Exam 12: File and Secondary Storage Management

A laptop computer with Windows but no installed apps supports over a dozen file types.

The FMS uses ____________________ in primary storage to store data temporarily as it moves between programs and secondary storage devices.

A ____ is the unit of storage transferred between the device controller and memory in a single operation.

A(n) ____ archives only files that have been modified since the previous incremental or full backup.

A(n) ____________________ contains information about files and other folders.

Logical record grouping in physical records is called ____________________.

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

The storage server in a SAN is a complete general-purpose computer.

____ is a disk storage technique that improves performance and fault tolerance.

The ____ is the part of the kernel that accesses storage locations and manages data movement between storage devices and memory.

A(n) ____________________ contains a single data item within a logical record.

The traditional model of storage access by application software relies on an approach commonly called ____________________.

In UNIX, the ____ privilege allows a user or process to alter a file's contents or delete it altogether.

The folder that's currently being accessed is called the ____ folder

A ____ is a data structure that records which allocation units are free and which belong to files.

As applied to FMSs, ____________________ describes methods of securing file content against hardware failure.

File migration moves files from cloud storage to local secondary storage devices as they become older and more out-of-date.

____________________ is a file management technique that balances each file version's storage cost with anticipated user demand for this version.

A ____ is a temporary holding area for extracting logical records from physical records.

What are steps that FMS follows to complete the file open operation?