Ch 6 Hardware Support – Flashcards
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The SATA drive technology utilizes a serial data path.
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True
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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?
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wear leveling
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Which rotation speed is not a typical spindle rotation speed for magnetic hard drives?
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3100
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What two optical disc drive standards support writing discs with a total capacity of 8.5GB?
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DVD+R DL DVD-R DL
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The SATA/600 standard is also known by what other name?
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SATAIII
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What two different file systems can be used on a Compact Disc (CD)?
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UDF CDFS
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Hard drives that can be used for hot-swapping cost significantly less than regular hard drives.
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False
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Which type of RAID volume is used for fault tolerance and only requires two drives?
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RAID1
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What statement best describes a RAID 5?
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it requires 3 or more drives and uses parity checking
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What two optical disc drive standards allow for rewritable discs?
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DVD-RAM BD-RE
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If you are adding a hard drive to a system that already has a drive with Windows installed on it, what should you do?
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boot Windows and use Disk Management to prepare the new drive
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What SATA standard provides a transfer rate of 3 Gb/sec?
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SATA2
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Which statement regarding the selection of a hard drive is accurate?
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magnetic drives have larger capacity for the money than solid state drives
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What command line utility can be used to repair the BCD on a Windows installation?
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bootrec
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How many layers of data can exist on a single side of a Blu-ray disc?
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2
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The read/write head on a magnetic hard drive is at both the top and bottom of each disk.
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True
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How much data can an LTO Ultrium 5 tape hold, native and compressed?
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3.0TB compressed 1.5TB native
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If a computer is performing slowly due to file fragmentation, what Windows tool can be utilized to rearrange fragments?
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defragmentation tool
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What type of RAID is a combination of mirroring and striping?
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RAID10
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What is the current maximum storage capacity limit of a magnetic tape?
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185TB
