PC Pro Ch. 5

You have been asked to implement a RAID 5 solution for an engineer's desktop. What is the minimum number of hard drives disks that can be used to configure RAID 5?

3.

One of the video editors in your company is worried that he may lose a lot of data if his hard drive fails. He has asked you to come up with a solution. To do this, you have decided to implement a RAID 10 solution on his desktop workstation. Which of the following is the MINIMUM number of hard disks that can be used?

4.

You are building a new computer and have purchased a motherboard that includes four built-in SATA connectors. Which of the following MOST accurately lists the maximum number of SATA devices you can connect to the motherboard using the integrated ports?

4.

You have a CD-RW drive that advertises speeds of 32x/12x/48x. What is the read speed of the drive?

48x.

If you want to boot from a hard drive, what must it have?

Active partition.

Which partition type identifies the partition as one that holds the boot loader program used to start the OS?

Active.

Uses blue laser light which has a shorter wavelength, which allows data to be packed more tightly on the disc.

BD (Blu-ray Disc).

Was originally developed for high definition video (expanded content on movie discs), but can also be used for data storage.

BD (Blu-ray Disc).

Which of the following are optical storage devices? (Three answers.)

BD, CD, DVD.

Which Blu-ray standard defines rewritable disks?

BD-RE.

Only support volumes made up of contiguous disk space.

Basic disks.

Supported by all operating systems.

Basic disks.

Use primary and extended partitions.

Basic disks.

Disc surface made up of lands and pits. Reflective light used to interpret the data.

CD (Compact Disc).

First developed to store digital music. Later, was adapted to store digital computer data.

CD (Compact Disc).

Which of the following is typically used for large data backups of servers?

DLT Tape

A red laser causes a crystal to form which creates the reflective and non-reflective areas on the bottom of the disc.

DVD (Digital Versatile Disc).

Single-sided discs can hold about 4.7 GB of data. Dual-layer discs can hold up to 8.5 GB of data.

DVD (Digital Versatile Disc).

You have a computer with three hard disks. A RAID 0 volume uses space on Disk 1 and Disk 2. A RAID 1 volume uses space on Disk 2 and Disk 3. Disk 2 fails. Which of the following is true?

Data on the RAID 1 volume is accessible; data on the RAID 0 volume is not.

While configuring a computer, you find that you need to create, format, and manage the partitions and volumes on your hard drives. Which of the following is the BEST command line utility to use?

DiskPart.

You have a computer running Windows 7 Home Premium and need to access the contents of a flash drive. The flash drive has been formatted with the exFAT file system. You want to read the flash drive on your computer as quickly as possible with the least amount of effort. What should you do?

Do nothing. Windows 7 can natively access exFAT file systems.

Store partitioning information in a hidden database on all such disks in the system.

Dynamic disks.

Support up to 128 volumes.

Dynamic disks.

Support volumes that use discontiguous disk space.

Dynamic disks.

You have added two new hard disks to a Windows computer. These disks are configured as basic disks. Which of the following could be configured on these disks? (Two answers.)

Extended partitions with logical drives, primary partitions.

A thick magnetic disk made of aluminum platters. Uses read/write heads to access data stored on the platters.

HDD (Hard disk drive).

Up to several TB in storage capacity and cost per MB is cheap.

HDD (Hard disk drive).

Which storage device uses aluminum platters for storing data?

Hard disk

You need a storage device that has very large storage capacity, is fast, and is relatively inexpensive. Which storage device will best suit your needs?

Hard disk

Which of the following are magnetic storage devices? (Two answers.)

Hard disk, tape drive.

You have four volumes on a basic hard disk. Which of the following do you expect to see as the status of the fourth volume if it is valid and has no errors?

Healthy (Logical drive).

Indicates that the disk is turned on and can be accessed and the volume on the disk is valid and has no errors.

Healthy.

You have four volumes on a basic hard disk. You convert the disk to dynamic. After the conversion, which of the following do you expect to see as the status of the fourth volume if it is valid and has no errors?

Healthy.

Which of the following is not an advantage of SSDs over HDDs?

Inexpensive.

Shows while a disk is being converted from a basic disk to a dynamic disk.

Initializing.

A manager wants you to install a Serial ATA hard drive into his computer, but the motherboard does not have a Serial ATA connector. What should you do?

Install a Serial ATA host adapter in an expansion slot.

Your computer currently runs Windows 7 Enterprise edition. You want to create a RAID 5 array using three newly-installed SATA disks. When you go to Disk Management, the option to create the RAID 5 array is not available. Which of the following BEST describes what must be done?

Install an add-on RAID controller.

You have an existing computer running Windows 7 Enterprise. You want to configure a RAID 1 array in the computer. You install two new SATA drives, then use the RAID controller integrated in the motherboard to define a RAID 1 array using them. When you boot the computer, Windows does not show the logical RAID drive. What should you do?

Install the drivers for the RAID controller.

You are configuring a new system and want to use a RAID 0 array for the operating system using SATA disks and the RAID functionality built into the motherboard. Which of the following BEST describes the action you will take as part of the configuration?

Load the RAID drivers during operating system installation.

You are in the process of preparing a storage device and must determine which file system to use. Which of the following BEST describes the advantage of using the eFAT file system of NFTS?

Lower memory and processor resource use.

What is required to control access to the file system using file and folder permissions on a Windows-based computer?

NTFS-formatted partition.

You have a DVD-ROM disc with no label and you want to know if it has any important files on it. You insert the DVD-ROM into your optical media drive, then you double-click the drive letter for the optical drive to see the contents of the disc. If the DVD-ROM is not a valid disc, which error message will you see?

No media.

Which of the following are advantages of solid state storage compared to hard drives? (Two answers.)

No moving parts, lower power requirements.

What method does an eMMC card use for storing memory?

Non-volatile memory chips.

You have a disk in your system that is displayed in the Disk Management utility as shown in the image below. The disk icon includes a red arrow that is pointing down. Which of the following would you expect to see in the space where the red outline is, as the status of this disk?

Not initialized.

Shows when a dynamic disk has been removed or turned off.

Offline.

Ideal for music and video. Portable and cheap with a long shelf life.

Optical disc.

Uses lasers to read and write information stored in the form of pits in their reflective coating.

Optical disc.

Which of the following tasks would you complete as part of a SATA installation?

Plug in the 15-pin power connector into the SATA drive.

You are building a new computer that will contain two hard disks. to provide increased performance, you have decided to configure the drives using RAID technology. Which of the following will BEST meet your needs?

RAID 0.

You have been asked to configure the drives in a computer. The end user wants to use striping without incorporating any fault tolerance.

RAID 0.

What is an advantage of RAID 5 over RAID 1?

RAID 5 improves performance over RAID 1.

Which of the following drive configurations uses striping with parity for fault tolerance?

RAID 5.

What method does an SDHC card use for storing data?

Reprogrammable memory

What interface is primarily used for internal hard drives in modern desktop PC systems?

SATA.

Which of the following is the most common disk interface used for optical drives on home and office computers?

SATA.

Which generation of SATA storage devices does the following?

SATA3.

A flash device and storage capacity similar to a small hard drive.

SSD (Solid state drive).

Faster than other devices. No moving parts. Last longer than other storage devices.

SSD (Solid state drive).

You want to set up a Windows system to also be able to boot to Linux. To be able to dual boot, the system needs a partition on which to install Linux. However, you don't have an extra hard disk that can be used for the Linux partition. The existing disk has no unpartitioned space available, but it has 300 GB of free space. Which of the following disk management operations will BEST prepare your hard disk for dual boot?

Shrink the primary partition.

Which optical media has the greatest storage capacity?

Single-layer, single-sided Blu-ray disc.

Which of the following is true about primary partitions?

The active partition must be a primary partition.

You have just finished installing Windows on a system that contains four physical hard disks. The installation process has created a system volume and a C: volume on the first disk (Disk 0). The installation process also initialized the second disk (Disk 1) and the third disk (Disk 2) but did not create any volumes on this disk. Which of the following would you expect to see as the status of DIsk 1 and Disk 2?

Unallocated.

Indicates that the errors have occurred on physical or dynamic disks.

Unavailable.

You have an extra disk on your system that has three primary partitions and an extended partition with two logical drives. You want to convert the partitions to simple volumes, preferably without losing any data. Which of the following is the BEST step to perform?

Upgrade the disk to a dynamic disk.

Your computer's hard drive is currently formatted as FAT32, but you want to take advantage of the features offered to NTFS drives. What should you do?

Use the convert command at a command prompt.

You have a hard disk that is formatted with the FAT32 file system. You would like to implement file and folder permissions on the Design folder that apply when files are accessed both locally and remotely. What should you do?

Use the convert command to convert from FAT32 to NTFS, then configure NTFS permissions.

Which of the following conditions would prevent you from using a GUID partition table (GPT), when setting up a disk drive?

You're setting up the drive to boot to Windows 7 on a computer that uses traditional BIOS.

You want a storage device that has the ability to: Integrate data and device power into a single cable, use a connector and port that is neither L-shaped nor rectangular.

eSATAp.