Questions with Authenticated Solutions 2025/2026
In ms-dos and earlier versions of microsoft windows, which partition must be first and a
primary partition?
(c:)
(b:)
(a:)
(d:) - correct answer (c:)
Which of the following is a data structure situated at sector 1 in the volume boot record
of a hard disk to explain the physical layout of a disk volume?
Boot parameter block (bpb)
Bios parameter block (bpb)
Primary sequential sector (pss)
Primary reserved sector (prs) - correct answer bios parameter block (bpb)
Mbr almost always refers to the partition sector of a disk also known as:
Primary boot record (pbr)
512-byte boot sector
256-byte boot sector
First boot record (fbr) - correct answer 512-byte boot sector
How large is the partition table structure that stores information about the partitions
present on the hard disk?
32-bit
32-byte
64-bit
64-byte - correct answer 64-byte
,Guids are displayed as how many hexadecimal digits with groups separated by
hyphens?
64
128
32
256 - correct answer 32
What is a standard partitioning scheme for hard disks and part of the unified extensible
firmware interface?
Uefi partition table (upt)
Universal partition table (upt)
General partition table (gpt)
Guid partition table (gpt) - correct answer guid partition table (gpt)
How many bytes is each logical block in gpt?
256
128
512
1024 - correct answer 512
What is the last addressable block where negative addressing of the logical blocks
starts from the end of the volume in gpt?
-255
-1
0
255 - correct answer -1
Which lba stores the protective mbr?
,Lba 2
Lba 3
Lba 0
Lba 1 - correct answer lba 0
In the guid partition table, which logical block address contains the partition entry array?
Lba 2
Lba 0
Lba 3
Lba 1 - correct answer lba 2
Which lba will be the first usable sector?
Lba 36
Lba 33
Lba 35
Lba 34 - correct answer lba 34
Which position does the protective mbr occupy in the gpt at logical block address 0?
Second
First
Last
Third - correct answer first
Which of the following describes when a user plugs in a computer and starts it from a
fully off condition?
Warm booting
Soft booting
Hot booting
Cold booting - correct answer cold booting
, What is the meaning of the acronym post?
Power-on self-test
Power-off system-test
Power-on system-test
Power-off self-test - correct answer power-on self-test
Which windows operating system powers on and starts up using only the traditional
bios-mbr method?
Windows 8
Windows 9
Windows xp
Windows 10 - correct answer windows xp
Which windows operating system powers on and starts up using only the traditional
bios-mbr method?
Windows 7
Windows 8
Windows 9
Windows 10 - correct answer windows 7
Which windows operating system powers on and starts up using either the traditional
bios-mbr method or the newer uefi-gpt method?
Windows 10
Windows 7
Windows vista
Windows xp - correct answer windows 10
Which of the following is one of the five uefi boot process phases?