Exam 12: File and Secondary Storage Management

Users and applications view secondary storage logically as a collection of files organized in folders and storage volumes.

Storing parity data reduces a disk array's usable capacity.

​The original RAID version, now known as RAID ____________________, was developed at the University of California, Berkeley, in the late 1980s.

On a desktop or laptop computer, a ____ is usually an entire physical secondary storage device, a partition of the device, or a removable storage device such as a DVD or flash drive.

Describe RAID 10.

Access controls are enforced automatically in FMS service routines that access and manipulate files and directories.

____ breaks a unit of data into smaller segments and stores these segments on multiple disks.

In a ____, folders can contain other folders, but a folder can't be contained in more than one parent.

____________________ are contacts between a read/write head and a spinning platter.

Low blocking factors, with larger logical records, require fewer buffers to achieve substantial performance improvements.

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

On larger computers such as servers, a volume can span multiple physical secondary storage devices.

DAS is inexpensive and efficient for organizations with dozens or hundreds of servers and terabytes of shared data.

To an FMS, a(n) ____________________ is any change to file contents or attributes, such as an added record, a modified field, or changed access controls.

An FMS provides command-layer functions and utility programs for users and system administrators to manage files, directories, and secondary storage devices.

A typical laptop computer has up to a few hundred storage volumes.

____ describes any architecture in which software running on a CPU accesses secondary storage devices in the same computer.