OS chapter 5 Flashcards
Which disk partition style is the legacy standard used for accessing hard disk data?
MBR (Master Boot Record)
Which Windows system utility examines systems files for damage and allows you to reinstall Windows by installing only the files that are damaged?
SFC (System File Checker)
Which type of partition stores files that are used to load an operating system?
Primary
What was the major PC operating system from 1981 to 1995.
DOS
According to the text, which Windows operating system was focused on improving the user experience on mobile devices?
Windows 8
Which of the following modes does Windows NOT operate in?
shell
According to the text, which of the following components is NOT part of the Windows Core?
Kernel
Registry
User
GDI
Rgistry
Select the PowerShell cmdlet below that can be used to create a new volume or partition.
New-Partition
_________ volumes exist on two or more dynamic disks and they link blocks of space from multiple dynamic disks.
Spanned
What controls hardware devices in Windows?
Device Drivers
Which of the following file systems is NOT supported by Windows 11?
HPFS
Regarding both striped and spanned volumes, which of the following is the maximum number of physical disks permitted to create a volume?
32
Which file system is able to utilize the Encrypting File System (EFS)?
NTFS
According to the text, how much physical memory is supported by the 64-bit version of Windows XP?
16 GB
According to the text, Windows 2000’s architecture is divided into which two modes?
user and kernel
On a dynamic disk, the most common type of volume is a ________ volume
simple
__________ are logical drives for storing data and other user files.
Storage spaces
Which file system is used by Windows NT that supports file and directory security?
NTFS
Win 9x for the most part uses ______________, where each competing process gets a slice of time for a predetermined amount of time.
preemptive multitasking
Which Windows mode is used for running 32-bit applications?
protected
What modes did Windows 95 operate in?
Protected, Real, Virtual 8088
What is protected mode used for?
Running 32 bit applications.
What is real mode used for?
It provides backwards compatibility for Windows 3.1 programs.
Which disk virtualization technology in Windows enables a computer to concatenate storage space from individual physical disks?
Storage Spaces
Which of the following statements identifies the difference between striped and spanned volumes?
With striped volumes, the system writes data equally across all disks in the volume at the same time.
What makes up the Windows Core?
The user, the graphic device interface, and the kernel.
What does the GDI (Graphic Device Interface) do?
handles screen drawing and printing. The screen or printer
display what is to the GDI a graphic image
What does the kernel do?
The kernel handles basic operating system tasks such as file I/O, task
scheduling, virtual memory management, and exception (error)
handling.
How does the core communicate with the drivers?
via the Virtual
Memory Manager (VMM), Installable File System (IFS), and
the Configuration Manager (CM)
