SK0-003 · Question #659
An administrator has added a new hard drive to a server that is running out of space on its C Drive and is experiencing slow performance. The administrator needs to free up space on the C Drive. Which
The correct answer is A. Move the page file to the new drive.. With the C drive full and a new drive available, moving the page file is the most effective action to free significant space and potentially improve performance.
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An administrator has added a new hard drive to a server that is running out of space on its C Drive and is experiencing slow performance. The administrator needs to free up space on the C Drive. Which of the following is the BEST action for the administrator to take to free up space on the drive?
Options
- AMove the page file to the new drive.
- BCopy the system32 directory to the new drive.
- CConvert the C drive to a basic disk.
- DSetup a software RAID to mirror the C drive.
How the community answered
(27 responses)- A85% (23)
- B4% (1)
- C7% (2)
- D4% (1)
Why each option
With the C drive full and a new drive available, moving the page file is the most effective action to free significant space and potentially improve performance.
The page file can occupy a substantial amount of disk space on the system drive (C drive), especially when virtual memory usage is high. Moving the page file to the newly added hard drive will free up significant space on the C drive and can improve performance by distributing I/O operations across different disks.
Copying the 'system32' directory would not free up space on the C drive; it would duplicate critical system files and likely break the operating system if the original was then deleted.
Converting the C drive to a basic disk is a partitioning scheme change and does not free up space; the C drive is typically already a basic disk or part of a dynamic disk configuration.
Setting up a software RAID to mirror the C drive is for redundancy, requires more disk space, and does not directly free up space on the original C drive.
Concept tested: Optimizing disk space by managing the page file
Source: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/change-the-size-of-the-virtual-memory-paging-file-d867c295-d36c-4866-93a8-b570d65b7561
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