Mid term 2 Flashcards by J L

The command for file attribute is:

Attrib

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Name four file attributes.

A, H, R, S

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attrib +R

Sets a read-only file attribute

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attrib -S

Clears a system file attribute

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attrib +H

Sets a hidden file attribute

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attrib +

Sets an attribute

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attrib -

Clears an attribute

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attrib -A

Clears an archive file attribute

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DOS and Windows 3.1 use the ___ __ file system

FAT 16

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Modern linux uses the ____ file system, and used to use the ____ and ____ file system

ext4, ext2 and ext3

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The Partition size of FAT 16 is 16MB to

2048MB

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Windows FAT 32 max partition size:

2TB

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FAT32 allowed for permission on:

Folders only

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NTFS max partition size:

11TB

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NTFS allows for permissions on:

Files and folders

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FAT64 or exFAT supports up to ____ __ for partitions

512TB

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Why is file size different from the size on the disk?

Files are stored in allocated clusters

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List the sectors per cluster for FAT16
up to 128MB -
up to 256MB -
up to 512MB -
up to 1GB -
up to 4GB -

up to 128MB - 4
up to 256MB - 8
up to 512MB - 16
up to 1GB - 32
up to 4GB - 64

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List the sectors per cluster for NTFS
up to 512MB -
up to 1GB -
up to 2GB -
Above 2GB -

up to 512MB - 1
up to 1GB - 2
up to 2GB - 4
above 2GB - 8

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Manufacturers report hard drive size using a ________ number system, whereas operating systems report hard drive size using a _______ operating system

decimal, binary

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Display start menu

CTRL + ESC

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Cycle through items in the order they were opened

ALT + ESC

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Enter properties menu for the selected object

ALT + ENTER

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Display the system menu for the active window

ALT + SPACEBAR

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Windows Explorer shortcuts F2 - F3 -

F2 - Rename selected F3 - (Search) Find all files

Windows Explorer F4 - F6 -

F4 - Drop down address bar list F6 - Like TAB, Cycle through elements on the current window

F8 shortcut

Safemode

Windows Explorer shortcuts Shift + F10 - Shift + Delete -

Shift + F10 - Like right click, Display shortcut menu for selected Shift + Delete - Skip recycle bin

Linux can have _ primary partitions or _ primary and _ extended and ___ logical

4 primary, or 3 primary and 1 extended and 128 logica

Inside of an extended partition, "linux-swap" is a

logical partition

What is a dumb terminal?

A keyboard and monitor connected to a mainframe

Command line has faster access to the _______

Kernel

Shortcut to get to the terminal in Ubuntu

CTRL + ALT + T

The shortcuts to increase and decrease the font size in the Ubuntu terminal

CTRL SHIFT + CTRL -

# - Ubuntu Terminal prompts: ~ - # - $ -

# - Super user ~ - User's home directory # - Standard user $ - Super user

In Ubuntu super =

sudo

In windows each file has file ________

Properties

In the file properties tab, you can add and edit the ____ and ____

Title and author

.bmp stands for _____ _____ .pdf stands for ________ _______ ____

.bmp stands for bitmap image .pdf stands for portable document format

Windows - File names can be up to ___ characters long

255

\ / ? : * are

Illegal file name characters

" >< | are

Illegal file name characters

In reference to file naming, remember DOS and the number __

Windows folder structure is a

Hierarchy

Purpose of file management:

Organization

ext2, ext3, and ext4, support up to ____ of space

16TB

DLLs are generally used for _____ ________

System commands

API stands for

Application Programming interface

The Windows kernel is responsible for _ things, list them

4 things Memory management, process management, file management, I/O

3 reasons we partition the hard drive to:

Increase performance Simplify backups Install multiple OS's

Every hard drive has at least _ partition

1 (not entirely true if we get into it)

Mechanical hard drives are also referred to as ________ drives

magnetic

After partitioning the drive you must _____ the drive to install a ______ _______

format, file system

A file system relates to how

data is stored

The first 3 physical disk numbers are

0, 2, and 3

MBR partitions max size

2TB

3 Partitioning methods

MBR, GPT, Windows dynamic storage

Name the 2 main Disk partitioning software packages

DiskPart (Windows 2k and up) and Fdisk (everything else)

The first sector on a hard disk contains the

MBR

In windows the first drive letter is _

In windows the drive letters list the ______ partitions first, ______ second and then

Primary first, logical second, and then other connected devices

Formatting creates two copies of the

File Allocation Table

High-level formatting does a surface scan that

Checks for tracks and sectors marked as bad during the initial low-level format

The GUID in GUID Partition table stands for

Global unique identifier

GPT max partitions:

128

GPT max partition size:

9 zettabytes

Unlike MBR, GPT uses a

GPT header

Windows dynamic storage uses (hint: name)

Dynamic storage partitioning

A drive structure created with a dynamic disk is called a

volume

A volume is similar to a

partition

3 volume advantages over partitions:

Unlimited Can span over multiple drives - 1 Volume, multiple drives Can use RAID

Dynamic disks do not use a

Partition table (Tracks, sectors)

To change font size in CMD

Right click the head of the window and chose properties

To find information on DiskPart, type ____ or _

Help or ?

To see the number of disks in DiskPart type

list disk

To select disk 1 in DiskPart you would type

select disk 1

To create a partition of disk that is 2000MB in size

create partition primary size=2000

To see partitions in disk 1 in DiskPart you would type

list partition

To delete partition 5 in disk 1 what is the order of commands you would type

Select disk 1 > list partition > select partition 5 > delete partition override

A popular partitioning program is

PartitionMagic

The earliest computer coding systems used

6 bits

___ was an early character used by ___ ________ in the 1950-60s

BCD (Binary-coded decimal), IBM mainframes

in 1964 BCD was extended to an _ ___ code, known as ______

8 bit code, EBCDIC (Binary-coded decimal interchange code)

EBCDIC supported _____ and ________ characters in addition to special characters like __________

upper and lowercase, punctuation

Are EBCDIC and BCD still used today?

Yes, by IBM mainframes

Another character code that is used is _____ which is _ bit

ASCII (American Standard Code for Information Interchange), 7 bit

BCD and EBCDIC were based on _____ ____ codes

punch card

ASCII was based on

Telex (Telecommunication) codes

Many systems today use _______, a __ bit system

Unicode, 16 bit

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