Deck 7: Storage Devices

Question 1

Pin 1 of the floppy cable connects to pin 34 of the controller.

Answer 1

False

Question 2

The read/write heads are the part of the hard drive that actually transmit or receive the 1s and 0s to or from the hard drive.

Answer 2

True

Question 3

RAID 10 creates a second striped set of disks that is a mirror of another striped set.

Answer 3

False

Question 4

Two considerations when adding or installing a floppy drive are an available drive bay and an available power connector.

Question 5

A SATA hard drive is common in todayʹs computers and cheaper than SAS hard drives.

Question 6

One purpose of the read/write head is to write 1s and 0s to the disk surface.

Question 7

A slice is the smallest division on a hard drive surface. Tracks are divided into these.

Question 8

NTFS has a maximum of 4GB per hard drive volume.

Question 9

One hard disk metal plate is called a cylinder.

Question 10

A cable with a twist is used when installing two floppy drives.

Question 11

A GPT is found on 64-bit Windows operating systems.

Question 12

The Windows boot partition is the partition that must contain the majority of the operating system.

Question 13

One type of 3.5ʺ floppy drives is 1.44MB.

Question 14

The motor is a part of the hard drive that holds the read/write heads.

Question 15

GPT partitioning is done through the Device Manager tool.

Question 16

Pin 1 can be distinguished by the colored stripe on the cable or number 1 on the motherboard connector.

Question 17

Concentric circles on the surface of the floppy disk or hard drive are commonly called platters.

Question 18

A spanned volume requires a minimum of three hard drives.

Question 19

The HPA commonly holds a copy of the BIOS.

Question 20

A striped volume requires a minimum of two hard drives.

Question 21

The DBR contains the system files.

Question 22

A hard drive that contains system files and is used to load software when the computer is turned on is known as a bootable disk.

Question 23

The serial architecture used for home workstations can support both internal and external storage devices.

Question 24

Older IDE and SCSI standards are both serial architectures.

Question 25

An external hard drive supports both eSATA and USB. The laptop has both connectors. The drive will run faster if you connect both cables simultaneously.

Question 26

The primary IDE motherboard connection normally uses I/O address 1F0 -1F7h and IRQ 15.

Question 27

An eSATA motherboard port can provide power to an external device, but an eSATA port on an adapter cannot.

Question 28

Hard drives receive one or more drive letters from the operating system, and they normally start with the drive letter A.

Question 29

A number assigned to a SCSI device that determines the deviceʹs priority on the SCSI bus is the SCSI ID.

Question 30

A high-pitched whining sound is a common sound for a hard drive.

Question 31

The ATA standard is associated with the SCSI interface.

Question 32

The SCANDISK or CHKDSK program detects and repairs lost clusters.

Question 33

Hardware RAID is accomplished by using the Windows Disk Management tool.

Question 34

A SAS hard drive is used most often in network servers.

Question 35

PATA drives are set up using master/slave/cable select jumpers.

Question 36

Windows XP can use the FAT16 or NTFS file system.

Question 37

A RAW volume is a volume that has never been partitioned, but it has been formatted.

Question 38

An SSD normally requires a special driver in Windows XP, Vista, or 7.

Question 39

Disk cache or virtual memory speeds up hard drive data access.

Question 40

SATA supports internal and external devices.

Question 41

The disk drive is called a storage device, whereas the floppy disk is called a storage .

A) Application
B) Container
C) Media
D) Controller

Question 42

How many read and write heads does a floppy disk drive have?

A) 1
B) 2
C) 3
D) 4

Question 43

Which type of storage device would be best to place in a device for a 4-year-old?

A) Floppy disk
B) Internal SATA hard drive
C) External SATA hard drive
D) SSD
E) Internal PATA hard drive

Question 44

One of the most effective ways of increasing computer performance is to increase the size of virtual memory.

Question 45

When two PATA devices connect to the same IDE cable, only one device transmits at a time.

Question 46

What type of storage device is the most reliable?

A) SSD
B) PATA
C) SATA
D) eSATA
E) SCSI
F) SAS

Question 47

FAT32 supports disk compression.

Question 48

When a disk has been prepared to store data, it has been

A) Formatted
B) Cleaned
C) Enabled
D) Tracked

Question 49

A newly installed hard drive can be partitioned as part of the operating system installation.

Question 50

One of the most effective ways of increasing computer performance is to add more RAM.

Question 51

The read and write heads of a floppy disk drive

A) Touch the surface of the disk while reading and writing data, which is why the heads get dirty
B) Float a few millimeters above the surface of the disk
C) Spin around a stationary disk
D) Read and write to the bottom surface of the disk because the top surface cannot be accessed

Question 52

Two SATA devices can connect to a cable that has two device connectors and a motherboard connector.

Question 53

The amount of data a disk is capable of storing is called

A) Capacity
B) Density
C) Matrix
D) Volume

Question 54

It is common to use hard drive space as RAM.

Question 55

An eSATA drive does not require setting or removing a termination jumper.

Question 56

An SSD can attach to a SATA port.

Question 57

When only one PATA device connects to an IDE cable, configure that device as master and attach the device to the center cable connector for optimum performance.

Question 58

The controller and a 34 pin ribbon cable are

A) Main parts of the floppy subsystem
B) Used to connect a printer
C) The primary components of a drive storage system
D) Used to connect a USB hub

Question 59

IDE hard drives are normally the fastest type of IDE device.

Question 60

What type of RAID is a striped set of disks that mirror another set of striped disks?

A) 0
B) 1
C) 01
D) 10
E) 5

Question 61

Two internal SCSI hard drives are installed in a computer and attach to a SCSI adapter. When the system powers up, neither of the drives are detected. What should be checked?

A) Termination of only the SCSI adapter and the adapter and hard drives have a unique ID.
B) Termination of both hard drives and both hard drives are set to SCSI ID 0.
C) Termination of both hard drives and that both hard drives have a unique ID.
D) Termination of both ends of the SCSI chain and that both hard drives have a unique ID.

Question 62

A computer needs to have a power supply replaced. The computer has a floppy drive, one PATA optical drive, two SATA hard drives, an external SATA hard drive, and an external USB hard drive. How many unique power connection types are be needed from the power supply for all this storage?

A) 1
B) 2
C) 3
D) 4
E) 5
F) 6

Question 63

What does IDE mean?

A) Intermittent Data Emulation
B) Integrated Drive Electronics
C) Input Data Exhausted
D) Interrupt Drive - External

Question 64

While upgrading Windows XP to 7, you see a partition on the hard drive that does not have a drive letter and cannot be accessed from within the Disk Management tool. What should you do?

A) Right-click the partition and select Initialize.
B) Right-click the partition and select Check Now.
C) Right-click the partition and select Import Foreign Disk.
D) Nothing. This is the HPA.

Question 65

What is the difference between PATA and SATA?

A) SATA is slower.
B) PATA transfers one bit at a time.
C) One SATA connection allows for only one device to be attached.
D) PATA is the newer technology.

Question 66

Which RAID level does NOT provide reliability?

A) 5
B) 1
C) 10
D) 01
E) All these RAID levels provide reliability.

Question 67

In a hard drive, a contains multiple .

A) Sector; clusters
B) Concentric circle; tracks
C) Head; cylinders
D) Cylinder; tracks

Question 68

Which type of hard drive commonly contains its own BIOS chip?

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

Question 69

You have three PATA IDE devices. How many IDE channels are needed to install these three devices in one computer?

A) 1
B) 2
C) 3
D) 4
E) Cannot be determined

Question 70

Older PATA IDE cables and the Ultra ATA/66 cable differ by

A) Where the twist occurs
B) The number of devices they can connect to
C) The number of conductors
D) The number of pins

Question 71

Which of the following would most likely participate in a RAID?

A) Track
B) Optical drive
C) SSD
D) HDD
F) floppy drive

Question 72

Where would you go to enable a SATA port?

A) CMOS
B) BIOS
C) Disk Management Tool
D) Task Manager

Question 73

Which of the following is NOT a common type of hard drive?

A) ST506
B) SATA IDE
C) PATA IDE
D) SAS

Question 74

A hard drive platter typically has surfaces and read/write heads.

A) 2, 2
B) 1, 1
C) 2, 4
D) 1, 2

Question 75

A recommended approach for diagnosing a read/write error on a floppy drive is to first

A) Try a different disk in the floppy drive.
B) Replace the floppy drive.
C) Replace the floppy cable.
D) Replace the floppy controlling circuits.

Question 76

What part of the floppy drive subsystem is most likely to fail?

A) Floppy drive
B) Disk
C) Cable
D) Controlling circuits

Question 77

A computer needs to have a power supply replaced. The computer has a floppy drive, one PATA optical drive, two SATA hard drives, an eSATA hard drive, and an external USB hard drive. How many power connectors are needed from the power supply to attach all this storage?

A) 1
B) 2
C) 3
D) 4
E) 5
F) 6

Question 78

The smallest division on a hard disk is a .

A) Track
B) Sector
C) Cylinder
D) Cluster

Question 79

What does SCSI mean?

A) Small Computer System Interface
B) Sorted, Compiled, Saved, and Implemented
C) Scuzzy Compliant System Interface
D) Simply-Chained System Interface

Question 80

The purpose of the additional 40 ground lines in the 80-conductor cable is to increase the data transfer rates and reduce interference from

A) Redundancy
B) Crosstalk
C) Slave devices
D) Master devices