5.2 Given a scenario, troubleshoot drive and RAID issues.
Objective 5.2 sits in Hardware and Network Troubleshooting, which carries 28% of the A+ Core 1 exam. The questions below are original, written from the official objective title above, and each explanation cites the CompTIA page it rests on.
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A worked example
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A storage pool administrator creates a virtual disk with simple resiliency across four physical drives. One drive in the pool fails. What is the most likely outcome for the virtual disk?
The concept
Simple resiliency stripes data across drives for maximum performance and capacity but provides no redundancy.
Why this answer
Because simple spaces have no fault tolerance, a single drive failure results in permanent data loss for that virtual disk.
- Correct: simple spaces have no redundancy, so failure means data loss.
- BThis describes mirror resiliency, which duplicates data across drives.
- CThis describes parity resiliency, which reconstructs data from parity.
- DThis describes a caching feature, not a resiliency type, and does not apply to simple spaces.
Now you: objective 5.2 questions
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Sample question 1 of 3
In Storage Spaces, what is the primary purpose of the Storage Bus Cache feature?
Sample question 2 of 3
A virtual disk uses two-way mirror resiliency across three physical drives. One drive fails. What happens to the data on the virtual disk?
Sample question 3 of 3
A database administrator needs a virtual disk that tolerates exactly one drive failure with the least storage overhead while keeping high read and write performance. Which resiliency type should be selected?
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