Exam 7: Using and Configuring Storage Devices

Briefly describe how data is read from a CD drives.

Aside from price,under what circumstance might you want to use mechanical drives instead of SSDs?

You are planning to buy a new laptop computer.One of your primary concerns with this laptop is that it is reliable,can take a little physical abuse,and has pretty long battery life. The data you will store on it is only a couple dozen GB.Which storage technology should you use?

Another name for the IDE hard drive interface is ATA.

Name one advantage and one disadvantage of using tapes for backup media.

Which of the following is NOT a Linux/Unix file or disk management command?

With SAN technology,servers use a separate network to communicate with the storage device.

An advantage of using tape drives for backup is that the data is accessible in random access order,making all data on the tape equally fast to retrieve.

storage that is used through the Internet or a network via a Web-based interface or software,such as a browser

a technology designed for ultra-fast communications connectivity in data centers,such as linking one server to another for clustering servers to act as one powerful server

The IDE interface is the same as the ANSI _____ interface standard.

A friend of yours has a Mac OS X Snow Leopard computer and he has just read something about hard drives sometimes failing. He is not very familiar with his computer's built-in software and wants to know how he can back up his data. What should you tell him?

a data error correction method that uses an algebraic polynomial and error key to detect and overcome errors.

Which of the following is NOT true about SSD drives compared to mechanical drives?

A Terabyte is the same as which of the following values?

implementing software or hardware to protect against hardware failures, power interruptions,and lost data

E-IDE is a serial interface technology whereas SATA is a parallel interface technology.

Which of the following is true about using GPT versus MBR?

You have a mission-critical server that you must back up on a daily basis. You start the backup when you leave at night and the backup must be finished the next morning with no user intervention. Your server has a storage capacity of almost 2 TB. Which tape media will hold all of your server's storage on a single tape?

Which of the following is used for removable storage?