Chapter 4

Which of the following is NOT a task typically performed by an OS's file system?

Which of the following elements of a file system connects the names of files to the file data stored on the disk?

In a folder hierarchy, the top level is referred to as which of the following?

A colleague of yours uses Windows 7 and wants to organize her files so that files stored in several different folders can be easily grouped together and accessed as if they were in a single location. What feature of the Windows 7 file system do you suggest she use?

Which of the following folders in a Windows file system is NOT typically located directly off the root?

You have just purchased a new hard drive to install in your Linux system. Before you can begin using the drive to store files, which of the following task must you complete?

Which of the following statements is true about how disk drives are organized?

You have a new hard disk that you want to put two different OSs on but each OS requires a different file system. What procedure must you perform before you can install the two OSs?

Which of the following is NOT an element of the MBR on a Windows system?

Which of the following statements is true about file storage on a FAT file system?

Which of the following statements is true about the FAT directory structure?

What command should you use to change the name of an existing volume?

What command can you use to make the file named private.txt read-only?

Which of the following is true about Windows FAT and NTFS file systems?

You have created a movie that is on a file that is almost 6 GB in size. You want to put the movie file on a flash drive so you can bring it to a friend's house to show him. Your computer and your friend's computer are both running Windows 7. Which file system should you use to format your 16 GB thumb drive?

You are troubleshooting a friend's computer and your diagnostic software reports a problem with the MFT. What file system is your friend's computer using?

Which feature of the NTFS file system keeps a log of file system activity to help prevent loss of information if there is a power outage while your disk is in use?

You have just partitioned a new disk into three partitions and formatted them NTFS 5. You want to be able to access these partitions as folders on the current C: drive. What feature can you use?

You have a very large hard disk that is 1 TB. You want to organize your data into ten volumes on this disk. What can you do to accommodate this?

One of the tasks of a file system is to secure the information contained in user's files.

Originally, FAT-16 supported comparatively short filenames, referred to as 6.3 filenames.

Since FAT-16 had a number of limitations, FAT-32 is now the dominant Windows file system since it supports built-in security features and better file compression.

The native file system in Linux is called ufs.

What PC systems call clusters, Mac systems refer to as allocation blocks.

active partition

cluster

data fork

disk quota

file attributes

high-level formatting

inode

MBR

track

volume information block