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A typical disk drive stores how many bytes in a single sector?
a. 8
b. 512
c. 1024
d. 4096
Most manufacturers use what technique in order to deal with the fact that a platter's inner tracks have a smaller circumference than the outer tracks?
a. Disk Track Recording (DTR)
b. Zone Based Areal Density (ZBAD)
c. Zone Bit Recording (ZBR)
d. Cylindrical Head Calculation (CHC)
The ReFS storage engine uses a __________ sort method for fast access to large data sets.
a. A+-tree
b. B+-tree
c. reverse
d. numerical
The _________ branches in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software consist of SAM, Security, Components, and System.
a. registry
b. storage
c. hive
d. tree
What registry file contains user account management and security settings?
a. Default.dat
b. Software.dat
c. SAM.dat
d. Ntuser.dat
What term below describes a column of tracks on two or more disk platters?
a. sector
b. cluster
c. cylinder
d. header
What third party encryption tool creates a virtual encrypted volume, which is a file mounted as though it were a disk drive?
a. PGP Full Disk Encryption
b. Voltage SecureFile
c. BestCrypt
d. TrueCrypt
A Master Boot Record (MBR) partition table marks the first partition starting at what offset?
a. 0x1CE
b. 0x1BE
c. 0x1AE
d. 0x1DE
Addresses that allow the MFT to link to nonresident files are known as _______________.
a. virtual cluster numbers
b. logical cluster numbers
c. sequential cluster numbers
d. polarity cluster numbers
Select below the file system that was developed for mobile personal storage devices, such as flash memory devices, secure digital eXtended capacity (SDCX), and memory sticks:
a. FAT12
b. FAT32
c. exFAT
d. VFAT
The ___________ command inserts a HEX E5 (0xE5) in a filename's first letter position in the associated directory entry.
a. delete
b. edit
c. update
d. clear
What command below can be used to decrypt EFS files?
a. cipher
b. copy
c. efsrecvr
d. decrypt
What does the MFT header field at offset 0x00 contain?
a. The MFT record identifier FILE
b. The size of the MFT record
c. The length of the header
d. The update sequence array
What hexadecimal code below identifies an NTFS file system in the partition table?
a. 05
b. 07
c. 1B
d. A5
What metadata record in the MFT keeps track of previous transactions to assist in recovery after a system failure in an NTFS volume?
a. $MftMirr
b. $TransAct
c. $LogFile
d. $Backup
What registry file contains installed programs' settings and associated usernames and passwords?
a. Default.dat
b. Security.dat
c. Software.dat
d. System.dat
What term is used to describe a disk's logical structure of platters, tracks, and sectors?
a. cylinder
b. trigonometry
c. geometry
d. mapping
When using the File Allocation Table (FAT), where is the FAT database typically written to?
a. The innermost track
b. The outermost track
c. The first sector
d. The first partition
Which of the following commands creates an alternate data stream?
a. echo text > myfile.txt:stream_name
b. ads create myfile.txt{stream_name} "text"
c. cat text myfile.txt=stream_name
d. echo text < myfile.txt?stream_name
Which of the following is not a valid configuration of Unicode?
a. UTF-8
b. UTF-16
c. UTF-32
d. UTF-64
