Lesson 12: Backing Up

Question 1

1. Which of the following is not a main criterion to consider when evaluating the suitability of a storage device for backups?
   a) speed
   b) capacity
   c) cost
   d) scalability

Answer 1

d) scalability

Question 2

2. What is the primary drawback of optical disks?
   a) cost
   b) speed
   c) capacity
   d) automation

Answer 2

c) capacity

Question 3

3. Which of the following has become the primary backup medium for home users and small networks in recent years?
   a) optical disk
   b) hard disk drive
   c) magnetic tape
   d) tape library

Answer 3

b) hard disk drive

Question 4

4. What is the traditional choice for server and network backups?
   a) optical disk
   b) hard disk drive
   c) magnetic tape
   d) tape library

Answer 4

c) magnetic tape

Question 5

5. What is the capacity of a state-of-the-art single-tape magnetic tape drive?
   a) 400 to 600 GB
   b) 600 to 800 GB
   c) 800 to 1,000 GB
   d) 1 TB

Answer 5

c) 800 to 1,000 GB

Question 6

6. What is the ratio at which executables and other program files typically compress?
   a) 1:1
   b) 2:1
   c) 3:1
   d) 4:1

Answer 6

b) 2:1

Question 7

7. Which single device contains one or more magnetic tape drives as well as a robotic mechanism that inserts tapes into and removes them from the drives?
   a) tape switcher
   b) autoloader
   c) SAN
   d) none of the above

Answer 7

b) autoloader

Question 8

8. Which of the following is not an item that you need to back up on a regular basis?
   a) operating system temporary files
   b) application temporary files
   c) memory paging file
   d) all of the above

Answer 8

d) all of the above

Question 9

9. Which type of backup job backs up only the files that have changed since the last full backup and does not reset their archive bits?
   a) full
   b) differential
   c) incremental
   d) partial

Answer 9

b) differential

Question 10

10. Which type of backup job backs up only the files that have changed since the last backup job of any kind?
    a) full
    b) differential
    c) incremental
    d) partial

Answer 10

c) incremental

Question 11

11. Which of the following is the most basic type of backup job and copies the entire set of selected targets to the backup medium?
    a) full
    b) differential
    c) incremental
    d) partial

Answer 11

a) full

Question 12

12. When files are written to a computer’s hard disk for the first time, their archive bits are activated and set to a value of __________.
    a) 0
    b) 1
    c) 2
    d) 3

Answer 12

b) 1

Question 13

13. Which backup is faster to restore?
    a) full
    b) partial
    c) incremental
    d) differential

Answer 13

d) differential

Question 14

14. Windows Server Backup was primarily designed to create backups of __________.
    a) logical drives
    b) individual folders
    c) entire server volumes
    d) optical drives

Answer 14

c) entire server volumes

Question 15

15. When using Windows Server Backup, you cannot specify an interval of more than __________ hours between jobs.
    a) 24
    b) 36
    c) 48
    d) 60

Answer 15

a) 24

Question 16

16. When using Windows Server Backup for scheduled backup jobs, which type of drives can you use as a backup?
    a) optical disks
    b) external hard disk
    c) network shares
    d) all of the above

Answer 16

b) external hard disk

Question 17

17. When Windows Server Backup takes control of a backup disk, it creates new, separate files for the backup job(s) it performs each day. The system retains the files for all of the old jobs until the disk is filled or until __________ jobs are stored on the disk.
    a) 417
    b) 450
    c) 500
    d) 512

Answer 17

d) 512

Question 18

18. To perform a full server restore, you must boot the system using a Windows Server 2008 installation disk and access the backup disk using which interface?
    a) PATA
    b) wbadmin.exe
    c) Windows RE
    d) ntbackup.exe

Answer 18

c) Windows RE

Question 19

19. To restore just the system state from a backup, which command do you use?
    a) wbadmin start SystemStateBackup -backuptarget:drive_letter
    b) wbadmin Start SystemStateRecovery –versionMM/DD/YYYY-HH:MM
    c) wbadmin get versions
    d) wbadmin.exe

Answer 19

b) wbadmin Start SystemStateRecovery –versionMM/DD/YYYY-HH:MM

Question 20

20. When you open a Command Prompt window in a standard Windows session and restore the system state, you are performing a(n) __________ restore.
    a) Group Policy
    b) authoritative
    c) non-authoritative
    d) full

Answer 20

c) non-authoritative