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Which of the following best describes RAID 5? (1)data from one drive is mirrored to another (2)it improves performance but nor fault tolerance (3) it requires 3 or more drives and uses parity checking (4) it takes at least four disk and data is striped and mirrored |
It requires 3 or more drives and uses parity checking |
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A _____ has no moving parts and is built using nonvolatile memory, which is similar to that used for USB flash drives
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Solid State Drive (SSD)
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The 80-conductor IDE cable has 80 pins and 40 wires. T or F
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False
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The top and bottom of each disk in a magnetic hard drive have a ________ that moves across the disk surface.
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Read/Write head
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How much data does a 3.5" floppy disk drive hold? (1) 144KB (2) 1.44MB (3) 14.4GB (4) 1440 MB
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1.44 MB
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Which interface is not typically used for an internal tape drive? (1)SATA (2)FireWire (3) PATA (4) SCSI
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FireWire
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What does a twist in a 34-pin data cable mean? (1) it indicated drive A: (2) the cable has been damaged (3) it should be connected to the primary IDE drive (4) it is used for USB floppy
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It indicates drive A:
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Why would you use a round PATA ribbon cable instead of traditional flat cable? (1) Round cables cost a lot less (2) Round cables obstruct air flow less inside the case (3) Round cables provide a better connection than flat cables (4) Round cables are more resistant to interference
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Round cables obstruct air flow less inside the case
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Which hard drive technology is used to predict when a drive is likely to fail? (1) S.S.D (2) S.M.A.R.T (3) N.A.N.D (4) E.E.P.R.O.M
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S.M.A.R.T
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Which of the following is true about SCSI drives? (1)SCSI ID 7 has a higher priority than SCSI ID 10 (2)each logical device requires a unique SCSI ID (3) one end of the SCSI chain need a terminator (4) SCSI devices are typically found in SOHO servers and desktops
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SCSI ID 7 has a higher priority than SCSI ID 10
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If you connect the floppy cable in the wrong direction the floppy drive light stays on continuously? T or F
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True
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Which of the following is true about selecting a hard drive? (1) a faster spindle speed keeps the drive cooler but does not improve performance (2) PATA drives are backward compatible with SATA drives (3) FireWire 800 drives are a good choice for fast internal drives (4) Magnetic drives have larger capacity for the money than solid state drives
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Magnetic drives have larger capacity for the money than solid state drives
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Which is true about installing a PATA drive? (1) each IDE channel supports a single drive (2) a motherboard can support up to four EIDE devices (3) each IDE cable has four connectors for drives (4) you need to set the jumpers to Master when you have only one drive
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A mother can support up to four EIDE devices
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Why might you want to use RAID 0 disk configuration? (1)to improve overall disk performance (2) RAID 0 drives are less expensive than other RAID drives (3)to prevent data loss in case of a driver failure (4)because RAID 0 provides an automatic disk backup
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To improve overall disk performance
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The 2.5" size hard drive is typically used in devices such as MP3 players? T or F
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False
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______ access makes recovering files slow and inconvenient when using tape drives
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Sequential
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To reduce the amount of electrical _______ on a SCSI cable, each end of the SCSI chain has a terminating resistor
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Noise Interference
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With ___________ you can connect and disconnect a drive while the system is running
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hot swapping
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Which process write sector markings to a hard drive? (1) Partitioning (2) low level formatting (3) high level formatting (4) sector provisioning
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Low-level formatting
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The read/write head on a magnetic hard drive is at both the top and the bottom of each disk? T or F
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True
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Which SATA standard provides a transfer rate of 3 Gb/sec? (1) SATA 1(2) SATA 2 (3) SATA 3 (4) SATA 4
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SATA 2
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Which type of cable is required by ATA/66 and above? (1) 40pins,66wires (2) 80pins,40wires (3) 66pins,40wires (4) 40pins,80wires
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40 pins, 80 wires
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A chip that contains grids of rows and columns with two transistors at each intersection that hold zero or one bit
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NAND flash memory
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A standard for communication between a subsystem of peripheral devices and the system bus
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SCSI
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Used at each end of the SCSI chain
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Terminating Resistor
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The gateway from the SCSI bus to the system bus
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Host Adapter
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A hybird drive technology supported by Windows 7/Vista
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ReadyDrive
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Uses two hard drives to hold a single Windows volume sometimes called JBOD
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Spanning
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A RAID 0 volume
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Striped Volume
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A feature in startup BIOS that detects a new drive and selects the correct drive configuration
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Autodectection
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A computer ability to respond to a hardware failure
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Fault Tolerance
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A storage configuration in which data is duplicated on one drive to another drive
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Mirrored Volume
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