Operating System Installations

Question 1

Prepares a file system to be stored.

Answer 1

Format

Question 2

It records the position of files on the disk using FAT and 32-bit addressing.

Answer 2

FAT32

Question 3

It uses a journaling system to record changes to the system file and a master file table to record information about each file.

Answer 3

NTFS

Question 4

Splitting a physical drive into logical drives

Answer 4

Partition

Question 5

Usually the first partition.

Answer 5

Primary Partition

Question 6

Uses remaining free space on a hard drive or takes the place of primary partition.

Answer 6

Extended Partition

Question 7

The partition used by the operating system to boot the computer.

Answer 7

Active Partition

Question 8

A section of an extended partition that can be used to separate information for administrative purposes.

Answer 8

Logical Drive

Question 9

A letter assigned to a physical or logical drive.

Answer 9

Drive Mapping

Question 10

The smallest unit of space used for storing data.

Answer 10

Cluster

Question 11

One complete circle around a hard drive platter.

Answer 11

Track

Question 12

A stack of tracks lined up one on top of another to form a cylinder shape.

Answer 12

Cylinder

Question 13

Used in environments where the same files may to be accessed by multiple versions of window.

Answer 13

FAT32

Question 14

Can support more and larger files than FAT32, and provides more flexible security features for folders, files and sizes.

Answer 14

NTFS

Question 15

Can be converted from FAT32 to NTFS using the CONVERT.EXE utility. This will provide extra security advantages of NTFS.

Answer 15

Partitions