Storage Devices & SATA
You are a sales representative for a large pharmaceutical company. You often want to share information from your laptop quickly with customers during onsite visits.
Which of the following storage media would BEST allow you to quickly and inexpensively share your files with customers?
Answer:
HDD drive
SDHC memory card
Flash drive
SSD drive
Flash drive
Which Blu-ray standard defines rewritable discs?
Answer:
BD-ROM
BD-RE
BD-R
BD-R/RW
BD-RE
You have just purchased a new USB drive that you want to use to troubleshoot the computers in your company as well as other network devices, such as printers and projectors. You need to format this new drive with a file system that will be recognized and used on all devices.
Which of the following file system types would meet MOST, if not all, of your needs when formatting your USB drive?
Answer:
NTFS
NFS
FAT32
CDFS
FAT32
What happens when you connect a new internal hard drive to a Windows PC?
Answer:
Windows automatically assigns the next available drive letter.
Windows automatically partitions the new hard drive.
Windows automatically initializes (formats) the new hard drive.
Windows automatically assigns the new drive to a pool.
Windows automatically assigns the next available drive letter.
Which of the following disk maintenance utilities optimizes the performance of your hard drive by joining parts of files that are in different locations into a single location?
Answer:
Check Disk
Disk Defragmenter
Disk Cleanup
Disk Management
Disk Defragmenter
Which storage device uses aluminum platters for storing data?
Answer:
DLT tape
CD-ROM disc
Hard disk
SD card
DVD disc
Hard disk
Which optical media has the greatest storage capacity?
Answer:
Single-layer, single-sided Blu-ray Disc
Dual-layer, double-sided DVD
Compact disc
Dual-layer, single-sided DVD
Single-layer, single-sided Blu-ray Disc
You have an extra disk on your system that has three primary partitions and an extended partition with two logical drives. You want to convert the partitions to simple volumes, preferably without losing any data.
Which of the following is the BEST step to perform to accomplish this?
Answer:
Delete the partitions and re-create them as simple volumes.
Run the fixboot command to convert the partition type to GPT.
Run the convert command.
Upgrade the disk to a dynamic disk.
Upgrade the disk to a dynamic disk.
You have a thin-provisioned storage space that suddenly unmounts.
What is the MOST likely cause of this problem?
Answer:
One of the disks in the storage space pool has crashed.
A new storage device has been added to the pool.
The storage space has run out of disk space.
The storage space has become corrupted.
The storage space has run out of disk space.
Lately, you hear a clicking noise when reading or writing data from the hard disk.
What is the MOST likely cause of the clicking?
Answer:
Overheated CPU
Bad memory
Failed UPS
Failing hard drive
Failing hard drive
Which of the following is a magnetic storage device?
Answer:
Hard disk
DVD
Solid-state drive
Flash device
Hard Disc
Annette has purchased a new external DVD drive to use with her PC. She inserts a DVD into the drive and, after several seconds, she receives an error message indicating that the drive is not accessible.
What is the FIRST thing Annette should do to try to resolve the issue?
Answer:
Unplug the drive from the PC and then plug the drive back in again.
Wait a few seconds and try accessing the DVD again.
Eject the DVD from the drive and then re-insert the DVD.
Check Device Manager to make sure that the DVD drive is listed.
Wait a few seconds and try accessing the DVD again.
You are using an older utility to manage a GPT-partitioned drive on a Windows 10 system. You only see a single partition. However, you know you have multiple partitions across the hard drive.
What is the MOST likely reason that you only see one partition?
Answer:
The utility is displaying the drive's unprotected MBR.
The utility can only manage MBR partitions and is displaying the drive's protected MBR.
The utility is only designed to work with Windows 7 or 8.
The utility can only display dynamic partitions.
The utility can only manage MBR partitions and displays the drive's protected MBR.
You want to set up storage spaces for several employees in your company with a maximum allocation of 100 gigabytes per drive. However, you only have 500 gigabytes of available space left in the pool where you want to create the storage spaces.
Which Storage Spaces feature can you use to allocate more space than what is actually available?
Answer:
Data resiliency
Partition shrinking
Thin provisioning
Pools
Thin provisioning
While trying to start your Windows 11 system, you see the following error message:
Could not read from the selected boot disk. Check the boot path and disk hardware.
Which of the following will MOST likely fix the problem?
Answer:
Boot into the recovery console and run the bootcfg /rebuild command.
Boot into the recovery console and run the fixmbr command on the boot volume.
Boot into Safe Mode and restore to a restore point.
Boot into the recovery console and copy the NTLDR file to the boot volume.
Boot into the recovery environment and run the bootrec /rebuildbcd command.
Boot into the recovery environment and run the bootrec /rebuildbcd command.
You want a storage device that has the ability to:
Which of the following SATA devices is the BEST for these conditions?
Answer:
SATA1
SATA3
eSATA
eSATAp
SATA2
eSATAp
One of your customers wants you to build a personal server that he can use in his home. One of his concerns is making sure that he has at least one data backup stored on the server in the event that a disk fails. You have decided to back up his data using RAID.
Since this server is for personal use only, the customer wants to keep costs down. Therefore, he would like to keep the number of drives to a minimum.
Which of the following RAID systems would BEST meet the customer's specifications?
Answer:
RAID 0
RAID 1
RAID 5
RAID 10
RAID 1
You have a single hard drive on your laptop with a basic system volume. The volume is running out of space, and you would like to extend the space on the volume.
Which of the following would work BEST to resolve the issue?
Answer:
Extend the system volume by adding a second hard drive and using contiguous space on the new drive.
Extend the system volume by adding a second hard drive and using non-contiguous space on the new drive.
Extend the system volume on the existing hard drive by using contiguous unallocated space.
Extend the system volume on the existing hard drive by using non-contiguous unallocated space.
Extend the system volume on the existing hard drive by using contiguous unallocated space.
Which of the following utilities would you use to correct cross-linked clusters within the file system on a Windows workstation?
Answer:
fdisk
chkdsk
DiskScan
attrib
chkdsk
You have just received a frantic call from a customer. She informs you that after turning her computer on, she received the following error:
The SMART hard disk check has detected an imminent failure.
Which of the following is the best FIRST step to take?
Answer:
Back up all important data and files.
Run a reliable defragmentation tool.
Run a hard drive test to verify the hard disk's condition. (It may be a false error.)
Correct the bad areas on the drive using chkdsk.
Back up all important data and files.
The hard drive (HDD) you are installing in a PC is the boot drive with the operating system on it. You want to make sure that the BIOS recognizes this HDD as the boot drive without the need to configure it as the boot drive in BIOS.
Which of the following should you do to make sure the HDD is recognized as the boot drive automatically?
Answer:
Connect the HDD to the lowest-numbered power supply connector.
Connect the HDD to the motherboard using a SATA data cable designed for boot drives.
Connect the HDD to the highest-numbered SATA connector on the motherboard.
Connect the HDD to the lowest-numbered SATA connector on the motherboard.
Connect the HDD to the lowest-numbered SATA connector on the motherboard.
A computer that is being used by the HR department needs to ensure that all of the data on that computer is protected from a single hard disk failure. The data needs to be read as quickly as possible, and the HR department would like to maximize drive use as much as possible. This computer can use up to three hard drives.
Which of the following RAID types would meet these requirements and provide the BEST data protection?
Answer:
RAID 0
RAID 1
RAID 5
RAID 10
RAID 5
Which Windows tool can you use to determine the amount of space available to shrink a volume?
Answer:
chkdsk /f
Computer Management
chkdsk /r
Disk Management
Disk Management
You notice that the hard drive on your iMac Pro is running slower than before. You decide to run the First Aid utility to optimize the drive.
Which of the following is recommended to make sure that the First Aid utility is 100% effective?
Answer:
Make sure that the hard drive is at 80% or less capacity.
Check Disk Usage in the Storage tab.
Run First Aid by booting into Recovery Mode.
Defragment the hard drive first.
Run First Aid by booting into Recovery Mode.
You have just finished upgrading the 250-watt power supply in your desktop computer to a 450-watt power supply. Now the BIOS does not recognize one of the hard disk drives in the system during POST.
Which of the following troubleshooting steps is the BEST to try first?
Answer:
Use the voltage switch on the power supply to go from 110 volts to 220 volts.
Manually enter the hard disk geometry parameters in the BIOS.
Reconfigure the hard disk to utilize the higher-wattage power supply with drive jumpers.
Make sure that the hard disk is connected to the power supply.
Replace the power supply.
Make sure that the hard disk is connected to the power supply.