Storage

What is a disadvantage of using a DVD-R DL (Dual Layer) disc over an ordinary DVD?

A DVD-R DL has slower write speeds

As the director of procurement for your company's Sales department, you are working with the IT manager and CIO to determine the technical requirements for purchasing new laptops for your sales representatives. The sales representatives often store a significant number of multimedia files (such as videos) on their laptops, which they use for customer education and demonstration purposes. They also want to boot their Windows operating system quickly. What would be the BEST price-performance purchasing decision when it comes to providing storage media for the new laptops for the sales representatives (based on their requests)?

An SSD for the operating system and an HDD for storing multimedia files

You are in the process of purchasing several new Windows-based computers to replace broken or outdated computers. You have heard that solid-state drives (SSDs) can significantly increase systems' overall performance. Which of the following BEST describe the features of solid-state drives (SSDs) compared to hard disk drives (HDDs)? (Select two.)

An SSD opens files faster than an HDD and an SSD uses flash technology to store data

Which of the following are optical storage devices? (Select three.)

BD, DVD and CD

Which Blu-ray standard defines rewritable discs?

BD-RE

You have just received a frantic call from a customer. She informs you that after turning her computer on, she received the following error: The SMART hard disk check has detected an imminent failure. Which of the following is the best FIRST step to take?

Back up all important data and files

What are the fundamental differences between a DVD drive and a Blue-ray drive? (Select two.)

Blu-ray uses a blue laser instead of a red laser and the Blu-ray laser has a shorter wavelength, which allows data to be packed more tightly on the disc

While trying to start your Windows 11 system, you see the following error message: Could not read from the selected boot disk. Check boot path and disk hardware. Which of the following will MOST likely fix the problem?

Boot into the recovery environment and run the bootrec /rebuildbcd command

You are currently running a video editing application on your Windows 11 laptop. The laptop includes both an SSD drive and a traditional hard drive. You run the video application on the hard drive, but you would like to install and run the app from the SSD drive to enhance performance speed. Which of the following should you do to protect the video application and associated data files from drive failure when you move them to the SSD drive?

Configure an automatic backup to the hard disk drive

The hard drive (HDD) you are installing in a PC is the boot drive with the operating system on it. You want to make sure that the BIOS recognizes this HDD as the boot drive without the need to configure it as the boot drive in BIOS. Which of the following should you do to make sure the HDD is recognized as the boot drive automatically?

Connect the HDD to the lowest numbered SATA connector on the motherboard

You want to create a software RAID 1 array on your Windows 11 workstation using Disk 1 and Disk 2. What do you need to do with Disk 1 and Disk 2 before configuring them for a RAID 1 array?

Convert the disks from basic to dynamic

Your computer has a single hard disk with a single volume that is used by the C:\ drive. You have previously upgraded the disk to a dynamic disk. The disk has run out of space, so you want to add more space to the C:\ volume. You add a new hard disk to the computer. Which of the following is the BEST step to complete while adding space to the C:\ drive?

Create a mount point using space on the second disk

You have a computer with a single hard disk, which is configured as a basic disk with an NTFS-formatted single partition. The computer runs Windows 11. The disk has run out of space, and you want to add more space to the disk. You install a new hard drive and start Disk Management. Which of the following is a required task to add space to the existing volume?

Create a new partition with or without a drive letter on the new hard disk

Which of the following disk maintenance utilities optimizes the performance of your hard drive by joining parts of files that are in different locations into a single location?

Disk Defragmenter

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?

Four

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

Which Windows tool can you use to determine the amount of space available to shrink a volume?

Disk Management

Which Windows tool do you use to create and delete partitions on hard drives?

Disk Management

Which of the following disk maintenance utilities locates and disposes of files that can be safely removed from a disk?

Disk cleanup

Which of the following indicates that a drive is unavailable when you check the status of a hard drive?

Down and bad

You have just purchased an Ultrabook with an SSD expansion card that provides SATA 3.0, PCI Express 3.0, and USB 3.0 ports. Which type of expansion slot standard is your Ultrabook using?

M.2

You have just finished upgrading the 250-watt power supply in your desktop computer to a 450-watt power supply. Now the BIOS does not recognize one of the hard disk drives in the system during POST. Which of the following troubleshooting steps is the BEST to try first?

Make sure that the hard disk is connected to the power supply

You have a single hard drive on your laptop with a basic system volume. The volume is running out of space, and you would like to extend the space on the volume. Which of the following would work BEST to resolve the issue?

Extend the system volume on the existing hard drive by using contiguous unallocated space

You have just purchased a new USB drive that you want to use to troubleshoot the computers in your company as well as other network devices, such as printers and projectors. You need to format this new drive with a file system that will be recognized and used on all devices. Which of the following file system types would meet MOST, if not all, of your needs when formatting your USB drive?

FAT32

Lately, you hear a clicking noise when reading or writing data from the hard disk. What is the MOST likely cause of the clicking?

Failing hard drive

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

Five

You have decided to optimize the hard drive on your Windows laptop by running the Error Checking utility. What are the things that you can expect the Error Checking utility to perform? (Select two.)

Fix lost clusters and fix cross-linked files

You are a sales representative for a large pharmaceutical company. You often want to share information from your laptop quickly with customers during onsite visits. Which of the following storage media would BEST allow you to quickly and inexpensively share your files with the customers?

Flash drive

Which of the following is a magnetic storage device?

Hard disk

Which storage device uses aluminum platters for storing data?

Hard disk

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

Hard disk

You are configuring a new system, and you want to use a RAID 0 array for the operating system using SATA disks and a special controller card that includes a RAID processor. Which RAID method should you use?

Hardware

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

Healthy

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

Healthy (Logical Drive)

Jared has just installed an additional HDD on his Windows computer for storing multimedia files. He inserts a DVD disc to watch a movie with his usual movie player software, but the movie fails to play. In fact, the player indicates that there is no DVD drive available. What is the BEST first step that Jared should take to resolve the issue?

Make sure the movie player is pointing to the correct drive letter for the DVD drive

You have just installed an SSD drive in your older Windows workstation. However, after you start Windows, you do not see the SSD drive listed in Windows Explorer. What should you do FIRST?

Make sure the power connectors on the SSD drive are plugged in all the way

You have configured Disk 3 and Disk 4 on your Windows 11 workstation as a RAID 1 array with the NTFS file system, and you have assigned F as the drive letter for the array. Each disk has an individual storage capacity of 1 TB. However, when you check the available storage size of F, you notice that it only lists 1 TB (instead of 2 TB) of available disk storage space. What should you do to resolve the issue?

Nothing. The RAID array is working as designed

A sales person requires that a large number of document, data, presentation, image, and video files be accessible on their personal mobile device when making sales pitches to new customers. A cloud solution is not feasible since cellular and internet connections are not always guaranteed at a customer site. Which of the following accessories would a technician suggest to BEST meet the sales person's requirements?

Micro SD card

Which method does an SD card use to store data?

Non-volatile memory chips

Which of the following tasks would you complete as part of a normal SATA installation using a recently purchased motherboard?

Plug the 15-pin power connector into the SATA drive

After installing a new SSD drive on your Windows 11 system, you determine that the TRIM functionality has not been automatically enabled on the drive by the Windows operating system. You need to manually turn on TRIM from a Command Prompt. The drive's volume has been assigned a drive letter of E:. Which of the following commands MUST you use to enable this feature?

fsutil behavior set DisableDeleteNotify 0

Which generation of SATA storage devices supports up to 6-Gbps data transfer rates and addresses solid-state drives?

SATA3

Jessica is concerned about losing data due to a hard disk failure. Her computer will only support a maximum of three disks. To protect her data, she has decided to use RAID (Redundant Array of Independent Disks). Which of the following RAID types would give Jessica the BEST mirrored data protection?

RAID 1

One of your customers wants you to build a personal server that he can use in his home. One of his concerns is making sure that he has at least one data backup stored on the server in the event that a disk fails. You have decided to back up his data using RAID. Since this server is for personal use only, the customer wants to keep costs down. Therefore, he would like to keep the number of drives to a minimum. Which of the following RAID systems would BEST meet the customer's specifications?

RAID 1

A computer that is being used by the HR department needs to ensure that all of the data on that computer is protected from a single hard disk failure. The data needs to be read as quickly as possible, and the HR department would like to maximize drive use as much as possible. This computer can use up to three hard drives. Which of the following RAID types would meet these requirements and provide the BEST data protection?

RAID 5

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

RAID 5

You notice that the hard drive on your iMac Pro is running slower than before. You decide to run the First Aid utility to optimize the drive. Which of the following is recommended to make sure that the First Aid utility is 100% effective?

Run First Aid by booting into Recovery Mode

Which 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 of the following can you do to disable defragmentation in Windows?

Select Change Settings from the Optimize Drive dialog. Then clear the Run on a schedule option

You work for a small company as the human resources specialist. Since the company is fairly small, you are maintaining all of the employee information on your desktop computer, which is running Windows 11. This computer has two high-capacity hard disks. You want to ensure that this information is protected from a hard disk failure, so you want to set up a Windows software RAID system. Which of the following would be your BEST solution?

Use mirrored volumes

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 about 300 GB of free space. Which of the following disk management operations will BEST prepare your hard disk for dual boot in this scenario?

Shrink the primary partition

Which optical media has the greatest storage capacity?

Single-layer, single-sided Blu-ray Disc

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

You want to create a high-performance Windows laptop with both a 2-TB hard drive and a 1-TB SSD drive. Which of the following are data storage recommendations for your high performance system? (Select two.)

Store heavily used information on the hard drive and store data that requires high performance on the SSD drive

Jason has installed a new hard drive (HDD) in his Windows PC workstation. He wants to use it to store multimedia files for his private video editing business. After installing the HDD in the PC case, he boots the PC in to the BIOS and verifies that the HDD is recognized by the system. When he tries to save files to the new HDD, he receives an error message. What is the MOST likely reason that Jason cannot save data to his new HDD?

The HDD needs to be partitioned and formatted with a file system

Your company's graphic designers were given laptop computers several months ago. The laptops have a 500-GB SSD drive for the operating system and applications and a 1-TB hard drive for storing media files. Now, a few of the graphic designers are complaining about slow performance on their SSD drives. What is the MOST likely cause of the slow performance?

The designers are storing media files on the SSD drive

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

Your system volume is running out of disk space. You need to extend the system volume to give it more space. Which of the following conditions MUST be met to extend the system volume? (Select two.)

The system volume must formatted with NTFS and the disk must have contiguous free space on the same disk

You are using an older utility to manage a GPT-partitioned drive on a Windows 10 system. You only see a single partition. However, you know you have multiple partitions across the hard drive. What is the MOST likely reason that you only see one partition?

The utility can only manage MBR partitions and is displaying the drive's protected MBR

Which of the following requirements must be met in order to extend a volume? (Select two. Each correct answer is a complete solution.)

The volume must be formatted with NTFS and the volume must be unformatted

Which of the following is a characteristic of extended partitions?

They are subdivided into logical drives

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

Which of the following Windows command line utilities would you use to realign the file structure on a disk to optimize performance?

defrag

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

Three

Which of the following types of Blue-ray Discs can hold up to 100 GB of data?

Triple-layer

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 these disks. Which of the following would you expect to see as the status of Disk 1 and Disk 2?

Unallocated

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 to accomplish this?

Upgrade the disk to a dynamic disk

Your computer currently uses a 5,400 RPM hard disk. You want to improve your computer's overall performance by optimizing your hard disk performance. Which of the following would be the MOST effective means to optimize your hard disk performance? (Select two.)

Upgrade your hard disk interface to SATA 3 and upgrade to a 10,000 RPM hard disk

You want to combine storage space from two different hard disks into a single logical storage unit on your Windows computer. Which of the following is the BEST step to perform?

Use dynamic disks and a spanned volume

Which of the following commands would you run on a Linux system to find out how much disk space is being used on each of the file systems?

df -h

You are building a PC workstation and are ready to install a newer hard drive (HDD) into an empty drive bay in the PC case. Which of the following steps should you complete first?

Verify that the power supply and SATA cables can reach the HDD

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

Volume resizing and drive repartitioning

Annette has purchased a new external DVD drive to use with her PC. She inserts a DVD into the drive and, after several seconds, she receives an error message indicating that the drive is not accessible. What is the FIRST thing Annette should do to try to resolve the issue?

Wait a few seconds and try accessing the DVD again

What happens when you connect a new internal hard drive to a Windows PC?

Windows automatically assigns the next available drive letter

Which action is recommended to minimize the effect of scratches when wiping a disc to clean it?

Wipe the disc in straight lines from the center to the edge

Which of the following is a benefit of extending a volume?

You can add space to the volume from another disk

Which of the following utilities would you use to correct cross-linked clusters within the file system on a Windows workstation?

chkdsk

You are an IT administrator who is troubleshooting a computer from within Windows Command Prompt. You are trying to execute the chkdsk command line tool, but it keeps failing. Which of the following command switches would give you the BEST information on how to run this command?

chkdsk /?

Joseph has started using virtual machines (VMs) to help his software development process. As the number of VMs has increased, Joseph has noticed that his hard drive is almost full. He would like you to buy and connect an external hard drive where additional VMs can be stored. When the drive arrives, you find it has the type of connector shown in the image below. Which type of connector is on the external hard drive?

eSATA

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. Which of the following SATA devices is the BEST for these conditions?

eSATAp