Problem Set #4

1. How many file systems does Windows NT 3.51 support, and what are they?

2. Up to how many characters can be used to name a file on a FAT file system through Windows NT? And under DOS?

3. Up to how many characters can be used to name a file on a HPFS file system through Windows NT?

4. Up to how many characters can be used to name a file on a NTFS file system through Windows NT?

5. What does the FAT acronym represent?

6. What operating systems can see and use HPFS? What does the HPFS acronym represent?

7. What operating systems can see and use NTFS? What does the NTFS acronym represent?

8. Does FAT preserve case of filenames under NT? How about under DOS?

9. Does NTFS preserve case of filenames?

10. What is the maximum FAT partition size under Windows NT?

11. What is the maximum theoretical HPFS partition size under Windows NT?

12. Of the choices below, what are the true statements about NTFS?

  1. It is a recoverable file system, which can undo or redo failed disk operations.
  2. It supports per file and per directory compression.
  3. It supports UNDELETE, so deleted files can be retrieved.
  4. It supports the Windows NT security model, so permissions and auditing can be configured.
  5. Filenames can contain any character.
  6. One can use DOS 6.0 or higher disk utilities to defragment and fix an NTFS partition.
  7. A 1.44 MB floppy-disk can be formatted with NTFS.

13. What is the maximum file and partition size under NTFS? How many megabytes is this?

14. Of the following, which is the correct command-line syntax to convert a FAT partition to NTFS?

  1. format <drive:> /ntfs
  2. convert <drive:> /fat->ntfs
  3. convert <drive:> /fs:ntfs
  4. format <drive:> /s /fs:ntfs

15. If Windows NT cannot gain exclusive access to the drive that you want to convert, which of the following happens?

  1. You are alerted with a warning message and the action is dismissed.
  2. Windows NT does nothing.
  3. You are given an option to schedule the conversion the next time the system boots.
  4. It goes ahead and attempts the conversion anyway, and it writes any conversion errors to ERROR.LOG.

16. Of the following, which is the likely generated 8.3 alias for this long filename: "PCC Windows NT Class.TXT"

  1. CLASS.TXT
  2. PCC WIND.TXT
  3. PCCWINDO.TXT
  4. PCCWIN~1.TXT
  5. PC0EF9~2.TXT

17. What file attributes does a long filename have on a FAT partition?

 18. On a Windows NT Workstation, someone started Disk Administrator and saw this (continued below graphic)

a. Which partition or partitions can be marked active?

b. What are the file systems in use on this Windows NT Workstation?

c. How large (in megabytes) is each partition?

d. What is the volume label name for each partition?

e. Is Disk 0 a SCSI or an IDE hard-disk?

19. What is the maximum number of primary partitions a single hard-disk can contain?

20. What is the maximum number of extended partitions a single hard-disk can contain?

21. Volume sets and Stripe sets are initially created from:

  1. Free space only.
  2. NTFS partitions only.
  3. FAT partitions only.
  4. Either a boot or system partition.
  5. One must convert a FAT partition to NTFS then create a volume or stripe set.

22. Which of the following cannot be performed on a Windows NT Workstation:

  1. Extending a NTFS volume set by combining an existing volume set with a free space.
  2. Extending a NTFS stripe set partition by combining an existing stripe set with a free space.
  3. Create a volume set by combining two or more free areas on a single hard-disk.
  4. Create a stripe set by combining two or more free areas on a single hard-disk.
  5. Create a stripe set by combining free areas on two drives, one drive being IDE, and the other SCSI.

23. User Racer-X has 3 hard-disks on his Windows NT Workstation. The free areas on each of the three disks are 150 MB, 200 MB, and 75 MB in size respectively. For each configuration below, what can Racer-X do?

a. Racer-X wants to create a volume set. What is the largest size volume set he can create?

b. Racer-X wants to create a stripe set. What is the largest stripe he can create using any combination of the drives?

24. User Trixi has a Windows NT Workstation identical to Racer-X's. She also has 150, 200, and 75 megabytes of free space on her three hard-disks.

a. What is the smallest stripe set she can create using any combination of the drives, but using all the free space from any drive she chooses to have in her combination?

b. What is the largest stripe set she can create using all the drives?

Return to Main Index

This area was last modified on December 1, 1996 by Amar Kamadoli