Installation and Support of Hard Drives

Installation and Support of Hard Drives

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1. Low-level formatting, which is now mostly done by the hard drive manufacturer, organizes the disk into
A. allocation tables.
B. cells.
C. tracks and sectors.
D. packets.
2. Windows Vista uses which software utility to set up hard drive partitions?
A. FDSK
B. CHKDSK
C. Device Manager
D. Disk Management
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. C:/
B. Primary
C. Slave
D. Master
4. How many devices can you connect to a typical SCSI adapter?
A. 3
B. 4
C. 24
D. 7
5. What translation mode can be used to allow a PC to see beyond 504 MB on an IDE hard drive?
A. CHS
B. ISP
C. LBA
D. IEEE
6. What is defined as a “stack of tracks”?
A. Cylinder
B. Sector
C. MBR
D. FAT32
7. What is the data transfer rate for a FC-AL interface?
A. 1.5 Mbps
B. 300 Mbps
C. 24 Mbps
D. 500 Mbps
8. You’ve just added an external FireWire hard drive to your PC. What should you configure this drive as?
A. Master
B. The drive configures itself.
C. Device = 15 (0)
D. IRQ = 14
9. The active partition of a hard drive contains the
A. functioning operating system.
B. logical drive designators.
C. extended partition parameters.
D. dynamic sector.
10. When connecting a ribbon cable to a computer, how do you know which direction to plug it in?
A. The colored line in the cable goes to the right of the connector.
B. The colored line in the cable goes to pin 0.
C. The colored line in the cable goes to pin 1.
D. The colored line in the cable goes to the highest pin number.
11. DOS has been superseded as an operating system, but it’s still used by technicians as a
A. tool for troubleshooting PC problems.
B. repository for hidden utility files.
C. code generator.
D. means to communicate among one another.
12. 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 Katelyn is correct.
C. Both Aileen and Katelyn are correct.
D. Only Aileen is correct.
13. 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. Neither Technician A nor Technician B are correct.
B. Only Technician B is correct.
C. Both Technician A and Techncian B are correct.
D. Only Technician A is correct.
14. How many bytes are in a sector?
A. 128
B. 333
C. 512
D. 256
15. In a hard drive, the time required to position the head over the proper track and measure speed is called
A. seek time.
B. delay.
C. arrival time.
D. overdrive.
16. Ultra direct memory access, or UDMA, drives can be used with IDE or EIDE interfaces, although these drives
A. require a higher-rated power supply.
B. require an adapter cable.
C. operate at a lower speed.
D. need simultaneous backup.
17. You open up the case on a customer’s PC and determine that it’s using an internal USB 2.0 interface. How many devices can it support?
A. 127
B. 16
C. 256
D. 8
18. Which one of the following is found in a reserved area of a hard drive?
A. SCSI
B. MBR
C. APU
D. BIOS
19. One important reason to consider setting up a dynamic disk partition is the special characteristic of
A. low-level security.
B. compression.
C. high density.
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Exam: 027070RR – Installation and Support of Hard Drives

1. Low-level formatting, which is now mostly done by the hard drive manufacturer, organizes the disk into
2. allocation tables.
3. cells.
4. tracks and sectors.
5. packets.

2. Windows Vista uses which software utility to set up hard drive partitions?
3. FDSK
4. CHKDSK
5. Device Manager
6. Disk Management

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…………..

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