Question 1

You need 4 TB of fast storage for a server but your budget is limited. The storage will be accessed continually 365 days/year. Which of the following options should you select that is not the least expensive nor the most expensive option but still provides good performance?

Accepted Answer

A hybrid drive (option C) offers a balance between cost and performance by combining SSD and HDD technologies, making it neither the cheapest nor the most expensive option while still providing good performance for continuous access.

Question 2

A Terabyte is the same as which of the following values?

Accepted Answer

A Terabyte (TB) is equivalent to 1,000,000 Megabytes (MB).

Question 3

You have a Windows Server 2012 server that has been running continually for several years. You notice that the C: drive has been slowly filling up and is almost out of disk space. No new applications have been installed and all the data files the server uses are stored on the D: drive. No users have permissions to store files on the C: drive and you know that you haven't added any files. What is the most likely reason the C: drive is slowly filling up?

Accepted Answer

Log files, especially those related to the system and applications, can grow over time if they are not properly managed or archived. This can gradually consume disk space on the C: drive.

Question 4

You have a computer with two disk drives. You have just installed Windows Server 2019 with the default location options. Which of the following is the correct location of the boot volume and system volume?

Accepted Answer

When installing Windows Server 2019 with default location options, both the boot volume (which contains the operating system files) and the system volume (which contains the hardware-specific files needed to load Windows) are placed on the same disk.

Question 5

You are configuring shared storage for your servers and during the configuration you have been asked to a supply a LUN. What type of storage are you configuring?

Accepted Answer

A LUN, or Logical Unit Number, is a concept associated with Storage Area Networks (SAN). It is used to identify a specific portion of storage (a logical unit) that can be accessed by a server or other device connected to the SAN.

Question 6

A hard drive or solid-state drive that is physically installed inside of a workstation would generally be considered to be what type of storage?

Accepted Answer

The answer of A hard drive or solid-state drive that...

Question 7

Which of the following is NOT true about SSD drives compared to mechanical drives?

Accepted Answer

SSDs do not inherently come in much larger capacities than mechanical drives. While SSD technology has advanced to offer substantial storage capacities, mechanical hard drives (HDDs) are still available in very large capacities, often at a lower cost per gigabyte than SSDs. SSDs are known for their lower power requirements, lack of moving parts, and faster data access, making options B, C, and D true statements about their advantages over mechanical drives.

Question 8

Your colleague is asking about a storage device that uses flash memory chips but doesn't use magnetic platters. What type of device is he asking about?

Accepted Answer

SSDs (Solid State Drives) use flash memory chips for storage and do not contain magnetic platters, unlike HDDs (Hard Disk Drives). DVDs are optical storage devices, and RAID is a data storage virtualization technology that combines multiple physical disk drive components into one or more logical units.

Question 9

You have just installed a new disk drive in a Windows server and you have booted the system. You open Disk Manager, change the disk type to dynamic and create three volumes. Are you ready to store files on the disk?

Accepted Answer

Dynamic disks allow the creation of volumes, but before using these volumes to store files, they must be formatted with a file system. Disk Manager does not automatically format new volumes with FAT32 or any other file system; this step must be done manually after volume creation.

Question 10

Which of the following represents a valid Linux command to mount a CD or DVD drive in a folder named cdrom that is a subfolder of /mnt?

Accepted Answer

The correct command to mount a CD or DVD drive in Linux is `mount -t iso9660 /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom`. This command specifies the filesystem type (`iso9660` for CDs), the device name (`/dev/cdrom`), and the mount point (`/mnt/cdrom`).

Question 11

You have four HDDs that are 2 TB each. You need to configure the drives so that you have fault tolerance and at least 6 TB of usable disk space. How should you configure the drives?

Accepted Answer

RAID 5 offers both fault tolerance and maximizes storage efficiency by distributing parity information across all the drives. With four 2 TB drives, RAID 5 will provide 6 TB of usable space (since one drive's capacity is used for parity), meeting the requirement. RAID 0 offers no fault tolerance, mirrored volume (RAID 1) would only provide 4 TB of usable space, and a spanned volume offers no fault tolerance.

Question 12

Which type of tape drive is most widely accepted in the high-end server market because of its high performance?

Accepted Answer

LTO (Linear Tape-Open) technology is most widely accepted in the high-end server market due to its high performance, capacity, and reliability.

Question 13

Which of the following types of data will most likely use volatile storage?

Accepted Answer

CPU L3 cache uses volatile storage, meaning the data is lost when the power is turned off. This is because caches are designed for speed and temporary storage of data for quick access by the CPU.

Question 14

Which of the following statements is NOT true of cloud storage?

Accepted Answer

Cloud storage is typically accessed over the Internet using Web applications or APIs, not through a local Storage Area Network (SAN), which is used within local networks for high-speed data access.

Question 15

Which tool in Windows Server 2019 should you use to manage storage spaces?

Accepted Answer

File and Storage Services in Windows Server 2019 is the correct tool for managing storage spaces, allowing administrators to create, manage, and administer storage pools and spaces.

Question 16

What type of storage typically shares files utilizing standard network protocols, such as Server Message Block (SMB), Network File System (NFS), and File Transfer Protocol (FTP)?

Accepted Answer

Network-attached storage (NAS) is specifically designed to serve files over a network and uses standard protocols like SMB, NFS, and FTP to facilitate data access and sharing.

Question 17

You are running a program on a Windows 10 PC that has 2 GB RAM and 500 GB HDD. The program performs a lot of graphical operations and calculations, and uses 1.5 GB of RAM or more, but it does not access any files on the disk drive. The program is running quite slow and you notice that the HDD light is flashing a lot indicating the disk is being frequently accessed. What is the most likely reason for the slow performance and disk access?

Accepted Answer

The program is likely using more memory than is available in physical RAM, causing the system to use virtual memory (pagefile.sys on the HDD) to compensate for the lack of RAM, which explains the frequent disk access and slow performance.

Question 18

Which of the following is NOT a Linux file or disk management command?

Accepted Answer

xcopy is a command used in DOS and Windows operating systems to copy files and directories, including their attributes and timestamps. It is not a Linux command.

Question 19

You have been asked to get a storage device with a built-in OS that allows users to store files on the network using the SMB protocol. What type of device should you get?

Accepted Answer

Network-attached storage (NAS) devices come with built-in operating systems and support file sharing over a network using protocols like SMB, making them the correct choice for the described requirements.

Question 20

Which of the following is true about using GPT versus MBR?

Accepted Answer

GPT (GUID Partition Table) supports larger volumes than MBR (Master Boot Record), with GPT allowing for volumes up to 9.4 ZB (zettabytes), compared to MBR's limit of 2 TB (terabytes) for a single partition.

Quiz 7: Using and Configuring Storage Devices