Deck 12: Implementing Hard Drives

Question 1

Which of the following is not a volume type on a dynamic disk?

A) simple
B) stripped
C) primary
D) mirrored

Answer 1

C

Question 2

What tool can you use to find additional space on your hard drive?

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

Answer 2

C

Question 3

A ____ volume is similar to a primary partition,but it is not a primary partition.

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

Answer 3

B

Question 4

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 5

Which of the following is the default primary partition for Windows?

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

Question 6

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

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

Question 7

The operating system is stored in a(n)____ partition.

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

Question 8

What tool in Windows is used to partition and format a drive?

A) Disk Management
B) Disk Administrator
C) FDISK
D) RAID

Question 9

What will happen to your data if you try to convert a dynamic disk back to a basic disk?

A) Data will be lost.
B) Data will be converted to basic data.
C) You will get a BSOD.
D) A new Backup Volume will be created.

Question 10

In Windows,each ____ is assigned a drive letter from c: to Z:.

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

Question 11

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

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

Question 12

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

A) format
B) partition
C) Convert to Dynamic Disk
D) New Volume

Question 13

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

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

Question 14

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

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

Question 15

A PC can boot to both Windows XP and Linux or Windows Vista.What is this called?

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

Question 16

Windows can create partitions using the ____ disk.

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

Question 17

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 18

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

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

Question 19

Where do some PC makes hide a backup copy of the OS for later restoration?

A) Swap partition
B) Hidden partition
C) Simple volume
D) Dynamic volume

Question 20

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

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

Question 21

Which is the proper path to compress or encrypt a file or folder in Windows?

A) Right-click it in My Computer or Computer and select Properties to open the Properties dialog box.Then Click the Advanced button.
B) Right-click it and select Properties.In the Properties dialog box,select the Quota tab and make changes.
C) Right-click the folder or file and select Initialize Encryption and Compression.
D) Click Start and type compress or encrypt in the Run line.

Question 22

What are drive structures called in Windows 7 Disk Management?

A) Drives
B) Partitions
C) Volumes
D) Sectors

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

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 25

How many MBRs can exist on a disk?

A) 1
B) 4
C) One per drive letter
D) One per primary partition

Question 26

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 27

How many partitions has Microsoft limited Windows to under GPT partitioning?

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

Question 28

By default,what is the maximum size of an NTFS dynamic disk?

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

Question 29

Which type of interface does the Windows Vista installation partitioning page use?

A) Text based
B) Dynamic based
C) GUI based
D) Basic based

Question 30

In Windows Vista,what can't you create unless you already have three primary partitions?

A) Extended partitions
B) Active partitions
C) Page files
D) Word documents

Question 31

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 32

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

A) CMOS
B) Connectivity
C) Partition
D) Installation

Question 33

If using primary partitions,how many drive letters is a disk limited to?

A) 4
B) 1
C) 26
D) 5

Question 34

A (n)____ is a drive that functions like a folder on another drive.

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

Question 35

What tool can be used to verify a hard disk on Windows?

A) Check Disk
B) Disk Defragmenter
C) Error-checking tool
D) ScanDisk

Question 36

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

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

Question 37

When Windows Vista and 7 create volumes,what type are the first three you create?

A) primary
B) extended
C) logical
D) boot

Question 38

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

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

Question 39

Which of the following codes indicates that a sector in the hard drive is bad?

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

Question 40

Which version of Windows supports booting from a GPT drive?

A) Windows Vista 64-bit
B) Windows 7 32-bit
C) Windows XP 64-bit
D) Windows Vista Enterprise 32-bit

Question 41

____________________ occurs as files begin to separate over time.

Question 42

While drive geometry is needed by the hardware in the computer,the operating system can't use the drive until it is ____________________ and ____________________.

Question 43

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

Question 44

A group of cylinders on a hard drive is called a (n)____________________.

Question 45

The process of dividing a physical hard disk into logical groups of cylinders is known as ____________________.

Question 46

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

Question 47

To boot from a hard drive,it must contain the ____________________ partition.

Question 48

A graphical tool in Windows that is used to check and correct a fragmented drive is called the ____________________.

Question 49

The encryption capability in NTFS is called ____________________.

Question 50

The ____________________ contains the MBR and the partition table.

Question 51

The ____________________ tool can be used to help eliminate unneeded files.

Question 52

A storage type unique to Windows 2000/XP/Vista is known as ____________________.

Question 53

When you install an operating system,you must set that partition as ____________________.

Question 54

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

Question 55

The ____________________ file system provides encryption of files.

Question 56

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

Question 57

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

Question 58

Dynamic disks are divided into ____________________ instead of partitions.

Question 59

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

Question 60

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

Question 61

Using two or more volumes in a set is known as a(n)____________________ volume.

Question 62

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

Question 63

Disk Management will show a System disk as ____________________ if it is healthy and communicating properly with the computer.

Question 64

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

Question 65

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

Question 66

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

Question 67

A hard drive can be formatted with ____________________ in Windows.

Question 68

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

Question 69

A GPT is not limited to any number of __________ partitions.

Question 70

FAT32 does not work on drives larger than __________.

Question 71

On a GPT drive,LBA 0 is the __________.

Question 72

The ____________________ program in Windows is used to rearrange the files into neat,contiguous chunks.

Question 73

Before storing data on a hard disk,create a(n)____________________ and root directory by formatting the drive.

Question 74

CHKDSK and Scan Disk are two maintenance tools that have been combined into the ____________________ tool in Windows.

Question 75

In the FAT system,formatting marks good sectors as ____________________.

Question 76

One of the benefits of mount points is that they don't require a(n)___________.

Question 77

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

Question 78

__________ creates a file system and root directory.

Question 79

The ____________________ tool checks for bad clusters in the hard disk.

Question 80

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