My notes for Exam 70-290

  • Managing and Maintaining Physical and Logical Devices
    • Choices for unsigned driver installation
      • Silently Succeed
      • Warn but Allow Installation
      • Do Not Allow Installation
    • USB
      • Maximum of 127 devices
      • No more than 7 layers of devices chained together
      • No more than 5 hubs in one physical chain
      • Windows 2003 provides 450mw of power to USB devices
      • Devices can be no more than 5 meters away from hub
    • Partitions
      • Basic Disks
        • Can have 3 primary and 1 extended partition or 4 primary partitions
        • Store config info in Partition Table (1st sector of each disk/MBR)
      • Dynamic Disks
        • the LDR (Logical Disk Manager) is used in place of the MBR and is stored at the end of each disk
        • Can be divided into 2000 volumes...but you shouldn't use more than 32
        • Can be extended w/o reboot
        • Managed as a collection
        • Support simple, spanned, mirrored and RAID-5




All information in this post has been heavily influenced by the test preparation software offered by Transcender and the Exam Cram 2 series of test preparation books.