Deck 10: Implementing Hard Drives

Question 1

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

A)One
B)Four
C)One per drive letter
D)One per primary partition

Answer 1

A

Question 2

Microsoft calls a drive structure created with a dynamic disk a _______________.

A)drive
B)partition
C)volume
D)sector

Answer 2

C

Question 3

Microsoft limits Windows to _______________ partitions under a GPT scheme.

A)4
B)32
C)64
D)128

Answer 3

D

Question 4

A(n) _______________ volume is similar to a primary partition, but in fact, is not a primary partition.

A)mirrored
B)simple
C)spanned
D)striped

Question 5

In Windows, each _______________ is assigned a drive letter from C : to Z:.

A)cylinder
B)file
C)sector
D)partition

Question 6

All basic hard drive partition tables support up to _______________ partitions.

A)one
B)two
C)four
D)six

Question 7

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

A)One
B)Two
C)Three
D)Five

Question 8

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

A)Page file
B)Recovery partition
C)Hidden partition
D)Reassembled file

Question 9

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

A)One
B)Two
C)Five
D)Six

Question 10

Windows can create partitions using the _______________ disk.

A)basic
B)extended
C)volume
D)system

Question 11

What is a hidden partition that contains a restorable copy of an installed OS?

A)Swap partition
B)Factory recovery partition
C)Simple volume
D)Dynamic volume

Question 12

The _______________ stores the location of the operating system boot files.

A)boot sector
B)MBR
C)partition table
D)partition boot sector

Question 13

_______________ partitions are designed to support bootable operating systems.

A)basic
B)dynamic
C)extended
D)primary

Question 14

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

A)Simple
B)Stripped
C)RAID 5
D)Mirrored

Question 15

What Windows tool partitions a drive?

A)Disk Management
B)Disk Administrator
C)FDISK
D)Optimize Drives

Question 16

What newer type of drive partitioning overcomes the limits of MBR drives?

A)Dynamic disks
B)GPT
C)MBR2
D)LBA

Question 17

When using primary partitions, how many drive letters are possible on a single MBR disk?

A)One
B)Four
C)Five
D)Twenty-six

Question 18

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

A)Dual-boot
B)Integrated
C)MBR-enabled
D)Multiboot

Question 19

The _______________ takes control of the boot process from the system BIOS.

A)boot sector
B)CMOS
C)MBR
D)POST

Question 20

What is the default primary partition for Windows?

A)C :
B)D:
C)E:
D)F:

Question 21

By default, what is the maximum partition size NTFS supports on a dynamic disk?

A)2 TB
B)16 TB
C)18,446,744,073,709,551,616 bytes
D)16 exabytes

Question 22

To change a basic disk to dynamic, right-click the drive icon and select _______________.

A)Format as Dynamic
B)Partition as Dynamic
C)Convert to Dynamic Disk
D)New Volume

Question 23

If you move a dynamic disk from one computer to another, how will this drive be displayed in Disk Manager?

A)Failed
B)Formatting
C)Unallocated
D)Foreign drive

Question 24

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

A)FAT8
B)FAT16
C)FAT32
D)NTFS

Question 25

What Windows 8 graphical utility finds bad clusters?

A)Disk Utility
B)Disk Defragmenter
C)Error checking
D)ScanDisk

Question 26

What Windows tool finds additional space on a hard drive?

A)Convert
B)Defrag
C)Disk Cleanup
D)Disk Management

Question 27

A _______________ is a place in the directory structure of an existing volume that can point to a volume or partition.

A)partition table
B)volume boot sector
C)stripe set
D)mount point

Question 28

A(n) _______________ enables you to use your existing folders to store more data that can fit on a single drive or partition/volume

A)extended partition
B)mount point
C)primary partition
D)secondary partition

Question 29

Microsoft calls a hard drive that uses either the MBR partitioning scheme or the GPT partitioning scheme a(n) _______________ disk.

Question 30

Windows 7 Professional, Enterprise, and Ultimate editions can create a mirror set with two drives for data redundancy, which is also known as _______________.

A)RAID 0
B)RAID 1
C)RAID 5
D)RAID 6

Question 31

A(n) _______________ organizes each partition on the hard disk in such a way that the operating system can store files and folders.

Question 32

When using dynamic disks, which version of Windows can create RAID 5 volumes?

A)Windows 7 Professional
B)Windows Vista Enterprise
C)Windows Server
D)Windows 7 Ultimate

Question 33

To enable a single hard drive to store more than one operating system, it would need to be _______________.

Question 34

Which file system is a newer version of FAT and allows file sizes larger than 4 GB?

A)NTFS
B)FAT64
C)HPFS
D)FAT16

Question 35

The process of electronically subdividing the physical hard drive into smaller units is known as _______________.

Question 36

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

A)FFFF
B)FFF7
C)0007
D)0000

Question 37

After partitioning, each drive must be _______________.

Question 38

An entire physical drive can be added to another drive as a folder by creating a _______________.

A)mount point
B)simple volume
C)spanned volume
D)striped volume

Question 39

What type of problem does the error message "No Boot Device Present" indicate?

A)The boot file is missing or corrupted.
B) The hard drive containing the operating system has died.
C)The FAT has been corrupted.
D)The active partition has failed.

Question 40

To make dynamic volume bigger, right-click the volume and choose _______________.

A)Span Volume
B)Convert to bigger
C)Expand Volume
D)Extend Volume

Question 41

On a GPT drive, LBA0 is the _______________ MBR.

Question 42

Any removable media that has a bootable OS is generically known as a(n) _______________.

Question 43

The graphical tool in Windows Visa/7 that checks and corrects a fragmented drive is the _______________.

Question 44

_______________ a hard drive creates a file system and root directory.

Question 45

A hard drive can be partitioned with _______________ in Windows.

Question 46

The _______________ directory provides the foundation upon which the OS builds files and folders.

Question 47

The _______________ program in Windows 8/8.1/10 is used to rearrange the files into neat, contiguous chunks.

Question 48

In FAT16, _______________ enables a user to format partitions larger than 32 MB in size.

Question 49

The _______________ feature of NTFS provides security for files and folders.

Question 50

Partitioning creates a(n) _______________ and a partition table on the disk.

Question 51

Dynamic disks are divided into _______________ instead of partitions.

Question 52

FAT32 does not work on drives larger than _______________ TB.

Question 53

The first sector of an MBR hard drive contains the _______________.

Question 54

A(n) _______________ causes the format utility to test every sector to mark out the unusable ones in the FAT.

Question 55

The _______________ file system provides encryption of files.

Question 56

A GPT allows an almost unlimited number of _______________ partitions.

Question 57

The encryption capability in NTFS is called _______________.

Question 58

The _______________ program in Windows enables a user to create additional partitions on a hard drive.

Question 59

_______________ occurs as files begin to separate over time.

Question 60

During boot-up, the BIOS/POST reads the MBR to find the _______________ partition and boots the operating system on that partition.

Question 61

Briefly describe the partition table contained within the master boot record.

Question 62

The _______________ tool can be run to clear up space on the hard drive occupied by temporary Internet files.

Question 63

The _______________ tool in Mac OS X checks for bad clusters in the hard disk.

Question 64

What are three different partitioning methods supported by Windows?

Question 65

What is a benefit of extended partitions over primary partitions?

Question 66

What are two things possible with a dynamic disk that cannot be done with a regular partition?

Question 67

You should never defrag a(n) _______________ because it can shorten its lifetime.

Question 68

You should _______________ your hard drive if it gets a lot of "Trying to recover lost allocation unit" errors.

Question 69

When a computer boots up, where does BIOS look for instructions?

Question 70

A bad sector is marked as bad in the drive's internal error map by the _______________.

Question 71

What are two types of partitions supported by MBR partition tables?

Question 72

A(n) _______________ volume spreads out blocks of each file across multiple disks.

Question 73

What are the different types of volumes in dynamic disks?

Question 74

What should you do if you want to run both Windows 7 and Linux on your PC?

Question 75

Most drives today use built-in _______________ that constantly checks the drives for bad sectors.

Question 76

ScanDisk and chkdsk are two maintenance tools that have been combined into what Windows 8 and later calls the _______________ tool.

Question 77

One of the benefits of mount points is that they do not require a(n) drive _______________.

Question 78

_______________ is a tool used to get rid of files in the Recycle Bin, temporary Internet files, and downloaded program files.

Question 79

The _______________ tool can be used to help eliminate unneeded files such as files in the Recycle Bin.

Question 80

A(n) _______________ is created to use extra space from a completely different dynamic disk to increase the size of a simple volume.