Chap 10 220

1. Windows can create partitions using the _______________ disk. A. basic B. extended C. volume D. system

2. What newer type of drive partitioning overcomes the limits of MBR drives? A. Dynamic disks B. GPT C. MBR2 D. LBA

3. The _______________ takes control of the boot process from the system BIOS. A. boot sector B. CMOS C. MBR D. POST

4. All basic hard drive partition tables support up to _______________ partitions. A. one B. two C. four D. six

5. The _______________ stores the location of the operating system boot files. A. boot sector B. MBR C. partition table D. partition boot sector

6. _______________ partitions are designed to support bootable operating systems. A. basic B. dynamic C. extended D. primary

7. What is the default primary partition for Windows? A. C: C. E: B. D: D. F:

8. How many extended partitions can be created in a hard drive? A. One B. Two C. Five D. Six

9. In Windows, each _______________ is assigned a drive letter from C: to Z:. A. cylinder B. file C. sector D. partition

10. How many master boot records can exist on an MBR disk? A. One B. Four C. One per drive letter D. One per primary partition

11. When using primary partitions, how many drive letters are possible on a single MBR disk? A. One B. Four C. Five D. Twenty-six

12. How many partitions can be active at any given point in time? A. One B. Two C. Three D. Five

13. An MBR has four different operating systems installed. What is this setup called? A. Dual-boot B. Integrated C. MBR-enabled D. Multiboot

14. Which type of dynamic disk requires three or more dynamic disks with equal-sized unallocated spaces? A. Simple B. Stripped C. RAID 5 D. Mirrored

15. A(n) _______________ volume is similar to a primary partition, but in fact, is not a primary partition. A. mirrored B. simple C. spanned D. striped

16. Microsoft calls a drive structure created with a dynamic disk a _______________. A. drive B. partition C. volume D. sector

17. Microsoft limits Windows to _______________ partitions under a GPT scheme. A. 4 B. 32 C. 64 D. 128

18. What Windows function is similar to a swap partition in Linux/Unix systems? A. Page file B. Recovery partition C. Hidden partition D. Reassembled file

19. What is a hidden partition that contains a restorable copy of an installed OS? A. Swap partition B. Factory recovery partition C. Simple volume D. Dynamic volume

20. What Windows tool partitions a drive? A. Disk Management B. Disk Administrator C. FDISK D. Optimize Drives

21. Which code indicates that a sector in the hard drive is bad? A. FFFF B. FFF7 C. 0007 D. 0000

22. By default, what is the maximum partition size NTFS supports on a dynamic disk? A. 2 TB B. 16 TB C. 18,446,744,073,709,551,616 bytes D. 16 exabytes

23. Which file system enables a user to adjust the cluster size? A. FAT8 B. FAT16 C. FAT32 D. NTFS

24. Which file system is a newer version of FAT and allows file sizes larger than 4 GB? A. NTFS B. FAT64 C. HPFS D. FAT16

25. If you move a dynamic disk from one computer to another, how will this drive be displayed in Disk Manager? A. Failed B. Formatting C. Unallocated D. Foreign drive

26. To change a basic disk to dynamic, right-click the drive icon and select _______________. A. Format as Dynamic B. Partition as Dynamic C. Convert to Dynamic Disk D. New Volume

27. To make dynamic volume bigger, right-click the volume and choose _______________. A. Span Volume B. Convert to bigger C. Expand Volume D. Extend Volume

28. When using dynamic disks, which version of Windows can create RAID 5 volumes? A. Windows 7 Professional B. Windows Vista Enterprise C. Windows Server D. Windows 7 Ultimate

29. Windows 7 Professional, Enterprise, and Ultimate editions can create a mirror set with two drives for data redundancy, which is also known as _______________. A. RAID 0 B. RAID 1 C. RAID 5 D. RAID 6

30. A(n) _______________ enables you to use your existing folders to store more data that can fit on a single drive or partition/volume A. extended partition B. mount point C. primary partition D. secondary partition

31. A _______________ is a place in the directory structure of an existing volume that can point to a volume or partition. A. partition table B. volume boot sector C. stripe set D. mount point

32. An entire physical drive can be added to another drive as a folder by creating a _______________. A. mount point B. simple volume C. spanned volume D. striped volume

33. What Windows 8 graphical utility finds bad clusters? A. Disk Utility B. Disk Defragmenter C. Error checking D. ScanDisk

34. What Windows tool finds additional space on a hard drive? A. Convert B. Defrag C. Disk Cleanup D. Disk Management

35. What type of problem does the error message "No Boot Device Present" indicate? A. The boot file is missing or corrupted. B. The hard drive containing the operating system has died. C. The FAT has been corrupted. D. The active partition has failed.

1. The process of electronically subdividing the physical hard drive into smaller units is known as _______________.

2. After partitioning, each drive must be _______________.

3. Microsoft calls a hard drive that uses either the MBR partitioning scheme or the GPT partitioning scheme a(n) _______________ disk.

4. A(n) _______________ organizes each partition on the hard disk in such a way that the operating system can store files and folders.

5. To enable a single hard drive to store more than one operating system, it would need to be _______________.

6. Partitioning creates a(n) _______________ and a partition table on the disk.

7. The first sector of an MBR hard drive contains the _______________.

8. During boot-up, the BIOS/POST reads the MBR to find the _______________ partition and boots the operating system on that partition.

9. A GPT allows an almost unlimited number of _______________ partitions.

10. On a GPT drive, LBA0 is the _______________ MBR.

11. The _______________ program in Windows enables a user to create additional partitions on a hard drive.

12. A hard drive can be partitioned with _______________ in Windows.

13. _______________ a hard drive creates a file system and root directory.

14. The _______________ directory provides the foundation upon which the OS builds files and folders.

15. A(n) _______________ causes the format utility to test every sector to mark out the unusable ones in the FAT.

16. In FAT16, _______________ enables a user to format partitions larger than 32 MB in size.

17. _______________ occurs as files begin to separate over time.

18. The graphical tool in Windows Visa/7 that checks and corrects a fragmented drive is the _______________.

19. The _______________ program in Windows 8/8.1/10 is used to rearrange the files into neat, contiguous chunks.

20. FAT32 does not work on drives larger than _______________ TB.

21. The _______________ file system provides encryption of files.

22. The encryption capability in NTFS is called _______________.

23. The _______________ feature of NTFS provides security for files and folders.

24. Any removable media that has a bootable OS is generically known as a(n) _______________.

25. Dynamic disks are divided into _______________ instead of partitions.

26. A(n) _______________ is created to use extra space from a completely different dynamic disk to increase the size of a simple volume.

27. A(n) _______________ volume spreads out blocks of each file across multiple disks.

28. One of the benefits of mount points is that they do not require a(n) drive _______________.

30. ScanDisk and chkdsk are two maintenance tools that have been combined into what Windows 8 and later calls the _______________ tool.

31. You should never defrag a(n) _______________ because it can shorten its lifetime.

32. _______________ is a tool used to get rid of files in the Recycle Bin, temporary Internet files, and downloaded program files.

33. The _______________ tool can be used to help eliminate unneeded files such as files in the Recycle Bin.

34. The _______________ tool can be run to clear up space on the hard drive occupied by temporary Internet files.

35. You should _______________ your hard drive if it gets a lot of "Trying to recover lost allocation unit" errors.

36. Most drives today use built-in _______________ that constantly checks the drives for bad sectors.

37. A bad sector is marked as bad in the drive's internal error map by the _______________.

29. The _______________ tool in Mac OS X checks for bad clusters in the hard disk.