Carefully choose the "most correct" answer, if there appears to be more than one !

* The standard 3.5" floppy-diskette capacities for the IBM & Compatibles is normally

1. 360Kb
2. 720Kb
3. 1.44 Mb
4. All of the above are applicable
5. Only 2 & 3 are applicable

* The 5.25" standard floppy-diskette capacities for the IBM & Compatibles can be

1. 360Kb
2. 720Kb
3. 1.2 Mb
4. All of the above are applicable
5. Only 1 & 3 are applicable

* "MFM", "RLL", "IDE", "EIDE", "SCSI" & "SCSI-II" refer to

1. Hard-drive mechanisms
2. The Interface for hard-drives
3. The capacity or efficiency of hard-drives
4. The speed of hard-drives

* A "Bernoulli" drive

1. Is actually a special hard-drive
2. Is actually a special floppy-drive
3. Can only be used for "back-up" purposes
4. Is a "Stacked" platter mechanism, for higher storage capacity

* A "Floptical"

1. Is simply another name for a floppy diskette
2. Is a high capacity floppy-diskette, as compared to a normal diskette
3. Is a combination laser technology high capacity disk-drive, and a normal floppy disk-drive
4. Is a misnomer, not applicable to IBM's or Clones

* A "WORM" Drive

1. Only refers to the type of transport mechanism used in some of the older hard-drives
2. Is a fairly recent technology for writing data by laser
3. Can erase and re-write (or write-over), the data on the media used
4. Both 2 & 3 are correct

* An "MO" Drive

1. Is a fairly recent technology for writing data by laser
2. Can erase and re-write the data on the medial used
3. Both 1 & 2 are correct
4. Is a misnomer, not applicable to IBM's or Clones

* "Logical" Drive Assignments

1. Allow for higher capacity assignments than physical assignments
2. Is accomplished with FDISK, and allows for organization of subject material on the drive
3. Is only possible up to Drive "E"
4. Is only used when there are multiple disk-drives

* "Interleave"

1. Refers to the logical vs physical sector assignments on any floppy or hard disk drive
2. Allows for more efficient data transfer to or from the media
3. Must be always be set to 1:1
4. Both 1 & 2 are correct

* The term "Cylinders"

1. Refers specifically to the number of heads
2. Refers to the number of sectors available per head
3. Refers to the arrangement of tracks accessed during a single physical positioning of the heads
4. Refers to the total number of sectors available on the entire disk

* "Blocks" or "Clusters"

1. Refers to the number of subdivisions available on a disk
2. Refers to the group of sectors that represent a subdivision of the disk
3. May refer to a portion of sub-units of a file group on a disk
4. Choices 1,2, & 3 are all correct

* "Defragging" a Hard-drive

1. Should be done occasionally (or often), to improve overall run-time efficiency
2. Should only be done as a last resort
3. Is a method of re-sectioning a hard-drive
4. Should only be done when "Clusters" have been lost

* "Low-Level-Formatting"

1. Should be performed whenever a new operating system is installed
2. Is only done at the factory, during manufacture
3. Should not be attempted on "IDE" type drives without special software.
4. Cannot be accomplished on "SCSI" type drives

* "High-Level-Formatting"

1. Should never be attempted on "IDE" type drives
2. Can be used to re-structure the logical drive assignments of a hard-drive
3. Can be accomplished on a single logical drive assignment, without disturbing other logical assignments
4. Cannot be accomplished on "RLL" type drives

* "RLL" Encoded Drives

1. Cannot be low-level-formatted with an "MFM" Controller
2. Will have less capacity than if formatted with an "MFM" Controller
3. Have approximately 50% more capacity than if formatted with an "MFM" Controller
4. Have slower data access than if formatted as "MFM"

* The curent 5-1/4" disk-drive, known as the "DS/DD", has

1. 80 tracks & 9 sectors/track
2. 40 tracks & 15 sectors/track
3. 40 tracks & 9 sectors/track
4. 80 tracks & 18 sectors/track

* The current 3-1/2" disk-drive, known as the "DS/DD", has

1. 80 tracks & 9 sectors/track
2. 40 tracks & 15 sectors/track
3. 40 tracks & 9 sectors/track
4. 80 tracks & 18 sectors/track

* The curent 5-1/4" disk-drive, known as the "DS/HD", has

1. 80 tracks & 9 sectors/track
2. 80 tracks & 15 sectors/track
3. 40 tracks & 9 sectors/track
4. 80 tracks & 18 sectors/track

* The curent 3-1/2" disk-drive, known as the "DS/HD", has

1. 80 tracks & 9 sectors/track
2. 40 tracks & 15 sectors/track
3. 40 tracks & 9 sectors/track
4. 80 tracks & 18 sectors/track

* The 5-1/4" disk-drive, known as the "DS/QD", has

1. 80 tracks & 9 sectors/track
2. 40 tracks & 15 sectors/track
3. 40 tracks & 9 sectors/track
4. 80 tracks & 18 sectors/track

* The physical positioning of the heads over a specific track location is identified as

1. Track mapping
2. Logical Partitioning
3. Cylinders
4. Skew

* The logical versus physical location of sectors within a track is known as

1. Track partitioning
2. Skew
3. Sector Partioning
4. Track Mapping

* Most current operationg systems and trends in software allow for large capacity disk access,
   but many setups still utilize ( physical / logical ) partitioning of the hard-drives.
   These are simply assignments of the divisioning of the hard-drive.

* The physical location of the heads of a hard-drive over a specific track location
    is identified as "_____________",  rather than tracks, because of multiple heads.

* The current 5-1/4" disk-drive, known as the "DS/DD", has ____ tracks, ____ sectors,
    and has a capacity of _____ Kb

* The current 5-1/4" disk-drive, known as the "DS/HD", has ____ tracks, ____ sectors,
    and has a capacity of _____ Kb

* An almost forgotten 5-1/4" disk-rive, that has 80 track, "DS/DD", is called a ________-Density Drive.

* The current 3-1/2" disk-drive, known as the "DS/DD", has ____ tracks, ____ sectors,
    and has a capacity of _____ Kb

* The current 3-1/2" disk-drive, known as the "DS/HD", has ____ tracks, ____ sectors,
    and has a capacity of _____ Kb

* During disk-drive alignment, the use of a standard alignment disk that has two signals on adjacent tracks,
  will show up on an oscilloscope as a special pattern like opposing simultanious sine-waves,
  called the "_________- _______", to allow adjustment of head centering on the correct track.

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