[Chapter 5 - Storage] TestOut Security Pro

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.

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.)

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

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You are in the process of purchasing several new Windows-based computers to replace broken or outdated computers.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 uses flash technology to store data. An SSD opens files faster than an HDD.

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.

Match each disk type on the left with its corresponding description/features on the right. Each disk type may be used once, more than once, or not at all.

Basic disks: Use primary and extended partitions. Are supported by all operating systems. Only support volumes made up of contiguous disk space. Dynamic disks: Support up to 128 volumes. Support volumes that use discontiguous disk space. Store partitioning information in a hidden database on all such disks in the system.

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 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.

Match each label on the left with the correct characteristics on the right.

CD - First developed to store digital music. Later, it was adapted to store digital computer data. DVD - Single-sided discs can hold about 4.7 GB of data. Dual-layer discs can hold up to 8.5 GB of data. BD-R - Was originally developed for high definition video (and expanded content on movie discs), but can also be used for data storage. CD-RW - Can be written, read many times, erased, and rewritten. It has a capacity of about 650 MB. DVD-RW - Dual-layer version employs two recordable dye layers, each capable of storing data. BD - Uses blue laser light, which has a short wavelength, allowing data to be packed more tightly onto the disc and is rewritable.

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

CD, DVD, BD

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.

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.

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

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 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

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

Down Bad

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

Drive repartitioning Volume resizing

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 cross-linked files Fix lost clusters

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

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

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

Match each storage device type on the left with its description and benefits on the right.

Hard disk drive (HDD) - A thick magnetic disk made of aluminum platters. Uses read/write heads to access data stored on the platters. A device that provides up to several terabytes of storage capacity and whose cost per megabyte is very low. Solid-state drive (SSD) - A flash device with storage capacity similar to that of a small hard drive. A device that is faster than other comparable devices. It has no moving parts and lasts longer than other storage devices. Optical disc - A disk that uses lasers to read and write information stored in the form of pits on its reflective coating. A disk that is ideal for music and video. It is portable and cheap with a long shelf life.

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)

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.

Match each disk status on the left with the corresponding description on the right. Each status may be used once, more than once, or not at all.

Initializing - Shows while a disk is being converted from a basic disk to a dynamic disk. Healthy - Indicates that the disk is turned on, can be accessed, and that the volume on the disk is valid and has no errors. Unavailable - Indicates that errors have occurred on physical or dynamic disks. Missing - Shows when a dynamic disk has been removed or turned off.

Check Disk detects disk integrity errors and fixes them. Match each type of integrity error with its description on the right.

Lost clusters - A series of used clusters on the hard disk drive that are not associated with a specific file. Cross-linked file - When two files claim the same cluster. Orphaned files - Files that exist on the hard drive, but are not associated with a directory in the index. Bad sector - A portion of the hard disk that cannot be used.

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.

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

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.

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 method does an SD card use to store data?

Non-volatile memory chips

Match each file system component on the left with the correct description on the right.

Partition - a logical division of a storage device associated with a hard disk drive. Volume - a single accessible storage area within a file system that can encompass a single partition or span across multiple partitions. Directory - a container (also called a folder) in a volume that holds files or other directories. It is used to logically sort and organize data to keep related files grouped together. File - a one-dimensional stream of bits treated as a logical unit. Files are the most basic component that a file system uses to organize raw bits of data on the storage device itself.

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.

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 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.

When you configure Storage Spaces in Windows, you can include information redundancy with a feature called data resiliency. Match each type of data resiliency on the left with the appropriate description on the right. (Each data resiliency type may be used once, more than once, or not at all.)

Simple - Does not provide redundancy. Does not provide protection from a single storage device failure. Two-way mirror - Requires at least two storage devices. Three-way mirror - Requires at least five storage devices. Protects your data if two storage devices fail at one time. Parity - Requires at least three storage devices. Allows data reconstruction if one of the storage devices fails.

Which optical media has the greatest storage capacity?

Single-layer, single-sided Blu-ray Disc

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.

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 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. 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.

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

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.

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

defrag

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. 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

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

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 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. 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.

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.

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 /?

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

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