Hardware Midterm (CH6)

The 2.5" size hard drive is typically used in devices such as MP3 players. (1pts) True False

The read/write head on a magnetic hard drive is at both the top and bottom of each disk. (1pts) True False

Hard drives that can be used for hot-swapping cost significantly less than regular hard drives. (1pts) True False

The SATA drive technology utilizes a serial data path (1pts) True False

The faster the spindle rotates on a traditional magnetic drive, the better performance it will have (1pts) True False

Which statement regarding hard drives is incorrect? (1pts) the 3.5" size is typically used in desktops solid state drives are less expensive than magnetic hard drives tracks on a hard drive are divided into sectors a solid state drive has no moving parts

What process writes sector markings to a hard drive? (1pts) high-level formatting low-level formatting sector provisioning partitioning

What hard drive technology is used to predict when a drive is likely to fail? (1pts) S.M.A.R.T. E.E.P.R.O.M. N.A.N.D. S.S.D.

What SATA standard provides a transfer rate of 3 Gb/sec? (1pts) SATA1 SATA4 SATA2 SATA3

Which statement regarding the selection of a hard drive is accurate? (1pts) magnetic drives have larger capacity for the money than solid state drives USB drives are a good choice for fast internal drives PATA drives are backward compatible with SATA drives a faster spindle speed keeps the drive cooler but doesn't improve performance

If you are adding a hard drive to a system that already has a drive with Windows installed on it, what should you do? (1pts) use the BIOS setup screen to partition and format the new drive boot Windows and use Disk Management to prepare the new drive check that the new hard drive must use the same standard as the Windows drive you should boot from the Windows setup DVD to prepare the new drive

Why might you want to use a RAID 0 disk configuration? (1pts) to prevent data loss in case of a drive failure to improve overall disk performance RAID 0 drives are less expensive than other RAID drives because RAID 0 provides an automatic disk backup

What statement best describes a RAID 5? (1pts) data from one drive is mirrored to another it requires 3 or more drives and uses parity checking it improves performance but not fault tolerance it takes at least four disks and data is striped and mirrored

What type of RAID is a combination of mirroring and striping? (1pts) RAID0 RAID5 RAID10 RAID1

Which rotation speed is not a typical spindle rotation speed for magnetic hard drives? (1pts) 7200 5400 10000 3100

What is the current maximum storage capacity limit of a magnetic tape? (1pts) 15TB 300TB 500GB 185TB

A DAT72 tape is also known by what term? (1pts) DDS-5 DDS-3 DDS-4 DDS-2

How many layers of data can exist on a single side of a Blu-ray disc? (1pts) 2 3 4 1

If a computer is performing slowly due to file fragmentation, what Windows tool can be utilized to rearrange fragments? (1pts) Computer Management Disk cleanup defragmentation tool defraggler

What command line utility can be used to repair the BCD on a Windows installation? (1pts) chkdsk dfrgl fsutil bootrec

Which type of RAID volume is used for fault tolerance and only requires two drives? (1pts) RAID5 RAID1 RAID0 RAID10

The SATA/600 standard is also known by what other name? (1pts) SATAII SATAIII SATA revision 4 SATAI

What technology is used to assure that the logical block addressing on a solid state drive does not always address the same physical blocks, in order to distribute write operations? (1pts) wear leveling block sliding data migration bit shifting

The hard drive firmware, UEFI/BIOS, and the OS address the sectors on a hard drive utilizing what technology? (1pts) logical block addressing high level formatting logical sector addressing low level formatting

A SATA data cable has how many pins? (1pts) 7 pins 4 pins 15 pins 10 pins

How much data can an LTO Ultrium 5 tape hold, native and compressed? (Choose two) (1pts) 1.5TB compressed 3.0TB native 3.0TB compressed 1.5TB native

What two different file systems can be used on a Compact Disc (CD)? (Choose two) (1pts) CDFS UFS EXT-FS UDF

What two SD standards utilize the FAT file system? (Choose two) (1pts) SD SDHC SDXC SDHE

What two optical disc drive standards support writing discs with a total capacity of 8.5GB? (Choose two) (1pts) DVD-R DVD-RAM DVD-R DL DVD+R DL

What two optical disc drive standards allow for rewritable discs? (Choose two) (1pts) BD-RE BD-ROM DVD-ROM DVD-RAM