Deck 11: Hard Drive Technologies

Question 1

The ____ standard features a 48-bit addressing scheme.

A) ATA/ATAPI-6
B) ECHS
C) INT13
D) LBA

Answer 1

A

Question 2

____ stores data in a unique pattern of 1s and 0s.

A) FM
B) MFM
C) PMFM
D) RLL

Answer 2

D

Question 3

The SCSI host adapter uses the ____ to differentiate between devices.

A) ribbon cable
B) SCSI chain
C) external port
D) SCSI ID

Answer 3

D

Question 4

A ____ is a circle where data is stored on a drive.

A) cylinder
B) head
C) platter
D) track

Question 5

Modern PATA drives use a ____ connector for power.

A) mini
B) Molex
C) P1
D) sub

Question 6

Which interface requires a ribbon cable and a built-in controller on the drive itself?

A) AT
B) ATA
C) PATA
D) SATA

Question 7

Each platter requires ____ heads.

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

Question 8

The ____ interface enables non-hard drive devices to connect to the PC via the ATA controllers.

A) ATA
B) ATAPI
C) EIDE
D) PATA

Question 9

A system with the ____ extension can handle drives up to 137 GB.

A) ECHS
B) IDE
C) INT13
D) LBA

Question 10

What is a series of SCSI devices working together through a host adapter called?

A) SCSI chain
B) SCSI drive
C) SCSI host adapter
D) SCSI system

Question 11

Which of the following does not require jumper settings?

A) PATA
B) ATA
C) AT
D) SATA

Question 12

How many pins does an EIDE (ATA)drive have?

A) 7
B) 20
C) 40
D) 80

Question 13

Since any SCSI device might be on the end of a chain,most manufacturers build SCSI devices that can ____.

A) echo
B) self-terminate
C) be terminated
D) transfer data

Question 14

What's the minimum number of drives needed for RAID 5?

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

Question 15

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

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

Question 16

The drive technology that supports only a single device per controller channel is known as _____.

A) AT
B) ATA
C) PATA
D) SATA

Question 17

How many drives can be supported with ATA-2 (sometimes called EIDE)?

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

Question 18

How many ATA devices can be connected to most PCs?

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

Question 19

Which of the following hard drive geometry values is no longer relevant in today's PCs?

A) Cylinder
B) Head
C) Sector
D) Write precomp

Question 20

How many wires does the SATA interface have?

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

Question 21

All of the following are common hard drive speeds EXCEPT:

A) 5,400
B) 7,200
C) 9,600
D) 15,000

Question 22

The SATA 2.0 specification has a speed of:

A) 2 GBPS
B) 3 GBPS
C) 1.5 GBPS
D) 6 GBPS

Question 23

Which RAID levels combined dedicated data drives with dedicated parity drives?

A) RAID 2 and RAID 0
B) RAID 2 and RAID 5
C) RAID 3 and RAID 4
D) RAID 2 and RAID 4

Question 24

What is the process of spreading data across multiple drives?

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

Question 25

How many devices are supported per SATA controller channel?

A) 1
B) 2
C) 127
D) 15

Question 26

Which operating system has built-in software for RAID 5?

A) Windows XP Home
B) Windows XP Professional
C) Windows Server 2008
D) Windows Vista Home Premium

Question 27

Which SATA variety runs at 6 GBPS?

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

Question 28

Disk mirroring is also known as _____.

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

Question 29

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 30

The mirroring technique in which each drive has its own controller is called ____.

A) diskduplexing
B) disk striping
C) disk striping with parity
D) super-disk mirroring

Question 31

Some early versions of what specification used a 25-pin connector?

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

Question 32

Which newer port is found on laptops and enables you to connect an internal drive (HDD,SSD,or optical drive)to your laptop without an enclosure?

A) SCSI
B) eSATAp
C) USB 3.0
D) SATA

Question 33

What add-on board might you also find a SSD hard drive attached to?

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

Question 34

What hot-pluggable external hard drive technology uses shielded cable with lengths up to two meters outside the PC?

A) EIDE
B) eSATA
C) ePATA
D) UltraDMA

Question 35

How is hard drive spindle speed measured?

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

Question 36

Laptops,memory cards,USB thumb drives,and hand-held devices often use ____ technology.

A) DNAD
B) ST-506
C) solid-state
D) ATAPI-2

Question 37

What do nonvolatile flash memory devices use to retain data when power is turned off or disconnected?

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

Question 38

SCSI ID numbers can range from 0 to ____.

A) 15
B) 25
C) 35
D) 45

Question 39

ATA/66,ATA/100,and ATA/133 require a ____ cable.

A) 30-wire
B) 40-wire
C) 50-wire
D) 80-wire

Question 40

Internal SCSI devices connect to the host adapter with a ____-pin ribbon cable.

A) 50
B) 68
C) 100
D) 168

Question 41

Every ____________________ requires two heads.

Question 42

ATA (IDE)drives connect to the computer via a(n)____________________ plug and a controller.

Question 43

PATA drives are designated as ____________________ and ____________________.

Question 44

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

Question 45

An extremely advanced RLL method is known as ____________________.

Question 46

____________________ do not have mechanical moving parts and do not create heat or wear down as quickly as platter-based drives.

Question 47

The number of sectors in each track is referred to as the ____________________ value.

Question 48

Where a hard drive stores data is determined by the ____________________.

Question 49

Drive platters are made of aluminum and are coated with a (n)____________________ medium.

Question 50

ATAPI devices plug into a (n)____________________ controller on the motherboard.

Question 51

The ATA-2 standard defined a way to get past the 504-MB limit with ___________________.

Question 52

Fluxes are grouped in runs using a data encoding system known as ____________________.

Question 53

The hard drive at the end of a cable-select cable is the ____________________ and the one in the middle is the slave.

Question 54

To support RAID 5,you must have at least ____________________ drives.

Question 55

In early hard drives,the actuator arm was moved in fixed increments or steps using a (n)____________________.

Question 56

Hard drives today employ a (n)____________________ to move the actuator arms.

Question 57

After installing a PATA drive,it is not recognized.You verify the cabling.You should now check the ____________________.

Question 58

The direction of the ____________________ defines a 1 or a 0 on the hard drive.

Question 59

____________________ has up to three options that are set in CMOS: IDE or compatibility mode,AHCI,or RAID.

Question 60

Each group of tracks of the same diameter in a hard drive forms what is called a(n)____________________.

Question 61

A system with INT13 extensions can handle drives as large as ____________________.

Question 62

The non-chipset-based SATA controllers require a(n)____________________ to function.

Question 63

The most common way to protect data is by a method called ____________________.

Question 64

Combining different types of RAID into a single array (such as RAID0+1)is known as ____________________ solutions.

Question 65

Most current drives use an extremely advanced method of RLL called ___________________ encoding.

Question 66

In current drives,the BIOS automatically updates the CHS values in the CMOS through a process called ____________________.

Question 67

Most SCSI devices require you to set a ____________________ or ____________________ for termination.

Question 68

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

Question 69

The ____________________ describes the drive geometry to the CMOS.

Question 70

Disk striping with ____________________ protects data with fault tolerance.

Question 71

Mirroring is also known as ____________________.

Question 72

SSDs use either ____________________ or ____________________ technology to store and retrieve data.

Question 73

With ATA/ATAPI-6,drives can be as large as ____________________ PB.

Question 74

Windows Vista supports hybrid hard drives (HHDs)and offers ____________________ for faster caching and booting.

Question 75

The maximum SATA-device cable length is ____________________.

Question 76

The general rule pertaining to SCSI is that users should terminate only the ends of the ____________________.

Question 77

With ____________________ there's no master,slave,cable select,or jumpers configurations to mess with.

Question 78

Disk striping by itself does not provide ____________________ of data.

Question 79

The process of connecting one SCSI device directly to another SCSI device is called ____________________.

Question 80

SATA enables installation of a parallel ATA device to a serial ATA controller by using a device called a (n)____________________.