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Systems Software Worksheet 4 Utility Software

The document discusses utility software used for disk management. It provides examples of simulating file storage on disk sectors and shows how defragmenting consolidates fragmented files. Defragmenting does not provide more storage space but improves read performance by organizing files contiguously. Full and incremental backups are described, with the latter only backing up changed files to save storage. Common utility programs are listed like antivirus, firewall, monitoring tools, compression, defragmentation, and backup software.

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Systems Software Worksheet 4 Utility Software

The document discusses utility software used for disk management. It provides examples of simulating file storage on disk sectors and shows how defragmenting consolidates fragmented files. Defragmenting does not provide more storage space but improves read performance by organizing files contiguously. Full and incremental backups are described, with the latter only backing up changed files to save storage. Common utility programs are listed like antivirus, firewall, monitoring tools, compression, defragmentation, and backup software.

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Worksheet 4 Utility software

Unit 3 System software and security

Worksheet 4 Utility software


Task 1
The grid below represents locations (sectors) on a hard disk where files can be stored. Each
one is 512 bytes each so a file will occupy several sectors.
For you to do:
Follow these steps to simulate the storage of some files on a disk. Do this by labelling the
sectors below (the squares) with the file ID number. There are already some files on the disk
(grey squares).
1. File 6 needs 11 sectors of disk space, write it to the disk
2. File 7 needs 8 sectors of disk space, write it to the disk
1 1 1 1 1 1 2 2 2
2 2 2 2 2 6 6 6 3 3 3
3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3
6 6 6 6 4 4 4 4 4 4 4
5 5 5 5 5 5 5 6 6 6 6
7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7

3. What did you have to do to fit the last file onto the disk?

4. Why does this make it slower to read this file?


It is slower to read this file because the files are not in one large chunk. They are stored in
smaller pieces called sectors or clusters and a single file’s cluster can be spread across the
disk which means the accessing these fragmented files can be slow.

5. What does the disk defragmenter do?


The process of finding and consolidating fragmented files is called defragmentation. Disk
Defragmenter consolidates the fragments to one location on the disk drive.

6. Show what the disk will look like after the disk defragmenter has run.
1 1 1 1 1 1 2 2 2 2 2
2 2 2 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3
3 3 3 3 3 3 4 4 4 4 4
4 4 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 6 6
6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 7 7
7 7 7 7 7

Task 2

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You can find out how much space there is on a disk drive in Windows Explorer.
Right-click on the drive name and select Properties.

How much space is there on the hard drive on your computer?

Will defragmenting the disk give you more space? Explain your answer.

Should you defragment an SSD?

How do you defrag a hard drive?

Task 3

1. Backup strategies often involve a combination of full backups and incremental backups.
Start with the Full Backup and work through the incremental changes, noting the day last
updated at each stage.

Day 1: Full backup:


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Day 2: Incremental backup - Monday:

Update: ABC Company > Payroll Form.docx

Day 3: Incremental backup - Tuesday:

Update: ABC Company > Customer Accounts > Credit Applications.docx


Update: ABC Company > Monthly Revenue Report.xlsx
Create: ABC Company > Sales > Sales Presentation.pptx

Day 4: Incremental backup - Wednesday:

Update: ABC Company > Sales > Sales Presentation.pptx

Day 5: Incremental backup - Thursday:

Delete: ABC Company > Sales > Sales Presentation.pptx


Update: ABC Company > Monthly Revenue Report.xlsx
Move: ABC Company > Payroll Form.docx to ABC Company > Employee Data

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Task 4

Fill in the name of the utility program being described in each row below:

Prevents harmful programs being installed and important files being


changed.

Prevents unauthorised access to computers or a LAN.

Secretly records the user’s actions on the computer.

Packages a file so that it uses less disk space

Optimises the use of the hard disk space by collecting together the
separate parts of each file in one location on the disk.

Controls what sites computers on the LAN can access.

Procedure to copy all files which have changed since the last time the
procedure was executed, to another storage device

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