Windows 70-680 Exam – Disk Management – Flashcards
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What are the "focus" types available with the DISKPART "select" command?
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The "Focus Types" are:
DISK
PARTITION
VOLUME
VDISK
DISK
PARTITION
VOLUME
VDISK
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What DISKPART command selects the focus type to "DISK 0"
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SELECT DISK 0
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What diskpart command marks a selected partion as active?
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the "Active" command
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What DISKPART command marks the "selected" partition as inactive?
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the "INCATIVE" command marks the selected partions as inactive
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What DISKPART command displays a list of objects or focus types?
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The "LIST" command
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What DISKPART Command merges a child disk with its parents?
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the "MERGE" command
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What DISKPART Command brings an object online that was previouly offline?
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The "Online" command.
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What DISKPART Command brings an Online object into the Offline state?
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The Offline command
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What DISKPART Command refreshes the state of all disks in the selected pack?
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The "RECOVER" command
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What DISKPART Command attempts recovery on disks in the invalid pack and resynchronizes mirrored volumes and RAID5 volumes that have stale plex or parity data.
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The "RECOVER" command
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What DISKPART Command displays or sets the GUID partition table (GPT) identifier or Master Boot Record (MBR) signature of a disk?
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The "UNIQUEID" command.
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What DISKPART Command removes a drive letter or mount point assignment?
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the REMOVE command
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What DISKPART Command places a retained partition under a simple volume?
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the RETAIN command
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What DISKPART Command displays or sets the SAN policy for the currently booted OS?
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The "SAN" command
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What DISKPART Command will change the partition type?
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The "SETID" command
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What DISKPART Command will shrink the size of the selected volume?
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The "SHRINK" command.
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What DISKPART Command rescans the computer looking for disks and volumes?
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The "RESCAN" command
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What DISKPART Command gives details of the disk object in focus?
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the "detail disk" command.
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What is disk partioning?
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Partioning is defining and deviding the physical disk into logical volumes called partitions.
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What are the two types of partioning supported by Windows 7?
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MBR (Master Boot Record)
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GPT (GUID Partition Table)
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GPT (GUID Partition Table)
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What is the maximum size disk volume supported by an MBR partition?
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2 Terabytes (TB)
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How many partitons per disk are supported under a MBR partition type?
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the maximum is 4 primary partitons
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How many logical drive letters are supported under the MBR extended partion?
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An unlimited number of drive letters?
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How many extended partitions are supported under the MBR type?
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Alternatively, MBR supports one(1) extended partition and three (3) primary partitions.
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What is the maximum supported GPT disk volume size?
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GPT supports volume sizes up to 18 Exabytes.
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How many partitions can be stored on a GPT supported disk?
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GPT can store upto 128 partitions per disk.
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What interface does GPT use between the computer hardware its firmware and operating system?
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EFI (Extensible Firmware Interface)
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What interface did EFI (Extensible Firmware interface) replace in Windows 7?
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EFI replaced BIOS (Basic Input/Output System)
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How do GPT disk retain partition information?
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GPT disk store a duplicate set of partition tables
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What types of hard disk storage are supported under Windows 7?
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Basic and Dynamic
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What is the advantage of Dynamic Disks over Basic Disks?
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Dynamic disk support software based fault tolerant volumes.
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What is another term that describes RAID 1 storage on a dynamic disk?
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Mirrored volumes
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What defines RAID 5?
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RAID 5 describes a storage solution using a RAID controller card that supports striping with parity.
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What is the 1 MB region at the end of each dynamic disk
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LDR (Logical Disk Manager)
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What is contained in the LDR (Logical Disk Manager) database?
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Partition table entries from the MBR are added to the LDR database.
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how many seperate volumes can the dynamic disk be divided into?
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2000 seperate volumes.
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to avoid slow boot time performance what is the recommended limit of volumes for Dynamic disks.
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Limit Dynamic disk volumes to 32
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Does windows 7 support dynamic disks on mobile PC's (Laptops or notebooks)?
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No. Windows 7 does not support this.
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The active partition that contains the boot files is known as...?
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System Partiton/Volume
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The partition that contains the windows operating system is known as...?
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The "Boot Partition".
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Dynamic Disk are supported only on computers that support 4 particular interfaces. What are they?
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SCSI, Fibre Channel, Serial Storage Architecture (SSA), Integrated Device Electronics (IDE)
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Are portable computers, USB drives, removable disks or firewire supported by Windows 7 Dynamic Disk?
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No.
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What is the minimum unallocated space required for converting a disk to a dynamic disk?
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1 MB of unallocated space.
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What are the steps to convert a basic disk to a dynamic disk from Windows 7 command line?
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1. Type diskpart
enter
2. then "select disk #"
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3. type "convert dynamic"
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4. Type "exit"
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2. then "select disk #"
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3. type "convert dynamic"
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4. Type "exit"
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What happens to existing partions on a basic disk after conversion to a dynamic disk?
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they become simple volumes
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What tool is used to upgrade a basic disk to a dynamic disk?
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Use the Disk Management Console (MMC samp-in)
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Where is the Disk Management Snap-in located?
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In the Computer Mangement Console and Server Management Console
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What group(s) must you belong to in order to make changes to the disk configuration?
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Administrators or Backup Operartors.
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After converted from a basic disk to a dynamic disk can the volumes be changed back to partitions?
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No. volumes can not be changed back to partitions.
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Is a restart required after upgrading an empty dynamic disk from the Management Console.
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No. A reboot is not required.
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Is a restart required after using diskpart.exe to convert a disk containing system volume, boot volume, active paging or any existing volumes?
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Yes. A restart of the computer is required.
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What is the risk involved with converting a dynamic disk back to a basic disk?
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You loose all your data
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How do you convert a dynamic disk to a basic disk?
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Backup all data, delete the disk and re-create it as a "basic disk".
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Whats the first thing required to configure RAID 1 on a Windows 7 computer with multiple drives
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Convert the basic disk to a dynamic disk
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What is the Maximum number of volumes you can add to a stripes volume?
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32
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What are the disk "Volume" types supported by Windows 7?
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Simple, Spanned, Mirrored, Striped
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What is a "Simple" volume?
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the disk space on a single physical disk.
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Simple volumes are created on dynamic disk only.
True or False?
True or False?
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True
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Simple volumes are not fault tolerant.
True or False?
True or False?
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True
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SImple volumes are fault tolerant.
True or False?
True or False?
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False.
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Simple volumes cannot contain partitions or logical drives.
True or False?
True or False?
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True
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What does a Spanned volume consist of ?
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A spanned volume consist of disk space from more than one physical disk.
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What type and how many disk are needed to create a spanned volume.
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A minimum of two (2) Dynamic disk are needed.
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Spanned volumes are creasted on Dynamic Disk only.
True or False?
True or False?
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True
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Spanned volumes can be extended into a maximum of 32 dynamic disks.
TRUE or FALSE?
TRUE or FALSE?
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TRUE
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Spanned volumes can not be mirrored or striped.
TRUE or FALSE?
TRUE or FALSE?
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True
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Spanned volumes are not fault tolerant.
TRUE or FALSE
TRUE or FALSE
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True
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What happens when you extend a SIMPLE volume to another dynamic disk?
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It becomes a spanned volume.
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What are the steps to extend a simple or spanned volume?
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1. Open Disk Management
2.Right Click the "simple" or "spanned" disk to extend
3.CLick Next when the "Extend Volume Wizard" appears.
4.Select disk with free space
5.Specifiy the amount of extend needed
6.CLick next, click finished
2.Right Click the "simple" or "spanned" disk to extend
3.CLick Next when the "Extend Volume Wizard" appears.
4.Select disk with free space
5.Specifiy the amount of extend needed
6.CLick next, click finished
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After a volume is extended to multiple disks (spanned), you can not mirror the volume.
TRUE or FALSE?
TRUE or FALSE?
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True
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After a volume has been exteded (spanned) you can not make it striped or a RAID-5 volume.
TRUE or FALSE?
TRUE or FALSE?
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TRUE
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You must be a member of backup operator or Administrators group to extend or shring any partiton.
TRUE or FALSE
TRUE or FALSE
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True
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You can extend a volume if it has been formated with NTFS or RAW.
TRUE or FALSE
TRUE or FALSE
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TRUE
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You can not extend volumes formated using FAT or FAT32.
TRUE or FALSE
TRUE or FALSE
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True.
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What "Diskpart" command is used to "Add" fault tolerance to an existing hard drive?
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the "Add" command
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What diskpart command is used to change a filesystem from FAT32 to NTFS ?
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The "Convert" command.
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What command is used to add space to an exisiting volume?
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Use the "Extend" command.
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RAID 1 is a mirrored volume.
TRUE or FALSE
TRUE or FALSE
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True
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The mirroring process duplicates data from one disk to the new without destrying the existing volume.
TRUE or FALSE
TRUE or FALSE
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TRUE
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RAID - 0 is also known as a striped volume.
TRUE or FALSE
TRUE or FALSE
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TRUE
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Striped volumes can increase the speed of access to the data on disk.
TRUE or FALSE?
TRUE or FALSE?
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TRUE
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RAID-0 (striped volume) is not fault tolerant.
TRUE or FALSE
TRUE or FALSE
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TRUE
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How many physical dynamic disk are needed to create a striped volume?
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A minimum of two (2)
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With a striped volume a single file is divided into units and stored on both disks at the same time.
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TRUE or FALSE?
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Stripe volumes require two or more disk but provide no fault tolerance.
TRUE or FALSE
TRUE or FALSE
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TRUE
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A spanned disk uses multiple disks but does not improve performance.
TRUE or FALSE?
TRUE or FALSE?
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TRUE
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A RAID-5 volume provides fault tolerance and improved performance.
TRUE or FALSE?
TRUE or FALSE?
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TRUE.
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RAID-5 volumes can not be created in DISK MANAGEMENT on Windows 7.
TRUE or FALSE?
TRUE or FALSE?
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TRUE
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SRIPING provides performance increases while PARITY provides fault tolerance.
TRUE or FALSE
TRUE or FALSE
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TRUE
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A mountpoint is an empty folder on the existing volume that points to another partition.
TRUE or FALSE?
TRUE or FALSE?
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TRUE.
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WHat are the steps to create a mount point?
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1. The existing volume must be formatted with NTFS
2. Create an emptry folder on the existing volume
3. Create a partition on the new disk without a drive letter.
4. Mount the partition to the empty folder on the existing volume.
2. Create an emptry folder on the existing volume
3. Create a partition on the new disk without a drive letter.
4. Mount the partition to the empty folder on the existing volume.
