Exam 7: Storage Devices

RAID _______ requires three or more hard drives because one drive always contains parity data used to rebuild a failed drive.

Describe the difference between primary master and secondary master.

A technician has a 6GB image file used to re -image computers. What file system would best serve the technician for the external hard drive used to hold the image and associated re -imaging files?

If a power connector is available from the PSU, but it is not a SATA power connector, a/an _______ must be obtained.

A newly installed hard drive can be partitioned as part of the operating system installation.

The number of devices that can possibly attach to a PATA cable is _______.

Which of the following could be used in a corporation to protect the data located on an entire disk volume including swap files if the computer uses Windows 7 Enterprise version?

A GPT is found on 64-bit Windows operating systems.

List three things to check if a hard drive has just been installed and it does not work properly.

Which hard drive could be removed when power is applied to the computer?

RAID _______ is disk mirroring.

What file system is optimized for optical media?

The number of data cables you would attach to allow an internal SATA drive to be operational is _______.

The _______ is like the table of contents for a hard drive with at least two on every hard drive.

A laptop has one eSATA port, but the customer wants to attach one more external drives. List two solutions.

A recommended approach for diagnosing a read/write error on a floppy drive is to first

Disk cache or virtual memory speeds up hard drive data access.

A SAS hard drive is used most often in network servers.

IDE hard drives are normally the fastest type of IDE device.

What do you do first if you get a boot message of Invalid System Disk?