Disk Management — Test 1
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Question 1
The two steps the operating system takes to use a disk to hold its files are _______ and ________
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Question 2
The _______ program initializes all aspects of the system, from CPU registers to device controllers and the contents of main memory, and then starts the operating system.
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Question 3
The process of dividing a disk into sectors that the disk controller can read and write, before a disk can store data is known as ____________
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Question 4
The data structure for a sector typically contains ____________
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Question 5
The header and trailer of a sector contain information used by the disk controller such as _________ and _________
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Question 6
For most computers, the bootstrap is stored in ________
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Question 7
A disk that has a boot partition is called a _________
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Question 8
Defective sectors on disks are often known as __________
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Question 9
In SCSI disks used in high end PCs, the controller maintains a list of _________ on the disk. The disk is initialized during ________ which sets aside spare sectors not visible to the operating system.
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Question 10
In SCSI disks used in high end PCs, the controller maintains a list of bad blocks on the disk. The disk is initialized during low-level formatting which sets aside spare sectors not visible to the operating system. The scheme used is known as _______ or ________
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