Chapter 7 Configuring Storage

Which of the following statements are true of striped volumes? (Choose all that apply.) a. Striped volumes provide enhanced performance over simple volumes. b. Striped volumes provide greater fault tolerance than simple volumes. c. You can extend striped volumes after creation. d. If a single physical disk in the striped volume fails, all of the data in the entire volume is lost.

a. Striped volumes provide enhanced performance over simple volumes. d. If a single physical disk in the striped volume fails, all of the data in the entire volume is lost.

Which of the following tools is the best solution for adding more drives to a storage pool and also renaming the pool? a. PowerShell b. Disk Manager c. Manage Storage Space d. Additional drives cannot be added to the pool without re-creating it.

c. Manage Storage Space

2. Specify the correct order of steps necessary to creating and mounting a VHD.

Log on with administrative privileges and open Server Manager. Click Tools > Computer Management. Click Disk Management and then click Create VHD from the Action menu. Specify the Location path and name for the new VHD file and then specify the maximum size of the disk. Select the virtual hard disk format option (VHD or VHDX). Select one of the following VHD types (Fixed size or Dynamically expanding). Click OK for the system to create and attach the VHD file. The VHD appears as a disk in the Disk Management snap-in.

1. Specify the correct order of the steps necessary to creating a storage pool.

__1___ Log on with administrative credentials. __2___ Connect the drives to your computer. __3__ Press the Windows logo key + r, type Storage Spaces, and then select it from the Results list. __4___ From the Results list, click Storage Spaces. __5___ Click Create a new pool and storage space. __6___ Select the drive(s) you want to include in the new storage pool. __7___ Click Create pool.

Which of the following are requirements for extending a volume on a dynamic disk? (Choose all that apply.) a. If you want to extend a simple volume, you can use only the available space on the same disk, if the volume is to remain simple. b. The volume must have a file system before you can extend a simple or spanned volume. c. You can extend a simple or spanned volume if you formatted it using the FAT or FAT32 file systems. d. You can extend a simple volume across additional disks if it is not a system volume or a boot volume.

a. If you want to extend a simple volume, you can use only the available space on the same disk, if the volume is to remain simple. d. You can extend a simple volume across additional disks if it is not a system volume or a boot volume.

Which of the following drives can be added to a storage pool? (Choose all that apply.) a. SATA b. eSATA c. USB d. SCSI

a. SATA b. eSATA c. USB d. SCSI

Which of the following volume types supported by Windows 10 does not provide fault tolerance? (Choose all that apply) a. Striped b. Spanned c. Mirrored d. None of the above

a. Striped

When creating a storage space, how many disks are needed when setting up parity for resiliency settings in a storage pool? a. 2 b. 3 c. 5 d. 4

b. 3

Which of the following is the next step after creating a virtual hard disk (VHD)? a. Mounting it either through Server Manager or the Disk Management snap-in b. Initializing the disk and creating volumes on it, just as you would a physical disk c. Using the VHD (creation of the VHD file readies the disk for storage) d. Mounting the VHD file to a Hyper-V virtual machine

b. Initializing the disk and creating volumes on it, just as you would a physical disk

Which of the following tools prevents the installation of removable devices on a stand-alone Windows 10 computer? a. GPMC b. LGPE c. BitLocker Group Policy d. BitLocker To Go Group Policy

b. LGPE

Which of the following processes reserves space for future use when working with storage spaces/storage pools? a. Partitions b. Thin provisioning c. SMB blocks d. Provisioned storage blocks

b. Thin provisioning

When creating a storage space, which of the following resiliency settings requires at least five drives? a. Parity b. Three-way mirror c. Two-way mirror d. Simple

b. Three-way mirror

When creating storage spaces, which of the following types of resiliency works best for protection against two drives failing simultaneously while setting up storage space? a. Three-way mirror b. Two-way mirror c. Parity d. Simple

b. Two-way mirror

Which of the following approaches is best to reserve at least 500 GB of space for a new storage space when there is only 100 GB of actual physical disk space? a. Wait until there is enough physical disk capacity to create the 500 GB storage space. b. Purchase new drives before creating the space. c. Use thin provisioning and create the larger space. Drives can be purchased later when needed. d. Configure one pool now and another when the drives are available.

c. Use thin provisioning and create the larger space. Drives can be purchased later when needed.

What is the maximum size of an NTFS volume with 64 kb clusters? a. 2 GB b. 32 GB c. 4 TB d. 256 TB e. 512 TB

d. 256 TB