Chapter 4: Managing Disks

The maximum number of primary partitions that can exist on a dynamic disk is _____.

0

A basic disk contains 3 logical partitions. How many of these partitions can be marked as active?

1

A mirrored volume is also known as a RAID ____ implementation.

1

A basic disk contains 3 partitions. How many of these partitions can be primary partitions?

3

If a RAID 5 array is composed of 4 disks with 100 GB of storage each, then what is the total capacity of the RAID 5 array for data storage?

300 GB

The maximum number of primary partitions that can exist on a MBR-style basic disk is _____.

4

You have plugged a USB hard drive into an older laptop and the disk has not appeared as available. You are concerned that the hard disk hardware has not been recognized by the computer. What utility would you use to verify?

Device Manager

You have recently added a new USB portable hard disk to your computer. You have received a notice that new hardware has been detected. The disk does not appear as a storage location. Which utility would you use to verify that the hard disk's logical disk information is scanned by Windows 7?

DiskPart Disk Mangement console

When viewing the properties of a drive, the Tools tab allows access to which of the following?

Error checking and defragmentation

The data files contained inside a VHD file cannot be browsed with Windows Explorer in Windows 7. T/F?

False

A VHD has been created using the Disk Management Utility. Before the newly created VHD can be used to store files it must be _____.

Initialized

You suspect that the data partition known as drive E on on your system is unhealthy. To check the health of drive E, what should you do next?

Open the properties of drive E:

The ____ partition hosts the main Windows 7 operating system files.

Primary Partition

You are attempting to inspect the partition information for an existing hard disk using DiskPart utility. After issuing the LIST PARTITIONS command, you receive an error message stating that no disk is selected for the action. Assuming the disk is the first hard disk in the computer, which command should you issue next?

SELECT DISK=0

File throughtput performance when reading and writing large files its typically better for striped volumes than simple volumes. T/F?

True

A data partition you have recently formatted using FAT32 is larger than required. You decide to decrease the size of the partition by shrinking it. This can be accomplished by _____.

backing up the existing files, deleteing the partition, creating a smaller partition using a smaller size, and restoring the file data from backup

You decide to move a hard disk from your computer to another computer that is also running Windows 7. The disk is currently configured as a dynamic disk. The file data is currently contains must be accessible on the destination computer. Before moving the disk you should _____.

backup the disk's data contents

An existing hard disk contains a second primary partition that is currently used to store data files. You are running out of space and would like to expand the data partition. There is only 8 MB of unpartitioned disk space available on the hard disk. You have added a new hard disk and have verified that the new disk is properly recognized by the operating system. You would like to span the data partition across to the new hard disk. To do this you must first _____.

convert the disk holding the primary partition to a dynamic disk

You have recently added a new USB hard disk to your computer. The hardware has been detected and you have verified that the disk is visible to Windows 7. You are unable to store date files to the new hard disk. What is the first step you must perform before you can store data on the disk?

create partitions or volumes

A data volume containing important documents has been deleted. You must recover the accidentally deleted file data. This can be accomplished by ____.

creating a new volume and recovering the files from a backup source

Your computer currently runs the Windows 7 operating system. You have added a second 20 GB hard disk drive to your computer to hold research data for a project you are working on. You have created a single simple volume on the data hard drive that takes up all the free space on the disk. After formatting the simple volume with the FAT32 file system and copying 10 GB of data to the volume you realize that you need 8 GB of unpartitioned disk space on the data disk drive. The next step you should take to free space on the data disk drive is to _____.

d. delete the existing simple volume and create a new one using the correct size

Before a new hard disk can be managed through the Disk Management console in Windows 7, it first must be ______.

initialized

The maximum number of logical drives that can exist within a single extended partition is _____.

only limited by the availability of free space in the extended partition

The ______ partition contains the computer hardware specific files required to start Windows.

system

Upon entering the Disk Management console, you notice a disk whose status is reported as Foreign Disk. This is most likely because _______.

the disk was moved from another computer