APPLICATION SYSTEM SOFTWARE
SYSTEMS SOFTWARE
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A restaurant has a computer-based ordering system which is running slowly. A technician has said that the hard disc drive is fragmented. The technician has suggested using utility software to defragment the drive.Explain how the restaurant’s hard disc could have become fragmented.Answers:4
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Orders have been saved onto the system as they order food and then deleted once processed (1)
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Once other orders have been made, new files are created (1) which may be bigger than the spaces left by the deleted files (1)
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The order files are split up (1)
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Accessing fragmented files increases file read time (1)
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If there is not a space sequential space big enough for a file is unable to be saved into smaller pieces (1)
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -Disk Defragmenter is a Windows utility program that located and eliminates unnecessary fragments and rearranges files and unused to disk space to optimise operations.
Detailed explanation-2: -Disk fragmentation occurs when files or pieces of files get scattered throughout your disks. Not only do hard disks get fragmented, but removable storage can also become fragmented. This can cause poor disk performance and overall system degradation.
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