CS615A - Aspects of System Administration
Quiz #1



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Note: Multiple choice questions may have more than one correct answer.


1) 2 Points

   One common storage model is known as DAS.  What are the other two main
   storage models we discussed?




2) 6 Points

   How do these two storage models differ from DAS and one another?










3) 3 Points

   One technology to attach a storage device directly to a host is USB.  For
   each of the three storage models, name one other technology.

















4) 2 Points

   Which of the following is FALSE:

   (a) No two filesystem partitions may overlap.
   (b) The BIOS can only boot a disk from the first 512 bytes.
   (c) You can have more than one swap partition.
   (d) You can have different filesystem types on different partitions.
   (e) all of the above is false
   (e) none of the above is false


5) 3 Points

   Name three pieces of information stored in an inode.









6) 4 Points

   Within the filesystem hierarchy, we distinguish between shareable,
   unshareable, static and variable data.  Give an example of

   (a) unshareable static data

   (b) shareable variable data