Chapter 6

Question 1

What is the maximum data transfer rate of SATA revision 1.0?
❍ A. 1.5 Mbps
❍ B. 300 MB/s
❍ C. 150 MB/s
❍ D. 1.5 GB/s

Answer 1

❍ C. 150 MB/s

Question 2

Which of these is the delay it takes for the hard drive to access a particular sector
on the disk?
❍ A. Actuator
❍ B. Latency
❍ C. Lag
❍ D. Propagation

Answer 2

❍ B. Latency

Question 3

What should you do first to repair a drive that is acting sluggish?
❍ A. Remove the drive and recover the data.
❍ B. Run Disk Cleanup.
❍ C. Run Disk Defragmenter.
❍ D. Scan for viruses

Answer 3

❍ C. Run Disk Defragmenter.

Question 4

How much data can a SATA revision 3.0 drive transfer per second?
❍ A. 1.5 Gb/s
❍ B. 3.0 Gb/s
❍ C. 4.5 Gb/s
❍ D. 6.0 Gb/s

Answer 4

❍ D. 6.0 Gb/s

• 1.5 Gb/s = Revision 1
• 3.0 Gb/s = Revison 2

Question 5

How many pins are there in a SATA drive’s data and power connectors?
❍ A. 40 and 4
❍ B. 8 and 16
❍ C. 7 and 15
❍ D. 80 and 4

Answer 5

❍ C. 7 and 15

40 and 4 = ATA IDE (40 data 4 power)
80 and 4 = IDE (80 data and 4 power)

Question 6

What kind of cable does a floppy drive use?
❍ A. 40-pin IDE
❍ B. 80-pin IDE
❍ C. 34-pin IDE
❍ D. 168-pin IDE

Answer 6

❍ C. 34-pin IDE

Question 7

What is the maximum data transfer rate of an Ultra3 SCSI device?
❍ A. 320 MB/s
❍ B. 160 MB/s
❍ C. 640 MB/s
❍ D. 300 MB/s

Answer 7

❍ B. 160 MB/s

• 320 MB/s = ultra-320
• 640 MB/s = ultra-640
• 300 MB/s = SAS and SATA Revision 2.0

Question 8

In a two drive IDE configuration, drive 0 would be the \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_, and drive 1
would be the \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_.
❍ A. Slave, master
❍ B. Cable select, slave
❍ C. Slave, single
❍ D. Master, slave

Answer 8

❍ D. Master, slave

Question 9

What is a standard connector for an external SCSI device?
❍ A. 240 pin
❍ B. 68 pin
❍ C. 40 pin
❍ D. 7 pin

Answer 9

❍ B. 68 pin

40 pin = IDE
7 pin = SATA

Question 10

Which of the following is hot-swappable?
❍ A. Floppy drive
❍ B. Tape drive
❍ C. Hard drive
❍ D. DVD drive

Answer 10

❍ C. Hard drive

Question 11

What devices would use a SCSI cable? (Select the two best answers.)
❍ A. SSD
❍ B. Tape drive
❍ C. Floppy drive
❍ D. IDE drive
❍ E. Hard drive

Answer 11

❍ B. Tape drive

❍ E. Hard drive

Question 12

What does the x refer to in Compact Disc technology?
❍ A. 150 KB/s
❍ B. 1.32 MB/s
❍ C. 133 MB/s
❍ D. 4.5 MB/s

Answer 12

❍ A. 150 KB/s

Question 13

Which of the following has the largest potential for storage capacity?
❍ A. CD-R
❍ B. CD-RW
❍ C. DVD-RW
❍ D. Blu-ray

Answer 13

❍ D. Blu-ray

Question 14

What is the maximum capacity of a Blu-ray disc?
❍ A. 700 MB
❍ B. 4.7 GB
❍ C. 17 GB
❍ D. 50 GB

Answer 14

❍ D. 50 GB

Question 15

If a user wants to write information more than one time to a DVD, which type
should you recommend? (Select all that apply.)
❍ A. DVD-R
❍ B. DVD–RW
❍ C. DVD+RW
❍ D. DVD+R

Answer 15

❍ B. DVD–RW

❍ C. DVD+RW

Question 16

What should you do before physically removing a USB flash drive? (Select the
best answer.)
❍ A. Turn it off.
❍ B. Shut down Windows.
❍ C. Format the drive.
❍ D. Use the Safely Remove icon.

Answer 16

❍ D. Use the Safely Remove icon.

Question 17

How are most solid-state media formatted by the manufacturer?
❍ A. As FAT32
❍ B. As NTFS
❍ C. As FAT16
❍ D. As FAT12

Answer 17

❍ A. As FAT32

Question 18

What is the main difference between SD and SDIO?
❍ A. SD cards are faster.
❍ B. SDIO cards incorporate input/output functionality.
❍ C. SD cards incorporate input/output functionality.
❍ D. SDIO cards can identify a user’s cell phone.

Answer 18

❍ B. SDIO cards incorporate input/output functionality.

Question 19

What kind of controller is built into a CF card?
❍ A. SATA
❍ B. IDE
❍ C. ATA
❍ D. SCSI

Answer 19

❍ C. ATA