You need a storage device that has very large storage capacity, is fast, and is relatively inexpensive. Which storage device will best suit your needs?

Which storage device uses aluminum platters for storing data?

Which of the following is not an advantage of SSDs over HDDs?

Which generation of SATA storage devices does the following?

Supports up to 6 Gbps data transfer rates Addresses solid state drives

You are building a new computer and have purchased a motherboard that includes four built-in SATA connectors.

Which of the following MOST accurately lists the maximum number of SATA devices you can connect to the motherboard using the integrated ports?

Which of the following tasks would you complete as part of a SATA installation?

Which of the following is the most common disk interface used for optical drives on home and office computers?

Which of the following are optical storage devices? (Select THREE.)

You have been asked to configure the drives in a computer. The end user wants to use striping without incorporating any fault tolerance.

Which of the following will BEST meet these requirements?

Ben is concerned about losing data due to a hard disk failure. His computer will only support a maximum of three disks. To protect his data, you have decided to use RAID (redundant array of independent disks).

Which of the following RAID types would give Ben the BEST mirrored data protection?

A computer being used by the HR department needs to ensure that all of the data on that computer is protected from a single hard disk failure. The data needs to be read as quickly as possible, and the HR department would like to maximize drive use as much as possible. This computer can use up to three hard drives.

Which of the following RAID types would meet these requirements and provide the BEST data protection?

You have been asked to implement a RAID 5 solution for an engineer's desktop workstation. What is the minimum number of hard disks that can be used to configure RAID 5?

Which of the following drive configurations uses striping with parity for fault tolerance?

You are in the process of preparing a storage device and must determine which file system to use.

Which of the following BEST describes the advantage of using the exFAT file system rather than NTFS?

What is required to control access to the file system using file and folder permissions on a Windows-based computer?

While configuring a computer, you find that you need to create, format, and manage the partitions and volumes on your hard drives.

Which of the following is the BEST command line utility to use?

Which partition type identifies the partition as one that holds the boot loader program used to start the operating system?

If you want to boot from a hard drive, what must it have?

Which disk types does Windows support? (Select TWO.)

You have four volumes on a basic hard disk. You convert the disk to dynamic.

After the conversion, which of the following are you MOST likely to see as the status of the fourth volume if it is valid and has no errors?

You have a hard disk that is formatted with the FAT32 file system. You would like to implement file and folder permissions on the Design folder that apply when files are accessed both locally and remotely.

Which of the following BEST describes the next step you need to perform?

Which tool would you use to create and delete partitions on hard drives?

Which of the following is a characteristic of extended partitions?

Your system volume is running out of disk space. You need to extend the system volume to give it more space.

Which of the following conditions MUST be met to extend the system volume? (Select TWO).

You want to combine storage space from two different hard disks into a single logical storage unit on your Windows computer.

Which of the following is the BEST step to perform?

On Windows 10, using Storage Spaces eliminates the need for which of the following tasks? (Select TWO).

Which of the following disk maintenance utilities locates and disposes of files that can be safely removed from the disk?

Which of the following Windows command line utilities would you use to realign the file structure on the disk to optimize performance?