Question 1

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

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Question 2

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

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The answer of If a physical record contains just one...

Question 3

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

Accepted Answer

A)  a handful 
B)  a few dozen 
C)  hundreds 
D)  thousands

Question 4

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

Accepted Answer

A)  Disk partitioning 
B)  Disk planning 
C)  Disk locking 
D)  Disk mirroring

Question 5

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

Accepted Answer

A)  full backup 
B)  incremental backup 
C)  differential backup 
D)  synthetic full backup

Question 6

List two reasons that RAID hardware systems are common.

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Question 7

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

Accepted Answer

A)  disk management system​ 
B)  ​storage management system 
C)  ​file management system 
D)  ​control management system

Question 8

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

Accepted Answer

A)  holding factor 
B)  locking factor 
C)  group factor 
D)  blocking factor

Question 9

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

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 10

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

Accepted Answer

A)  physical record 
B)  virtual record 
C)  logical record 
D)  managed record

Question 11

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

Accepted Answer

A)  RAID 0 
B)  RAID 1 
C)  RAID 5 
D)  RAID 10

Question 12

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

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Question 13

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

Accepted Answer

A)  file control 
B)  disk control 
C)  storage I/O control 
D)  block control

Question 14

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

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 15

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

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The answer of A(n) ____________________ backup is a variation on...

Question 16

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

Accepted Answer

A)  linked lists 
B)  B+ trees 
C)  binary trees 
D)  hash tables

Question 17

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

Accepted Answer

A)  file launcher 
B)  file association 
C)  shell 
D)  folder manager

Question 18

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

Accepted Answer

A)  server appliance 
B)  server host 
C)  general purpose server 
D)  standard server

Question 19

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

Accepted Answer

A)  volume 
B)  folder 
C)  file 
D)  storage device

Question 20

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

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Exam 12: File and Secondary Storage Management