EET250 Unit 3Homework

This assignment covers the information provided in this unit’s Reading Assignment.  However, there may be a need to search outside of the textbook. Remember that this is an assignment, not a quiz. So, please do not guess – find the answers.

1.       Where is the master boot record of an MBR hard drive stored?

a.       In CMOS

b.      On the first sector of the hard drive

c.       In BIOS

d.      In the Windows registry

 

2.       The master boot record contains information about ______.

a.       Partitions

b.      Files

c.       Boot devices

d.      Fragmentation

 

3.       MBR drives support two types of partitions, Primary and Extended. The total number of these partitions is limited to _____. Your answer consists of a number.

 

 

4.       All partitions must be assigned a drive letter between C and Z.

True

False     

 

5.       Each primary partition is a volume. However, an extended partition can be further divided into ____, each of which is a volume.

a.       Logical drives

b.      Sub-partitions

c.       Grubs

d.      Clusters

 

6.       Spanning, striping, and mirroring can only be accomplished on _____ disks.

a.       MBR

b.      GPT

c.       RAID

d.      Dynamic

 

7.       Which of the following is true of GPT disks that is not true of MBR disks? Choose all that apply.

a.       Partitions larger than 2.2 TB

b.      Partitions larger than 32 GB

c.       Greater than 4 partitions

d.      Partition information stored both at the beginning and end of the drive

e.      Support for FAT32 partitions      

 

8.       List two reasons for dividing a hard drive into two or more partitions.

 

9.       In Windows 7 and newer, partitioning can be accomplished using which two of the following?

a.       FDISK

b.      DISKPART

c.       DISK Management

d.      Format

e.      Device Manager

f.        Task Scheduler

 

10.   Swap files require their own partitions in Windows 7 and above.

True

False     

 

11.   Match the following characteristics with the appropriate file system.

·         FAT16            Except for very old operating systems, only used for floppy drives

·         FAT12            4 GB maximum partition size

·         ExFAT            Supports a maximum partition size of 2 TB

·         FAT32S         Supports file sizes larger than 4 GB and security features such as permissions

·         NTF                Supports file sizes larger than 4 GB and generally used for media such as SD

·         HFS+              High performance file system used by Linux

·         EXT4              Used by Apple OSX and iOS

 

12.   Upon creation of the first partition, Windows 7 automatically creates a 100 MB _____ partition. This partition is not assigned a drive letter.

a.       Recovery

b.      Diagnostic service

c.       System reserved

d.      Boot

 

13.   A type of partition that is not assigned a drive letter and has its space mapped to an NTFS folder on another drive is known as a _____ point.

a.       Mount

b.      Backup

c.       Utility

d.      Diagnostic

e.      Recovery

 

14.   Disks may be initialized as either MBR or GPT.

True

False

 

15.   Disks may be converted from MBR to GPT or GPT to MBR without losing the existing partitions.

True

False

 

16.   Explain what will happen if a user executes the following from a command line:

 

17.   Which of the following is used in Windows to check for errors?

a.       DISKCHECK

b.      CHKDSK

c.       FSCK

d.      DEFRAG

 

18.   It is important to run DEFRAG frequently, especially on SSDs.

True

False     

 

19.   You are installing a new hard drive in a PC. Prior to installation, the following views from “Computer” and “Disk Management” are observed.

After installation, the following views are observed

Explain why no additional drives appeared under “Computer”.

 

20.   Windows Disk Manager allows partitions to be shrunk or expanded. In the view below, what must be done before the partition assigned letter E can be expanded? What about before Partition F can be expanded?

 

21.   Using the Internet, locate a third-party partition utility and describe features of this tool that are not available with within Windows.

 

22.   SATA3 allows for data transfer rates of 600 MB/s. Explain why you would likely not be able to copy data from one hard drive to another at anywhere close to this speed. Also, what could be upgraded on the computer to achieve transfer speeds closer to 600 MB/s?