DCOM 141

1. What method does an sdhc card use for storing?

Reprogrammable Memory

2. Which storage device uses aluminum platters for storing?

Hard Disk

3. Which of the following is typically used for large data backups of servers?
DLT tape

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

5. Which of the following are advantages of solid storage compared to hard drives?
Lower Power requirements
No moving parts

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

Inexpensive

7. What method does an eMMC card use for storing data?

Non volatile memory chips

8. Which of the following are magnetic storage devices?

Hard disk
Tape drive

9. A thick magnetic disk made of aluminum platters. Uses read/ write heads to access data
on the platters.
HDD
Flash device and storage capacity similar to a small hard drive.
SSD
Users lasers to read and write information stored in the form of pits in their reflective
coating.
Optical disc
Up to several TB in storage capacity and cost per MB is cheap.
HDD
Faster than other devices. No moving parts. Last longer than other storage devices.
SSD
ideal for music and video. Portable and cheap with a long shelf life.
Optical disc
10. You have a motherboard with 4 built- in SATA connectors. What is the maximum
number of SATA devices you can connect to the motherboard?
4

11. A manager wants you to install a serial ATA hard drive into his computer, but the
motherboard does not have a serial ATA connector. What should you do?
Install a serial ATA host adapter in the expansion slot

12. Witch of the following tasks would you complete as part of a SATA installation?
Plug the 15- pin power connector

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

14. Which interface is primarily used for internal hard disk drives in modern desktop pc
system?
SATA

15. Which generation of SATA storage devices does the following?

Supports up to 6 Gbps data transfer rates
Addresses solid state drives
SATA3

16. Which generation of SATA storage devices does the following?

Integrates data and device power into a single cable
Uses a connector and port that are neither L- shaped nor Rectangular
eSATAp

17. You have a CD- RW drive that advertises speeds of 32x/12x/48x. What is the read
speed of the drive?
48X

18. Which optical media has the greatest storage capacity?

Single- layer, single- sided blu- ray disc

19. Which blu- ray standard defines rewritable disks?

BD-RE

20. Which of the following are optical storage devices?

DVD
BD
CD
21. First developed to store digital music. Later was adapted to store digital computer data
CD
Disc surface made up of lands and pits. Reflective light used to interpret the date.
CD
Single sided discs can hold about 4.7 GB of data. Dual layer discs can hold up to 8.5 GB
of data
DVD
A red laser causes a crystal to form which creates the reflective and non reflective area
on the bottom of the disc.
DVD
Uses blue laser light which has a shorter wavelength which allows data to be picked
more tightly on the disc.
BD
Was originally developed for high definition video but can also be used for data storage.
BD

What is an advantage of RAID 5 over RAID 1?

RAID 5 improves performance over RAID 1

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?
3

Which of the following device configurations uses striping without fault tolerance?
RAID 0

You have a computer with three hard disks. A RAID 0 volume used on disk 1 and disk 2.
RAID 1 volume uses space on disk 2 and disk 3. Disk 2 fails. Which of the following is
true?
Data on the RAID 1 volume is accessible; data on RAID 0 volume is not.

Which RAID configuration level provides increased performance using only two disks?
RAID 0

You are configuring a new system and want to use a RAID 0 array for the operating
system using SATA disks and the RAID functionality built into the motherboard. Which of
the following actions will you take as part of the configuration?
Load the RAID drivers operating system installation

Your computer currently runs windows 7 enterprise edition. You want to create a RAID 5
array using three newly installed SATA disks. When you go to disk management, the
option to create the RAID 5 array is not available. What should you do?
Install an add on RAID controller
You have an existing computer running windows 7 enterprise. You want to configure a
RAID 1 array in the computer. You install two new SATA drives, then use the RAID
controller integrated in the motherboard to define a RAID 1 array using them. When you
boot the computer windows does not show the logical RAID drive. What should you do?
Install the drivers for the RAID controller

You have been asked to implement RAID 10 solution for a video editor’s desktop
workstation. What is the minimum number of hard disks that can be used to configure
RAID 10?
4

Which of the following drive configurations uses striping with parity for fault tolerance?
RAID 5

What is required to control access to the file system using file and folder permission on a
windows based computer?
NTFS

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

Active partition

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

Which of the following is true about primary partitions?

The active partition must be a primary partition.

You have added two new hard disks to a windows computer. The disks are configured
as basic disks. Which of the following could be configured on these disks?
Extended partitions
Primary partitions

You have an extra disk on your system that has three partitions and an extended
partition with two logical drive. You want to convert the partitions to simple volumes,
preferably without losing any data. What should you do?
Upgrade the disk to a dynamic disk

Which of the following is a command line that can be used to create format and manage
partitions and volumes?
Diskpart
You want to set up a windows system to be able to boot to linux. To be able to dual boot
the system needs a partition on which to install linux. You dont have an extra hard disk
that can be used for linux partition. The existing disk has no unpartitioned space
available but is has about 300 gb of free space.
Which disk management operation can you perform on the disk to use some of the free
space for the linux partition?
Shrink the primary partition

Supports up to 128 volumes

Dynamic Disks
Use primary and extended partitions
Basic disks
Supported by all operating systems
Basic disks
Support volumes that use discontiguous disk space
Dynamic Disks
Store partitioning information in hidden database on all such disks in the system
Dynamic disks
Only support volumes made up of contiguous disk space
Basic Disks

Which of the following conditions would prevent you from using GUID partition table
when setting up a disk drive?
You're setting up the drive to boot windows 7 on a computer that uses traditional BIOS

Which of the following is an advantage of the exFAT file system over NTFS?
Lower memory and processor resources use

You have a computer running windows 7 home premium and need to access the
contents of a flash drive. The flash drive has been formatted with exFAT file system. You
want to read the flash drive on your computer as quickly as possible with the least
amount of effort. What should you do?
Do nothing.

You just finished installing windows on a system that contains four physical hard disks.
The installation process has created a system volume and a C: volume on the first disk.
The installation process also initialized the second disk and the third disk but did not
create any volumes on these disks.
Which of the following would you expect to see as the status?
Unallocated

Shows while s disk is being converted from a basic disk to a dynamic disk.
Initializing
Indicates that the disk is turned on and can be accessed
Healthy
Indicates that errors have occurred on physical or dynamic disks
Unavailable
Shows when a dynamic disk has been removed or turned off
Offline

You have a dvd rom disc with no label and you want to know if it has any important files
on it.
If the dvd- rom is not a valid disc, which error message will you see?
No Media

You have four volumes on a basic hard disk

Which of the following do you expect to see as the status of the fourth volume if valid
and has no errors?
Healthy (Logical Drive)

You have four volumes on a basic hard disk

After the conversation, Which of the following do you expect to see as the status of the
fourth volume
Healthy

You have a disk in your system that displays the disk management utility as shown in
the image below. The disk icon includes a red arrow that pointing down.
Which of the following would you expect to see, in the space where the red outline is
Not Initialized

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.
Use the convert command

How can you reformat a drive from FAT32 to NTFS without losing the existing data?
Use the convert command at the command prompt

Which of the following windows command line utilities would you use to realign the file
structure on the disk to optimize performance?
Defrag
Which of the following disk maintenance utilities will locate the dispose of the files that
can be safely removed
Disk cleanup

Your computer currently uses a 5400 rpm hard disk. You want to improve your
computer's overall performance by optimizing your hard disk performance. Which of the
following would be the most effective means
Upgrade to SATA 3
Upgrade 10,000 rpm hard drive

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?
The system volume must formatted with NTFS
Disk must have contiguous free space

You want to combine storage space from two different hard disk into a single logical
storage unit on your windows.
Use dynamic disks and spanned volume

Which of the following is a characteristic of extended partitions?

Subdivided into logical drives

Which disk types does windows support?

Dynamic
Basic

Where is disk management located within windows 7?

Computer management

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

You have a computer with a single hard disk configured as a basic disk with a single
partition formatted with NTFS. the computer runs windows 7 enterprise. The disk has run
out of space. You need to add space to the disk. You install a new hard drive and start
disk management.
On the new hard disk create a new partition

Your computer has a single hard disk with a single volume used by the C:\ drive. You
have previously upgraded.
Create a mount point using space on the second disk

On a windows 10 workstation, you want to use the storage spaces feature to create a
logical drive.
Storage spaces
Pools of storage
Storage devices

Using storage spaces eliminates the need for which of

Resizing
repartitioning

1st
Install a new storage device to the system
2nd
Add free space
3rd
Allocate space

Requires that you have at least three storage devices

Parity
Five storage spaces
Three way mirror
Does not provide redundancy
Simple
Protect from failure
Two way mirror
At least two storage devices
Two way mirror
Allows you to reconstruct data
Parity
Protects your data if two storage devices fail at one time
Three way mirror

Allocate space for redundant information using options that include two way mirror, three
way
Data resiliency

Witch of the following is a valid IP address

2.2.2.2
172.16.1.26

Witch of the following IP addresses are class c addresses?

223.16.5.0
222.55.0.0
192.15.5.55

Which of the following IP addresses have a default subnet mask of 255.255.0.0

129.0.0.1
168.16.5.1
191.168.2.15

Secure Shell
22
Apple filling
548
Http
443
Hypertext
80
Server message
445
Server location
427
IMAP
143

Which of the following statement about dynamic host config is true?

Workstation must request addressing info
Deliver a dns server address in addition to the host

You are setting up a small network in your office with one windows server and 50
windows stations.
Install and configure the DHCP service

Which TCP/IP configuration parameter identifies the router

Default gateway

Which service can you use on your network to automatically assign IP addresses
DHCP

Mechanisms could you use to resolve a hostname

Host file
DNS

Special IP configuration
Automatic private IP
Why did the workstation receive this type of configuration

The workstation was unable to contact the DHCP server

You have a host on your network that provides a service that requires the server to
always use the same IP
Static IP

You have a user who takes his laptop home everyday after work,
Alternate IP config
Reserved for automatic private ip addressing
169.254.0.1 169.254.255.254

Given that your windows workstation has automatic private ip addressing implemented
using default settings.
169.254.1.26

Which of the following are valid IPv6 addresses

6384:1319:7700:7631:446A:5511:8940:2552
141:0:0:15:0:0:1

Which of the following is a valid IPv6 address?

FEC0::AB:9007

Which of the following correctly describe the most common format for expressing IPv6
addresses?
32 numbers, grouped using colons
Hexadecimal numbers

Which of the following describes an IPv6 address?

Eight hexadecimal quartets
128 bit address

Which of the following identifies the interface ID component of an IPv6 address?

Last 4 quartets of an IPv6 address
Last 64 bit of an IPv6

Which of the following identifies the prefix component

First 64 bits
First 4 quartets of an IPv6 address
 Describes the part of the IPv6 address that identifies the subnet address?
Last quartets of the prefix

Which of the following features on a wireless network allows or rejects client connections
based on the hardware address?
MAC address filtering

Which of the following is used on a wireless network to identify the network name?
SSID

Which type of configuration would you use if you wanted to deploy 802.11n
Ad hoc

Which wireless standard can stream data at a rate of up to 54 mbps frequency 5 ghz
802.11a

Data transmission rate is defined by the IEE 802.11b

11 mbps
You are designing a wireless network for a client. At least 150 mbps operated 2.4 ghz
802.11n

IEE wireless standards specify transmission speeds up to 54 mbps

802.11a
802.11g

Characteristics of the 802.11g wireless standard

Operates in 2.4 ghz range
Backwards compatible with 802.11b
Max 54 mbps

True then DHCP setting is disabled in a wireless network?

Wireless clients must use a static IP

Which of the following locations will contribute the greatest amount of interference
Near cordless phones
Near backup generators

The wireless strategy must support a transmission range of 150 feet, use a frequency of
2.4 ghz
802.11n

Wireless networking standards uses a frequency of 5 ghz and supports transmission up

to 1.3 gbps
802.11ac

802.11ac wireless networking standard provides increased bandwidth and

communication speeds
MU-MIMO
Channel bonding to combine more channels 5 ghz 160 mhz

A portable computer connected to a printer with an infrared works fine inside your office.
Move printer close to the computer
Block any direct and reflected sunlight

Maximum range of the bluetooth 2.0 for class 1 devices

100 m

Characteristics of bluetooth?
2.4 ghz radio
Ad hoc connections

Maximum transmission speed for bluetooth v3 and v4 devices?

24 mbps

Wireless connection that can transfer data between your phone

Bluetooth

Has very limited transmission range

Used with credit cards
Slower than other wireless tech
Constantly emitting?
NFC

Up to 100 meters
Bluetooth
Up to 30 meters
Infrared
Up to 10 meters for class 2 devices
Bluetooth

Not an example of wireless networking communications?

DSL

You are installing a satellite connection so your home office can connect to the internet.
True
The satellite dish must be pointed in the correct direction

To access the internet through the publicly switched telephone network

modem

The technician recommends downloading a particular driver from the internet. When you
try to connect to the internet using your dial up modem
You need to hang up

Type of network medium is used by integrated services digital network adapter

Copper telephone wire

Network technologies is packed as part of bri plan?

ISDN

Following are features of basic rate ISDN

One control channel
Dial up channels
Two data channels

Allow you to access the internet on you laptop via a cellular network?
Install a cellular USB adapter

Configuring an ADSL connection.

Filters or splitters
Rj-11

Healthcare organization provides mobile clinics throughout the world and needs to
transfer patient stats
Satelite

Following types of internet connection services can allow you to be truly mobile
Cellular

Following options for connecting a computing device such as a notebook or a tablet

Use usb cable
Use device wifi
Use an integrated cellular antennae
Use usb cellular

Recommend a dye sublimation

When print jobs are detailed photo

Not recommend a solid ink printer

User has a surplus of toner cartridges

Highest print quality

600 DPI

Uses an inked ribbon

Dot matrix

Poorest print quality because the image is created using

Dot matrix

Impact printer
Dot matrix

Printer heats the ink in its print head

Bubble jet ( ink jet)

Printer will be used to print airline tickets each ticket has four pages
Impact
Components are found in dot matrix printers
Tractor feed
Platen

Printer uses a drum

Laser

Printer uses lasers

Laser

Component in a laser printer prepares the photosensitive drum

Primary corona

Component in a laser printer charges the paper

Transfer roller

Component in a laser printer applies toner to the drum

Developing roller

Printer languages
Escape codes
Pcl
Postscript

Using a usb cable and have loaded the appropriate drivers. What should you do next?
Edit the printer properties
Verify that it is working

You have installed the printer and the drivers what should you do next?
Edit the printer prop

Virtual printing options allows you to convert a word document into jpg
Print to image

Connect printer to a network

Connect your printer to an external print server
Plug an ethernet cable into the network port

Advantages of connecting a printer to a network?

Multiple users can print

Connect printers to desktop pc systems

USB
Connected directly to a windows workstation what can be done to allow other
workstations
Configure the printer to be a shared printer

If a printer is not wi- fi capable how can it be set up to provide the most reliable wireless
Connect to a wireless router

Which printer management components would you use to view the port used by a printer
Printer properties
Print server

Printer management component would you use to view the drivers used by a printer
Printer properties

Printer permission would you assign to a user so that she can pause
Manage this printer

You want to restrict the hours that the QA printer is available from windows.
Advanced

You have a 64 bit windows 7 workstation with three shared printers, you want to add
drivers for 32 bit version
Add the drivers to your print server in print management

Your system administrator shared a usb laser printer connected to you windows 10
You do not have the manage document permission

These printers are heavily utilized by your users who demand the utmost in reliability
Toner cartridges recommended by the manufacturer

You installed a new toner cartridge in a company owned laser printer and did some
maintenance tasks you noticed that needed to be done?
Reset page count

You're conducting scheduled maintenance on a laser printer. You notice that there is a
build up of excess toner inside
Use an anti static vacuum

Users are now complaining that print quality has degraded, lines are fuzzy
Printer cartridge calibration

Troubleshooting an older laser printer that is creating accordion jams

Install a maintenance kit
You have just installed a maintenance kit in your laser printer.
Reset page count

You have a workstation running windows 10, 64- bit edition. A local printer connected to
a USB port is shared so that other users can print to that printer. Users running 32- bit
versions of windows do not have any problems.
Manually install the correct driver on each computer
On your computer add the x86 drivers

User generated printouts consisting of several pages of seemingly random characters

every time he prints to a network printer
User is using an incorrect printer driver

Complain that the colors in photos she has printed on the color inkjet printer your store
sold her don't match the colors
Download and install the latest printer drivers
Use the color management tab of the printer driver to

A dot matrix printer is printing faintly after replacing the print head
Check the gap between the printer head and the paper

For the past several days the print jobs from the inkjet printer are missing colors leaving
gaps
Use the automatic print head cleaning feature

A user has created a complex spreadsheet on her workstation containing many graphs
and charts.
Install additional memory in the printer

After removing the printed paper from the laser printer the toner smudges and can be
wiped off in places.
Fuser rollers

Your laser printer prints a vertical black line on every page

Corona wire is dirty

Which of the following is a symptom of a dirty drum or roller in a laser printer?

Liner or splotches

Which of the following paper types should not be used in inkjet printers
Very glossy paper

When you print from your laser printer the paper contains faint images from the previous
printouts.
Fluorescent light
Rubber scraper

Which of the following are good reasons to enable NAT

To translate between internet IP address on your private network

Which of the following is not one of the ranges of IP addresses defined in RFC 1918
169.254.0.1 - 169.254.255.254

You have a computer that is connected to the internet through a NAT router.you want to
use a private addressing scheme for your computer.
10.0.12.15
192.168.12.253
172.18.188.67

You recently installed a small office wireless router. To avoid security holes and bugs
Update the firmware

You need to add security for your wireless network. You would like to use the most
secure
WPA2

A customer has called and indicated that he thinks his neighbor is connecting to his
wireless access point
Implement WPA2
Disable SSID broadcast

The network uses WPA and broadcasts SSID. WPA2 is not supported by the wireless
access points
Preshared key
Tkip encryption

You upgraded the hardware on two wireless devices so you can use a better security
standard than WEP
Configure each client with the same key
Implement WPA2 AES

Which of the following is the primary device needed to set up a soho network?
Wireless router

List the general steps that are used to configure a SOHO

Configure the internet connection
Configure the wireless router
Enable NAT
Configure DHCP
Secure the SOHO network

When you enable quality of service on a SOHO

Give VoIP network traffic higher priority

Which of the following tools allow for remote management of servers?

Telnet
SSH

Which utility would you use to view current connections and active sessions and ports on
a computer?
Netstat

Which of the following utilities can you use from the command line on a linux system
Ifconfig

Need to view detailed IP configuration information on windows workstation.

Ipconfig /all
When you see the address of the DNS server, you realize that this information needs to
be updated.
Ipconfig /flushdns

Resolves the IP address of the specified hostname

Nslookup
Tests connectivity between devices
Tracert
Sends an ICMP echo request
Ping
Displays current connections
netstat
When used with the -t option, performs a continuous connection test
Ping

Establish a remote server management session

Send unencrypted transmissions to the remote server
Telnet

What is the name of the utility, which is similar to telnet that you can use to establish a
secure remote server
SSH

Enter the command you can run from the command prompt on these workstations that
will allow them to access the shares on FS1
Ipconfig /flushdns

A user reports that he can't browse to a specific website

Incorrect DNS server address
You have a small network. All computers are running windows 7. You have created a
homegroup for your network. You have a laptop that you use at work that runs windows
7 professional. You connect the laptop to the network
Join the laptop to the homegroup

You have a windows 7 computer connected to a small network that is not part of a
domain. You want to see the computers and printers on the network
homegroup

You want to join your computer to the homegroup but you don't see any homegroups on
your home network
The network location is not set to the home network
Network discovery has been disabled on your computer

Because of how simple they are to set up, you want to create a homegroup at the office
Your computer belongs to a domain
Your network location is not set to home network

Your home computer belongs to a hompegroup so that resources can be shared

between other computers you have in your home
In the libraries container in windows explorer