Chapter 6

Question 1

CD

Answer 1

ompact Disc

Question 2

DVD

Answer 2

-Digital Optical Disc

Question 3

prepares a file system to be stored.

Answer 3

FORMAT

Question 4

File Allocation Table

Answer 4

FAT32

Question 5

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

Answer 5

FAT32

Question 6

New Technology File System

Answer 6

NTFS

Question 7

it uses a journaling system to record changes to the file system and a Master File Table to record information about each file.

Answer 7

NTFS

Question 8

splitting a physical drive into logical drives

Answer 8

PARTITION

Question 9

Usually the first partition

Answer 9

Primary Partition

Question 10

There can only be up to four primary partitions per hard drive.

Answer 10

Primary Partition

Question 11

This can’t be subdivided into smaller sections.

Answer 11

Primary Partition

Question 12

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

Answer 12

Extended partition

Question 13

There can be only one per hard drive and can be subdivided into smaller sections called logical drives.

Answer 13

Extended partition

Question 14

This is the partition used by the operating system to boot the computer.

Answer 14

Active partition

Question 15

Only one primary partition can be marked active

Answer 15

Active partition

Question 16

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

Answer 16

Logical drive

Question 17

This is a letter assigned to a physical or logical drive.

Answer 17

Drive mapping

Question 18

“file allocation unit” is the smallest unit of space used for storing data

Answer 18

Cluster

Question 19

This is one complete circle around a hard drive platter. Broken into groups of 512 bytes, called sectors.

Answer 19

Track

Question 20

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

Answer 20

Cylinder

Question 21

The Windows OS can use one of two formats:

Answer 21

-FAT32 file system
-New Technology File System (NTFS)

Question 22

To Install Windows Os:

Answer 22

-Format and partition the hard disk as required.
-There are two options for the file system: FAT32 and NTFS.
-Format the drive or partition and create the directory structure.

Question 23

Installing OS:

Answer 23

-Standards and formats that define currency, dates, times, and numerals.
-Text input language.
-Name of the person and company.
-Product Key.
-Computer name.
-Administrator password.
-Date and time settings.
-Network settings.
-Domain or workgroup membership.

Question 24

To create accounts

Answer 24

-An administrator account is automatically created when Windows OS is installed.
-Create a user account when prompted during the installation process, as shown on this slide.
-It is common practice for an administrator to create fictitious user accounts to test the system as a user.
-Use secure passwords.

Question 25

Windows XP and Windows 2000 use _____ and ____file systems

Answer 25

-FAT32 -NFTS

Question 26

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

Answer 26

FAT32

Question 27

Earlier versions of Windows can read and write to a partition.

Answer 27

FAT32

Question 28

Can be converted from FAT32 to NTSF using the CONVERT.EXE utility.

Answer 28

PARTITIONS

Question 29

This will provide extra security advantages of NTSF.

Answer 29

PARTITIONS

Question 30

Doesn't work in reverse (NTSF to FAT32)*

Answer 30

CONVERT.EXE