Deck 6: Supporting Hard Drives and Other Storage Devices

Question 1

 If a computer is performing slowly due to file fragmentation, what Windows tool can be utilized to rearrange fragments?

A) Computer Management
B) defragmentation tool
C) defraggler
D) Disk cleanup

Answer 1

B

Question 2

) Which statement regarding the selection of a hard drive is accurate?

A) a faster spindle speed keeps the drive cooler but doesn't improve performance
B) PATA drives are backward compatible with SATA drives
C) USB drives are a good choice for fast internal drives
D) magnetic drives have larger capacity for the money than solid state drives

Answer 2

D

Question 3

 A DAT72 tape is also known by what term?

A) DDS-2
B) DDS-3
C) DDS-4
D) DDS-5

Answer 3

D

Question 4

 What process writes sector markings to a hard drive?

A) partitioning
B) low-level formatting
C) high-level formatting
D) sector provisioning

Question 5

 The SATA drive technology utilizes a serial data path.

Question 6

 If you are adding a hard drive to a system that already has a drive with Windows installed on it, what should you do?

A) you should boot from the Windows setup DVD to prepare the new drive
B) boot Windows and use Disk Management to prepare the new drive
C) use the BIOS setup screen to partition and format the new drive
D) check that the new hard drive must use the same standard as the Windows drive

Question 7

 What SATA standard provides a transfer rate of 3 Gb/sec?

A) SATA1
B) SATA2
C) SATA3
D) SATA4

Question 8

 Why might you want to use a RAID 0 disk configuration?

A) to improve overall disk performance
B) RAID 0 drives are less expensive than other RAID drives
C) to prevent data loss in case of a drive failure
D) because RAID 0 provides an automatic disk backup

Question 9

 What hard drive technology is used to predict when a drive is likely to fail?

A) S.S.D.
B) S.M.A.R.T.
C) N.A.N.D.
D) E.E.P.R.O.M.

Question 10

 What type of RAID is a combination of mirroring and striping?

A) RAID0
B) RAID1
C) RAID5
D) RAID10

Question 11

 The 2.5" size hard drive is typically used in devices such as MP3 players.

Question 12

 The read/write head on a magnetic hard drive is at both the top and bottom of each disk.

Question 13

 Hard drives that can be used for hot-swapping cost significantly less than regular hard drives.

Question 14

) What command line utility can be used to repair the BCD on a Windows installation?

A) chkdsk
B) fsutil
C) dfrgl
D) bootrec

Question 15

 How many layers of data can exist on a single side of a Blu-ray disc?

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

Question 16

 What statement best describes a RAID 5?

A) data from one drive is mirrored to another
B) it improves performance but not fault tolerance
C) it requires 3 or more drives and uses parity checking
D) it takes at least four disks and data is striped and mirrored

Question 17

 The faster the spindle rotates on a traditional magnetic drive, the better performance it will have.

Question 18

 Which statement regarding hard drives is incorrect?

A) the 3.5" size is typically used in desktops
B) a solid state drive has no moving parts
C) solid state drives are less expensive than magnetic hard drives
D) tracks on a hard drive are divided into sectors

Question 19

 What is the current maximum storage capacity limit of a magnetic tape?

A) 500GB
B) 15TB
C) 185TB
D) 300TB

Question 20

 Which rotation speed is not a typical spindle rotation speed for magnetic hard drives?

A) 3100
B) 5400
C) 7200
D) 10000

Question 21

Matching
Match each item with a statement below.
a. autodetection
b. fault tolerance
c. storage card
d. mirrored volume
e. NAND flash memory
f. WORM drive / cartridge
g. file system
h. spanning
i. striped volume
j. UDF
 a chip that contains grids of rows and columns with two transistors at each intersection that hold a zero or one bit

Question 22

Matching
Match each item with a statement below.
a. autodetection
b. fault tolerance
c. storage card
d. mirrored volume
e. NAND flash memory
f. WORM drive / cartridge
g. file system
h. spanning
i. striped volume
j. UDF
 a feature in startup BIOS that detects a new drive and selects the correct drive configuration

Question 23

 What two SD standards utilize the FAT file system?

A) SD
B) SDXC
C) SDHE
D) SDHC

Question 24

) What two optical disc drive standards allow for rewritable discs?

A) DVD-ROM
B) DVD-RAM
C) BD-ROM
D) BD-RE

Question 25

 The hard drive firmware, UEFI/BIOS, and the OS address the sectors on a hard drive utilizing what technology?

A) logical sector addressing
B) low level formatting
C) logical block addressing
D) high level formatting

Question 26

 A SATA data cable has how many pins?

A) 4 pins
B) 7 pins
C) 10 pins
D) 15 pins

Question 27

Matching
Match each item with a statement below.
a. autodetection
b. fault tolerance
c. storage card
d. mirrored volume
e. NAND flash memory
f. WORM drive / cartridge
g. file system
h. spanning
i. striped volume
j. UDF
. a type of volume that writes data to all physical disk members evenly for the purpose of improving performance

Question 28

Matching
Match each item with a statement below.
a. autodetection
b. fault tolerance
c. storage card
d. mirrored volume
e. NAND flash memory
f. WORM drive / cartridge
g. file system
h. spanning
i. striped volume
j. UDF
 the overall structure an OS uses to name, store, and organize files on a drive

Question 29

Matching
Match each item with a statement below.
a. autodetection
b. fault tolerance
c. storage card
d. mirrored volume
e. NAND flash memory
f. WORM drive / cartridge
g. file system
h. spanning
i. striped volume
j. UDF
 uses two hard drives to hold a single Windows volume

Question 30

Matching
Match each item with a statement below.
a. autodetection
b. fault tolerance
c. storage card
d. mirrored volume
e. NAND flash memory
f. WORM drive / cartridge
g. file system
h. spanning
i. striped volume
j. UDF
 a hardware component that facilitates a hardware RAID implementation

Question 31

Matching
Match each item with a statement below.
a. autodetection
b. fault tolerance
c. storage card
d. mirrored volume
e. NAND flash memory
f. WORM drive / cartridge
g. file system
h. spanning
i. striped volume
j. UDF
 assures that data written onto a tape will not be deleted or overwritten

Question 32

Matching
Match each item with a statement below.
a. autodetection
b. fault tolerance
c. storage card
d. mirrored volume
e. NAND flash memory
f. WORM drive / cartridge
g. file system
h. spanning
i. striped volume
j. UDF
  sometimes called JBOD

Question 33

 What two different file systems can be used on a Compact Disc (CD)?

A) EXT-FS
B) UFS
C) CDFS
D) UDF

Question 34

 What two optical disc drive standards support writing discs with a total capacity of 8.5GB?

A) DVD-R
B) DVD-R DL
C) DVD+R DL
D) DVD-RAM

Question 35

Matching
Match each item with a statement below.
a. autodetection
b. fault tolerance
c. storage card
d. mirrored volume
e. NAND flash memory
f. WORM drive / cartridge
g. file system
h. spanning
i. striped volume
j. UDF
 a computer's ability to respond to a hardware failure

Question 36

 What technology is used to assure that the logical block addressing on a solid state drive does not always address the same physical blocks, in order to distribute write operations?

A) wear leveling
B) bit shifting
C) block sliding
D) data migration

Question 37

 How much data can an LTO Ultrium 5 tape hold, native and compressed?

A) 1.5TB native
B) 3.0TB native
C) 1.5TB compressed
D) 3.0TB compressed

Question 38

Matching
Match each item with a statement below.
a. autodetection
b. fault tolerance
c. storage card
d. mirrored volume
e. NAND flash memory
f. WORM drive / cartridge
g. file system
h. spanning
i. striped volume
j. UDF
 a storage configuration in which data is duplicated on one drive to another drive

Question 39

 The SATA/600 standard is also known by what other name?

A) SATAI
B) SATAII
C) SATAIII
D) SATA revision 4

Question 40

 Which type of RAID volume is used for fault tolerance and only requires two drives?

A) RAID0
B) RAID1
C) RAID5
D) RAID10

Question 41

Matching
Match each item with a statement below.
a. autodetection
b. fault tolerance
c. storage card
d. mirrored volume
e. NAND flash memory
f. WORM drive / cartridge
g. file system
h. spanning
i. striped volume
j. UDF
 a file system used by DVD and Blu-ray Discs

Question 42

 Discuss how a solid state drive works.

Question 43

 What is the installation of a new file system on a device known as? Describe this process.

Question 44

 Describe the two different kinds of tapes accepted by tape drives.

Question 45

 How is data organized on a magnetic hard drive?

Question 46

 What are three of the factors you should consider when purchasing a hard drive that affect performance, use, and price?

Question 47

 Describe the parts of a magnetic hard disk.

Question 48

 Describe what a hybrid hard drive is.

Question 49

. Describe the biggest disadvantage of using tape drives.

Question 50

 What do you need to keep in mind about the system BIOS when selecting a hard drive?

Question 51

 List three steps that can be taken to troubleshoot a Windows startup issue.