Mass Storage

Question 1

Mass Storage

Types of mass storage

Answer 1

Hard Drivers

Solid State Drives

Optical Media

Question 2

Mass Storage

Regardless of OS - your systems sees mass storage as

Answer 2

Logical Block Address’s

LBAs

Question 3

Mass Storage

There is a difference between decimal values and

Answer 3

IEC values

Question 4

Mass Storage

Magnetic drives data storage

Answer 4

Spinning Platters

Question 5

Mass Storage

How do spinning platters actually store data

Answer 5

via magnetism and read/write heads

Question 6

Mass Storage

Har disk sizes

Answer 6

3. 5
4. 5
5. 8

Question 7

Mass Storage

What protocol is used to communicate with hard disk drives

Ataboy

Answer 7

Advanced Technology Attachment

Question 8

Mass Storage

The dominant ATA is called

Answer 8

SATA

Serial ATA

Question 9

Mass Storage

Archaic and the domain of old ATA is called

Answer 9

PATA

Parallel ATA

Question 10

Mass Storage

Solid State drives (SSDs) store data using chips

Answer 10

There are no moving parts.

Question 11

Mass Storage

Data is stored in

Answer 11

Blocks and pages.

Question 12

Mass Storage

SSDs come in the following sizes

Answer 12

3. 5
4. 5

M.2

Question 13

Mass Storage

A protocol that increases performance over SATA in SSDs

NeVerMindE

Answer 13

NVMe

Question 14

Mass Storage

An ancient standard that still has great support

Answer 14

Small Computer Systems Interface (SCSI)

Question 15

Mass Storage

This old SCSI technology is long gone

Answer 15

PATA

Question 16

Mass Storage

SCSI lang is still

Answer 16

supported

Question 17

Mass Storage

Modern SCSI standard

Answer 17

Serial Attached SCSI
–and–
iSCSI

Question 18

Mass Storage

When a system boots its looking for a

Answer 18

bootable device

Question 19

Mass Storage

It is important that the system looks for these boot devices

Answer 19

The correct ones

Question 20

Mass Storage

Boot order is defined in

Answer 20

CMOS system setup

Question 21

Mass Storage

Storage is organized into Logical Blocks

Answer 21

LBAs

Question 22

Mass Storage

These describe capacity not organizational structure

Answer 22

Gigabytes
and
Gibibytes

Question 23

Mass Storage

These are the organizational structure of SSDs but not all mass storage devices

Answer 23

Pages

Question 24

Mass Storage

Command and connection standard for mass storage devices.

Answer 24

Advanced Technology Attachment (ATA)

Question 25

Mass Storage

This uses a serial data transfer protocol.

Answer 25

SATA

Question 26

Mass Storage

SATA
Data is transferred one bit at a time from the drive to the computer and

Answer 26

one bit at a time from the computer to the drive.

Question 27

Mass Storage

SSD memory cells

Answer 27

Pages

Question 28

Mass Storage

Magnetic drive storage units

Answer 28

Sectors

Question 29

Mass Storage

Why is NVMe the fastest interface

Answer 29

Because it uses PCLe lanes

Question 30

Mass Storage

Combined SCSI and SATA

Answer 30

Serial Attached SCSI (SAS)

Question 31

Mass Storage

What language does SAS speak

Answer 31

SCSI command language

Question 32

Mass Storage

Connector interface and a form factor.

Answer 32

M.2

Question 33

Mass Storage

Uses SCSi commands over ethernet

Answer 33

iSCSI

Question 34

Mass Storage

Not a boot device

Answer 34

UEFI

its a firmware interface

Question 35

Mass Storage

USB drivers, optical drives and SSDs are valid boot devices but will only boot if

Answer 35

They contain a working, properly-created bootable drive image.