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This section includes 4 Mcqs, each offering curated multiple-choice questions to sharpen your Operating System Questions & Answers Disk Management knowledge and support exam preparation. Choose a topic below to get started.
| 1. |
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 ________ |
| A. | sector sparing & forwarding |
| B. | forwarding & sector utilization |
| C. | backwarding & forwarding |
| D. | sector utilization & backwarding |
| Answer» B. forwarding & sector utilization | |
| 2. |
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. |
| A. | destroyed blocks, high level formatting |
| B. | bad blocks, partitioning |
| C. | bad blocks, low level formatting |
| D. | destroyed blocks, partitioning |
| Answer» D. destroyed blocks, partitioning | |
| 3. |
The data structure for a sector typically contains ____________ |
| A. | header |
| B. | data area |
| C. | trailer |
| D. | all of the mentioned |
| Answer» E. | |
| 4. |
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 ____________ |
| A. | partitioning |
| B. | swap space creation |
| C. | low-level formatting |
| D. | none of the mentioned |
| Answer» D. none of the mentioned | |