Ch. 5 quiz Questions and Answers correct

Ch. 5 quiz Questions and Answers correct You have been asked by your supervisor to do an inventory of all the parts in a storage locker in your work space and identify and label each item. You find this expansion card during your inventory. What is the connector type on the card? a. SCSI connector b. BNC connector c. RG-59 connector d. USB connector SCSI connector Joann uses her phone to take pictures and wants to archive them on her computer. Her friend Dorothy told Joann that she could take the card out of her phone and put it into her computer and move the pictures directly to the computer instead of connecting the phone with a cable. Which of the following will Joann need to install on her computer in order to use the card instead of a cable? internal memory card reader While booting her computer today, Julie received this POST error message, "Read/Write failure." Along with this error, Julie's computer would not boot to Windows. What might be the problem with Julie's computer? a. Windows has become corrupt. b. RAM has failed. c. CPU has failed. d. Hard drive has failed. hard drive failed (d) Which type of storage would you recommend if someone needed a hard drive with fast data access and a small outline? a. Magnetic hard drive b. Solid-state hard drive c. Flash drive d. Optical drive solid-state hard drive (b) If you are experiencing slow performance on a system and think that the SSD hard drive is the problem, you can run Defrag and Optimization. What does Defrag do with the data on an SSD hard drive? a. It rearranges fragments or parts of files in contiguous clusters. b. It sends a retrim command to erase all blocks that are filled with unused data. c. It rewrites the entire hard drive data. d. It cleans all unnecessary data from the hard drive. runs a retrim command to erase all blocks that are filled with unused data What happens when you run Defrag on a MAGNET HDD? the fragmented files are rearranged into contiguous clusters Your friend has a Lenovo IdeaPad N580 laptop, and the hard drive has failed. Her uncle has offered to give her a working hard drive he no longer needs, the Toshiba MK8009GAH 80-GB 4200-RPM drive. Will this drive fit this laptop? Why or why not? a. Yes, the drive form factor and interface connectors match. b. No, the drive form factor matches but the interface does not match. c. Yes, the drive form factor, spindle speed, and interface all match. d. No, the drive form factor and interface do not match. d You have four 2.5" hard drives on hand and need a replacement drive for a desktop system. The documentation for the motherboard installed in the system says the board has six SATA 3 Gb/s connectors and one IDE connector. Which of the four hard drives will work in the system and yield the best performance? a. Ultralock IDE ATA 4500-RPM 3.5" HDD b. WD 3.5" 7200-RPM SATA 3.0 HDD c. Seagate IDE ATA 4500-RPM 3.5" HDD d. WD 2.5" 4500-RPM SATA 6 Gb/s HDD b You are setting up a RAID system in a server designed for optimum fault tolerance, accuracy, and minimal downtime. Which HDD is best for this system, assuming the motherboard supports it? a. Hot-swap 2.5" SATA 2.0 SSD b. Hot-swap 3.5" SATA 3.0 10,000-RPM drive c. 3.5" SATA 3.0 15,000-RPM drive d. 2.5" SATA 6 Gb/s SSD b You have two matching HDDs in a system, which you plan to configure as a RAID array to improve performance. Which RAID configuration should you use? a. RAID 0 b. RAID 1 c. RAID 5 d. RAID 10 RAID 0 Which of the following situations allows for data not to be lost in a RAID array? a. RAID 0 and one hard drive fails b. RAID 1 and one hard drive fails c. RAID 5 and two hard drives fail d. RAID 10 and three hard drives fail RAID 1 and one hard drive fails A laptop has an SD card slot that no longer reads cards inserted in the slot. Which is the first and best solution to try? The second? a. Download and install the latest drivers from the laptop manufacturer for the card slot. b. Purchase a USB memory card adapter to replace the SD card slot. c. Replace the card reader on the system board, being careful to only use parts sold or recommended by the laptop manufacturer. d. Update Windows on the laptop. e. Reinstall Windows on the laptop. d, a Explain how a DVD manufacturer can advertise that a DVD can hold 4.7 GB, but Explorer reports the DVD capacity as 4,706,074,624 bytes or 4.38 GB. a. Manufacturers are allowed to overadvertise their products. b. The manufacturer measures capacity in decimal and the OS measures capacity in binary. c. The actual capacity is 4.7 GB, but the OS requires overhead to manage the DVD and the overhead is not included in the reported DVD capacity. d. The DVD was formatted to have a capacity of 4.38 GB, but it could have been formatted to have a capacity of 4.7 GB. b You discover Event Viewer has been reporting hard drive errors for about one month. What is the first solution you should try to fix the problem? a. Use the chkdsk command to repair the drive. b. Use Explorer to reformat the drive. c. Replace the drive with a known good one. d. Download and install firmware updates to the drive from the hard drive manufacturer. a You install a SATA hard drive and then turn on the computer for the first time. You access BIOS/UEFI setup and see that the drive is not recognized. Which of the following do you do next? a. Turn off the computer, open the case, and verify that memory modules on the motherboard have not become loose. b. Turn off the computer, open the case, and verify that the data cable and power cable are connected correctly. c. Update BIOS/UEFI firmware to make sure it can recognize the new drive. d. Reboot the computer and enter BIOS/UEFI setup again to see if it now recognizes the drive. b You want to install an SSD in your desktop computer, but the drive is far too narrow to fit snugly into the bays of your computer case. Which of the following do you do? a. Install the SSD in a laptop computer. b. Buy a bay adapter that will allow you to install the narrow drive in a desktop case bay. c. This SSD is designed for a laptop. Flash BIOS/UEFI so that your system will support a laptop hard drive. d. Use a special SATA controller card that will support the narrow hard drive. b Why do hard drives tend to slow down over time? a. Drives can reach full capacity, which hinders where data can be written to the drive. b. SSDs must erase a block before a block can be written. c. Magnetic drives take longer when having to read data from noncontiguous locations on the drive. d. All of the above d Of the following hard drives, which one is fastest? a. SATA 6 Gb/s SSD b. SATA 6 Gb/s 10,000-RPM drive c. M.2 SSD using a SATA3 interface d. PCIe NVMe SSD card d You install an M.2 SSD card in an M.2 slot on a motherboard. When you boot up the system, you discover the DVD drive no longer works. What are likely causes of this problem? Select two. a. The DVD drive SATA connector is disabled. b. The DVD drive cable is loose or disconnected. c. The installation corrupted the DVD drivers. d. The DVD drive has failed and must be replaced. a, b Tim has an old server computer that his company uses as a backup. One of the hard drives has gone bad and needs to be replaced. The cable that the hard drive uses is not one that Tim has ever seen before, so he posts a picture of it on the company collaboration board to get help in deciding what type of hard drive he will need to order. Identify the type of cable from the picture. a. SATA b. IDE c. PATA d. SCSI SCSI Sharon is troubleshooting a computer and wants to test the hard drive in another computer. Sharon removes the hard drive and notices that it does not have a SATA power connection. The connector for power is white and has four pins instead. What type of connector will Sharon need to test the hard drive in the computer she is using? a. eSATA connector b. BNC connector c. Molex connector d. P4 power connector Molex connector Jessica wants to purchase a new hard drive. She wants a drive that has fast access because she will use it to edit videos on her PC. She also needs a lot of storage and wants to have at least 4 TB available to save her videos. Jessica wants to keep the cost down as much as possible possible. What type of hard drive should Jessica purchase? a. 5400 RPM magnetic HDD b. 7200 RPM magnetic HDD c. SSD HDD d. USB HDD b When installing a SATA hard drive, is it true or false that you need to move the jumpers on the back of the drive to instruct the computer on which hard drive is the bootable drive? false Keion works as a freelancer creating websites and designing logos for clients. He recently had a hard drive failure and lost work for a client, and he would like to prevent the same type problem from happening again. Keion does not want to rely on a backup but would like a way to ensure that his data is safe on his computer. You recommend that he create a RAID array that will duplicate his work onto two disks. What RAID configuration should you recommend to Keion? a. RAID 0 b. RAID 1 c. RAID 5 d. RAID 10 RAID 1