COMPUTER SOFTWARE
SYSTEM SOFTWARE
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Question
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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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