Deck 5: Managing File Systems

Question 1

____ allow an empty folder in an NTFS-formatted file system to point to another partition or volume in the local computer.

A) Disk quotas
B) Extendable partitions
C) Shrinkable partitions
D) Volume mount points

Answer 1

D

Question 2

A file stored on an NTFS file system cannot have multiple streams of data associated with it.

Answer 2

False

Question 3

NTFS stores files and folders in a way that looks very similar to the FAT file system.

Answer 3

True

Question 4

Three different versions of FAT exist: FAT12, FAT16, and ____.

A) FAT18
B) FAT24
C) FAT32
D) FAT48

Question 5

Changes in the ownership of a file do not change the amount of data that is considered to belong to a user.

Question 6

File systems group sectors into units of storage called a ____.

A) track
B) boot
C) table
D) cluster

Question 7

Disk quotas are set using the ____ console.

A) DiskPart
B) Disk Management
C) MST
D) Windows Explorer

Question 8

Hard disks store data on a ____ basis.

A) sector-by-sector
B) track-by-track
C) cluster-by-cluster
D) track-by-sector

Question 9

____ was introduced with Windows 95 OSR2 to support hard disks that were becoming much larger than 2 GB in size.

A) FAT32
B) FAT48
C) FAT64
D) FAT128

Question 10

____ was developed as a standard to allow file interchange between different operating systems. This makes it ideal for storing files on portable CD-ROM and DVD media.

A) UDF
B) NTFS
C) FAT
D) ext3fs

Question 11

A ____ allows the operating system to store and organize files on a hard disk.

A) sector
B) file system
C) boot sector
D) master boot table

Question 12

An NTFS system file called the ____ keeps a record of all the clusters that are considered unusable by the file system within that volume.

A) Master File Table
B) Transactional NTFS
C) Bad Cluster File
D) Sector File

Question 13

NTFS partitions are theoretically limited to ____ Terabytes.

A) 32
B) 64
C) 128
D) 256

Question 14

It is possible to change the drive letter, or assign a new one, to a partition or volume using the ____ console.

A) Disk Management
B) Windows Explorer
C) DiskPart
D) fdisk

Question 15

____ are used by applications and users as a quick reference to locate files.

A) Disk quotas
B) Drive letters
C) UDF partitions
D) Transactional points

Question 16

The FAT and NTFS file systems use ____ to describe general information about a file or folder.

A) mount points
B) sectors
C) clusters
D) attributes

Question 17

Files and folders on an NTFS file system in Windows 7 cannot use Unicode characters in the filename.

Question 18

The New Technology File System (NTFS) was first introduced with ____ and is supported by Windows 7.

A) Windows Me
B) Windows XP
C) Windows NT
D) Windows 95

Question 19

The ____ is the most important NTFS system file because it is a relational database that provides the starting point for accessing any file on the NTFS partition.

A) UDF
B) MFT
C) CDFS
D) AFS

Question 20

The choice of file system can limit the total amount of data stored in a partition or volume.

Question 21

The 8.3 DOS name contains a maximum of eight characters followed by a period and a maximum of three characters that act as the ____________________.

Question 22

What file systems are supported by Windows 7?

Question 23

The earliest file system used for hard disks by the MS-DOS operating system is the ______________________________.

Question 24

What are the limits of the FAT file system?

Question 25

The first level of folder in an NTFS partition is the ____ folder.

A) mnt
B) mount
C) root
D) system

Question 26

What are the main characteristics of Automatic Bad Cluster Management?

Question 27

Describe the main characteristics of the Read-Only attribute flag.

Question 28

Windows 7 includes a ____ tab when viewing the properties of a file or folder. You can use this tab to restore a previous version of a file after it has been modified or deleted.

A) Rollback
B) Previous Versions
C) Commit
D) Changes

Question 29

In NTFS, information about files and folders stored on the disk is kept in a special file called the _________________________.

Question 30

____ copies are a system in which the computer takes a snapshot of files at a specific point in time, and then tracks changes to those files.

A) Shallow
B) Deep
C) Shadow
D) Real

Question 31

The ____ check box indicates that a file has changed since the last backup.

A) details
B) encrypt contents to secure data
C) file is ready for archiving
D) compress contents to save disk space

Question 32

Each file and folder on an NTFS file system has its own list of permissions. This list of permissions is known as the _________________________.

Question 33

Briefly describe the Universal Disk Format (UDF).

Question 34

The ____________________ command-line utility is used to manage the compress attribute flag and the cipher command-line utility is used to manage the encrypt attribute flag.

Question 35

The ACL is a collection of ____ that identify a specific security identifier (that is, who) can perform a given action (that is, what) to a file or folder.

A) Access Control Entries (ACE)
B) digital certificates
C) Access Entries Keys (AEK)
D) Digital Control Entries (DCE)

Question 36

What are the major advantages of using NTFS?

Question 37

What are the steps to convert an NTFS file system to FAT?

Question 38

What are the steps to convert a FAT file system to NTFS?

Question 39

____ NTFS permissions exist to fine-tune access and control for files and folders.

A) Individual
B) Single
C) Complex
D) Standard

Question 40

What are some of the benefits of using the FAT file system?

Question 42

What are the standard NTFS permissions for a folder or file?