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59 Cards in this Set
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What type of problem does the error message "No BOOT Device" indicate?
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Connectivity
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To make dynamic volume bigger, right-click the volume and choose ____.
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Extend volume
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Modern PATA drives use a ____ connector for power.
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Molex
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What tool can be used to verify a hard disk on Windows?
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Error-checking tool
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Which two terms identify a bootable partition?
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Primary, Active
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The ____ takes control of the boot process from the system BIOS.
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MBR
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Where do some PC manufacturers hide a backup copy of the OS for later restoration?
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Hidden partition
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What type of problem does the error message "No BOOT Device" indicate?
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Connectivity
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Which of the following does not require jumper settings?
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SATA
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To make dynamic volume bigger, right-click the volume and choose ____.
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Extend volume
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What tool can you use in Windows to configure and manage hard drives and RAID levels?
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Disk Manager
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Modern PATA drives use a ____ connector for power.
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Molex
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In Windows, each ____ is assigned a drive letter from C: to Z:.
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partition
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What tool can be used to verify a hard disk on Windows?
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Error-checking tool
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Which two terms identify a bootable partition?
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Primary, Active
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The ____ takes control of the boot process from the system BIOS.
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MBR
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Where do some PC manufacturers hide a backup copy of the OS for later restoration?
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Hidden partition
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Which of the following does not require jumper settings?
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SATA
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What tool can you use in Windows to configure and manage hard drives and RAID levels?
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Disk Manager
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What will happen to your data if you try to convert a dynamic disk back to a basic disk?
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Data will be lost
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A PC can boot to both Windows XP and Linux or Windows Vista. What is this called?
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Dual-boot
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What tool in Windows is used to partition and format a drive?
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Disk Management
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For what purpose can you use disk quotas?
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Limit users' space on a drive.
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All basic hard drive partition tables support up to ____ partition(s).
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four
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If you move a dynamic disk from one computer to another, how will this drive be displayed in Disk Manager?
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Foreign drive
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Adam wants to create a new simple volume in some unallocated space on his hard drive, but when he right-clicks the space in Disk Management he sees only an option to create a new partition. What is the problem?
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The drive is a basic disk and not a dynamic disk.
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The ____ stores the location of the operating system boot files.
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volume boot sector
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What is the capacity of a single sector?
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512 bytes
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By default, what is the maximum size of an NTFS dynamic disk?
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16 TB
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An entire physical drive can be added to another drive as a folder by creating a ____.
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mount point
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A ____ volume is similar to a primary partition, but it is not a primary partition.
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simple
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The Disk Cleanup utility removes which types of unneeded files?
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Temporary Internet files,
Temporary Files that remain when an application is closed |
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Disk mirroring is also known as _____.
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RAID 1
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In Windows Vista, what can't you create unless you already have three primary partitions?
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Extended partitions
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The operating system is stored in a(n) ____ partition.
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primary
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To make your files unreadable by others, what should you use?
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Encryption
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Which of the following is the default primary partition for Windows?
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C:
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How many partitions can be active on a single drive at any given point in time?
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One
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You receive an "Invalid media" error when trying to access a hard drive. What is the most likely cause of the error?
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The drive has not been formatted
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Which of the following utilities should you run once a month to maintain the speed of your PC?
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Disk Defragmenter
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Which of the following statements is true about extended partitions?
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They are optional.
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If you install two IDE drives on the same cable, how will the computer differentiate them?
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You must set jumpers to determine which drive functions as master and which functions as slave.
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Which is the most complete list of file systems Windows 2000/XP and Vista/7 can use?
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FAT16, FAT32, NTFS
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Jaime wishes to check her hard drive for errors. What tool should she use?
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Error-checking
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The drive technology that supports only a single device per controller channel is known as _____.
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SATA
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To change a basic disk to dynamic, right-click the drive icon and select ____.
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Convert to Dynamic Disk
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What tool can you use to free up space on your hard drive?
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Disk Cleanup
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How many spanned drives does a Windows Dynamic volume support?
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32
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A ____ is a place in the directory structure of an existing volume that you can point to a volume or partition.
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mount point
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partition table
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MBR checks this to find the active or bootable partition.
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mirrored volume
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This requires exactly two volumes and is extremely fault tolerant.
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Checkdisk
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This tool attempts to fix invalid filenames, erases lost clusters, and seals off bad clusters.
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primary partition
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Only a single one of these may be set to active on one drive.
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NTFS
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This uses a master file table with a backup copy placed in the middle of the disk for better security.
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Expand
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This is used to extract a specific file from a CAB file.
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Windows Vista/7
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NTFS is the best file system to use if you are using this.
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defragmentation tool
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This can improve hard drive performance.
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autodetect
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This is a great way to verify that a drive is installed correctly.
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Disk Cleanup
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This is useful for purging your system of unnecessary temporary files.
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