Chapter 10

Question 1

A. Done at the factory

B. Defines sectors, cylinders, and their placement on the disk

Answer 1

low level formatting

Question 2

A. Done by the user
B. Divides the disk into partitions
C. Hold the data you want to store
D. Defines indexing system to track the locations of that data

Answer 2

high level formatting

Question 3

sectioning a hard drive or other storage devices

Answer 3

partitioning

Question 4

A. Used to partition a hard drive (High-level)

B. Third party applications can also be used

Answer 4

Fdisk command

Question 5

A. Used to partition a hard drive (High-level)

B. Third party applications can also be used

Answer 5

format command

Question 6

1. Contains primary partitions and logical drives
2. Formatted with a file system to become a volume for
   file storage
3. most often used with windows

Answer 6

basic disk

Question 7

1. Offer greater flexibility for volume management
2. Use a database to track information about dynamic volumes on the disk in
   the computer
3. Each dynamic disk in a computer stores a replica of the dynamic disk
   database
4. Easily repairs each others database
5. Operations performed on dynamic disks:
   A. Create and delete simple, spanned, striped, mirrored, and RAID-5
   volumes
   B. Create volumes that span multiple disks (spanned and striped volumes)
   C. Create fault-tolerant volumes (mirrored and RAID-5 volumes)
   D. Extend a simple or spanned volume
   E. Repair mirrored or RAID-5 volumes
   F. Reactivate a missing or offline disk

Answer 7

dynamic disk

Question 8

A.Active partition or bootup partition
B.Only a primary partition can be
designated as active

Answer 8

primary partition

Question 9

A.Can have up to 4 separate primary
partitions or 3 primary and
1 extended
B.Only 1 extended partition per disk
C.Can be subdivided into a maximum
of 23 sections called logical drives

Answer 9

extended partition

Question 10

boot up partition

Answer 10

active partition

Question 11

sub sections of a drive. There can be up to 23 sections of logical drives.

Answer 11

logical drives

Question 12

groups of files

Answer 12

directories

Question 13

the first directory

Answer 13

root directory

Question 14

the name for a directory under windows

Answer 14

folder

Question 15

the file system of a floppy disk

Answer 15

FAT 12

Question 16

1. Designed for small disks and simple folder structures
2. Named for its method of organization
3. Resides at the beginning of the volume
4. To protect the volume, two copies of the table are kept
5. File allocation tables and the root folder must be stored
   in a fixed location
6. Allocated in clusters
7. Cluster sizes of 2KB to 32KB
8. Default cluster size is determined by the size of the
   volume
9. Maximum of 65,526 clusters
   10.Supports drives up to 2GB

Answer 16

FAT 16

Question 17

1. Derivative from the File
Allocation Table (FAT) file
system
2. Supports drives with over
2GB
3. Can contain up to
268,435,456 clusters
4. Cluster sizes (4KB-32KB)
5. 4GB minus 2 bytes
maximum file size

Answer 17

FAT 32

Question 18

1. High-performance and self-healing file system
2. Proprietary to Windows NT, 2000, XP Vista, 7, and
   8
3. Features include:
   A.File-level security, compression and auditing
   B.Supports large volumes
   C.Built-in RAID support
   D.Ability to encrypt files and folders
   E.More efficient drive management due to its
   smaller cluster size capabilities
   F. Recoverable file system capabilities

Answer 18

NTFS

Question 19

GUID partition table

Answer 19

GPT

Question 20

1.Created when you create the first partition
2.Most important data structure on the disk
3.Is the first sector on every disk
4.Located at track (cylinder) 0, side (head) 0, and
sector 1
5.Contains the Partition Table
6.Contains a small amount of executable code

Answer 20

MBR