Question 1

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?

Accepted Answer

A)  local storage 
B)  direct-attached storage 
C)  network-attached storage 
D)  storage area network

Question 2

What do you call disk drive space that has not yet been assigned to a volume or partition?

Accepted Answer

A)  unformatted 
B)  unallocated 
C)  undesignated 
D)  unorganized

Question 3

Which type of tape drive is most widely accepted in the high-end server market because of its high performance?

Accepted Answer

A)  LTO 
B)  AIT 
C)  DLT 
D)  DAT

Question 4

What feature that was introduced in Windows Server 2012 finds identical sets of data on a volume and reduces them to a single instance to reduce space?

Accepted Answer

A)  Disk pooling 
B)  Data deduplication 
C)  Data multiplexing 
D)  Storage optimizing

Question 5

You are running a program on a Windows 10 PC that has 2 GB RAM and 500 GB HDD. The program performs a lot of graphical operations and calculations, and uses 1.5 GB of RAM or more, but it does not access any files on the disk drive. The program is running quite slow and you notice that the HDD light is flashing a lot indicating the disk is being frequently accessed. What is the most likely reason for the slow performance and disk access?

Accepted Answer

A)  virtual memory is being accessed frequently 
B)  the program creates a lot of interrupts 
C)  the RAM is becoming very slow 
D)  the CPU is using multiple cores

Question 6

Which feature of the GUID Partitioning Table (GPT) partitioning method offers improved reliability over the MBR partitioning method?

Accepted Answer

A)  Cyclic Redundancy Check (CR
C)  
B)  Message Digest 5 (MD5) 
C)  Secure Hash Algorithm (SH
A)  
D)  Journaling

Exam 7: Using and Configuring Storage Devices

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?

What do you call disk drive space that has not yet been assigned to a volume or partition?

Which type of tape drive is most widely accepted in the high-end server market because of its high performance?

What feature that was introduced in Windows Server 2012 finds identical sets of data on a volume and reduces them to a single instance to reduce space?

Which feature of the GUID Partitioning Table (GPT) partitioning method offers improved reliability over the MBR partitioning method?