Deck 7: Using and Configuring Storage Devices

Question 1

SATA drives have mostly replaced PATA drives and have faster transfer times.

Answer 1

True

Question 2

What type of volume utilizes two or more physical disks, and fills each disk sequentially, rather than using striping?

A) Simple volume
B) Spanned volume
C) Striped volume
D) Mirrored volume

Answer 2

B

Question 3

Which feature of the GUID Partitioning Table (GPT) partitioning method offers improved reliability over the MBR partitioning method?

A) Cyclic Redundancy Check (CRC)
B) Message Digest 5 (MD5)
C) Secure Hash Algorithm (SHA)
D) Journaling

Answer 3

A

Question 4

Virtual disks can use thin provisioning, which allocates all configured space on the physical storage device immediately.

Question 5

What command can you use in Linux to create a new file that is 300 MB for use in creating a virtual disk?

A) mount vdisk.img 300MB
B) mkdir vdisk.imf -s 300MB
C) mkfs -s 300M vdisk.img
D) fallocate -l 300M vdisk.img

Question 6

Which Linux command will mount a virtual disk image named vdisk.img into the file system at /mnt/newvdisk?

A) mkfs vdisk.img /mnt/newvdisk
B) mkfs /mnt/vdisk.img newvdisk
C) mount /mnt/newvdisk vdisk.img
D) mount vdisk.img /mnt/newvdisk

Question 7

The biggest disadvantage in using virtual disks instead of physical volumes is the lack of portability.

Question 8

Which type of RAID volume is most similar to a striped volume storage layout in Storage Spaces?

A) RAID0
B) RAID1
C) RAID5
D) RAID6

Question 9

A parity space storage layout is similar to a RAID 1 volume, in that a parity bit is written to the spare drive.

Question 10

Which disk subsystem is considered to be the most reliable and highest performance for use in enterprise and high-utilization environments?

A) PATA
B) SAS
C) IDE
D) SATA

Question 11

If a disk pool in a Storage Spaces becomes full, how does Windows Server respond?

A) More space is automatically provisioned from available drives in the primordial pool.
B) Affected volumes are marked as read-only until more space is provisioned.
C) The disk pool is moved to an offline state until more physical storage is added.
D) The server notifies all users with data in the disk pool in order to encourage data cleaning activities.

Question 12

Which SATA version supports maximum transfer speeds up to 6 Gb/s?

A) Version 1
B) Version 2
C) Version 3
D) Version 3.2

Question 13

Which method for creating Linux volumes is similar to using dynamic disks in Windows?

A) virtual disks
B) basic partitions
C) LVM
D) JBOD

Question 14

You have a hard disk in a Windows system configured as a basic disk. You need to create six volumes on the disk. Which of the following partition types must you create?

A) primary
B) system
C) extended
D) dynamic

Question 15

What feature that was introduced in Windows Server 2012 finds identical sets of data on a volume and reduces them to a single instance to reduce space?

A) Disk pooling
B) Data deduplication
C) Data multiplexing
D) Storage optimizing

Question 16

Which tape format has the least capacity?

A) DLT
B) LTO
C) DAT
D) AIT

Question 17

On a Windows 10 computer, on which volume would you find the \Windows folder?

A) boot volume
B) system volume
C) start volume
D) primary volume

Question 18

With SAN technology, servers use a separate network to communicate with the storage device.

Question 19

An administrator wants to create a volume that provides redundancy using disk striping with parity. What type of volume should the administrator select?

A) RAID 0 volume
B) mirrored volume
C) extended volume
D) RAID 5 volume

Question 20

The LVM uses physical disk partitions referred to as which of the following?

A) volume sets
B) primary volumes
C) system volumes
D) volume groups

Question 21

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?

A) a 4 TB SAS SSD
B) two 2 TB SATA HDDs
C) a 4 TB hybrid drive
D) a 4 TB SATA HDD

Question 22

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

A) 10,000 GB
B) .1 PB
C) 1,000,000 MB
D) 100 GB

Question 23

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?

A) quotas are not enabled
B) swap partition is growing
C) log files are growing
D) the MFT is corrupted

Question 24

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?

A) The boot volume is on the first disk; the system volume is on the second disk.
B) The system volume is on the first disk; the boot volume is on the second disk.
C) The boot and system volume will be on randomly chosen disks.
D) The boot volume and system volume are on the same disk.

Question 25

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?

A) storage area network (SAN)
B) direct-attached storage (DAS)
C) local-attached storage (LAS)
D) network-attached storage (NAS)

Question 26

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?

A) local storage
B) direct-attached storage
C) network-attached storage
D) storage area network

Question 27

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

A) SSDs come in much larger capacities
B) SSDs have lower power requirements
C) SSDs have no moving parts to wear out
D) SSDs have faster access to data

Question 28

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?

A) HDD
B) SSD
C) DVD
D) RAID

Question 29

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?

A) Yes, you can start using dynamic disks after you have created a volume.
B) Yes, Disk Manager installs FAT32 on new volumes by default.
C) No, you must first prepare the disk with a file system by formatting it.
D) No, you need to partition the disk after creating the volumes.

Question 30

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?

A) fdisk -t /dev/cdrom iso9660 /cdrom
B) mount -t udf /mnt/cdrom /cdrom
C) mount -t iso9660 /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom
D) fdisk -t udf /mnt/cdrom /cdrom

Question 31

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?

A) RAID 5
B) RAID 0
C) mirrored volume
D) spanned volume

Question 32

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

A) LTO
B) AIT
C) DLT
D) DAT

Question 33

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

A) OS files
B) user documents
C) CPU L3 cache
D) paging file

Question 34

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

A) storage is available through Web applications
B) you connect to cloud storage using a local SAN
C) most cloud storage provides fault tolerance
D) you can access storage through the Internet

Question 35

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

A) Virtual Disk Manager
B) Logical Volume Manager
C) Disk Management
D) File and Storage Services

Question 36

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)?

A) direct-attached storage
B) storage area network
C) local storage
D) network-attached storage

Question 37

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?

A) virtual memory is being accessed frequently
B) the program creates a lot of interrupts
C) the RAM is becoming very slow
D) the CPU is using multiple cores

Question 38

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

A) cfdisk
B) dump
C) tar
D) xcopy

Question 39

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?

A) storage area network (SAN)
B) direct-attached storage (DAS)
C) local-attached storage (LAS)
D) network-attached storage (NAS)

Question 40

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

A) GPT supports fewer, but larger partitions.
B) MBR is a newer method and is only supported by a few OSs.
C) GPT supports larger volumes than MBR.
D) GPT disks can be converted to MBR and data is maintained.

Question 41

What do you do to manage disk quotas on a volume in Windows Server 2016?

A) Access the Quota tab in the volume's Properties dialog box.
B) Open Control Panel, click on Storage Devices, and click Quotas.
C) Open Disk Management, click Edit, and click Set Quotas.
D) In File and Storage Services, click Volumes, right-click the volume and click Quotas.

Question 42

You have accessing a DVD drive on a Linux system using the path /mnt/DVD. You are finished with the DVD and want to remove it from the file system. What command should you use?

A) mount -remove /mnt/DVD
B) rm /dev/DVD
C) umount /mnt/DVD
D) del /dev/DVD

Question 43

Which of the following is not a task that you can perform using the Disk Management tool on a Windows Server 2019 system?

A) work with removable storage
B) manage flash drives
C) create storage pools
D) delete partitions

Question 44

Which of the following is an advantage of using cloud storage rather than installing storage servers in your datacenter?

A) Cloud storage always costs less than on-premises storage.
B) Storage management and backup is offloaded to a third party.
C) Cloud storage is much more secure than on-premises storage.
D) You can guarantee high-speed access to cloud storage.

Question 45

Which disk interface uses parallel data transfer but has high reliability and an advanced command set?

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

Question 46

What do you call disk drive space that has not yet been assigned to a volume or partition?

A) unformatted
B) unallocated
C) undesignated
D) unorganized