Mass Storage Implemetation Flashcards

1
Q

Mass Storage Implementation

This RAID can only lose one drive in the array

RaidiaL

A

RAID 5

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2
Q

Mass Storage Implementation: Quiz

Comes from mechanical failure inside the hard drive.

A

Hard drive clicking
AKA

The click of death

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3
Q

Mass Storage Implementation

Striping with parity that provides speed and redundancy

A

RAID 5
–AND–
RAID 6

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4
Q

Mass Storage Implementation

Raid - Striping that provides speed

A

Raid 0

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5
Q

Mass Storage Implementation: Quiz

This can cause crashes and reboots NOT slow performance.

A

Corrupt OS

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6
Q

Mass Storage Implementation

Review the many symptoms in this

A

episode

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7
Q

Mass Storage Implementation: Quiz

The most likely result of a corrupt OS

A

Continuous Reboots

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8
Q

Mass Storage Implementation

Hardware RAID has its own ____ that comes with a special system setup to configure the RAID array

A

BIOS

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9
Q

Mass Storage Implementation

Before troubleshooting mass storage ALWAYS do this for important data.

A

BACK IT UP

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10
Q

Mass Storage Implementation: Quiz

To create a RAID 5 array you need a minimum of this many drives

A

Three

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11
Q

Mass Storage Implementation

These provide a subset of tools when compared with their main tools

A

Partitioning and formatting tools in installation programs

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12
Q

Mass Storage Implementation: Symptom

Continuous reboots

A

Hard drive corruption

or OS does not boot properly

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13
Q

Mass Storage Implementation

The first drive on a system relies on this to provide partition and format instructions.

A

OS install program

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14
Q

Mass Storage Implementation

This type of RAID requires a controller to configure the RAID arrays

A

Hardware RAID

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15
Q

Mass Storage Implementation: Symptom

Controller not working

A

Someone turned off the SATA controller

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16
Q

Mass Storage Implementation

Use this type of installation to make sure all the installation steps have take place.

A

A mental one.

TRIPLE CHECK

17
Q

Mass Storage Implementation: Quiz

Microsoft software RAID implementation

A

Storage Spaces

18
Q

Mass Storage Implementation: Symptom

OS not found

A

You messed up your boot process

19
Q

Mass Storage Implementation: Symptom

System has a failure to boot

A

The boot order is messed up

20
Q

Mass Storage Implementation: Symptom

Slow performance on a system - thrashing

A

Get more RAM

21
Q

Mass Storage Implementation: Symptom

Mike put a thumb drive in the back of a pc during a competition and the techs were stumped - with the myiriad of problems

A

They did not check the back for a thumb drive and the boot order got messed up

22
Q

Mass Storage Implementation: Quiz

This is set in the UEFI/BIOS system setup utility

A

Boot Order

23
Q

Mass Storage Implementation

The completed array looks like this to the operating system

A

Single Drive

24
Q

Mass Storage Implementation: Symptom

Attempts to boot incorrect device

A

Boot order is messed up

25
Q

Mass Storage Implementation: Symptom

Take your time on the exam

A

The committee writes really big questions - huge paragraphs - BUT the focus is on one sentence

26
Q

Mass Storage Implementation

This provides speed and/or redundancy

A

RAID

27
Q

Mass Storage Implementation: Quiz

This RAID requires 4 drives

A

RAID 10

28
Q

Mass Storage Implementation: Quiz

These come in the form of expansion cards

A

Dedicated RAID controller

29
Q

Mass Storage Implementation: Symptom

If you yank a disk drive from one windows machine and put it in another - it wont be recognized unless

A

It is initialized on the new system

30
Q

Mass Storage Implementation: Symptom

If RAID stops working

A

Look at the hard drives

31
Q

Mass Storage Implementation: Symptom

RAID not found or RAID stops working

A

Either its never been installed.

Look to see if your RAID controller is active

32
Q

Mass Storage Implementation

This RAID can lose two drives in the array

Cheese

A

RAID 6

33
Q

Mass Storage Implementation

These tools may provide features not normally seen anywhere else like (swap file creation)

A

Installation Tools

34
Q

Mass Storage Implementation: Symptom

Loud clicking noise - the great click of death

A

If your lucky get a backup.

Otherwise replace the hard drive

35
Q

Mass Storage Implementation: Quiz

RAID 6 will function with up to how many drive failures

A

Two