Section 7 Book Chapter 9 Implementing Mass Storage

Question 1

What is a Swap partition?

Answer 1

Seperating a piece of the hard drive to be used as a swap file/ virtual ram

Question 2

What is a recovery partition?

Answer 2

Allows you to bring the os back online

Question 3

In windows how are partitions manifested as?

Answer 3

As drive letters

Question 4

In Linux/macOS env how are partitions manifested?

Answer 4

As folders

Question 5

What is a Master Boot Record?

Answer 5

Can do partitioning and tells the computer where to find the OS

Question 6

What is LBA0?

Answer 6

Logic Block Addressing - used for specifying the location of blocks of data stored on computer storage devices

Question 7

In the old MBR how many partitions could you have?

Answer 7

4

Question 8

How many partitions could you have with (MBR) Mass Boot Record?

Answer 8

4 partitions

Question 9

In windows what are extended partitions called?

Answer 9

Volumes

Question 10

What is a logical drive on windows

Answer 10

A group drives that appear to your operating system single drive

Question 11

What is GPT and what does it do?

Answer 11

Global Unique Identifier(GUID) Partition Table - modern partitioning interface

Question 12

How many partitions can you have one drive in a GPT?

Answer 12

128 partitions per drive

Question 13

What causes the following error to occur

Warning - Can not read LBA partitions

Answer 13

Protective MBR because if an older system plugs a GBT into it protects it from being erased

Question 14

In order to use a drive you must do what two things?

Answer 14

partition and format in that order

Question 15

What file formating system does windows use

Answer 15

NTFS

Question 16

What file format system does MacOS use?

Answer 16

HFS

Question 17

What is a file allocation table

Answer 17

A table that keeps track of things by a LBA basis where everything is on a partition

Question 18

What is FAT16?

Answer 18

A type of file allocation table where each sector is expressed by 16 bytes

Question 19

What is fragmentation?

Answer 19

the condition of a disk in which files are diivided into pieces scattered around the disk

Question 20

What is NTFS? and what does it do?

Answer 20

New Technology File System - the modern FTA system for windows

Question 21

What is a (MFT) Master File Table? and what does it do?

Answer 21

Master file Table, keeps records of all files in a volume, the files’ location in the directory, the physical location of the files in on the drive, and file metadata.

Question 22

What is ExFAT?

Answer 22

A fts system for small drives like thumb drives

Question 23

What is (CDFS) - Compact Disc File System? and what does it do

Answer 23

Compact Disc File System - used to file optical disks so that they work with the OS it can hold up to 4GiB

Question 24

What are the two main FTS for linux?

Answer 24

ext3 and ext4

Question 25

What is the main FTS for MacOS?

Answer 25

HFS+ (Hierarchal File System plus)

Question 26

What does NTFS support

Answer 26

compression, encryption folder/file and security

Question 27

What is Dynamic Disk

Answer 27

Allows you to shrink and expand, gives more flexibility, able to be put in a RAID design

Question 28

What are the two types of encryption on storage devices

Answer 28

File-Based encryption and Disk-based encryption

Question 29

What does File-Based Encryption do?

Answer 29

Allows you to encrypt files and folders

Question 30

What does Disk-Based encryption do?

Answer 30

Allows you to encrypt entire drives

Question 31

What is the windows Encryption system?

Answer 31

Encrypting File System (EFS)

Question 32

What does Windows use for Disk-Based encryption

Answer 32

Bitlocker