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| the process an OS uses to detect and log security related events |
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| A disk that contains basic volumes, such as pimary partitions, extended partitions, and logical drives, |
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| a programming technique for quickly locating an item in a sequential list. |
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| a region of memory that holds frequently used data values, |
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| the location of a cluster on a hard drive. |
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| a means of reducing the amount of space needed to store a block of date. |
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| the opposite of compression ; restoring the contents of a compressed file to its original form |
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| the process of writing parts of a file to contiguaus sectors on a hard drive to speed access and retrieval. |
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| a disk that contains dynamic volumes, such as simple vollumes. ith disk storage is devided in to volumes instead of partintions |
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| the process of encoding data to prevent unauthorized a |
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| A file system, first used by DOS, that uses 12 bit sector addresses. |
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| A file system, first used by DOS, that uses 16 bit sector addresses. |
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| A file system, first used by Windowns 95 OSR 2, that uses 32-bit sector addresses( of which 28 bits are currently used) |
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| file allocation table (FAT) |
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| A data structure that DOS creates on a disk when it is formatted |
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| the overall structure in which files are nemed, stored, and organized. a file system consistsof filess, directorries (or folders), and the information needed to locate and acess these items |
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| preparing a file system so that a disk can be used to store programs and data |
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| the scattering of parts of the same file overdiffrent areas of a hard drive |
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| a special file that contains the attributes of each file created using NTFS; used to locate a file on a hard drive |
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| NTFS (new Technology File System) |
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| the defaults file system for new installations of Winddows &; first used by Windows NT |
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| A logical storage area on a drive |
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| a portion of a drive that functions as a physically separate allocatins unit |
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| a restriction on userss' ability to exceed limits placed on file system resources. It allows administrators to effectively manage disk space shared by multiple users |
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| the smallest unit of space on a disk; typically 512 bytes |
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| an area on a disk that can be allocated and formatted for a file system |
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| a logical grouping of related fiels in Windows 7 |
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| part of a UFS file system taht contains an identifying number and others numbes that describe tehe file system geometry, statistics, and behavioral parametes. |
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| a hidden file on a hard drive that is used to hold pars of programs and data files that do not fit in memory,. The OS moves data from the swap file to memory as needed and moves data out of memorry to teh swap file to make room for new data |
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| A measurement of highpcapacity storage, is about 1 trillian bytes |
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| virtual file allocation table (VFAT) |
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| a file system first used by Windows 95; the first file system to support long filesnames |
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| a fixed amount of storage on a hard drive. |
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