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Chapter 7 Device Management Practice Quiz

Kendra Brown 12 questions

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  1. 1Explain fully two (2) situations where you would either need to update a device driver OR roll back a device driver.
    1. AYou would roll back a device driver if for instance you recently updated to a new version of an operating system and the device is not working properly with the current version. You would then roll back the device driver to were it was working properly before.
    2. BA situation in which you would need to update a device driver is if for instance an information technology comes out with new driver software. You would then update your device driver by going to the company website and downloading the newest version of the device driver.
    3. CYou would never need to update or roll back a device driver.
    4. DIf your computer memory isn't working.
  2. 2Examples of dedicated devices include:
    1. Aplotter
    2. Btape drives
    3. Cprinters
    4. Ddirect access storage device
  3. 3How does the shared device direct access storage work?
    1. ASpooling: speeds up slow dedicated I/O devices
    2. BWorks with device manager supervision and controls interleaving(predetermined polices determine conflict resolution)
    3. CAssigns bandwidth to each device: priority-based
  4. 4The OS Device manger divides I/O task into 3 parts and each is handled by a specific software competent. What are those components?
    1. Ashared device, virtual device and dedicated device
    2. BI/O traffic controller, I/O schedule, and I/O device handler
    3. Cmagnetic, optical and solid state storage mediums
    4. DRAID
  5. 5Device management is:
    1. Aoverseeing the delicate balance of the system’s finite supply of devices with the user’s almost infinite demand for them
    2. BSoftware responsible for creating, deleting, modifying, controlling access to files , as well as for managing the resources used by the files
    3. Cmanaging memory for the computer
  6. 6The I/O traffic controller watches the status of devices, control units and data transfer
    1. ATrue
    2. BFalse
  7. 7What does blocking help in Movable-Head Magnetic Disk Drives?
    1. Ahelps minimize transfer time
    2. Bhelps minimize access time
    3. Chelps minimize search time
    4. Dhelps minimize seek time
  8. 8To access a record on a magnetic disk storage device the system needs what three things?
    1. Atrack number
    2. Bcylinder number
    3. Csurface number
    4. Dsector number
  9. 9The three categories of direct access storage devices are?
    1. Amagnetic tape, optical discs and solid state (flash) memory
    2. Bmagnetic disks, optical discs and solid state (flash) memory
    3. CCD, DVD and Blu-ray
    4. DHybrid drives, RAID and CD
  10. 10What is RAID's main purpose?
    1. AImproved I/O performance
    2. BTo provide backups for a system.
    3. CHelps with hardware failure recovery
    4. DIncreases hardware costs

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