Hands-On Microsoft Windows Server 2003

Chapter 7 Solutions

Review Questions
1. You have two 5 GB hard drives. You need 2.2 GB of space to store data. Which of the following RAID
implementations should you use to provide fault tolerance for your operating system files?
Answer: b. disk mirroring

2. If you have four disks in a RAID level 5 implementation, how much space is available for actual data
storage?
Answer: b. 75 %

3. Your company is planning to purchase a server and it wants to provide at least two options for backup
media used with the Windows Server 2003 Backup utility. Which of the following options are
supported by the utility? (Choose all that apply.)
Answer: a., b., c., and d.

4. You perform a normal backup on Monday. Tuesday through Friday you perform incremental backups.
On Thursday the server’s disk subsystem fails and you need to restore your data. Which tapes will you
need to restore from?
Answer: c. Monday through Thursday

5. You have just upgraded your Windows NT 4.0 server to Windows Server 2003. You open the Disk
Management tool and attempt to create a new mirrored volume to provide fault tolerance for your
operating system files but are unsuccessful. What is causing the problem?
Answer: d. The disks need to be converted to dynamic disks.

6. You are consulting for a small organization that has used their server for over two years without
maintaining it, other than to replace a defective monitor. They are complaining that the server
performance has gotten slower over the past several months. What would you do first to improve
performance?
Answer: a. Defragment the disks.

7. Which of the following provide fault tolerance?

Answer: b. and d.

8. On an NTFS volume, you want to perform a fast check of indexes. To do this, use
________________________ in the Command Prompt window.
Answer: c. chkdsk /i

9. In order to boot from a basic disk, which of the following must be true? (Choose all that apply.)
Answer: b. and c.

10. You are setting up an experimental server that has three disk drives. You are not concerned about fault
tolerance, but you are interested in configuring dynamic disks to have relatively fast read/write
performance, and you want to extend the life of each disk. Which of the following would you use?
Answer: a. a striped volume

11. The dynamic disk that contains the \Windows folder is called the __________________.
Answer: d. boot volume

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12. On the old server in your department, it was necessary for the server administrator to come back after
10 p.m. each night to back up the server. Now that you have a new Windows 2003 server, is this still
necessary?
Answer: c. No, because you can schedule backups to automatically start after 10 p.m.

13. How much free space is needed on a basic disk to convert it to a dynamic disk?
Answer: a. 1 MB

14. Which of the following is (are) true about basic and dynamic disks in Windows Server 2003? (Choose
all that apply.)
Answer: d. Dynamic disks can be configured to use RAID levels 0, 1, or 5.

15. You have recently deleted a large number of files off of your server’s hard disk. As users continue to
add new files, you notice it is taking longer to gain access to them. What can you do to improve access
time?
Answer: a. Use the Disk Defragmenter tool to defragment the hard disk

16. Which tool can you use to determine which partition is designated as the system partition?
Answer: a. Disk Management

17. Which of the following can be performed by the Check Disk utility? (Choose all that apply.)
Answer: b. and c.

18. Which of the following backup options are you most likely to use when you want to back up all files
on a server.
Answer: d. normal

19. You want to set up a mounted volume on your Windows 2003 server. As you go through the steps to
mount the volume in the Disk Management Snap-in, you find there is no option to mount the volume.
What is the problem?
Answer: c. The disk containing the target folder for the mounted volume is formatted fro FAT32 and
not for NTFS

20. You are setting up a server for an accounting firm. They want fast access to data, but are not
concerned with the write speed. They would also like to implement fault tolerance for the data. What
type of volume would you configure on the server?
Answer: c. a RAID-5 volume

21. You have the following disks: 2 GB, 5 GB, 5 GB, 10 GB, and 16 GB. If you create a spanned volume,
how much usable disk space will you have?
Answer: b. 38 GB

22. On your server there are four basic disks set up to look like one disk with a single drive letter. This is
called ____________________________.
Answer: c. a volume set

23. An extended partition in Windows Server 2003 would be on a _______________________.

Answer: a. basic disk

24. You have set up a spanned volume, and one disk has failed. What are your alternatives?
Answer: d. Replace the disk, repair the spanned volume, and perform a full restore.

25. When you perform a restore, which of the following options are available to you? (Choose all that
apply.)
Answer: a., c., and d.