Chapter Summary


This chapter covered a lot of ground, including the following:

  • Working with partitions and volumes This includes knowing the types of partitions available on a basic disk (primary, extended, and logical) and the types of volumes available on a dynamic disk (simple, spanned, mirrored, striped, and striped with parity). Know when and how to use them.

  • Implementing a RAID solution This includes knowing how to configure, troubleshoot, and repair the various RAID configurations available in Windows Server 2003.

  • Optimizing server disk performance This includes knowing which of the partitions/volumes provide the best performance and how to configure and maintain them.

  • Defragmenting volumes and partitions This is part of maintaining and optimizing server disk performance.

Key Terms

  • Boot disk

  • Boot partition

  • System partition

  • Basic disk

  • Dynamic disk

  • Mirror volume

  • RAID-0

  • RAID-1

  • RAID-5

  • BOOT.INI

  • Extended partition

  • Spanned volume

  • Fault tolerant

  • Defragmentation

  • NTFS

  • FAT32

  • Striped volume




MCSA. MCSE 70-290 Exam Prep. Managing and Maintaining a MicrosoftR Windows ServerT 2003 Environment
MCSA/MCSE 70-290 Exam Prep: Managing and Maintaining a Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Environment (2nd Edition)
ISBN: 0789736489
EAN: 2147483647
Year: 2006
Pages: 219
Authors: Lee Scales

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