1. Unit OS8: File System 8.6. Quiz
Windows Operating System Internals - by David A. Solomon and Mark E. Russinovich with Andreas Polze

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3. Windows File System
Efficiency and Stability of a file system are contradicting requirements. How can the Windows file system (NTFS) be characterized?
Lazy write-file system
Careful write-file system
Recoverable (Journaling)-file system
Flat (Non-hierarchical)-file system
c) Recoverable (Journaling)-file system

4. NTFS Recovery An atomic transaction is an operation that:
Can be fully undone if it fails in progress
Can be partially undone if it fails in progress
Cannot be undone if it fails in progress
Crashes the computer if it fails
a) Can be fully undone if it fails in progress

5. NTFS Functionality Which functionality is not (!) provided by NTFS?
Compression
Encryption
Multiple data streams
Versioning
d) Versioning

6. Physical Storage A cluster consists of how many sectors? 1 2 8
It depends
d) It depends

7. File System Formats
Which of the following is NOT a file system format supported by Windows?
FAT16
FAT64
NTFS
UDF
b) FAT64

8. File System Characteristics
Which of the following file systems implement security?
UDF
FAT32
NTFS
Both a) and c)
c) NTFS

9. FAT File System
Which is NOT an advantage of FAT32 over the FAT 16 file system?
Root directory is not a fixed size
Root directory is not in a fixed place
Root directory is mirrored
Supports files up to 32GB in size
c) Root directory is mirrored

10. Optical Storage Why is UDF better than CDFS? UDF is faster
UDF supports longer file names and paths
UDF is more tolerant against disk corruption
CDFS does not support CD-RW
b) UDF supports longer file names and paths

11. NTFS Data Storage An NTFS main data default stream is also known as:
Unnamed stream
Main stream
System stream
Alternate stream
a) Unnamed stream

12. NTFS Characteristics Junctions are a form of: Hard link Symbolic link
Compression
Encryption
b) Symbolic link

13. NTFS Quota NTFS per-user quotas are enforced on what level? File
Volume
System
Domain
b) Volume

14. Additional NTFS Features
EFS stands for:
Enterprise File System
Encryption Format Standard
Encrypting File System
Encrypted Function Stream
c) Encrypting File System

15. POSIX Support POSIX-style names differ from Windows-API names in that:
POSIX names are case-insensitive
POSIX names are limited to 128 characters
POSIX names are case-sensitive
Both b) and c)
d) Both b) and c)

16. File System Drivers
If no file system claims a volume during mount process, which driver claims it?
Raw
Cooked
Unrecognized
Mountall
a) Raw

17. Distributed File System Operation
Which driver sends network drive letter accesses to the remote file server?
LANMan Server
LANMan Client
LANMan Redirector
LANMan Remote
c) LANMan Redirector

18. Server Message Block Protocol
CIFS stands for:
Common Interoperable File System
Common Internet File System
Core I/O File Server
Nothing
b) Common Internet File System

19. Filter Drivers A file system filter driver intercepts I/O by:
Replacing file system driver
Attaching above file system drivers
Patching file system driver functions
Attaching below a file system driver
b) Attaching above file system drivers

20. Caching The NTFS file system caches only file data, not the metadata.
True
False
b) False

21. Fast I/O Fast I/O saves: Disk I/O CPU time Disk space Memory
b) CPU time

22. File I/O Which file open flag improves sequential read access?
FILE_FLAG_SEQUENTIAL
FILE_FLAG_RANDOM_ACCESS
FILE_FLAG_NO_BUFFERING
All of the above
a) FILE_FLAG_SEQUENTIAL