Deck 4: Managing Disks

Question 1

A ____ dynamic volume can only be created with three or more dynamic disks.

A) RAID 1
B) RAID 5
C) RAID 5i
D) RAID 23

Answer 1

B

Question 2

A basic disk can have its space organized into one or more defined areas of storage called ____.

A) sectors
B) tracks
C) volumes
D) partitions

Answer 2

D

Question 3

If there are multiple primary partitions on a single basic disk, the MBR standard allows for only one primary partition on that drive to be marked as active and capable of starting an operating system. This partition is referred to as a(n) ____ partition.

A) master
B) boot
C) active
D) starting

Answer 3

C

Question 4

Disk Cleanup is available by selecting the ____ button when viewing the general properties of a drive.

A) Verify
B) More Options
C) Free Space
D) Disk Cleanup

Question 5

Each primary partition that is formatted with a file system can be represented in the operating system by a ____.

A) drive letter
B) partition table
C) sector
D) track

Question 6

When a new hard disk is added to a computer it is initially configured as a dynamic disk.

Question 7

A ____ volume exists on just a single dynamic disk.

A) spanned
B) simple
C) stripped
D) mirrored

Question 8

Dynamic disk storage provides the flexibility to logically organize disk space across one or more disk drives.

Question 9

The boot sector code is typically written when the operating system is first loaded on the computer and the MBR is created.

Question 10

On dynamic disks, the blocks of space are called ____ instead of partitions.

A) volumes
B) tracks
C) sectors
D) mirrors

Question 11

Until a new disk is initialized, its status is reported as ____ and the disk cannot be used to store data.

A) Ready
B) Connected
C) Unknown
D) Active

Question 12

When a computer is first started, its ____ firmware is responsible for initializing the computer.

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

Question 13

____ disk storage provides a simple means to logically organize disk space.

A) Advanced
B) Dynamic
C) Basic
D) Smart

Question 14

Each primary partition that is formatted with a file system can be represented in the operating system by a specific folder path called a ____.

A) track table
B) partition table
C) sector
D) mount point

Question 15

A basic disk can contain only one primary partition.

Question 16

Most of the partition attributes are stored in a data table that is part of the MBR or GPT specification. This table is commonly called the ____.

A) partition table
B) sector table
C) division table
D) boot table

Question 17

A striped volume exists on a minimum of two dynamic disks, up to a maximum of 64 dynamic disks.

Question 18

A striped volume is a ____ solution.

A) basic storage
B) type of simple volume
C) RAID 5
D) RAID 0

Question 19

A mirrored volume is also known as a ____ solution.

A) RAID -1
B) RAID 0
C) RAID 1
D) RAID 5

Question 20

The ____ partition, if used, takes the place of one of the primary partitions that can be created on the basic disk.

A) active
B) extended
C) logical
D) boot

Question 21

Explain how to check disk health.

Question 22

Describe the main characteristics of the Windows 7 Disk Management console.

Question 23

You must right-click the disk in the graphical portion of Disk Management and select ____ from the pop-up menu to initiate the import process.

A) Unknown Disk
B) Foreign Disk
C) Import Foreign Disk
D) Bad Disk

Question 24

____________________ provides a graphical interface that allows a member of the Administrators group to observe and make changes to the computer's disk configuration.

Question 25

What will happen when you convert a basic disk to a dynamic disk?

Question 26

Partition and volume changes can only be made by a Backup Operator or ____-equivalent user account.

A) Administrator
B) Snap-in
C) Console
D) Primary

Question 27

What are the main characteristics of the Windows 7 DiskPart utility?

Question 28

Dynamic volume and basic disk partitions can be shrunk using the ____ snap-in.

A) Disk Management
B) chkdsk
C) fdisk
D) Partitioner

Question 29

The Disk Management console will report the status of the disk as a(n) ____ when it recognizes that the disk does not belong to that computer.

A) Foreign Disk
B) Unknown Disk
C) Mounted Disk
D) Bad Disk

Question 30

Briefly describe the main characteristics of an extended partition.

Question 31

____________________ partitions are the only type of basic disk partitions designed to store files that are used to load an operating system.

Question 32

Dynamic disk technology supports ____ types of volumes, some of which can use multiple disks and provide fault tolerance.

A) two
B) three
C) four
D) five

Question 33

____________________ is a command-line tool that allows disk and volume operations to be performed from a text-based screen interactively or from within a scripted file.

Question 34

What are the main characteristics of simple dynamic disk volumes?

Question 35

Briefly describe the main characteristics of logical partitions.

Question 36

A hard disk initialized to use dynamic storage technology is referred to as a(n) ____________________.

Question 37

Dynamic volume and basic disk partitions can be deleted using the ____ command-line utility.

A) chkdsk
B) DiskPart
C) qdisk
D) chkPart

Question 38

What are the major activities for proper disk administration?

Question 39

A hard disk initialized to use basic storage technology is referred to as a(n) ____________________.

Question 40

What are the main characteristics of spanned dynamic disk volumes?

Question 42

What are the rules to create basic disk partitions?