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Chapter 9 - Hard Drive Technologies
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1
____ stores data in a unique pattern of 1s and 0s.
A)FM
B)MFM
C)PMFM
D)RLL
2
Each platter requires ____ heads.
A)two
B)three
C)five
D)eight
3
A ____ is a circle where data is stored on a drive.
A)cylinder
B)head
C)platter
D)track
4
Which of the following hard drive geometry values is no longer relevant in today’s PCs?
A)cylinder
B)head
C)sector
D)write precomp
5
Which interface requires a ribbon cable and a built-in controller on the drive itself?
A)AT
B)ATA
C)PATA
D)SATA
6
How many drives can be supported with ATA-2 (sometimes called EIDE)?
A)One
B)Two
C)Three
D)Four
7
Modern PATA drives use a ____ connector for power.
A)mini
B)Molex
C)P1
D)sub
8
The ____ interface enables non-hard drive devices to connect to the PC via the ATA controllers.
A)ATA
B)ATAPI
C)EIDE
D)PATA
9
How many wires does the SATA interface have?
A)Four
B)Eight
C)Seven
D)Eighty
10
How many pins does an EIDE (ATA) drive have?
A)7
B)20
C)40
D)80
11
How many ATA devices can be connected to most modern PCs?
A)One
B)Two
C)Four
D)Six
12
Which of the following does NOT require jumper settings?
A)PATA
B)ATA
C)ATA
D)AT
13
The drive technology that supports only a single device per controller channel is known as _____.
A)AT
B)ATA
C)PATA
D)SATA
14
What is a series of SCSI devices working together through a host adapter called?
A)SCSI chain
B)SCSI drive
C)SCSI host adapter
D)SCSI system
15
The SCSI host adapter uses the ____ to differentiate between devices.
A)ribbon cable
B)SCSI chain
C)external port
D)SCSI ID
16
What’s the minimum number of drives needed for RAID 5?
A)One
B)Two
C)Three
D)Four
17
A system with ____ extension can handle drives up to 137 GB.
A)ECHS
B)IDE
C)INT13
D)LBA
18
The ____ standard features a 48-bit addressing scheme.
A)ATA/ATAPI-6
B)ECHS
C)INT13
D)LBA
19
The ____ standard has an enhanced block mode that enables drives to transfer up to 65,536 sectors in one chunk.
A)ATA/ATAPI-6
B)ECHS
C)INT13
D)LBA
20
Since any SCSI device might be on the end of a chain, most manufacturers build SCSI devices that can ____.
A)echo
B)self-terminate
C)be terminated
D)transfer data
21
Internal SCSI devices connect to the host adapter with a ____-pin ribbon cable.
A)50
B)68
C)100
D)168
22
The host adapter is also referred to as a ____.
A)connector
B)ribbon cable
C)SCSI chain
D)SCSI controller
23
An ATA/100 can transfer data at ____ MBps.
A)66
B)88
C)100
D)133
24
ATA/66, ATA/100, and ATA/133 require a ____ cable.
A)30-wire
B)40-wire
C)50-wire
D)80-wire
25
What is the process of spreading data across multiple drives?
A)disk striping
B)disk mirroring
C)disk duplexing
D)parity
26
How many levels of RAID exist?
A)One
B)Five
C)Six
D)Seven
27
Disk mirroring is also known as _____.
A)RAID 0
B)RAID 1
C)RAID 2
D)RAID 3
28
Which RAID level was never implemented?
A)RAID 0
B)RAID 1
C)RAID 2
D)RAID 5
29
Which RAID levels combined dedicated data drives with dedicated parity drives?
A)RAID 2 and RAID 0
B)RAID 2 and RAID 5
C)RAID 3 and RAID 4
D)RAID 2 and RAID 4
30
Which operating system has built-in software for RAID 5?
A)Windows XP Home
B)Windows XP Professional
C)indows Server 2003
D)Windows 98
31
The mirroring technique in which each drive has its own controller is called ____.
A)drive duplexing
B)drive striping
C)drive striping with parity
D)super-drive mirroring
32
SCSI ID numbers can range from 0 to ____.
A)15
B)25
C)35
D)45
33
What can happen if you reverse a SCSI cable during installation?
A)The drive won’t work.
B)The LED will stay lit.
C)You can seriously damage the drive.
D)The SCSI ID will revert to 0.





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