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1) Which of the following is not a characteristic of serial ATA drives?

data cable as seven pins


power cable uses the Molex connector
power cable is a wider 15 pin shape
maximum cable length of 2m
2) How many drives are supported on the IDE channel at a single time?
One
Two
Three
Four
3) What is the condition of a hard disk suffers from when pieces of large files are split across the disk and
results in a decrease in performance?
defragmentation
corruption
fragmentation
virtual memory
4) When installing a CD drive into a system that is a single hard drive, you are trying to determine the
recommended location for the new CD drive. Which controller should you place the drive on what
jumper setting should be used? (Choose two)
Primary IDE
Secondary IDE
Slave
Master
5) Which drives are gaining in popularity because of their highly portable nature and the ability to or
large amounts of data?
floppy drives
zip drives
DVDs
flash drives
6) What is usually used on an IDE drive in order to configure the drive relationship on the channel?
Switches
Jumpers
Cables
None of the above
7) Which drive standard is capable of transmitting data at up to 600 Mbps?
IDE
EIDE
SATA3
SATA2
8) How many IDE controllers are available on most motherboards?
1
2
3
0
9) How many devices are connected to a SATA port on the motherboard?
1
2
3
4
10) Which of the following is performed by the manufacturer and is the process of writing sectors and
tracks on a hard drive?
Low-level formatting
Defragmentation
High-level formatting
OS installation
11) What represents the smallest physical space on a hard disk drive?
Sector
Track
Cylinder
Cluster
12) Which of the following is defined as concentric circles on the hard disk drive platter?
Cylinders
Clusters
Tracks
Sectors
13) Which is the smallest logical unit to which an operating system can write to on the hard disk drive?
Cluster
Sector
Cylinder
Directory
14) How large is a sector on a hard disk drive?
512 bytes
1024 bytes
2048 bytes
They vary based on the drive size
15) What is the primary difference between hard disk drives and solid state drives?
SSD are cheaper
Hard disk drives are more reliable
SSD have no moving parts
HDD have no moving parts
16) Which type of RAID used for hard drives is also known as disk mirroring?
RAID 0
RAID 1
RAID 5
RAID 3
17) Which type of RAID does not provide redundancy or fault tolerance but increases performance?
RAID 0
RAID 1
RAID 5
RAID 10
18) Which type of RAID performs the greatest and is the most reliable in relation to fault tolerance?
RAID 5
RAID 6
RAID 10
RAID 0
19) How many pins are there in the SATA3 data cable?
7
9
15
40
20) What is the capacity of a standard Blu-ray drive?
25 GB
25 MB
50 GB
35 GB
21) What type of DVD is the most common which can hold 4.7 GB of data?
DVD-9
DVD-14
DVD-5
DVD-4
22) Which of the following is required in order to take advantage of most drive encryption technologies?
Secure boot
TPM chip
POST stamp
RAID controller
23) What type of connector is used for standard IDE drives?
Berg
Molex
SATA
None of the above
24) Which type of flash memory card is the most popular for digital cameras, smart phones, and tablets
today?
xD
SD
Compact Flash
USB flash drive
25) Which type of drive uses the operating system and multiple drives, one magnetic and one solid state
in order to increase storage performance and efficiency?
Hybrid drive
Flash drive
Virtual memory
Solid state drive
26) Which of the following is the maximum RPM that is available for desktop drives?
5400
7200
10000
15000
27) Which of the following is unique in regards to the installation of optical drives in comparison with
fixed disk drives?
Connect the audio cable to the motherboard
Connect the data cable to the drive
Locate an open drive bay in the chassis
Connect the power cable to the drive
28) Which of the following removable media types is available in 25GB capacity along with the ability to
erase and rewrite?
CDRW
BDRE
DVDRW
DVD+R
29) What is the capacity of a standard DVD 5 disc?
4.7 GB
9.3 GB
18 GB
50 GB

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