12. Which of the following operation cannot be performed to a basic disk? (Choose two)

A. Create and delete simple, spanned, striped, mirrored, and RAID-5 volumes.
B. Extend a simple or spanned volume.
C. Remove a mirror from a mirrored volume or split the volume into two volumes.
D. Repair mirrored or RAID-5 volumes.
E. Reactivate a missing or offline disk.

From Microsoft Documentation:

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Basic and dynamic disks
Disk Management supports basic and dynamic disks. When you install Windows 2000, your hard disks are automatically initialized as basic. You can use the upgrade wizard to convert them to dynamic after installation is complete. You can use both basic and dynamic disks on the same computer system, but a volume consisting of multiple disks, such as a mirrored volume, must use only one type of disk.

Basic disks adhere to the partition-oriented scheme of Windows NT Server 4.0 disk organization. For upgrades, partitioned disks are automatically initialized as basic disks, so you can maintain partitions and volumes created with Windows NT Server 4.0. New or empty disks can be initialized as basic or dynamic after installation. However, to set up a new fault-tolerant disk system, or to make changes to disks without restarting your computer, you must use dynamic disks.

A dynamic disk is a physical disk that contains dynamic volumes created using Disk Management. Dynamic disks cannot contain partitions or logical drives, nor can they be accessed using MS-DOS.

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You can delete a simple, spanned, striped, mirrored, or RAID-5 volumes in a basic disk, but you can only create a simple volume in a basic disk. For creating spanned, striped, mirrored, or RAID-5 volumes, dynamic disk is needed. The reason you can delete spanned, striped, mirrored, or RAID-5 volumes in basic disk but not creating them is that, you may have upgraded your NT 4.0 Server to Windows 2000 Server and those spanned, striped, mirrored, or RAID-5 volumes were created in NT 4.0 in a basic disks, hence, some form of compatibility between the old volumes must be provided so that you can remove them. To create those volumes in Windows 2000 Server, you can utilise the new Windows 2000 Server dynamic disk, hence there is no reason to create those volumes in basic disks.
Understanding the operations that can be done to basic disk is essential to answer many questions on this MCSE Exam.

Answer: C,E

References:
http://www.microsoft.com/windows2000/en/advanced/help/sag_diskconcepts_04a.htm

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27. Your Windows 2000 Server is installed with 4 hard disks that support hot swapping, one of them store the operating system and the rest is setup as a spanned volume. Which of the following is the fastest way of recovering the server if one of the disks in the spanned volume failed?

A. Replace the failed hard disk without shutting down the server with a new hard disk, and then reactivate the disk.
B. Shut down the server, Replace the failed hard disk without shutting down the server with a new hard disk, and then reactivate the disk.
C. Remove the failed hard disk without shutting down the server, and then rescan disks using the disk management, and then remove the span volume and create a new span volume then restore the data.
D. Shut down the server, then remove the span volume and create a new span volume then restore the data.
E. Remove the failed hard disk without shutting down the server, and then rescan disks using the disk management, and then extend the spanned volume to include the replacement disk.
F. Shut down the server, Remove the failed hard disk without shutting down the server, and then rescan disks using the disk management, and then extend the spanned volume to include the replacement disk.

This question tests your knowledge in several areas, one of them is the hot swapping features, the other is the rescan disks action at disk management and the last one is spanned volumes. To answer this question, you need to understand that hot swapping mean you can change hardware when the system is on. Since the hard disk support hot swapping, you can add or remove them without shutting down the server. However, you need to use the rescan disks action at disk management to reinitialise the swapped hard disk. For spanned volumes, if one of the hard disks in the spanned volume failed, the whole volume failed hence you cannot simply replace the disks and reactivate them. For more information about spanned disk, follow the reference link:

Answer: C

References:
http://www.microsoft.com/windows2000/en/advanced/help/dm_add_disk.htm
http://www.microsoft.com/windows2000/en/advanced/help/sag_diskconcepts_15.htm

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31. IT Exams Ltd. has a Windows 2000 Server computer named MCSESRV. As the administrator for IT Exams Ltd., you have been given the following requirement from the management to set disk usage on MCSESRV.

Everyone: Only 100MB are allowed on drive C: and D:
Writers group: No limit on drive C: and D:

How should you implement the disk quota? (Choose all that apply)

A. Enable disk quota management on Drive C: and D:
B. Enable disk quota management on C: and select apply setting to all volume.
C. Check the deny disk space to users exceeding quota limit checkbox on the quota management screen
D. Add the Writers group to the quota entries and select do not limit disk usage.
E. Add all the writers' individual account to the quota entries and select do not limit disk usage.
F. Set the default quota limit to 100MB
G. Set the default quota limit to do not limit disk usage.
H. Add everyone group to the quota entries and select limit disk usage to 100MB.

In quota management, you have to set the quota to each individual volume, there is no such option to set the setting and apply them to all volume. Also, only individual user account can be added to the quota entries, hence C and H are incorrect. To set a limit to everyone, you can set the default quota limit to 100MB, and then to allow all writers to have unlimited disk usage, you can explicitly create quota entries for all the users individually. To deny disk access when the user reach their limit, you must also check the deny disk pace to users exceeding quota limit checkbox.

Answer: A,C,E,F

References:
http://windows.microsoft.com/windows2000/en/advanced/help/nt_diskquota_overview.htm

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