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A fragmented hard drive is one in which…..?

• Program instructions and data are spread across tracks and sectors on the hard disk drive

• Programs and instructions are grouped together to occupy a continuous section of the hard disk drive

• A hard disk drive that has been dropped and broken into lots of pieces

• The hard disk drive is split into portions each representing a different logical drive.

When a hard drive becomes fragmented reading and writing files becomes…...?

• Faster

• Slower

• No different

• Harder

Defragmentation will aim to…..?

• Make more space on the hard drive

• Move files further apart from each other

• Move free space closer together

A Defragmented hard drive will decrease the computers performance?

• True

• False

A fragmented disk takes longer to read from and write to.

• True

• False

Defragment of an SSD can damage the device?

• True

• False

Utility programs are usually…..?

• Part of the Operating System

• Bought on a disk from a store

• Only needed if you connect to the Internet

• Very Expensive to buy

To scramble data so that it is unreadable is a form of….?

• Compression

• Encryption

• Backup

• Defragmentation

Encryption does not prevent someone from intercepting a message it only prevents them from being able to understand it.

• True

• False

Unencrypted messages are called...?

• Originaltext

• Plaintext

• Ciphertext

• Keytext