MCSA Chapter 04

T/F – A solid state drive is a good candidate for storing the page file.

True

T/F – The biggest disadvantage in using virtual disks instead of physical volumes is the lack of portability.​

False

T/F – A parity space ​storage layout is similar to a RAID 1 volume, in that a parity bit is written to the spare drive.

False

T/F – Thin provisioning allocates all configured space immediately, ensuring that the space is available for the specified virtual disk.​

False

T/F – A disk that is initialized via the Disk Management MMC is initialized as a MBR disk by default.

True

​Which of the following is not a special character that can be utilized in an NTFS file’s name? ​

\

​The \Windows folder is located on what volume?

​Boot volume

Select below the file system that can repair minor file system issues automatically, and supports up to 1 yottabyte volume sizes.​

ReFS

What feature new to Windows Server 2012 provides the ability to find identical sets of data on a SAN based storage array and reduce the identical sets to a single instance, in order to reduce space? ​

Data deduplication

A simple space storage layout is similar to which non-fault tolerant RAID technology?​

RAID0

​A physical disk that is available for adding to a storage pool is considered to be a member of what initial pool? ​

Primordial pool

Select the PowerShell cmdlet below that can be used to create a new volume.

format volume

​Disks that are formatted using the GUID Partitioning Table (GPT) can hold larger volume sizes, and benefit from increased reliability provided by which feature below?

​Cyclic Redundancy Check (CRC)

​Which SATA version supports transfer speeds up to 6 Gb/s?

​Version 3

Which disk subsystem is considered to be the most reliable in today’s environment for use in enterprise and high-utilization environments?

SAS

​Due to the limitations of MBR partitioning, what type of partition must be created in order to utilize multiple logical drives in the same partition? ​

Extended partition

​An administrator wants to utilize a RAID volume that provides redundancy using disk striping with parity. What type of RAID should the administrator select? ​

RAID5

​What type of volume utilizes two or more physical disks, and fills each disk sequentially, rather than using striping?

​Spanned volume

​Modern file systems use what component to describe information about files, such as time stamps and attributes? ​

Metadata

If a disk pool becomes full, how does Windows Server 2012 respond?
a. The server notifies all users with data in the disk pool in order to encourage data cleaning activities
b. ​The disk pool is moved to an offline state until more physical storage is added
c. Affected volumes are marked as read-only until more space is provisioned
d. More space is automatically provisioned from available drives in the primordial pool

B

Which of the following scenarios would provide for an ideal use of the ReFS file system?
a. A small storage drive in which users will use compression to save disk space
b. A volume on which administrators can control disk space utilization
c. A volume requiring strict encryption of confidential information
d. A volume which should maintain high reliability

D

​Under what circumstances would an administrator choose to format a volume using the FAT file system?
a. A 2 TB volume must be formatted for use
b. ​A volume must be accessible using Windows 9x
c. A volume must support file sizes larger than 4 GB
d. ​A volume requires encryption

B

​Which of the following statements is true regarding the page file?
a. ​The page file should be on the same volume as the Windows installation.
b. ​The page file should never be more than 2 GB in size
c. The page file should never be stored on a solid state drive
d. The page file should be on its own volume

D

​What type of storage typically shares files utilizing standard network protocols, such as Server Message Block (SMB), Network File System (NFS), and File Transfer Protocol (FTP)? ​

Network Attached Storage

​A hard drive or solid state drive that is physically installed inside of a workstation would generally be considered to be what type of storage?

​Local storage