Deck 10: Maintaining Windows

Question 1

 Windows Disk Cleanup is the utility to use whenever you want to defragment your hard drive.

Answer 1

False

Question 2

 How often does Windows 7/Vista automatically defragment a hard drive?

A) once a week
B) once a day
C) once a month
D) once an hour

Answer 2

A

Question 3

 Restore points are created at regular intervals and just before you install software or hardware by what utility?

A) System Activation
B) System Protection
C) System Restoration
D) System Prevention

Answer 3

B

Question 4

 What is the fourth partition on a hard drive called?

A) extended partition
B) master boot record
C) volume
D) primary partition

Question 5

 What type of storage drive contains spinning platters?

A) optical hard drive
B) solid-state drives
C) floppy hard drives
D) magnetic hard disk drives

Question 6

 What partition is the bootable partition that startup BIOS turns to when searching for an operating system to start up on an MBR partitioned drive?

A) extended partition
B) startup partition
C) active partition
D) volume

Question 7

 The chkdsk command will not fix anything on the drive unless the drive is unlocked.

Question 8

 Using Windows 7 Backup and Restore, you can back up the volume on which Windows is installed.

Question 9

 What is another name for a file allocation unit?

A) sector
B) cluster
C) segment
D) fragment

Question 10

 If you enter a command and want to terminate its execution before it is finished, what key press should you use?

A) Ctrl+C
B) Ctrl+V
C) Ctrl+B
D) Ctrl+X

Question 11

) What command should you use to rearrange parts of files on the drive so they are contiguous?

A) Optimize
B) Analyze
C) Defrag
D) Chkdsk

Question 12

 What is Pagefile.sys used for in Windows?

A) system file storage
B) to store E-books
C) video RAM
D) virtual memory

Question 13

 What is a snapshot of the system settings and configuration called?

A) rollback point
B) restore unit
C) rollback unit
D) restore point

Question 14

 How much storage does a dynamic disk require for the disk management database?

A) 1 MB
B) 10 GB
C) 5 MB
D) 50 MB

Question 15

 Defragmenting is not recommended for solid-state hard drives.

Question 16

) You can use what utility to convert two or more basic disks to dynamic disks?

A) Disk Management
B) Windows Management
C) System Management
D) Disk Config

Question 17

 In order to ensure drive health, what command should you use to search for and repair file system errors?

A) Defrag
B) Chkdsk
C) Analyze
D) Optimize

Question 18

 Windows needs free space on the hard drive for normal operation, for defragmenting the drive, for burning CDs and DVDs, and for a variety of other tasks, so it's important to delete unneeded files occasionally.

Question 19

 Using what Windows 7 utility allows you to create a backup schedule that can include any folder on the hard drive and the system image?

A) Automated System Backup
B) Complete PC Recovery
C) Automated System Recovery
D) Backup and Restore

Question 20

 What command creates a subdirectory under a directory?

A) RD
B) MD
C) CD
D) AD

Question 21

Matching
Match each item with a statement below.
a. Dynamic volumes
b. Virtual memory
c. Defragmenting
d. Backup
e. Mounted drive
f. Chkdsk utility
g. Pagefile.sys
h. Basic disk
i. restore points
j. file system
 rearranges files on the drive into as few segments as possible

Question 22

Matching
Match each item with a statement below.
a. Dynamic volumes
b. Virtual memory
c. Defragmenting
d. Backup
e. Mounted drive
f. Chkdsk utility
g. Pagefile.sys
h. Basic disk
i. restore points
j. file system
 snapshots of the system and include Windows system files that have changed

Question 23

Matching
Match each item with a statement below.
a. Dynamic volumes
b. Virtual memory
c. Defragmenting
d. Backup
e. Mounted drive
f. Chkdsk utility
g. Pagefile.sys
h. Basic disk
i. restore points
j. file system
 an extra copy of a data or software file that you can use if the original file becomes damaged or destroyed

Question 24

 What term is used to describe the unused space at the end of the last cluster?

A) zero
B) slack
C) void
D) null

Question 25

Matching
Match each item with a statement below.
a. Dynamic volumes
b. Virtual memory
c. Defragmenting
d. Backup
e. Mounted drive
f. Chkdsk utility
g. Pagefile.sys
h. Basic disk
i. restore points
j. file system
 a hidden file stored in the root directory of drive C

Question 26

 What are two methods that can be used to free up disk space on a hard drive?

A) Format the hard drive
B) Delete the Windows\System directory
C) Uninstall software you no longer use
D) Use drive compression

Question 27

 What file systems supported by Windows can be used for volumes and drives that don't hold the Windows installation? (Choose all that apply.)

A) FAT64
B) FAT32
C) exFAT
D) NTFS

Question 28

 If a storage pool is configured as if it has more virtual storage than the physical drives actually offer, what feature is being used?

A) thick provisioning
B) thin provisioning
C) explicit zeroing
D) implicit zeroing

Question 29

 On a magnetic drive, what is the most common sector size?

A) 512 bytes
B) 512 KB
C) 16 KB
D) 4 KB

Question 30

 Volumes within an extended partition are known by what term?

A) extended volumes
B) extra volumes
C) logical drives
D) logical expansions

Question 31

Matching
Match each item with a statement below.
a. Dynamic volumes
b. Virtual memory
c. Defragmenting
d. Backup
e. Mounted drive
f. Chkdsk utility
g. Pagefile.sys
h. Basic disk
i. restore points
j. file system
 a volume that can be accessed by way of a folder on another volume so that the folder has more available space

Question 32

 What option, when passed to the shutdown command, will restart the local computer?

A) /h
B) -h
C) /s
D) /r

Question 33

 In Windows, what two terms describe the active partition on an MBR drive, and the location where the Windows operating system is stored, respectively?

A) primary partition
B) logical partition
C) system partition
D) boot partition

Question 34

Matching
Match each item with a statement below.
a. Dynamic volumes
b. Virtual memory
c. Defragmenting
d. Backup
e. Mounted drive
f. Chkdsk utility
g. Pagefile.sys
h. Basic disk
i. restore points
j. file system
 can span more than one hard drive

Question 35

Matching
Match each item with a statement below.
a. Dynamic volumes
b. Virtual memory
c. Defragmenting
d. Backup
e. Mounted drive
f. Chkdsk utility
g. Pagefile.sys
h. Basic disk
i. restore points
j. file system
. the overall structure an OS uses to name, store, and organize files on a drive

Question 36

) Text files that are called initialization files often utilize what two file name extensions?

A) .init
B) .ini
C) .inf
D) .start

Question 37

Matching
Match each item with a statement below.
a. Dynamic volumes
b. Virtual memory
c. Defragmenting
d. Backup
e. Mounted drive
f. Chkdsk utility
g. Pagefile.sys
h. Basic disk
i. restore points
j. file system
 searches for bad sectors on a volume and recovers the data from them if possible

Question 38

Matching
Match each item with a statement below.
a. Dynamic volumes
b. Virtual memory
c. Defragmenting
d. Backup
e. Mounted drive
f. Chkdsk utility
g. Pagefile.sys
h. Basic disk
i. restore points
j. file system
 can be partitioned and formatted as a stand-alone hard drive

Question 39

 What status indicators apply only to dynamic disks? (Choose all that apply.)

A) Foreign drive
B) Unallocated
C) Healthy (At Risk)
D) Active

Question 40

Matching
Match each item with a statement below.
a. Dynamic volumes
b. Virtual memory
c. Defragmenting
d. Backup
e. Mounted drive
f. Chkdsk utility
g. Pagefile.sys
h. Basic disk
i. restore points
j. file system
 used to enhance the amount of RAM in a system

Question 41

 Describe how the format command is used, and what it does.

Question 42

 Describe the purpose of Pagefile.sys.

Question 43

 Discuss defragmenting as it applies to solid-state drives used in a Windows 7 system.

Question 44

 List and describe the status indicators that apply only to a dynamic disk.

Question 45

 What is the Globally Unique Identifier Partition Table (GUID)?

Question 46

. What is a user profile, and what are the two general items it consists of?

Question 47

 Discuss what a cluster is and how files are stored in them.

Question 48

 List and briefly describe the three critical Windows settings that keep the system protected from malware and hackers.

Question 49

 Discuss some cautions about software RAID.

Question 50

 Describe a mounted drive and why you would use one.