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| What are the two common sizes for hard drives? |
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| Because it has no moving parts |
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| Why is a solid state drive referred to as solid state? |
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| If a magnetic drive has four platters, how many heads does it have? |
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| What is the name of the Vista technology that supports a hybrid drive? |
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| Logical block addressing (LBA) |
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| When the OS addresses the sectors on a hard drive as one long list of sequential sectors, what is this technology called? |
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| The master boot program and the partition table |
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| What are the main two components of the Master Boot Record on a hard drive? |
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| What is the smallest unit of space on a hard drive that can be used to store a file? |
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| What two file systems can Windows use to format a hard drive? Which system supports the most storage capacity? |
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| Which ATA standard for hard drives first introduced S.M.A.R.T.? |
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| ATA/ATAPI-7, also called Ultra ATA/133 |
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| Which ATA standard is the latest standard that made improvements to PATA? |
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| A CD drive that uses a PATA connection must follow what standard? |
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| How many pins does a PATA cable have? |
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| What is the maximum recommended length of a PATA cable? |
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| What transfer mode can transmit data from a device to memory without involving the CPU? |
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| Hot swapping or hot plugging |
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| What term describes the technology that allows you to exchange a hard drive without powering down the system? |
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| Which RAID level mirrors one hard drive with a second drive so that the same data is written to both drives? |
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| Which RAID level stripes data across multiple drives to improve performance and also provides fault tolerance? |
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| How many pins does a floppy drive cable have? |
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| Which file system does a floppy disk use? |
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5400 RPM
7200 RPM
10000 RPM |
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| What are three current ratings for spindle speed for a magnetic hard drive? |
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Primary IDE channel, master device
Primary IDE channel, slave device
Secondary IDE channel, master device
Secondary IDE channel, slave device |
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| What are the four possible configurations for a PATA drive installed in a system? |
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| If a motherboard has one blue IDE connector and one black IDE connection, which do you use to install a single drive? |
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| When implementing RAID on a motherboard, where do you enable the feature? |
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| What type of disk configuration does Windows Vista use to implement RAID? |
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| What is the name of the Seagate utility that can be used to test a hard drive and diagnose a hard drive problem? |
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| To write to a floppy disk, is it necessary for the write-protect notch to be open or closed? |
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