Utility Programs

Question 1

What’s a utility program

Answer 1

A system software program that performs a specific task related to management of computer functions and is designed to only 1 or 2 tasks well doing thing else

Question 2

What’s file back up

Answer 2

Creates exact duplicate of data and can be used if file is corrupted or used errors where data becomes lost and can be used at later stages to restore data

Question 3

What is data compression

Answer 3

Reduces physical size of files and this reduces storage space which as a regular reduces file transfer times

Question 4

What is archive software

Answer 4

Data which is not used regular in day to day life and gets stored offline so it can be accused at any time and may needed for legal or historical use and uses data compression to free up save whilst combining files to make one archive file

Question 5

What is a Disk defragmenter

Answer 5

Data stored in different fragments of disk the defragmenter identifies all data in duke and any fragmented files get put into contiguous block and does this with free Soave reducing the time the read write head takes to find certains files by reducing searching time through effective storage use