MCSE : Security Specialist
24. Windows 2000
Operating systems support 5 different volume types:
1.
Simple volumes
2.
Spanned volumes
3.
Striped volumes
4.
Mirrored volumes
5.
RAID-5 volumes
A simple volume consists of a formatted disk
on a single hard disk.
A Spanned volume
consists of disk space on more than one hard disk.
A Striped volume
has disk space on 2 or more disks. The disk spaces must be same on
all disks. Fastest disk access among all volume types. RAID level 0.
A mirrored
volume consists of a Simple volume that is mirrored in total, onto a
second dynamic disk. Provides highest level of fault tolerance.
Mirroring is RAID level 1
A RAID-5 volume
consists of identical sized disk space located on three or more
dynamic disks. Here any single disk failures can be recovered.
Windows 2000
Professional doesn’t support Mirrored and RAID-5 volumes, where as
other Windows 2000 Server Operating Systems (2000 Server, Advanced
Server) support.
25. If you are
creating a striped volume on a new Windows 2000 machine, it can only
be created on dynamic disks. However, if you are upgrading a Windows
NT computer to Windows 2000, any existing stripe set will be
supported.
26. Fault
tolerance boot disk is a floppy disk that enables you to boot a
computer in the event that the first disk in a mirrored volume
fails. Even if you mirror the installation folder in a Windows 2000
OS, you will not be able to boot because boot.ini points to the
first volume. Therefore, you need to create a fault tolerance boot
disk that contains an edited Boot.ini file that points to the
mirrored volume.
27. You can use
convert.exe command to change a FAT file system to an NTFS file
system on a disk volume.
28. Roaming user
profile retains its own customized desktop and work environment
settings, irrespective of which Windows 2000 computer that a given
user logs on.
29. The default
Minimum password length is set to 0 characters. The password can be
anywhere between 0 and 14 characters. Password length of 0
characters mean that there is no password or a blank password.
30. Disk quotas
can only be used on NTFS volumes. This is because only NTFS volumes
maintain ownership information on files and folders. Windows
Explorer can be used to configure and monitor disk quotas.
31. The default
permission for "Everyone" group on a Shared folder is "Full
Control". Share permissions are applied only to folders created on
FAT (FAT32) partitions.
32. When both
Share and NTFS permissions are applied, the most restrictive
permissions will apply.
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