Chapter 5.2, 5.3, 5.4 (half) Quiz

You have a motherboard with 4 built-in SATA connectors. What is the maximum number of SATA devices you can connect to the motherboard using the integrated ports? (5.2)

A manger wants you to instal a serial ATA hard drive into his computer, but the motherboard does not have a serial ATA connector. What should you do? (5.2)

Which of the following tasks would you compete as part of a SATA installation? (5.2)

Which of the following is the most common disk interface used for optical drives on home and office computers? (5.2)

Which interface is primarily used for internal hard drives in modern desktop PC systems? (5.2)

You have a CD-RW drive that advertises speeds of 32x/12x/48x. What is the read speed of the drive? (5.3)

Which optical media has the greatest storage capacity? (5.3)

Which Blu-rau standard defines rewritable disks? (5.3)

First Developed to store digital music. Later, was adapted to store digital computer data (5.3)

Disc surface made up of lands and pits. Reflective light used to interpret the data (5.3)

Single-Sided discs can hold about 4.7 GB of data. Dual-layer discs can hold up to 8..5 GB of data (5.3)

A red laser causes a crystal to form which creates the reflective and non-reflective areas on the bottom of the disc (5.3)

Uses blue laser light which has a shorter wavelength, which allows data to be packed more tightly on the disc (5.3)

Was originally developed for high definition video (and expanded content on movie discs), but can also be used for data storage (5.3)

What is an advantage of RAID 5 over RAID 1? (5.4)

You have been asked to implement a RAID 5 solution for an engineer's desktop workstation. What is the maximum number of hard disks that can be used to configure RAID 5? (5.4)

Which of the following drive configurations uses striping without fault tolerance? (5.4)

You have a computer with three hard disks. A RAID 0 volume uses space on Disk 1 and Disk 2. A RAID 1 volume uses space on Disk 2 and Disk 3 fails. Which of the following is true? (5.4)

Which RAID configuration level provides increased performance using only two disks? (5.4)

You are configuring a new system and want to use a RAID 0 array for the operating system using SATA disks and the RAID functionality built into the motherboard. Which of the following actions will you take part of the configuration? (5.4)

Your computer currently runs Windows 7 Enterprise edition. You want to create a RAID 5 array using three newly-installed SATA disks. When you got to disk management, the option to create the RAID 5 array is not available. What should you do? (5.4)

You have an existing computer running Windows 7 Enterprise. You want to configure a RAID 1 array in the computer. You install two new SATA drives, then use the RAID controller integrated in the motherboard to define a RAID 1 array using them, When you boot the computer, Windows does not show the logical RAID drive. What should you do? (5.4)