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The 2.5" size drive is typically used in devices such as MP3 players. |
False |
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The 80-conductor IDE cable has 80 pins and 40 wires. |
False 40(pins), 80(wires) |
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Each IDE header on a motherboard can support up to two(2) IDE devices. |
True |
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The read/write head on a magnetic hard drive is at both the top and bottom of each disk. |
True |
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If you connect the floppy cable in the wrong direction, the floppy drive light stays on continuously. |
True |
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Which process writes sector markings to a hard drive? |
Low-level Formatting |
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Which SATA standard provides a transfer rate of 3 Gb/sec? |
SATA2 |
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Which of the following is true about selecting a hard drive? |
Magnetic Drives have large capacity for the money than solid state drives |
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Why would you use a round PATA ribbon cable instead of traditional flat cable? |
Round cables obstruct airflow less inside the case |
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Which of the following is true about hardware RAID? |
RAID controllers have their own BIOS |
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How is data stored on magnetic tape? |
Sequentially |
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Which of the following best describes RAID 5? |
It requires 3 or more drives and uses parity checking |
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Which of the following is true about disk drive interfaces? |
PATA allows for two (2) connectors on a motherboard. |
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What does a twist in a 34-pin data cable mean? |
It indicates drive A |
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Which of the following is NOT true about hard disk drives? |
Solid state drives are less expensive than magnetic hard drives |
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Which type of cable is required by ATA/66 and above? |
40 pin, 80 wires |
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Why is DMA a better transfer mode than PIO for PATA? |
DMA data transfer don’t involve the CPU |
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Which of the following is true about SCSI drives? |
SCSI ID 7 has a higher priority than SCSI ID 10 |
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If you are adding a hard drive to a system that already has a drive with Windows installed on it, which of the following is true? |
Boot Windows and use Disk Management to prepare the new drive |
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Which hard drive technology is used to predict when a drive is likely to fail? |
S.M.A.R.T. |
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A hybrid drive technology supported by Windows 7/Vista |
F) Ready Drive |
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A RAID 0 Volume |
I) Striped volume |
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A storage configuration in which data is duplicated on one drive to another drive |
D) Mirrored volume |
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A chip that contains grids of rows and columns with two (2) transistors at each intersection that hold a zero(0) or one (1) bit |
E) NAND flash memory |
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A standard for communication between a subsystem of peripheral device and the system bus |
G) SCSI |
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Uses two(2) hard drives to hold a single Windows volume; sometimes called JBOD |
H) Spanning |
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The gateway from the SCSI bus to the system bus |
C) Host adapter |
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A feature in startup BIOS that detects a new drive and selects the correct drive configuration |
A) Autodetection |
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Used at each end of the SCSI chain |
J) Termination resistor |
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A computer’s ability to respond to a hardware failure |
B) Fault tolerance |
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What should you keep in mind when installing hard drives? |
A PATA drive has master and slave settings |
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which is true about installing a PATA drive? |
A motherboard can support up to four(4) EIDE devices |
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How much data does a 3.5" floppy disk drive hold? |
1.44 MB |
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Why might you want to use RAID 0 disk configuration? |
To improve overall disk performance |
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Which interface is not typically used for an internal tape drive? |
FireWire |
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With , you can connect and disconnect a drive while the system is running |
Hot swapping |
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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 |
Solid State Drives/SSD |
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The top and bottom of each disk in a magnetic hard drive have a ________ that moves across the disk surface. |
Read/Write head |
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To reduce the amount of ______ electrical on a SCSI cable, each end of the SCSI chain has a terminating resistor |
Noise or interference |
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______access makes recovering files slow and inconvenient when using tape drives |
Sequential |
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