Cist 2149 Lesson 4 Working with Disk and Devices

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CIS 2149 Lesson 4. Homework Working with disks and devices Provide Answers AND Page #’s. 1. What is the largest disk that MBR supports? How many partitions ? What type? Page 107 Volumes up to 2 terabytes in size, up to 4 primary partitions or three primary partitions and one extended partition. 2. How large a disk volume can GPT support? Page 108 GPT disk volume up to 18 exabytes in size. 3. What is the maximum number of primary partitions that GPT supports in Windows? Page 108 The maximum number of primary partitions that GPT supports in Window is up to 128 primary partitions. 4. What are the types of partitions supported by the Basic Disk type? Page 108 The types of partitions supported by the Basic Disk are primary partitions, extended partitions, and logical drives. 5. Describe how a dynamic disk is organized. Page 109 A dynamic disk is organized as a single partition that occupy the entire disk. 6. Describe how raid 1 works and its advantages/disadvantages? Page 110 Raid 1 advantage is if one disk fail , the data can be recover from the second disk. The disadvantage is by using this mirror, it only provides half as much storage space. 7. Which file system is most commonly used with Windows 7. Why is it not FAT? Page 111 NTFS is mostly used with windows 7. Fat lacks security and has disk size limitations that render them impractical. 8. What is the main graphical tool you use to manage your disks? Page 111 The main graphical tool you use to manage your disks I s Microsoft Management Console (MMC) snap-in. 9. What are the basic requirements to extend a partition on a basic disk? Page 122 1. Formatted or unformatted with NTFS File System. 2. By extending a logical drive, the console consumes the contiguous free space remaining in the extended partition. 3. Extend the partition of boot volumes, logical drives, or system

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