You are giving a presentation at a technology workshop to a

You are giving a presentation at a technology workshop to a group of high school students and discussing older technologies such as the FAT file system. While most Windows computers are configured to use NTFS, the FAT file system is still used. Of the following, what are the major components of FAT? (Choose three.)

A. Boot record

B. FAT table

C. MFT

D. Root directory

Solution

A, B, and D. The FAT file system includes the boot record or boot sector, which is the first physical sector on a hard disk partition and contains information about the operating system and the code involved in the boot process. The FAT, or file allocation table, is the map to the actual file system. The root directory is the topmost level of the file directory in the FAT.