Question 1

Briefly describe how data is read from a CD drives.

Accepted Answer

The answer of Briefly describe how data is read from...

Question 2

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

Accepted Answer

The answer of Aside from price,under what circumstance might you...

Question 3

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?

Accepted Answer

A)  Blu-Ray discs 
B)  SSD 
C)  SATA 
D)  IDE

Question 4

Another name for the IDE hard drive interface is ATA.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 5

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

Accepted Answer

The answer of Name one advantage and one disadvantage of...

Question 6

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

Accepted Answer

A)  cfdisk 
B)  xfsdump 
C)  tar 
D)  xterm

Question 7

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

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 8

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.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 9

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

Accepted Answer

A) cloud storage 
B) dynamic disk 
C) fault tolerance 
D) Light Peak 
E) basic disk
F)CRCC
G)InfiniBand
H)AIT
I)terminator
J)disk geometry

Question 10

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

Accepted Answer

A) cloud storage 
B) dynamic disk 
C) fault tolerance 
D) Light Peak 
E) basic disk
F)CRCC
G)InfiniBand
H)AIT
I)terminator
J)disk geometry

Question 11

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

Accepted Answer

The answer of The IDE interface is the same as...

Question 12

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?

Accepted Answer

A)  use the Backup and Restore Wizard found in System Tools 
B)  use the Time Machine Utility found on the Dock 
C)  use the GUI versions of dump and cpio 
D)  use Backup and Restore found in Disk Management

Question 13

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

Accepted Answer

A) cloud storage 
B) dynamic disk 
C) fault tolerance 
D) Light Peak 
E) basic disk
F)CRCC
G)InfiniBand
H)AIT
I)terminator
J)disk geometry

Question 14

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

Accepted Answer

A)  they come in much larger storage configurations 
B)  lower power requirements 
C)  no moving parts to wear out 
D)  faster access to data

Question 15

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

Accepted Answer

A)  10,000 GB 
B)  .1 PB 
C)  1,000,000 MB 
D)  100 GB

Question 16

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

Accepted Answer

A) cloud storage 
B) dynamic disk 
C) fault tolerance 
D) Light Peak 
E) basic disk
F)CRCC
G)InfiniBand
H)AIT
I)terminator
J)disk geometry

Question 17

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

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 18

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

Accepted Answer

A)  GPT supports fewer, but larger partitions 
B)  MBR is a newer method and is only supported by a few OSs 
C)  GPT supports larger disks than MBR 
D)  GPT is not supported by Windows Server 2008

Question 19

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?

Accepted Answer

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

Question 20

Which of the following is used for removable storage?

Accepted Answer

A)  SCSI 
B)  iSCSI 
C)  eSATA 
D)  E-IDE

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?

Which of the following is used for removable storage?