Exam 7: Storage Devices

A/An _______ volume holds files used to boot the computer.

What is the most frequently used method by users to check a hard drive for lost clusters if you are using a Windows XP computer?

A laptop normally has a type of hard drive installed.

Describe fragmentation as it relates to hard drives.

Through what utility would a technician verify whether a motherboard eSATA port is disabled or enabled?

What is the most common BIOS setting for an IDE hard drive?

_______ is the command-line utility used to manage a hard drive or partition a drive for NTFS.

Which RAID level does NOT provide reliability?

What is the primary cause of hard drive failures?

The Windows partition that holds the majority of the operating system files is called the _______ partition.

Which command would be used to write a boot sector to the system partition on a Windows XP computer?

According to the specification, the middle PATA cable select connector (slave setting) is the color _______.

Why would a technician remove the laptop battery before installing an SSD?

When a disk has been prepared to store data, it has been

A number assigned to a SCSI device that determines the deviceʹs priority on the SCSI bus is the SCSI ID.

The first sector on a hard drive is called the _______.

File _______ occurs when a file is located on nonconsecutive clusters.

A type of computer that does not include a hard drive is known as a(n) _______.

Two considerations when adding or installing a floppy drive are an available drive bay and an available power connector.

One type of 3.5ʺ floppy drives is 1.44MB.