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Questions 1 to 20: Select the best answer to each question. Note that a question and its answers may be split across a page break, so be sure that you have seen the entire question and all the answers before choosing an answer.

 

1. Aileen says that an adapter card controls the disk drives in a computer. Katelyn says that the motherboard controls the disk drives. Which one of the following statements is true?

A. Neither Aileen nor Katelyn are correct.

B. Only Aileen is correct.

C. Only Katelyn is correct.

D. Both Aileen and Katelyn are correct.

 

2. What translation mode can be used to allow a PC to see beyond 504 MB on an IDE hard drive?A. LBA

B. CHS

C. ISP

D. IEEE

 

3. You have an existing hard drive on your IDE adapter. You're installing a second hard drive and want to keep the first hard drive as the bootable hard drive. How should you configure the second hard drive?A. Primary

B. Master

C. Slave

D. C:/

 

4. Partitioning a hard drive into a basic disk configuration creates the MBR and theA. dynamic sector.

B. registry key.

C. partition table.

D. extended partition.

 

5. How many bytes are in a sector?A. 333

B. 128

C. 512

D. 256

 

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6. Two PC repair technicians are discussing optimizing the hard drive. Technician A says that you can defragment the drive to optimize its performance. Technician B says that you can get a faster interface card to optimize the hard drive. Which of the following statements is correct?

A. Neither technician is correct.

B. Only Technician A is correct.

C. Only Technician B is correct.

D. Both technicians are correct.

 

7. What is defined as a "stack of tracks"?A. MBR

B. Cylinder

C. Sector

D. FAT32

 

8. Tom says that the hard drive stores large amounts of data and is the major storage device on a PC. Ryan says that the hard drive contains several read/write heads that allow for reading and writing of the data they produce. Which one of the following statements is true?

A. Both Tom and Ryan are correct.

B. Only Tom is correct.

C. Neither Tom nor Ryan are correct.

D. Only Ryan is correct.

 

9. Technician A says that the formatting operation will mark bad sectors as unusable. Technician B says that the formatting operation will scan and test the disk to make sure all of the sectors are reliable. Which of the following statements is true?

A. Only Technician B is correct.

B. Only Technician A is correct.

C. Neither Technician A nor Technician B are correct.

D. Both Technician A and Techncian B are correct.

 

10. What is it called when a hard drive writes a sector, skips one or more sectors, and then writes another sector?A. Intersector weaving

B. Sector skipping

C. Interleaving

D. Sectoring

 

11. Which sequence of events is in the correct order for formatting a hard drive?A. Low-level format, partition, high-level format

B. Low-level format, partition, install the operating system, DOS format

C. Partition, low-level format, DOS format, install the operating system

D. DOS format, low-level format, partition, install the operating system

 

12. The FireWire interface allows hot-swapping, which refers to

A. connecting a drive while the computer is running without rebooting.

B. transferring data from an overheated drive to backup storage.

C. detecting intrusion attempts and shutting down access to the drive.

D. automatic shutdown when the drive becomes overheated.

 

13. The purpose of RAID arrangements is toA. optimize the use of the operating system.

B. avoid data loss from disk drive failure.

C. utilize less expensive hardware.

D. reduce the seek time of the slowest disk.

 

14. In a hard drive, the time required to position the head over the proper track and measure speed is calledA. arrival time.

B. overdrive.

C. seek time.

D. delay.

 

15. NTFS is preferred over FAT16 or FAT32 as a file management system because it'sA. easier to install.

B. older.

C. more secure.

D. cheaper.

 

16. Fast SCSI uses cables that have _______ pins.A. 50

B. 25

C. 72

D. 40

 

17. What is the data transfer rate for a FC-AL interface?A. 500 Mbps

B. 300 Mbps

C. 24 Mbps

D. 1.5 Mbps

 

18. The active partition of a hard drive contains theA. functioning operating system.

B. dynamic sector.

C. extended partition parameters.

D. logical drive designators.

 

19. Windows Vista uses which software utility to set up hard drive partitions?

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A. CHKDSK

B. Disk Management

C. FDSK

D. Device Manager

 

20. High-level formatting in Windows XP, Vista, and 7 uses which tool or utility?A. Norton Formatter

B. Disk Management

C. Track Delineator

D. Format Wizard