System Administrator 2026
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When in contiguous allocation the space cannot be extended easily?
  • A. The contents of the file have to be copied to a new space, a larger hole
  • B. The file gets destroyed
  • C. The file will get formatted and lost all its data
  • D. None of the mentioned
There is no __________ with linked allocation.
  • A. Internal fragmentation
  • B. External fragmentation
  • C. Starvation
  • D. All of the mentioned
What is the major disadvantage with a linked allocation?
  • A. Internal fragmentation
  • B. External fragmentation
  • C. There is no sequential access
  • D. There is only sequential access
What if a pointer is lost or damaged in a linked allocation?
  • A. The entire file could get damaged
  • B. Only a part of the file would be affected
  • C. There would not be any problems
  • D. None of the mentioned
FAT stands for _____________
  • A. File attribute transport
  • B. File allocation table
  • C. Fork at time
  • D. None of the mentioned
By using FAT, random access time is __________
  • A. The same
  • B. Increased
  • C. Decreased
  • D. Not affected
A better way of contiguous allocation to extend the file size is _____________
  • A. Adding an extent (another chunk of contiguous space)
  • B. Adding an index table to the first contiguous block
  • C. Adding pointers into the first contiguous block
  • D. None of the mentioned
If the extents are too large, then what is the problem that comes in?
  • A. Internal fragmentation
  • B. External fragmentation
  • C. Starvation
  • D. All of the mentioned