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7. What is the default primary partition for Windows? A. C: C. E: B. D: D. F:

A. C:

20. What Windows tool partitions a drive? A. Disk Management B. Disk Administrator C. FDISK D. Optimize Drives

A. Disk Management

10. How many master boot records can exist on an MBR disk? A. One B. Four C. One per drive letter D. One per primary partition

A. One

12. How many partitions can be active at any given point in time? A. One B. Two C. Three D. Five

A. One

8. How many extended partitions can be created in a hard drive? A. One B. Two C. Five D. Six

A. One

18. What Windows function is similar to a swap partition in Linux/Unix systems? A. Page file B. Recovery partition C. Hidden partition D. Reassembled file

A. Page file

26. To change a basic disk to dynamic, right-click the drive icon and select _______________. A. Format as Dynamic B. Partition as Dynamic C. Convert to Dynamic Disk D. New Volume

C. Convert to Dynamic Disk

34. What Windows tool finds additional space on a hard drive? A. Convert B. Defrag C. Disk Cleanup D. Disk Management

C. Disk Cleanup

33. What Windows 8 graphical utility finds bad clusters? A. Disk Utility B. Disk Defragmenter C. Error checking D. ScanDisk

C. Error checking

30. ScanDisk and chkdsk are two maintenance tools that have been combined into what Windows 8 and later calls the _______________ tool.

Error checking

17. Microsoft limits Windows to _______________ partitions under a GPT scheme. A. 4 B. 32 C. 64 D. 128

D. 128

27. To make dynamic volume bigger, right-click the volume and choose _______________. A. Span Volume B. Convert to bigger C. Expand Volume D. Extend Volume

D. Extend Volume

25. If you move a dynamic disk from one computer to another, how will this drive be displayed in Disk Manager? A. Failed B. Formatting C. Unallocated D. Foreign drive

D. Foreign drive

13. An MBR has four different operating systems installed. What is this setup called? A. Dual-boot B. Integrated C. MBR-enabled D. Multiboot

D. Multiboot

23. Which file system enables a user to adjust the cluster size? A. FAT8 B. FAT16 C. FAT32 D. NTFS

D. NTFS

31. A _______________ is a place in the directory structure of an existing volume that can point to a volume or partition. A. partition table B. volume boot sector C. stripe set D. mount point

D. mount point

9. In Windows, each _______________ is assigned a drive letter from C: to Z:. A. cylinder B. file C. sector D. partition

D. partition

5. The _______________ stores the location of the operating system boot files. A. boot sector B. MBR C. partition table D. partition boot sector

D. partition boot sector

6. _______________ partitions are designed to support bootable operating systems. A. basic B. dynamic C. extended D. primary

D. primary

11. The _______________ program in Windows enables a user to create additional partitions on a hard drive.

Disk Management

12. A hard drive can be partitioned with _______________ in Windows.

Disk Management

31. You should never defrag a(n) _______________ because it can shorten its lifetime.

SSD

24. Any removable media that has a bootable OS is generically known as a(n) _______________.

boot disc

4. A(n) _______________ organizes each partition on the hard disk in such a way that the operating system can store files and folders.

file system

2. After partitioning, each drive must be _______________.

formatted

15. A(n) _______________ causes the format utility to test every sector to mark out the unusable ones in the FAT.

full format

25. Dynamic disks are divided into _______________ instead of partitions.

volumes

35. You should _______________ your hard drive if it gets a lot of "Trying to recover lost allocation unit" errors.

replace

14. The _______________ directory provides the foundation upon which the OS builds files and folders.

root

26. A(n) _______________ is created to use extra space from a completely different dynamic disk to increase the size of a simple volume.

spanned volume

20. FAT32 does not work on drives larger than _______________ TB.

2

1. Windows can create partitions using the _______________ disk. A. basic B. extended C. volume D. system

A. basic

32. An entire physical drive can be added to another drive as a folder by creating a _______________. A. mount point B. simple volume C. spanned volume D. striped volume

A. mount point

23. The _______________ feature of NTFS provides security for files and folders.

ACL

22. By default, what is the maximum partition size NTFS supports on a dynamic disk? A. 2 TB B. 16 TB C. 18,446,744,073,709,551,616 bytes D. 16 exabytes

B. 16 TB

24. Which file system is a newer version of FAT and allows file sizes larger than 4 GB? A. NTFS B. FAT64 C. HPFS D. FAT16

B. FAT64

21. Which code indicates that a sector in the hard drive is bad? A. FFFF B. FFF7 C. 0007 D. 0000

B. FFF7

19. What is a hidden partition that contains a restorable copy of an installed OS? A. Swap partition B. Factory recovery partition C. Simple volume D. Dynamic volume

B. Factory recovery partition

11. When using primary partitions, how many drive letters are possible on a single MBR disk? A. One B. Four C. Five D. Twenty-six

B. Four

2. What newer type of drive partitioning overcomes the limits of MBR drives? A. Dynamic disks B. GPT C. MBR2 D. LBA

B. GPT

29. Windows 7 Professional, Enterprise, and Ultimate editions can create a mirror set with two drives for data redundancy, which is also known as _______________. A. RAID 0 B. RAID 1 C. RAID 5 D. RAID 6

B. RAID 1

35. What type of problem does the error message "No Boot Device Present" indicate? A. The boot file is missing or corrupted. B. The hard drive containing the operating system has died. C. The FAT has been corrupted. D. The active partition has failed.

B. The hard drive containing the operating system has died.

30. A(n) _______________ enables you to use your existing folders to store more data that can fit on a single drive or partition/volume A. extended partition B. mount point C. primary partition D. secondary partition

B. mount point

15. A(n) _______________ volume is similar to a primary partition, but in fact, is not a primary partition. A. mirrored B. simple C. spanned D. striped

B. simple

3. The _______________ takes control of the boot process from the system BIOS. A. boot sector B. CMOS C. MBR D. POST

C. MBR

14. Which type of dynamic disk requires three or more dynamic disks with equal-sized unallocated spaces? A. Simple B. Stripped C. RAID 5 D. Mirrored

C. RAID 5

28. When using dynamic disks, which version of Windows can create RAID 5 volumes? A. Windows 7 Professional B. Windows Vista Enterprise C. Windows Server D. Windows 7 Ultimate

C. Windows Server

4. All basic hard drive partition tables support up to _______________ partitions. A. one B. two C. four D. six

C. four

16. Microsoft calls a drive structure created with a dynamic disk a _______________. A. drive B. partition C. volume D. sector

C. volume

32. _______________ is a tool used to get rid of files in the Recycle Bin, temporary Internet files, and downloaded program files.

Disk Cleanup

33. The _______________ tool can be used to help eliminate unneeded files such as files in the Recycle Bin.

Disk Cleanup

34. The _______________ tool can be run to clear up space on the hard drive occupied by temporary Internet files.

Disk Cleanup

18. The graphical tool in Windows Visa/7 that checks and corrects a fragmented drive is the _______________.

Disk Defragmenter

29. The _______________ tool in Mac OS X checks for bad clusters in the hard disk.

Disk Utility

36. Most drives today use built-in _______________ that constantly checks the drives for bad sectors.

ECC

37. A bad sector is marked as bad in the drive's internal error map by the _______________.

ECC

22. The encryption capability in NTFS is called _______________.

EFS

13. _______________ a hard drive creates a file system and root directory.

Formatting

17. _______________ occurs as files begin to separate over time.

Fragmentation

6. Partitioning creates a(n) _______________ and a partition table on the disk.

MBR

7. The first sector of an MBR hard drive contains the _______________.

MBR

21. The _______________ file system provides encryption of files.

NTFS

19. The _______________ program in Windows 8/8.1/10 is used to rearrange the files into neat, contiguous chunks.

Optimize Drives

8. During boot-up, the BIOS/POST reads the MBR to find the _______________ partition and boots the operating system on that partition.

active

3. Microsoft calls a hard drive that uses either the MBR partitioning scheme or the GPT partitioning scheme a(n) _______________ disk.

basic

16. In FAT16, _______________ enables a user to format partitions larger than 32 MB in size.

clustering

28. One of the benefits of mount points is that they do not require a(n) drive _______________.

letter

5. To enable a single hard drive to store more than one operating system, it would need to be _______________.

partitioned

1. The process of electronically subdividing the physical hard drive into smaller units is known as _______________.

partitioning

9. A GPT allows an almost unlimited number of _______________ partitions.

primary

10. On a GPT drive, LBA0 is the _______________ MBR.

protective

27. A(n) _______________ volume spreads out blocks of each file across multiple disks.

striped