CompTIA A+ Quiz On Hard Drives: Test!

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. Have you ever heard of CompTIA+, and would you be able to pass this quiz on hard drives? You will have to know the difference between specific floppy drives, to prepare a disk to receive data, the first sector, and what firmware is on a circuit board. This quiz will help you learn about CompTIA+ hard drives.


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  • 1. 
    A floppy drive that has the twist in the cable between it and the controller is drive _______.
    • A. 

      A

    • B. 

      B

    • C. 

      C

    • D. 

      D

  • 2. 
    The process of marking tracks and sectors to prepare the disk to receive data is called ______________.
    • A. 

      Setting up the disk

    • B. 

      Formatting the disk

    • C. 

      Tracking the disk

    • D. 

      Aligning the head of the disk

  • 3. 
    Data is written to and read from the disk via a magnetic ______________ mechanism in the floppy drive.
    • A. 

      Reader

    • B. 

      Platter

    • C. 

      Read/write head

    • D. 

      Sector

  • 4. 
    Under all Windows operating systems, a floppy drive is always formatted using the __________file system.
    • A. 

      FAT12

    • B. 

      NTFS

    • C. 

      FAT64

    • D. 

      Cluster

  • 5. 
    "Sector" refers to the way date is ____________stored on a disk, whereas "cluster" describes how data is ______________ organized.
    • A. 

      Logically, physically

    • B. 

      Neatly, not

    • C. 

      Illogically, physically

    • D. 

      Physically, logically

  • 6. 
    The first sector on the disk is called the ______________.
    • A. 

      First sector

    • B. 

      Boot sector

    • C. 

      First record

    • D. 

      Sector A

  • 7. 
    Before data can be written to a floppy disk, it must first be mapped in concentric circles called _____________.
    • A. 

      Tracks

    • B. 

      Paths

    • C. 

      Roads

    • D. 

      Sectors

  • 8. 
    For today's hard drives, the _______________is firmware on a circuit board on or inside the drive housing and is an integral part of it.
    • A. 

      Platter

    • B. 

      BIOS

    • C. 

      Hard drive controller

    • D. 

      Head

  • 9. 
    On today's hard drives, the number of sectors per track on a drive is not the same throughout the platter.
    • A. 

      True

    • B. 

      False

  • 10. 
    On Windows XP, one way to find the capacity of a hard drive is to right-click on the drive in Windows Explorer and choose Properties.
    • A. 

      True

    • B. 

      False

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