A collection of files and settings about a user account that enables the user’s personal data, desktop settings?
What is user Profile?
100
A Windows utility that automatically backs up system files and stores them in restore points on the hard drive at regular intervals and just before you install software or hardware.
What is System Protection?
100
On a hard disk drive or SSD, the smallest unit of bytes addressable by the operating system and UEFI/BIOS.
What is sector?
100
The term Windows uses that applies to a hard drive when the drive is a stand-alone drive in the system.
What is basic disk?
100
A Windows 8 utility that can create a storage pool using any number of internal or external backup drives.
What is Storage Spaces?
200
A database that Windows uses to store hardware and software configuration information, user preferences, and setup information.
What is Registry?
200
A snapshot of the Windows system, usually made before installation of new hardware or applications. Restore points are created by the System Protection utility.
What is restore points?
200
One of many concentric circles on the surface of a hard disk drive.
What is tracks?
200
A volume that can be accessed by way of a folder on another volume so that the folder has more available space.
What is mounted drive?
200
In Windows 8 Storage Spaces, the term refers to the degree the configuration can resist or recover from drive failure.
What is resiliency?
300
A Windows utility to delete temporary files to free up space on a drive.
What is disk cleanup?
300
A Windows utility used to restore the system to a restore point.
What is System Restore?
300
A table that contains information about each partition on the drive.
What is partition table?
300
A folder that is used as a shortcut to space on another volume, which effectively increases the size of the folder to the size of the other volume.
What is mount point?
300
A logical drive can be mirrored, which means the data is duplicated across multiple physical drives used to create the space.
What is Two-way mirroring?
400
A drive maintenance procedure that rearranges fragments or parts of files on a magnetic hard drive so each file is stored on the drive in contiguous clusters.
What is defragment?
400
In Windows 8, the utility that can schedule and maintain backups of data. It can also create a system image for backward compatibility with Windows 7.
What is File History?
400
On an MBR hard drive, a portion or all of a hard drive extended partition that is treated by the operating system as though it were a physical drive or volume.
What is logical drives?
400
A way to partition one or more hard drives so that the drives can work together to store data in order to increase space for data or to provide fault tolerance or improved performance.
What is dynamic disk?
400
To provide even greater resiliency, parity spaces maintain multiple copies of data (depending upon the configuration) plus parity checking, which is a way to check backed-up data for any loss and re-create compromised data through parity calculations.
What is Parity?
500
Wasted space on a hard drive caused by not using all available space at the end of a cluster.
What is slack?
500
DAILY DOUBLE* You must open this first to get to File History
What is Control Panel?
500
On an MBR hard drive, the only partition on the drive that can contain more than one logical drive.
What is extended partition?
500
Using Windows to implement RAID. The setup is done using the Disk Management utility.
What is Software RAID?
500
A technique used by Storage Spaces in Windows whereby virtual storage free space can be configured as if it has more virtual storage than the physical storage allotted to it.