ITPEC IP April 2021 Question 23

Source exam: ITPEC IP April 2021Topic: Hardware

ITPEC IP April 2021 — Question 23 of 100

Fragmented files may take longer to read because their blocks are scattered across nonconsecutive disk areas. On a hard disk drive, the head must seek among multiple physical locations instead of reading a contiguous sequence, increasing access time. The data remains logically readable and writable.

Answer (d)

Why not others:
- fragmentation does not prevent antivirus detection

- the file system can still write data into available noncontiguous blocks

- it also tracks those blocks so the data can be read correctly

Key rule: Fragmentation primarily degrades access performance; defragmentation reorganizes blocks into more contiguous areas.

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