A+ 1002: CH9 Review

Question 1

Storage Resiliency Types: Designed for increased performance, but don’t protect your files from drive failure. They’re best for Temporary data such as video rendering files, image editor scratch files, and intermediary compiler object files. Requires at least 2 Drives to be useful?

Two-Way Mirror
Parity
Simple
Three-Way Mirror

Answer 1

Simple

Question 2

Storage Resiliency Types: Can tolerate two drive failures and requires atleast 5 Drives?

Two-Way Mirror
Three-Way Mirror
Parity
Simple

Answer 2

Three-Way Mirror

Question 3

Storage Resiliency Types: Designed for storage efficiency and protect your files from drive failure by keeping multiple copies. Best for archival data and streaming media, like music and videos. This storage layout requires atleast 3 Drives to protect you from a single drive failure and at least 7 drives to protect you from two drive failures?

Two-Way Mirror
Parity
Simple
Three-Way Mirror

Answer 3

Parity

Question 4

Storage Resiliency Types: Designed for increased performance and protect your files from drive failure by keeping multiple copies. This option can tolerate one drive failure and requires atleast 2 drives?

Parity
Simple
Three-Way Mirror
Two-Way Mirror

Answer 4

Two-Way Mirror

Question 5

Storage Resiliency Types: Three-Way Mirror option within the Storage Spaces interface is equal to what RAID Level?

RAID0
RAID10
RAID5
None of These

Answer 5

None of These

Question 6

Storage Resiliency Types: Simple option within the Storage Spaces interface is equal to what RAID level?

RAID1
RAID5
RAID3
RAID0

Answer 6

RAID0

Question 7

Storage Resiliency Types: Parity option within the Storage Spaces interface is equal to what RAID level?

RAID5
RAID1
RAID0
RAID3

Answer 7

RAID5

Question 8

Storage Resiliency Types: Two-Way Mirror option within the Storage Spaces interface is equal to what RAID level?

RAID0
RAID5
RAID10
RAID1

Answer 8

RAID1

Question 9

A Stripped Volume is another name for?

RAID1
Spanning Volume
Nested Folder
RAID0

Answer 9

RAID0

Question 10

Stripped Volume has faster read/write times than a single drive?

True
False

Answer 10

True

Stripped Volume = RAID0

Question 11

Stripped Volume provides redundancy because you can just replace the drive if it fails?

True
False

Answer 11

False

Stripped Volume is RAID0, which is 0 Redundancy.

Question 12

Spanned Volume stores data differently on the drives than a Stripped Volume?

True
False

Answer 12

True

Spanned Volume simply treats the two or three drives and writes files to one drive at a time until the allocated space is filled, a Failed Drive in a Spanned Volume would still allow for “Some” data / files to be recoverable.

A Stripped Volume writes blocks across both dries.

Question 13

The _____ stores the location of the OS boot files?

Partition Boot Sector
MBR
Boot Sector
Partition Table

Answer 13

Partition Boot Sector

Question 14

Windows can create partitions using the _____ disk?

System
Volume
Basic
Extended

Answer 14

Basic

Question 15

If you move a dynamic disk from one computer to another, how will this drive be displayed in Disk Manager?

Formatting
Unallocated
Foreign Drive
Failed

Answer 15

Foreign Drive

Question 16

Which file system is a Newer Version of FAT and allows file sizes larger than 4GB?

HPFS
NTFS
FAT16
exFAT

Answer 16

exFAT

Question 17

What type of problem does the error message “No boot device present” indicate?

The hard drive containing the OS has died.
The boot file is missing or corrupted
The active partition has failed
The FAT has been corrupted

Answer 17

The hard drive containing the OS has died.

Question 18

A ______ volume similar to a primary partition, but in fact, is not a primary partition?

mirrored
spanned
stripped
simple

Answer 18

simple

Question 19

To change a basic disk to dynamic, right-click the drive icon and select ______?

Partition as Dynamic
Convert to Dynamic
New Volume
Format as Dynamic

Answer 19

Convert to Dynamic

Question 20

______ partitions are designed to support bootable operating systems?

Basic
Extended
Dynamic
Primary

Answer 20

Primary

Question 21

When using Primary Partitions, how many drive letters are possible on a single MBR disk?

Twenty-Six
Four
Five
One

Answer 21

Four

Question 22

What is the default primary partition for Windows?

C:
B:
F:
A:

Answer 22

C:

Question 23

An MBR has four different operating systems installed. What is this setup called?

MBR-enabled
Dual-Boot
Integrated
Multiboot

Answer 23

Multiboot

Question 24

Which type of dynamic disk requires 3 or more dynamic disks with equal-sized unallocated spaces?

RAID5
Stipped
Simple
Mirrored

Answer 24

RAID5

Question 25

What Windows 8 graphical utility finds bad clusters? Disk Defragmentor Disk Utility Error Checking ScanDsk

Answer 25

Error Checking

Question 26

To create a Mount Point, right-click on an unallocated section of a drive and choose ______? New Simple Volume Create Mount Point Allocate Mount Point New Mount Point

Answer 26

New Simple Volume

Question 27

How many extended partitions can be created in a hard drive? Five One Six Two

Answer 27

One

Question 28

Which code indicates that a sector in the hard drive is bad? 00000000 00000007 0000FFF7 0000FFFF

Answer 28

0000FFF7

Question 29

How many partitions can be active at any given point in time? Two Five Three One

Answer 29

One

Question 30

What Windows function is similar to a swap partition in Linux/Unix Systems? Hidden Partition Reassembled File Page File Recovery Partition

Answer 30

Page File

Question 31

Which file system enables a user to adjust the Cluster size? FAT32 FAT16 NTFS FAT64

Answer 31

NTFS

Question 32

The ______ takes control of the boot process from the system BIOS? MBR Boot Sector POST CMOS

Answer 32

MBR

Question 33

What is the Hidden Partition that contains a restorable copy of an installed OS? Swap Partition Factory Recovery Partition Simple Volume Dynamic Volume

Answer 33

Factory Recovery Partition

Question 34

How many master boot records can exist on an MBR Disk? One per primary partition four one One per drive letter

Answer 34

one

Question 35

What Windows tool finds additional space on a Hard Drive? Disk Management Defrag Disk Cleanup Convert

Answer 35

Disk Cleanup

Question 36

An entire physical drive can be added to another drive as a folder by creating a ______? Spanned Volume Mount Point Striped Volume Simple Volume

Answer 36

Mount Point

Question 37

What Windows tool partitions a drive? Disk Administrator Disk Management FDISK Optimize Drives

Answer 37

Disk Management

Question 38

In Windows, each _____ is assigned a drive letter from C: to Z:? file sector partition cylinder

Answer 38

partition

Question 39

When using dynamic disks, which version of Windows can create RAID5 Volumes? Windows 7 Ultimate Windows 7 Pro Windows Server Windows Enterprise

Answer 39

Windows Server

Question 40

All basic hard drive partition tables support up to ______ partitions? one six four two

Answer 40

four

Question 41

Microsoft limits Windows to ______ partitions under a GPT scheme? 4 64 32 128

Answer 41

128

Question 42

Microsoft calls a drive structure created with a dynamic disk a ______? Sector Volume Drive Partition

Answer 42

Volume

Question 43

A _____ enables you to use your existing folders to store more data that can fit on a single drive or partition volume? Mount Point Secondary Partition Primary Partition Extended Partition

Answer 43

Mount Point

Question 44

To make dynamic volume bigger, right click the volume and choose ______? Extend Volume Convert to Bigger Span Volume Expand Volume

Answer 44

Extend Volume

Question 45

By default, what is the max partition size NTFS supports on a dynamic disk? 2TB 16TB 16 exabytes 18,446,744,073,709,551,616 bytes

Answer 45

16TB