Computer Storage

Question 1

What is a feature of having a Storage Pool?

Accepted Answer

A Storage Space can be created in the pool

Question 2

How many pins does a SATA power connector have?

Accepted Answer

15

Question 3

What is the maximum number of volumes supported by a Dynamic disk?

Accepted Answer

128

Question 4

What is the one thing affordable Flash drives don't have?

Accepted Answer

Large storage spaces

Question 5

The lifespan of an SSD is usually shortened by what?

Accepted Answer

Video editing applications

Question 6

Windows 7 does not support which type of RAID?

Accepted Answer

5

Question 7

What storage device has a Mean Time Between Failure (MTBF) rating?

Accepted Answer

All of these

Question 8

What version of Windows doesn't allow for Storage Spaces?

Accepted Answer

Windows 7

Question 9

What is the capacity range of DLT drives?

Accepted Answer

10 to 800 GB

Question 10

What command should be used at a command prompt to verify the file system integrity of a HDD?

Accepted Answer

chkdsk

Question 11

What does disk defragmenter do?

Accepted Answer

Joins together fragments of files

Question 12

How can RAID be implemented?

Accepted Answer

By any one of these methods

Question 13

What are the requirements to create a mount point?

Accepted Answer

All are correct

Question 14

In Disk Management of Windows 10, what does the black part of a hard drive indicate?

Accepted Answer

Unallocated space

Question 15

What does TRIM do?

Accepted Answer

Tells OS which blocks can be wiped clean

Question 16

To create a separate partition on a fully allocated volume with plenty of unused space...

Accepted Answer

Shrink and split the volume

Question 17

Which of the following is NOT disposed of during a disk cleanup?

Accepted Answer

Orphaned files

Question 18

According to TestOut what is last step to installing a SATA device?

Accepted Answer

Verify the drive is detected

Question 19

What does a Mac system do an efficient job of?

Accepted Answer

Storing and retrieving data

Question 20

In a Storage Space what does thin provisioning allow you to do?

Accepted Answer

Allocate more storage than what is on the HDDs

Question 21

How much data can a single sided DVD hold?

Accepted Answer

4.7 GB

Question 22

How many extended partitions can be created on a disk drive?

Accepted Answer

1

Question 23

How much data and of what type can DVD drives can store?

Accepted Answer

4.7 GB of audio, video, and data files

Question 24

What does GPT stand for?

Accepted Answer

GUID Partition Table

Question 25

What is the only difference between BD and CD?

Accepted Answer

The color of the laser used to read the information

Question 26

In Linux, what commands shows the disk space in simplified form?

Accepted Answer

-df -h

Question 27

Which of the following about RAID 1 is TRUE?

Accepted Answer

It doesn't increase performance

Question 28

What is the point of a mount point?

Accepted Answer

Increase the Volume size by adding more space

Question 29

What has the ability to slow your hard drive?

Accepted Answer

It is heavily fragmented

Question 30

What happens to a mostly clogged HDD?

Accepted Answer

It slows down

Question 31

Which gives you the advantages of speed while still having some redundancy?

Accepted Answer

Parity

Question 32

Which type of partition(s) does Basic disks use?

Accepted Answer

Primary and Extended

Question 33

What is a spanned volume?

Accepted Answer

Uses disk space on a multiple disks

Question 34

What command in the command prompt do you use to configure disks?

Accepted Answer

diskpart

Question 35

Which is NOT a key benefit of Storage Spaces?

Accepted Answer

Volumes must be resized

Question 36

How can volumes be converted from FAT32 to NTFS?

Accepted Answer

By using the Disk Management utility

Question 37

What does "unallocated" mean?

Accepted Answer

Disk portions not assigned to a partition or volume

Question 38

What is NOT true about the GPT partitioning system?

Accepted Answer

Supports up to 64 partitions instead of 4

Question 39

What is minimum number of disks required for RAID 5?

Accepted Answer

3

Question 40

Which of the following is NOT a consideration for partitioning a drive?

Accepted Answer

Windows runs more efficiently with updates stored separately

Question 41

Which SATA interface provides power for external devices?

Accepted Answer

eSATAp

Question 42

What is NOT required for creating a mounting point?

Accepted Answer

Must be a dynamic disk

Question 43

How thick is a Blu-Ray disc?

Accepted Answer

1.2 mm

Question 44

What is TRUE about Solid State Drives?

Accepted Answer

They are faster than hard disk drives

Question 45

Which is NOT an advantage of optical discs?

Accepted Answer

They are faster than hard disks

Question 46

What is the minimum speed for a standard hard disk drive?

Accepted Answer

5400 RPM

Question 47

Where do you go in a Windows 10 environment to configure a RAID array?

Accepted Answer

Disk Management

Question 48

How long does it take for optical drives to recognize a disk?

Accepted Answer

Several seconds

Question 49

How many minutes of audio (music) can a CD store?

Accepted Answer

74-80

Question 50

What original speed do DVD drives use as a multiplier?

Accepted Answer

1.35 MB/s

Question 51

How many partitions can be Active at a time?

Accepted Answer

1

Question 52

Some advantages of flash drives include all EXCEPT what?

Accepted Answer

Different readers require different memory cards

Question 53

Why should you not defragment an SSD?

Accepted Answer

The drive will have a shortened lifespan

Question 54

What benefits does JBOD have?

Accepted Answer

None of these

Question 55

Where can storage be optimized?

Accepted Answer

At both hardware and software levels

Question 56

What's the minimum amount of disks for RAID 0?

Accepted Answer

2

Question 57

Which is NOT an option for data resiliency in Storage Spaces?

Accepted Answer

One-way mirror

Question 58

What is NOT an advantage NTFS has over FAT32?

Accepted Answer

Compatible with Basic disks

Question 59

What is NOT an advantage of having a HDD?

Accepted Answer

They are highly portable

Question 60

What do you type in the command prompt to manually enable TRIM on an SSD?

Accepted Answer

DisableDeleteNotify 0

Computer Storage

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Computer Storage

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