Hard Disk Recording

1. HDD's use what distinctions to find data on a disc?

Planes and lanes

X and y axis

Tracks and sectors

Tracks and lanes

2. What is the main function of a computers main RAM?

To act as an additional hard drive

To temporarily store immediately needed data for faster access by the CPU

To process plug-ins

To mix the record for you

3. What factors should be considered when purchasing a hard drive for audio?

Capacity

Buffer Size

RPM

A & B only

A, B & C

4. When formating a HDD, why would we want the file system to be journaled?

To prevent the power from going out

To prevent the motherboard from failing

To help maintain the integrity of the file system in the event of a hardware or power failure

To make the OS run faster

5. The Disk Utility program in Mac OSX allows you to perform which of the following funtions...

Repair Disk Permissions

Format hard drives

Create identical sector backups of hard drives with the Restore function

All of the above

You need a third party program to do any of these things

6. What is the minimum recommended RPM speed of a hard drive used for recording audio?

10,000 RPM

5,400 RPM

3,200 RPM

7,200 RPM

7. SCSI stands for

Small System Computer Interface

Small Setup Computer Interface

Seriously Small Computer Interface

Seriously Silly Computer Interface

8. Volitile memory

Holds persistent data

Looses stored memory when power is not longer supplied

Is the best kind of memory there is

Is no longer used in computers

9. Solid state drives are superior to hard disc drives because

They are less expensive

They use less electricity and produce less heat

They are less susceptible to physical shock

They have much less latency when writing and retrieving data

B, C, & D

A, C & D

10. The IDE/ATA protocol used many years for running internal hard drives and peripherals has been replaced by what protocol.

SCSI

Firewire

SATA

SPDIF

11. In reference to RAM, what does DDR stand for?

Double Digital Response

Data Data Redundant

Double Data Rate

None of the above, it doesn't stand for anything

12. PCI stands for

Possible Component Interconnect

Peripheral Component Interconnect

Peripheral Computer Interconnect

Potential Component Interconnect

13. The two main types of delay associated with reading and writing data on a HDD are:

Seek time and power transfer ratio

Rotational delay and data compression rate

Hardware buffer size, and disk circumference

Seek time and rotational delay

14. The eSATA protocol allows SATA devices to be connected

Internally

Externally

On another computer

ESATA only works in Brasil

15. A high level format of a hard drive

Creates tracks and sectors and erases all the data on the drive

Erases only the empty space on a hard drive

Erases references to the information on the hard drive but not the information itself

Can't be done on mac's

16. What are the three basic types of recording systems?

Standard, Stand Alone, and Host Based

Standard, Stand Alone, and Real-time

Stand Alone, Host Based, and Real-time

Host Based, Real-time and Standard

17. DDR2 RAM makes four transfers per clock cycle by what method?

Making transfer on both edged of the clock cycle

Running it's internal clock at half speed to the bus clock

It doesn't, DDR2 RAM only makes one data transfer per clock cycle

A & B

18. The BIOS chip

Is responsible for memory control

Makes the computer run faster

Has taken the place of the front side bus

Is responsible for booting the operating system

19. The computer's clock generator

Synchronizes the computer's functions

Makes the computer run faster

Only affects the Random access memory

Is responsible for carying out all of the computers commands and functions

20. HotSwap drives require you to reboot the system when changing out the drives

True

False

21. Pro Tools HD Systems are connected to your host computer using what protocol?

USB2.0

IEEE1394

PCIe (express)

SCSI

22. Defragmenting your audio drives

Increases seek time

Should never be done

Decreases seek time

Has no effect on your system performance

23. Standard recording devices

Are capable of mixing tracks

Have discrete inputs, and combined L/R outputs

Have discrete inputs and outputs

Always have a GUI

24. In a QuickPath Interconnect architecture, the main RAM connects to the:

Northbridge

Memory Hub

CPU

Front Side Bus

25. Some reasons to NOT partition the internal drive of your computer would be

Greater rotational delay and taxing of the north bridge memory

You can't partition the internal hard drive of your computer

There is no down side to partitioning any drive

Longer seek times and mechanical fatigue of the HDD

26. Firewire devices need a computer to communicate with each other

True

False

27. Virtual RAM uses what device as a storage medium

The Cache RAM

Internal hard drive

The DVD drive

Virtual RAM doesn't exist anywhere, it's virtual...

28. Increasing the playback buffer size for audio tracks

Decreases latency and decreases playback performance

Increases playback performance and increases latency

Uses less RAM

Doesn't work at high sample rates

Decreases the delay caused by using plug-ins

29. On a computers motherboard a Front Side Bus architecture offers much faster data transfer ove a Quick Path Interconnect architechture.

True

False

30. Hyperthreading is

A method by which hard disk drives are partitioned into two virtual storage units

A method by which information is transmitted faster

A method by which one CPU is partitioned into two virtual CPU's

An alternative to quick path interconnect and hyper transport

Hard Disk Recording

1. HDD's use what distinctions to find data on a disc?

2.

What first name or nickname would you like us to use?

2. What is the main function of a computers main RAM?

3. What factors should be considered when purchasing a hard drive for audio?

4. When formating a HDD, why would we want the file system to be journaled?

5. The Disk Utility program in Mac OSX allows you to perform which of the following funtions...

6. What is the minimum recommended RPM speed of a hard drive used for recording audio?

7. SCSI stands for

8. Volitile memory

9. Solid state drives are superior to hard disc drives because

10. The IDE/ATA protocol used many years for running internal hard drives and peripherals has been replaced by what protocol.

11. In reference to RAM, what does DDR stand for?

12. PCI stands for

13. The two main types of delay associated with reading and writing data on a HDD are:

14. The eSATA protocol allows SATA devices to be connected

15. A high level format of a hard drive

16. What are the three basic types of recording systems?

17. DDR2 RAM makes four transfers per clock cycle by what method?

18. The BIOS chip

19. The computer's clock generator

20. HotSwap drives require you to reboot the system when changing out the drives

21. Pro Tools HD Systems are connected to your host computer using what protocol?

22. Defragmenting your audio drives

23. Standard recording devices

24. In a QuickPath Interconnect architecture, the main RAM connects to the:

25. Some reasons to NOT partition the internal drive of your computer would be

26. Firewire devices need a computer to communicate with each other

27. Virtual RAM uses what device as a storage medium

28. Increasing the playback buffer size for audio tracks

29. On a computers motherboard a Front Side Bus architecture offers much faster data transfer ove a Quick Path Interconnect architechture.

30. Hyperthreading is