Chapter 4

True/False
Indicate whether the statement is true or false.
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1. One of the tasks of a file system is to secure the information contained in users files.

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

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3. 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.

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4. The native file system in Linux is called ufs.

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

Multiple Choice
Identify the choice that best completes the statement or answers the question.
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6. Which of the following is NOT a task typically performed by an OSs file system?
a. partition and format disks
c. convert files between image formats
b. establish file naming conventions
d. provide for file and data integrity

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7. Which of the following elements of a file system connects the names of files to the file data stored on the
disk?
a. directory
c. LFN
b. extension
d. attribute

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

a. subdirectory
c. trunk
b. /Windows
d. root

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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
c. subdirectories
b. libraries
d. file tagging

____ 10. Which of the following folders in a Windows file system is NOT typically located directly off the root?
a. Windows
c. Documents
b. Users
d. Program Files
____ 11. 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
c. low-level format then partition
b. partition then high-level format
d. partition then low-level format
____ 12. Which of the following statements is true about how disk drives are organized?
a. tracks are divided into sectors
c. each platter has one read/write head
b. cylinders are divided into tracks
d. sectors are divided into clusters

____ 13. 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 c. this is not possible; you need a second
separate directory structures
physical hard disk
b. install the first OS and then create a new d. partition the disk into two logical drives
folder off the root to install the second OS
and install an OS on each logical drive
____ 14. Which of the following is NOT an element of the MBR on a Windows system?
a. partition table
c. master file table
b. boot program
d. disk signature
____ 15. If you have a Windows computer with three hard drives, each with three partitions, what drive letter is
assigned to the third partition on the third hard drive?
a. j
c. k
b. i
d. h
____ 16. Which of the following statements is true about file storage on a FAT file system?
a. the clusters are organized as a linked-list c. the filename is stored in the first cluster
occupied by the file
b. if a file only uses part of a cluster, the next d. the final cluster is filled in with all 0s to
file uses the rest of the cluster
indicate the end of file
____ 17. Which of the following statements is true about the FAT directory structure?
a. two copies of the root directory are kept
c. a backup of the FAT table is kept for each
for each partition
partition
b. only 512 entries are allowed in the root on d. the FAT tables and root directory are
a FAT32 partition
always stored at the end of each partition
____ 18. What command should you use to change the name of an existing volume?
a. setvol
c. volname
b. attrib /volname
d. format /v
____ 19. What command can you use to make the file named private.txt read-only?
a. set private.txt read-only
c. format -read-only private.txt
b. attrib +r private.txt
d. status -r private.txt
____ 20. Which of the following is true about Windows FAT and NTFS file systems?
a. Extended FAT16 was released with
c. NTFS can be converted to FAT16 using
Windows 95 Release 2
the convert command
b. FAT32 can be converted to NTFS using
d. The maximum size of a file on FAT16 is 4
the convert command
GB.
____ 21. 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 friends house to show him. Your computer and your friends computer
are both running Windows 7. Which file system should you use to format your 16 GB thumb drive?
a. FAT128
c. EXT3
b. FAT32
d. exFAT
____ 22. You are troubleshooting a friends computer and your diagnostic software reports a problem with the MFT.
What file system is your friends computer using?
a. FAT12
c. NTFS
b. FAT16
d. EXT3

____ 23. 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
c. LFN
b. POSIX
d. indexing
____ 24. 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
c. extended volumes
b. volume mount points
d. disk quotas
____ 25. 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?
a. use a basic disk scheme and create 10
c. use the UDF file system and create 10
primary partitions
volume mount points
b. use a dynamic disk scheme and create an d. use a dynamic disk scheme and create 10
extended partition and 10 logical drives
volumes
Completion
Complete each statement.
26. On Mac OS X 10.5, _______________ indexes files and allows you to search by typing in the first few letters
of the file name.
27. Apple uses the term ______ where Linux uses symbolic link and Windows uses shortcut.
28. On a Mac-formatted disk the ________ blocks identify the filing system and names of important system files.
29. In Linux, you make a new volume accessible in the file system by using the ________ command.
30. In Linux, the ______________ contains information about the layout of blocks, sectors, and cylinder groups
on the file system.
Matching

a.
b.
c.
d.
e.

data fork
inode
MBR
active partition
track

f.
g.
h.
i.
j.

cluster
high-level formatting
disk quota
volume information block
file attributes

____ 31. in a PC system, the partition that contains the bootable operating system
____ 32. in Windows-based file systems, a logical block of information on a disk containing one or more sectors
____ 33. that portion of a file in the Macintosh file system that stores the variable data
associated with the file
____ 34. allocation of a specific amount of disk space to a user
____ 35. file characteristics stored with the filename in the disk directory which

specify certain storage and operational parameters associated with the file
____ 36. a process that prepares a disk partition (or removable media) for a
specific file system
____ 37. in UNIX/Linux, a system for storing key information about files
____ 38. an area of a hard disk in MS-DOS and Windows that stores partition information about that disk
____ 39. concentric rings that cover an entire disk like grooves on a phonograph record
____ 40. on a Mac-formatted disk, the sector after the boot blocks