70-270 Practice Exam Question
dosed69
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I think that question 10 on the practice exam of this site is sort of flawed. The question is as follows:
10. You want to reduce the amount of space used on one of your FAT32 drive fast, so you decide to compress a folder named Odata with user data such as Word and Excel docs. When you want to enable compression on the folders properties sheet you notice compression is not available. How can you compress the files with the least amount of administrative effort and still be able to read the files?
a. Convert the drive to NTFS using convert.exe /fs:ntfs to enable NTFS File Compression
b. Convert the drive to NTFS using fs.exe /ntfs to enable NTFS File Compression
c. Create a new Compressed Folder and drag all the files from the Odata folder to the Compressed Folder and delete the original Odata folder
d. Use NTbackup.exe to create a file backup with maximum compression and delete the original Odata folder
According to the test the correct answer is C. I believe it should be a combination of two answers. Compression isn't available on a fat32 hard drive without a program such as winzip.
Step 1 should be: use convert.exe /fs:ntfs to convert from a fat32 file system to ntfs.
Step 2 should be: Create a new Compressed Folder and drag all the files from the Odata folder to the Compressed Folder and delete the original Odata folder.
This is what I think, I would like to hear others input into this. Overall though much respect to the webmaster for the practice exam and the technotes on this site, they are excellent.
10. You want to reduce the amount of space used on one of your FAT32 drive fast, so you decide to compress a folder named Odata with user data such as Word and Excel docs. When you want to enable compression on the folders properties sheet you notice compression is not available. How can you compress the files with the least amount of administrative effort and still be able to read the files?
a. Convert the drive to NTFS using convert.exe /fs:ntfs to enable NTFS File Compression
b. Convert the drive to NTFS using fs.exe /ntfs to enable NTFS File Compression
c. Create a new Compressed Folder and drag all the files from the Odata folder to the Compressed Folder and delete the original Odata folder
d. Use NTbackup.exe to create a file backup with maximum compression and delete the original Odata folder
According to the test the correct answer is C. I believe it should be a combination of two answers. Compression isn't available on a fat32 hard drive without a program such as winzip.
Step 1 should be: use convert.exe /fs:ntfs to convert from a fat32 file system to ntfs.
Step 2 should be: Create a new Compressed Folder and drag all the files from the Odata folder to the Compressed Folder and delete the original Odata folder.
This is what I think, I would like to hear others input into this. Overall though much respect to the webmaster for the practice exam and the technotes on this site, they are excellent.
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Webmaster
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NTFS File and Folder Compression is not available on fat32, but Compressed Folders (aka ZIP files) are supported on FAT32 however. So there is no need to convert the drive. Although that would allow the other type of compression (NTFS file and folder compression), I menioned "with the least amount of administrative effort" in the question.
You can find more info about the two entirely different types of compression here:
www.techexams.net/technotes/xp/administration.shtml#compression
Some advice for our practice exams and the real exam as well: read carefully
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dosed69
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That's right, I was wrong. That clears things up for me. Thanks. Once again, love the site.
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dosed69
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That was the only question I got wrong on the exam, I'm in the middle of studying for 70-270. Doing well on the exam made me much more confident for it. I'm going to continue studying with the tech notes on this site though.
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Your welcome, don't hesitate to ask if you have any more questions.