ch6 quiz

What is the purpose of a file system?

• To manage the network connections

• To give the OS a road map to data on a disk

• To organize the computer's hardware components

• To control the power supply to the computer

What is the purpose of the Bootstrap process?

• To tell the computer how to proceed

• To display the key to open the CMOS setup screen

• To modify the CMOS to boot from a forensic floppy disk or CD

• To improve disk performance

What is the purpose of wear-leveling in flash memory devices?

• To ensure even wear of read/writes for all memory cells

• To modify the CMOS to boot from a forensic floppy disk or CD

• To display the key to open the CMOS setup screen

• To improve disk performance

When data is deleted on a hard drive, what happens to the original data?

• The original data is encrypted and stored in a secure location

• The references to it are removed, leaving the original data in unallocated disk space

• The original data is completely erased from the hard drive

• The original data is moved to a different location on the hard drive

What is the purpose of clusters in Microsoft file structures?

• To improve disk performance

• To minimize the overhead of writing or reading files to a disk

• To ensure even wear of read/writes for all memory cells

• To store data on the disk

What is the purpose of the partition table in the Master Boot Record (MBR)?

• To modify the CMOS to boot from a forensic floppy disk or CD

• To ensure even wear of read/writes for all memory cells

• To improve disk performance

• To store information about partitions on a disk and their locations, size, and other important items

What is the purpose of the File Allocation Table (FAT) in Microsoft file structures?

• To ensure even wear of read/writes for all memory cells

• To store filenames, directory names, date and time stamps, the starting cluster number, and file attributes

• To improve disk performance

• To minimize the overhead of writing or reading files to a disk

What happens when a file is deleted in Microsoft OSs?

• The directory entry is marked as a deleted file and the FAT chain for that file is set to 0

• The file is completely erased from the disk drive

• The file is encrypted and stored in a secure location

• The file is moved to a different location on the disk drive

What is the purpose of drive slack in Microsoft OSs?

• To minimize the overhead of writing or reading files to a disk

• To ensure even wear of read/writes for all memory cells

• To store unused space in a cluster between the end of an active file and the end of the cluster

• To improve disk performance

What is the purpose of RAM slack in Microsoft OSs?

• To minimize the overhead of writing or reading files to a disk

• To improve disk performance

• To ensure even wear of read/writes for all memory cells

• To store unused space in a cluster between the end of an active file and the end of the cluster