Exam 12: File and Secondary Storage Management

The ____________________ layer provides service functions for manipulating files and directories.

If a physical record contains just one logical record, the file is said to be ____________________.

"Out of the box", and with no installed apps, a typical operating system directly defines/supports ____ of file types.

____ is a fault-tolerance technique in which all disk write operations are made simultaneously or concurrently to two storage devices.

When a(n) ____ is performed, the FMS copies all files and directories for an entire storage volume.

List two reasons that RAID hardware systems are common.

The technologies that support cloud-based storage services are similar to those used to manage the contents of multilevel primary storage caches.

Blocking is described by a numeric ratio of logical records to physical records called the ____.

Allocation units can be smaller than the unit of data transfer.

A ____ is a collection of data items, or fields, that an application program accesses as a single unit.

The most common example of multiple RAID levels layered to combine their best features is ____.

​Describe how secondary storage devices store bits, bytes and blocks.

The ____ layer is the bridge between logical and physical views of secondary storage.

If the logical record size is less than the physical record size, a single physical record might contain multiple logical records.

A(n) ____________________ backup is a variation on an incremental backup in which backup times aren't reset as files are copied.

When the storage allocation table uses ____ data structures sequential file access is very efficient but random access is much less efficient.

The relationship between file types and the programs or OS utilities that manipulate them is called ____.

A limited-purpose server is sometimes called a "____."

Among other things, ____ type determines naming restrictions, allowable operations, and physical organization.

A(n) ____________________ path begins at the current directory's level and extends downward to a specific file.