.Cluster
b.FAT
g.Actuator
c.File system
h.NTFS
d.Block mode
i.Basic disk
e.Solid state drive
Speeds up access time by allowing blocks of data to be read from the drive at one time

Question 34

Match each term with the correct statement below.
a.Hybrid hard drive
f.Cluster
b.FAT
g.Actuator
c.File system
h.NTFS
d.Block mode
i.Basic disk
e.Solid state drive
Has no moving parts

Question 35

A drive ____ is a duplication of everything written to a hard drive.

A)network
B)array
C)handle
D)image

Question 36

Match each term with the correct statement below.
a.Hybrid hard drive
f.Cluster
b.FAT
g.Actuator
c.File system
h.NTFS
d.Block mode
i.Basic disk
e.Solid state drive
The smallest unit of space on a disk for storing a file and is made up of one or more sectors

Question 37

Match each term with the correct statement below.
a.Hybrid hard drive
f.Cluster
b.FAT
g.Actuator
c.File system
h.NTFS
d.Block mode
i.Basic disk
e.Solid state drive
The overall structure an OS uses to name,store,and organize files on a drive

Question 38

To reduce the amount of electrical "noise," or interference,on a SCSI cable,each end of the SCSI chain has a(n)____________________ resistor.

Question 39

An extended partition can be divided into one or more ____________________ drives.

Question 40

With ____,two hard drives are configured as a single volume.

A)binding
B)bonding
C)spanning
D)wrapping

Question 41

List five questions you might want to use to interview a user to begin the troubleshooting process.

Question 42

Explain hard drive interface standards.

Question 43

List three things to check if BIOS setup does not recognize a newly installed hard drive.

Question 44

Discuss how RAID can be implemented.

Question 45

Discuss installing a hardware RAID system for best performance.

Question 46

List four factors to consider when purchasing a hard drive.

Question 47

List and describe the two items contained in the Master Boot Record.

Question 48

List the four possible configurations for the four EIDE devices in a system.

Question 49

Discuss bad sector errors.

Question 50

Explain the parallel ATA or EIDA drive standards.