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Choose the best response for each of the questions below.
You're configuring a Windows 10 desktop computer. You added a new hard disk drive to the computer. You want to configure the drive to support quotas so that you can track and control disk-space usage. Which file system should you format the new drive with?
FAT
NTFS
ReFS
When comparing NTFS and FAT file systems, which of the following features is unique to NTFS?
NTFS uses smaller clusters to reduce space wastage on hard disks
NTFS supports file encryption
You can format floppy disks with NTFS
Windows client supports three versions of FAT: FAT, FAT32, and exFAT. There are several differences between these versions. For example, one difference is the size of the largest supported volume. Another difference is the maximum file size. Which of the following items is another difference between these three FAT versions?
You can only convert exFAT to NTFS
The maximum number of files and folders that you can create on the volume
FAT32 is the only version of FAT that NTFS can be converted to
While ReFS was built on NTFS, it's designed to provide the highest level of resiliency, integrity, and scalability, regardless of software or hardware failures. Which of the following features is unique to ReFS when compared to NTFS?
ReFS allows you to control file permissions
ReFS allows you to configure auditing
ReFS periodically scans volumes and tries to automatically correct any corruption
You are configuring the storage on a Windows 10 computer. You format a 32 GB volume with FAT32. What is the maximum file size supported on this volume?
32 GB
4 GB
8 GB
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