Chapter 10 Review: Implementing Hard Drives

Question 1

What are disk quotas used for?

Answer 1

To limit a user’s space on a hard drive on shared computers

Question 2

One advantage of partitioning is multi booting, which is what?

Answer 2

Enabling a single hard drive to store multiple operating systems

Question 3

What program does Microsoft include with Windows to format and partition hard drives?

Answer 3

Disk Management

Question 4

The best file system to use on modern versions of Windows is:

Answer 4

NTFS

Question 5

If a file is not stored in contiguous clusters, you can _____ the drive to improve performance

Answer 5

Defragment

Question 6

This partition scheme allows up to 128 primary partitions without needing to use dynamic disks

Answer 6

GPT

Question 7

ScanDisk, chkdsk, and Error checking are used by what OS?

Answer 7

Windows

Question 8

fsck is used by what OS?

Answer 8

Linux

Question 9

Disk Utility is used by what OS?

Answer 9

Mac OS X

Question 10

The Disk Cleanup utility removes which types of unneeded files?

Answer 10

• Temporary Internet Files

- Temporary files that remain in use when an application is closed

Question 11

Vista ultimate supports what types of volumes?

Answer 11

Simple, spanned striped

Question 12

Windows Server supports what type of volumes?

Answer 12

Simple, spanned, striped, mirrored, RAID 5

Question 13

Windows 7 and 8 professional supports what type of volumes?

Answer 13

Simple, spanned, striped, mirrored

Question 14

How many active partitions can you have?

Answer 14

One

Question 15

Can you boot from a primary or active partition?

Answer 15

Yes

Question 16

____ is used to fix invalid filenames, lost clusters, and to seal off bad clusters

Answer 16

error-checking (chkdsk)

Question 17

NTF uses a _____ table with a backup copy placed in the middle of the disk

Answer 17

master file

Question 18

What are some advantages NTFS has over FAT32?

Answer 18

• Encryption
• Disk quotas
• Compression
• Security

Question 19

How many primary partitions must be created in Vista before an extended partition is created?

Answer 19

3

Question 20

__________ is a utility that can purge your system of unnecessary temporary files

Answer 20

disk cleanup

Question 21

This enables you to make your files unreadable by others

Answer 21

encryption

Question 22

True or false:

Extended partitions are optional

Answer 22

True

Question 23

A logical drive can only be created in a(n) ____ partition

Answer 23

Extended

Question 24

What are two limitations of MBR drives?

Answer 24

• Maximum partition size of 2.2TB

- Cannot span partitions across multiple drives