Chapter 10 - Hardware Support A+

Windows Disk Cleanup is the utility to use whenever you want to defragment your hard drive. True or False

Windows needs free space on the hard drive for normal operation, for defragmenting the drive, for burning CDs and DVDs, and for a variety of other tasks, so it's important to delete unneeded files occasionally. True or False

Defragmenting is not recommended for solid-state hard drives. True or False

Using Windows 7 Backup and Restore, you can back up the volume on which Windows is installed. True or False

The chkdsk command will not fix anything on the drive unless the drive is unlocked. True or False

What type of storage drive contains spinning platters? optical hard drive solid-state drives floppy hard drives magnetic hard disk drives

What is Pagefile.sys used for in Windows? system file storage to store E-books video RAM virtual memory

What is another name for a file allocation unit? sector cluster segment fragment

How often does Windows 7/Vista automatically defragment a hard drive? once a week once a day once a month once an hour

What command should you use to rearrange parts of files on the drive so they are contiguous? Optimize Analyze Defrag Chkdsk

In order to ensure drive health, what command should you use to search for and repair file system errors? Defrag Chkdsk Analyze Optimize

What is a snapshot of the system settings and configuration called? rollback point restore unit rollback unit restore point

Restore points are created at regular intervals and just before you install software or hardware by what utility? System Activation System Protection System Restoration System Prevention

What is the fourth partition on a hard drive called? extended partition master boot record volume primary partition

Using what Windows 7 utility allows you to create a backup schedule that can include any folder on the hard drive and the system image? Automated System Backup Complete PC Recovery Automated System Recovery Backup and Restore

What partition is the bootable partition that startup BIOS turns to when searching for an operating system to start up on an MBR partitioned drive? extended partition startup partition active partition volume

If you enter a command and want to terminate its execution before it is finished, what key press should you use? Ctrl+C Ctrl+V Ctrl+B Ctrl+X

What command creates a subdirectory under a directory? RD MD CD AD

How much storage does a dynamic disk require for the disk management database? 1 MB 10 GB 5 MB 50 MB

You can use what utility to convert two or more basic disks to dynamic disks? Disk Management Windows Management System Management Disk Config

If a storage pool is configured as if it has more virtual storage than the physical drives actually offer, what feature is being used? thick provisioning thin provisioning explicit zeroing implicit zeroing

What option, when passed to the shutdown command, will restart the local computer? /h -h /s /r

Volumes within an extended partition are known by what term? extended volumes extra volumes logical drives logical expansions

On a magnetic drive, what is the most common sector size? 512 bytes 512 KB 16 KB 4 KB

What term is used to describe the unused space at the end of the last cluster? zero slack void null

In Windows, what two terms describe the active partition on an MBR drive, and the location where the Windows operating system is stored, respectively? primary partition logical partition system partition boot partition

What status indicators apply only to dynamic disks? (Choose all that apply.) Foreign drive Unallocated Healthy (At Risk) Active

What file systems supported by Windows can be used for volumes and drives that don't hold the Windows installation? (Choose all that apply.) FAT64 FAT32 exFAT NTFS

What are two methods that can be used to free up disk space on a hard drive? -Format the hard drive -Delete the Windows/System directory -Uninstall software you no longer use -Use drive compression

Text files that are called initialization files often utilize what two file name extensions? .init .ini .inf .start

used to enhance the amount of RAM in a system

rearranges files on the drive into as few segments as possible

an extra copy of a data or software file that you can use if the original file becomes damaged or destroyed

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

a volume that can be accessed by way of a folder on another volume so that the folder has more available space

snapshots of the system and include Windows system files that have changed

searches for bad sectors on a volume and recovers the data from them if possible

can span more than one hard drive

a hidden file stored in the root directory of drive C

can be partitioned and formatted as a stand-alone hard drive