CIS 263 5.7.5 Practice Questions

Windows features a storage solution called Storage Spaces. What is the name of the Storage Spaces feature that allows you to allocate space for redundant information using options that include two-way mirroring, three-way mirroring, and parity?

Data Resiliency

Which of the following indicates that a drive is unavailable when you check the status of a hard drive? (Select two.)

Down Bad

Which of the following tasks does Windows Storage Spaces eliminate the need for? (Select two.)

Drive repartitioning Volume resizing

What is the minimum number of storage devices you need in order to implement three-way mirroring for a storage space?

Five

Requires at least three storage devices.

Parity

Does not provide protection from a single storage device failure.

Simple

Does not provide redundancy.

Simple

List the steps you need to follow to add more disk space to a storage space in Windows. Drag the correct step from the left to the correct step number on the right. (Not all steps on the left will be used.)

Step 1: Install a new storage device on the system. Step 2: Add free space on a new storage device to a storage pool. Step 3: Allocate space from the storage pool to an existing storage space.

On a Windows workstation, you want to use the Storage Spaces feature to create a logical drive. Which of the following components are used to configure Storage Spaces? (Select three.)

Storage pools, which are logically created from free space on storage devices. Storage space, which is a logically defined unit created from a storage pool. Storage devices, which are physical drives such as SATA drives or external drives.

You have a thin-provisioned storage space that suddenly unmounts. What is the MOST likely cause of this problem?

The storage space has run out of disk space.

You want to set up storage spaces for several employees in your company with a maximum allocation of 100 gigabytes per drive. However, you only have 500 gigabytes of available space left in the pool where you want to create the storage spaces. Which Storage Spaces feature can you use to allocate more space than what is actually available?

Thin provisioning

Protects your data if two storage devices fail at one time.

Three-Way Mirror

Requires at least five storage devices.

Three-Way mirror

Requires at least two storage devices.

Two-Way Mirror

What happens when you connect an external hard drive to a Windows PC?

Windows automatically assigns an available drive letter.