Module 7

Question 1

T/F: The SATA drive technology utilizes a serial data path.

Answer 1

True

Question 2

T/F: The read/write head on a magnetic hard drive is at both the top and bottom of each disk.

Answer 2

True

Question 3

T/F: Hard drives that can be used for hot-swapping cost significantly less than regular hard drives.

Answer 3

False

Question 4

T/F: The 2.5” size hard drive is typically used in devices such as MP3 players.

Answer 4

False

Question 5

T/F: The faster the spindle rotates on a traditional magnetic drive, the better performance it will have.

Answer 5

True

Question 6

What SATA standard provides a transfer rate of 3 Gb/sec?

Answer 6

SATA2

Question 7

What is the current maximum storage capacity limit of a magnetic tape?

Answer 7

185 TB

Question 8

What command line utility can be used to repair the BCD on a Windows installation?

Answer 8

bootrec

Question 9

How many layers of data can exist on a single side of a Blu-ray disc?

Answer 9

2

Question 10

What technology is used to assure that the logical block addressing on a solid state drive does not always address the same physical blocks, in order to distribute write operations?

Answer 10

wear leveling

Question 11

What statement best describes a RAID 5?

Answer 11

it requires 3 or more drives and uses parity checking

Question 12

If you are adding a hard drive to a system that already has a drive with Windows installed on it, what should you do?

Answer 12

boot Windows and use Disk Management to prepare the new drive

Question 13

What hard drive technology is used to predict when a drive is likely to fail?

Answer 13

S.M.A.R.T.

Question 14

A DAT72 tape is also known by what term?

Answer 14

DDS-5

Question 15

A SATA data cable has how many pins?

Answer 15

7 pins

Question 16

If a computer is performing slowly due to file fragmentation, what Windows tool can be utilized to rearrange fragments?

Answer 16

defragmentation tool

Question 17

Which statement regarding the selection of a hard drive is accurate?

Answer 17

magnetic drives have larger capacity for the money and solid state drives

Question 18

Which type of RAID volume is used for fault tolerance and only requires two drives?

Answer 18

RAID1

Question 19

Which statement regarding hard drives is incorrect?

Answer 19

solid state drives are less expensive than magnetic hard drives

Question 20

Why might you want to use a RAID 0 disk configuration?

Answer 20

to improve overall disk performance

Question 21

What process writes sector markings to a hard drive?

Answer 21

low-level formatting

Question 22

What type of RAID is a combination of mirroring and striping?

Answer 22

RAID10

Question 23

The hard drive firmware, UEFI/BIOS, and the OS address the sectors on a hard drive utilizing what technology?

Answer 23

logical block addressing

Question 24

The SATA/600 standard is also known by what other name?

Answer 24

SATAIII

Question 25

Which rotation speed is not a typical spindle rotation speed for magnetic hard drives?

Answer 25

3100

Question 26

What two SD standards utilize the FAT file system?

Answer 26

SD | SDHC

Question 27

How much data can an LTO Ultrium 5 tape hold, native and compressed?

Answer 27

1. 5TB native | 3. 0TB compressed

Question 28

What two optical disc drive standards support writing discs with a total capacity of 8.5GB?

Answer 28

DVD-R DL | DVD+R DL

Question 29

What two different file systems can be used on a Compact Disc (CD)?

Answer 29

CDFS | UDF

Question 30

What two optical disc drive standards allow for rewritable discs?

Answer 30

DVD-RAM | BD-RE

Question 31

autodetection

Answer 31

a feature in startup BIOS that detects a new drive and selects the correct drive configuration

Question 32

fault tolerance

Answer 32

a computer's ability to respond to a hardware failure

Question 33

RAID controller

Answer 33

a hardware component that facilitates a hardware RAID implementation

Question 34

mirrored volume

Answer 34

a storage configuration in which data is duplicated on one drive to another drive

Question 35

NAND flash memory

Answer 35

a chip that contains grids of rows and columns with two transistors at each intersection that hold a zero or one bit

Question 36

WORM drive / cartridge

Answer 36

assures that data written onto a tape will not be deleted or overwritten

Question 37

file system

Answer 37

the overall structure an OS uses to name, store, and organize files on a drive

Question 38

spanning

Answer 38

uses two hard drives to hold a single Windows volume

Question 39

striped volume

Answer 39

a type of volume that writes data to all physical disk members evenly for the purpose of improving performance

Question 40

UDF

Answer 40

- universal disk format