Chapter 3 – Maintaining Windows – Flashcards

Windows Disk Cleanup is the utility to use whenever you want to defragment your hard drive.

Windows needs free space on the hard drive for normal operation, for defragmenting the drive, for burning CDs and DVDs, and for a variety of other tasks, so it's important to delete unneeded files occasionally.

Defragmenting is not recommended for solid-state hard drives.

Using Windows 7 Backup and Restore, you can back up the volume on which Windows is installed.

The chkdsk command will not fix anything on the drive unless the drive is unlocked.

For optimal performance, how much free space does Windows need on a hard drive? - 5 percent - 50 percent - 15 percent - 35 percent

Which hard drive type contains spinning platters? - optical hard drive - solid-state drives - floppy hard drives - magnetic hard disk drives

What is Pagefile.sys used for in Windows? - system file storage - to store E-books - video RAM - virtual memory

What is another name for a file allocation unit? - sector - cluster - segment - fragment

How often does Windows 7/Vista automatically defragment a hard drive? - once a week - once a day - once a month - once an hour

Use the ____ command to rearrange parts of files on the drive so they are contiguous. - Optimize - Analyze - Defrag - Chkdsk

To make sure the drive is healthy, you need to search for and repair file system errors using the Windows ____ utility. - Defrag - Chkdsk - Analyze - Optimize

A snapshot of the system settings and configuration is called a ____. - rollback point - restore unit - rollback unit - restore point

____ creates restore points at regular intervals and just before you install software or hardware. - System Activation - System Protection - System Restoration - System Prevention

What is the fourth partition on a hard drive called? - extended partition - master boot record - volume - primary partition

Besides backing up user data or system files, you can also back up the entire volume on which Windows 7 is installed using __________. - Automated System Backup - Complete PC Recovery - Automated System Recovery - Backup and Restore

Which partition is the bootable partition that startup BIOS turns to when searching for an operating system to start up? - extended partition - startup partition - active partition - volume

If you enter a command and want to terminate its execution before it is finished, you can press ____ to do so. - Ctrl+Break - Ctrl+V - Ctrl+B - Ctrl+X

The ____ command creates a subdirectory under a directory. - RD - MD - CD - AD

A dynamic disk requires ____ MB of storage for the disk management database. - 1 - 10 - 5 - 50

You can use ____ to convert two or more basic disks to dynamic disks. - Disk Management - Windows Management - System Management - Disk Config

Which of the following status indicators apply only to dynamic disks? (Choose all that apply.) - Foreign drive - Unallocated - Healthy (At Risk) - Active

Which of the following are file systems supported by Windows that you can choose for volumes and drives that don't hold the Windows installation. (Choose all that apply.) - FAT64 - FAT32 - exFAT - NTFS

Which of the following are recommendations for freeing up disk space on a hard drive? (Choose all that apply.) - Format the hard drive - Delete the WindowsSystem directory - Uninstall software you no longer use - Use drive compression

Which of the following Windows settings are critical for keeping the system protected from malware and hackers? (Choose all that apply.) - Network location setting - Windows computer name - Antivirus software - Windows updates

____________________ happens over time as Windows writes files, deletes files, and writes new files to your drive.

____________________ restores the system to its condition at the time a snapshot was taken of the system settings and configuration.

As you work at the command prompt, you can use ____________________ characters in a filename to say that the command applies to a group of files or to abbreviate a filename if you do not know the entire name.

A ____________________ is a volume that can be accessed by way of a folder on another volume so that the folder has more available space.

Space on the disk is marked as ____________________ if it has not yet been partitioned.

Rearranges files on the drive into as few segments as possible

Searches for bad sectors on a volume and recovers the data from them if possible

Used to enhance the amount of RAM in a system

A hidden file stored in the root directory of drive C

An extra copy of a data or software file that you can use if the original file becomes damaged or destroyed

Snapshots of the system and include Windows system files that have changed

A volume that can be accessed by way of a folder on another volume so that the folder has more available space

Can span more than one hard drive

Can be partitioned and formatted as a stand-alone hard drive

Overall structure an OS uses to name, store, and organize files on a drive

List the three critical Windows settings that keep the system protected from malware and hackers.

What two items does a user profile consist of?

In a file system, a cluster, also called a file allocation unit, is a group of whole sectors. The number of sectors in a cluster is fixed and is determined when the file system is first installed. A file is stored in whole clusters, and the unused space at the end of the last cluster, called slack, is wasted free space. As files are written and deleted from a drive, clusters are used, released, and used again. New files written on the drive can be put in available clusters spread over the drive.

Discuss defragmenting as it applies to solid-state drives used in a Windows 7 system.

List three ways to free up space on a Windows hard drive.

- Windows uses a file, Pagefile.sys, in the same way it uses memory. This file is called virtual memory and is used to enhance the amount of RAM in a system. Normally, the file, Pagefile.sys, is a hidden file stored in the root directory of drive C:. To save space on drive C:, you can move Pagefile.sys to another partition on the same hard drive or to a different hard drive, but don't move it to a different hard drive unless you know the other hard drive is at least as fast as this drive. If the drive is at least as fast as the drive on which Windows is installed, performance should improve. Also, make sure the new volume has plenty of free space to hold the file—at least three times the amount of installed RAM.

What are the steps for using Disk Management to prepare a drive for first use.

- Microsoft warns that when Windows is used for software RAID, the risk of catastrophic failure increases and can lead to data loss. Microsoft suggests you only use Windows spanning or striping when you have no other option. In other words, spanning and striping in Windows aren't very safe—to expand the size of a volume, use a mounted drive or use hardware RAID.

- Offline. An offline disk status indicates a dynamic disk has become corrupted or is unavailable. The problem can be caused by a corrupted file system, the drive cables are loose, the hard drive has failed, or another hardware problem. If you believe the problem is corrected, right-click the disk and select Reactivate Disk from the shortcut menu to bring the disk back online. - Foreign drive. If you move a hard drive that has been configured as a dynamic disk on another computer to this computer, this computer will report the disk as a foreign drive. To fix the problem, you need to import the foreign drive. To do that, right-click the disk and select Import Foreign Disks from the shortcut menu. You should then be able to see the volumes on the disk. - Healthy (At Risk). The dynamic disk can be accessed, but I/O errors have occurred. Try returning the disk to online status. If the volume status does not return to healthy, back up all data and replace the drive.

A mounted drive is a volume that can be accessed by way of a folder on another volume so that the folder has more available space. A mounted drive is useful when a folder is on a volume that is too small to hold all the data you want in the folder. The folder in which a volume is mounted is called the mount point.