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A+ 1002: CH9 Review Flashcards

1
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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

A

Simple

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

Two-Way Mirror
Three-Way Mirror
Parity
Simple

A

Three-Way Mirror

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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

A

Parity

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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

A

Two-Way Mirror

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

RAID0
RAID10
RAID5
None of These

A

None of These

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6
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Storage Resiliency Types: Simple option within the Storage Spaces interface is equal to what RAID level?

RAID1
RAID5
RAID3
RAID0

A

RAID0

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

RAID5
RAID1
RAID0
RAID3

A

RAID5

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8
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Storage Resiliency Types: Two-Way Mirror option within the Storage Spaces interface is equal to what RAID level?

RAID0
RAID5
RAID10
RAID1

A

RAID1

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9
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A Stripped Volume is another name for?

RAID1
Spanning Volume
Nested Folder
RAID0

A

RAID0

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10
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Stripped Volume has faster read/write times than a single drive?

True
False

A

True

Stripped Volume = RAID0

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

True
False

A

False

Stripped Volume is RAID0, which is 0 Redundancy.

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12
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Spanned Volume stores data differently on the drives than a Stripped Volume?

True
False

A

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.

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13
Q

The _____ stores the location of the OS boot files?

Partition Boot Sector
MBR
Boot Sector
Partition Table

A

Partition Boot Sector

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14
Q

Windows can create partitions using the _____ disk?

System
Volume
Basic
Extended

A

Basic

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15
Q

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

A

Foreign Drive

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16
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Which file system is a Newer Version of FAT and allows file sizes larger than 4GB?

HPFS
NTFS
FAT16
exFAT

A

exFAT

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17
Q

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

A

The hard drive containing the OS has died.

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18
Q

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

mirrored
spanned
stripped
simple

A

simple

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19
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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

A

Convert to Dynamic

20
Q

______ partitions are designed to support bootable operating systems?

Basic
Extended
Dynamic
Primary

A

Primary

21
Q

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

Twenty-Six
Four
Five
One

A

Four

22
Q

What is the default primary partition for Windows?

C:
B:
F:
A:

A

C:

23
Q

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

MBR-enabled
Dual-Boot
Integrated
Multiboot

A

Multiboot

24
Q

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

RAID5
Stipped
Simple
Mirrored

A

RAID5

25
Q

What Windows 8 graphical utility finds bad clusters?

Disk Defragmentor
Disk Utility
Error Checking
ScanDsk

A

Error Checking

26
Q

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

A

New Simple Volume

27
Q

How many extended partitions can be created in a hard drive?

Five
One
Six
Two

A

One

28
Q

Which code indicates that a sector in the hard drive is bad?

00000000
00000007
0000FFF7
0000FFFF

A

0000FFF7

29
Q

How many partitions can be active at any given point in time?

Two
Five
Three
One

A

One

30
Q

What Windows function is similar to a swap partition in Linux/Unix Systems?

Hidden Partition
Reassembled File
Page File
Recovery Partition

A

Page File

31
Q

Which file system enables a user to adjust the Cluster size?

FAT32
FAT16
NTFS
FAT64

A

NTFS

32
Q

The ______ takes control of the boot process from the system BIOS?

MBR
Boot Sector
POST
CMOS

A

MBR

33
Q

What is the Hidden Partition that contains a restorable copy of an installed OS?

Swap Partition
Factory Recovery Partition
Simple Volume
Dynamic Volume

A

Factory Recovery Partition

34
Q

How many master boot records can exist on an MBR Disk?

One per primary partition
four
one
One per drive letter

A

one

35
Q

What Windows tool finds additional space on a Hard Drive?

Disk Management
Defrag
Disk Cleanup
Convert

A

Disk Cleanup

36
Q

An entire physical drive can be added to another drive as a folder by creating a ______?

Spanned Volume
Mount Point
Striped Volume
Simple Volume

A

Mount Point

37
Q

What Windows tool partitions a drive?

Disk Administrator
Disk Management
FDISK
Optimize Drives

A

Disk Management

38
Q

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

file
sector
partition
cylinder

A

partition

39
Q

When using dynamic disks, which version of Windows can create RAID5 Volumes?

Windows 7 Ultimate
Windows 7 Pro
Windows Server
Windows Enterprise

A

Windows Server

40
Q

All basic hard drive partition tables support up to ______ partitions?

one
six
four
two

A

four

41
Q

Microsoft limits Windows to ______ partitions under a GPT scheme?

4
64
32
128

A

128

42
Q

Microsoft calls a drive structure created with a dynamic disk a ______?

Sector
Volume
Drive
Partition

A

Volume

43
Q

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

A

Mount Point

44
Q

To make dynamic volume bigger, right click the volume and choose ______?

Extend Volume
Convert to Bigger
Span Volume
Expand Volume

A

Extend Volume

45
Q

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

A

16TB

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