partitions

Question 1

the process of making logical space on a hard disk drive is called

Answer 1

partitioning

Question 2

a 16-bit entries that makes up the partition table is called the

Answer 2

master boot record (MBR)

Question 3

______ disk can use both primary and extended partitions.

Answer 3

basic disk

Question 4

basic disk can have how many primary disk

Answer 4

4 primary or

3 primary and 1 extended

Question 5

an extended partition can have ___ logical partitions

Answer 5

24

Question 6

the ________ contains information about the logical drives within the extended partition

Answer 6

extended boot record (EBR)

Question 7

______ disk type supports up to 128 volumes.

Answer 7

dynamic

Question 8

basis disk uses _______ disk space

Answer 8

contiguous

Question 9

dynamic disk uses ________ disk space

Answer 9

dis-contiguous

Question 10

_____ volumes contain disk space from a single hard disk

Answer 10

simple

Question 11

________ volumes contain disk space from multiple hard disks, grouped together into a single logical volume

Answer 11

spanned

Question 12

the new standard that are replacing MBR partitions is

Answer 12

GPT partitions

Question 13

GPT is associated with

Answer 13

UEIF

Question 14

a single storage area within a file system is called a

Answer 14

volume

Question 15

a container in a volume that holds files is called a

Answer 15

directory

Question 16

the process of preparing a partition to use a specific file system

Answer 16

formatting

Question 17

an empty folder on the existing volume that points to another partition.

Answer 17

mount point

Question 18

when one adds unallocated disk space to the volume, this process is called

Answer 18

extending volume

Question 19

located on the MBR, it describes the partition file system and points to the method of booting the OS

Answer 19

boot sector