Exam 98-361 topic 1 question 110 discussion

Actual exam question from Microsoft's 98-361

Question #: 110
Topic #: 1

This question requires that you evaluate the underlined text to determine if it is correct.
To minimize the amount of storage used on the hard drive by an application that generates many small files, you should make the partition as small as possible.
Select the correct answer if the underlined text does not make the statement correct. Select "No change is needed'' if the underlined text makes the statement correct.

A. No change is needed
B. file allocation table
C. block size
D. folder and file names

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Suggested Answer: C 🗳️

by ccoutinho at March 1, 2020, 12:27 a.m.

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ccoutinho

1 year, 3 months ago

Why is it block size?

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Pomphard

9 months ago

It's not going to be the partition you should decrease, nor is it the file allocation table (you're probably not even dealing with a FAT-partition anyway). What does make sense is to minimize the sector (block) size. Even the smallest files take up at least one sector of space, so when this is 512 bytes instead of the default 4 KB you'll use up 8 times as little space per very small file. The problem is, you cannot just change the sector size. You could buy a very old fashioned HDD with still 512 byte sector sizes, but this change is going to bring about many performance issues (higher chance of corruption, lower read/write speeds, etc.) In conclusion, they obviously are digging for answer C, yet none of them are appropriate in real scenarios.

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