Deck 4: File Systems

Question 1

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

A)the clusters are organized as a linked-list
B)if a file only uses part of a cluster, the next file uses the rest of the cluster
C)the filename is stored in the first cluster occupied by the file
D)the final cluster is filled in with all 0's to indicate the end of file

Answer 1

A

Question 2

What type of structure is usually used to organize folders in a file system?

A)flat
B)hierarchical
C)pyramid
D)relational

Answer 2

B

Question 3

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?

A)low-level format the disk and create two separate directory structures
B)install the first OS and then create a new folder off the root to install the second OS
C)this is not possible; you need a second physical hard disk
D)partition the disk into two logical drives and install an OS on each logical drive

Answer 3

D

Question 4

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

A)setvol
B)attrib /volname
C)volname
D)format /v

Question 5

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

A)partition table
B)boot program
C)master file table
D)disk signature

Question 6

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

A)directory
B)extension
C)LFN
D)attribute

Question 7

Which of the following file systems supports file and folder permissions?

A)DOS
B)FAT16
C)FAT32
D)NTFS

Question 8

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?

A)high-level format then partition
B)partition then high-level format
C)low-level format then partition
D)partition then low-level format

Question 9

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?

A)folder nesting
B)libraries
C)subdirectories
D)file tagging

Question 10

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.

Question 11

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

A)Windows
B)Users
C)Documents
D)Program Files

Question 12

The native file system in Linux is called ufs.

Question 13

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

Question 14

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

Question 15

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

A)tracks are divided into sectors
B)cylinders are divided into tracks
C)each platter has one read/write head
D)sectors are divided into clusters

Question 16

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

A)subdirectory
B)branch
C)trunk
D)root

Question 17

A group of sectors on a disk is called which of the following?

A)platter
B)track
C)cluster
D)cylinder

Question 18

One of the tasks of a file system is to provide a structure to organize files.

Question 19

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

A)two copies of the root directory are kept for each partition
B)only 512 entries are allowed in the root on a FAT32 partition
C)a backup of the FAT table is kept for each partition
D)the FAT tables and root directory are always stored at the end of each partition

Question 20

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

A)provide a convenient user interface
B)store file metadata
C)convert files between image formats
D)organize space on a storage device

Question 21

What structure does the Linux ext3 file system use to keep track of files in the file file system?

A)MFT
B)FAT
C)mount point
D)inode

Question 22

Which type of storage device in a Linux system has no logical division in blocks?

A)ufs
B)symbolic
C)block
D)raw

Question 23

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 10. Which file system should you use to format your 16 GB thumb drive?

A)FAT128
B)FAT32
C)EXT3
D)exFAT

Question 24

List four tasks performed by a typical file system.

Question 25

Describe how the Linux/Unix directory structure is organized including how multiple volumes are accessed.

Question 26

Which type of operation writes the file system structure to the disk?

A)partitioning
B)formatting
C)mounting
D)activating

Question 27

List three folders normally found at the root of a Linux file system and what the folder is typically used for.

Question 28

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?

A)journaling
B)volume mount points
C)extended volumes
D)disk quotas

Question 29

You have a very large hard disk that is 1 TB. You want to organize your data into ten volumes on this disk. Your system is running Windows 10. What can you do to accommodate this?

A)use a basic disk scheme and create 10 primary partitions
B)use a dynamic disk scheme and create an extended partition and 10 logical drives
C)use the UDF file system and create 10 volume mount points
D)use a dynamic disk scheme and create 10 volumes

Question 30

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

A)set private.txt read-only
B)attrib +r private.txt
C)format -read-only private.txt
D)status -r private.txt

Question 31

While Unix/Linux and Windows OSs use filename extensions to identify file types, what does the Mac OS use?

Question 32

Briefly discuss what block allocation is and how it is organized.

Question 33

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?

A)FAT12
B)FAT16
C)NTFS
D)EXT3

Question 34

List three features of the NTFS file system that are not found in the FAT file systems.

Question 35

In Mac OS, what is the catalog b-tree?

Question 36

What is partitioning?

Question 37

Describe the problem that occurs when a disk becomes fragmented.

Question 38

Briefly describe the concept of inodes used in native Linux file systems.

Question 39

You see a file in File Explorer named File251.chk. What file system utility has been run to create that file?

A)diskpart
B)mount
C)format
D)chkdsk

Question 40

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?

A)journaling
B)POSIX
C)LFN
D)indexing