DISK DRIVE STORAGE QUIZ
You have a CDROM rated as 48X. What does "48X" mean?
A. The CD spins at 48000 rpm
B. CDROM data transfer speed is 48 times faster than the hard drive
C. X refers to 48 times the normal CD speed of 150 KBps
D. X is a static reference used to rate CDROMs
E. X is unknown
Correct Answer: C
If you are installing a hard drive and the IDE cable isn't keyed and your not sure which way round it should
plug in, what rule of thumb should you use?
A. The red stripe on the IDE cable should point towards the power cable
B. The red stripe on the IDE cable should point away from the power cable
Correct Answer: A
What does a cylinder refer to within a hard disk?
A. A collection of platters
B. A collection of tracks across platters
C. A collection of sectors across platters
Correct Answer: B
If after you install a new IDE hard drive into a legacy computer you find the computer has not detected the
device, what should you do?
A. Load your O/S and enter the 'add new hardware wizard'
B. Load your O/S and troubleshoot the device, under the 'devices' menu
C. Enter the BIOS CMOS setup and in the fixed disk area enter your drive parameters
Correct Answer: C
What is the other commonly used term for IDE?
A. BNC
B. USB
C. ATA
D. ATC
E. AT
Correct Answer: C
What UltraDMA standard is also known as UltraDMA 133?
A. UDMA mode 1
B. UDMA mode 3
C. UDMA mode 4
D. UDMA mode 5
E. UDMA mode 6
Correct Answer: E
The image below is a PC cable, please choose the cables function from the list below?
A. Used to connect IDE devices to the IDE/ATA bus
B. Used to connect floppy disk drives to the floppy controller
C. Used to connect SCSI devices to the SCSI controller
D. Used to connect hard drives
Correct Answer: B
How is data transmitted to the floppy drive?
A. in Parallel
B. in Serial
Correct Answer: B
If your 34pin floppy drive cable has 3 connectors, which connector is drive A?
A. Before the twist in the cable
B. After the twist in the cable
Correct Answer: B
You can use a Zip disk in a standard floppy disk drive
A. True
B. False
Correct Answer: B
How would you change an IDE device from Master to Slave?
A. Change the value in CMOS
B. Change the jumper pins on the back of the drive
C. Change the value in the registry
D. Open up the drive and change the jumper pins
Correct Answer: B
How would you configure a SCSI device?
A. Assign it to either Master, Slave or Cable Select
B. Assign it a unique SCSI ID
Correct Answer: B
What is the formatted capacity of a typical 3.5" high-density floppy disk?
A. 720 KB
B. 1.38 MB
C. 1.44 MB
D. 360 KB
E. None of the above
Correct Answer: B
What does a high-level format do?
A. Organises disk sectors into clusters and keeps track of which files are located in which clusters
B. Organises a disks surface into sectors and tracks
C. Deletes previous data
Correct Answer: A
What is the ATAPI standard?
A. It's an interface standard used to connect a CD-Rom drive to an EIDE adapter.
B. It's an interface standard that allows regular CD-Rom drives to read CD-RW disks.
C. It allows PCs to access hard drives with greater capacity than 8 GB.
D. It permits more than one floppy drive to be installed in a PC.
Correct Answer: A
What track is FAT allocated on a hard disk?
A. Track 0 on the outer edge of the disk
B. Track 0 on the inner edge of the disk
C. The last track of the hard disk
D. The first track of the hard disk
Correct Answer: A
CD-ROMs marked as 80 min can typically store _____ worth of data?
A. 500 MB
B. 600 MB
C. 650 MB
D. 700 MB
E. 1 GB
Correct Answer: D
How would you add a third IDE drive to your primary IDE bus?
A. Set one to Master and the other two to Slave
B. Set two to Master and the other one to Slave
C. You can't add more than two devices to the same IDE bus
Correct Answer: C
What is the CD-ROM ISO standard?
A. Red Book
B. Yellow Book
C. Green Book
D. Orange Book
E. White Book
Correct Answer: B
You have installed a new hard drive in an old computer, you are aware that the computer may not recognize
the full size of the drive. What do you need to enable in the BIOS?
A. IDE
B. CHS
C. LBA
D. Sector translation
E. ATA/133
Correct Answer: C
After installing a floppy disk drive, what is the most likely problem if the drive light is lit continuously?
A. The floppy drive is faulty
B. The floppy drive controller is faulty
C. The floppy drive cable has been connected the wrong way round
D. The floppy drive cable is not connected
E. The floppy drive has no power
Correct Answer: C
When you mount two IDE drives on the primary IDE bus, what do you need to configure on the drives?
A. Set both drives to Master
B. Set both drives to Slave
C. Set one drive to Master and the other to Slave
Correct Answer: C
How many devices (including the controller) can you connect to a single SCSI bus?
A. Up to 2 devices
B. Up to 3 devices
C. Up to 4 devices
D. Up to 8 devices
Correct Answer: D
How many Megabytes (MB) are in 1 Gigabyte (GB)?
A. 10
B. 100
C. 1000
D. 1024
E. None of the above
Correct Answer: D
What does a low-level format do?
A. Organises a disks surface into clusters
B. Organises a disks surface into sectors and tracks
C. Deletes previous data
Correct Answer: B