Exam 4: Operating Systems and File Management

Most operating systems provide file ____________________ utilities that give you the big picture of the files you have stored on your disks and help you work with them.

In the file specification, C:\Comedy\Three Stooges\Moe.doc, doc is the ____________________.

The plus-sign icon can be used to expand a device or folder to display the next level of the hierarchy.

Windows provides a file management utility that can be accessed from the ____________________ icon.

Your backup strategy is simplified if you have stored all of your important data files where?

A file that does not fit into a single cluster spills over into the next ____ cluster unless that cluster already contains data.

The metaphors that file management utilities use to organize files are referred to as ____ storage models.

A(n) ____________________ operating system is designed to deal with input, output, and processing requests from many users.

____ is rather unique because it is distributed under the terms of a General Public License, which allows everyone to make copies for their own use, to give to others, or to sell.

Case 2 Formulating a backup plan allows you to restore your computing environment to its pre-disaster state with a minimum of fuss. You need to decide how much of your data you want, need, and can afford to back up. There are backup plans for the entire computing environment and for a single file. The least expensive backup device for a file under 1MB is a(n) ____.

Which of the following is a version of Windows for PCs?

Most floppy and Zip disks are preformatted at the factory.

A(n) ____ interface requires you to memorize and type commands.

The ____ is an important group of files used by the Windows operating system to store configuration information about all of the devices and software installed on a computer system.

A boot disk is a removable storage medium that contains the operating system files needed to start your computer without accessing the hard disk.

Which of the following are large enough to store an entire operating system?