Question

Operating system is responsible for

(a) disk initialization

(b) booting from disk

(c) bad-bock recovery

(d) all of the mentioned

The question was posed to me by my school teacher while I was bunking the class.

My doubt is from Tertiary Storage topic in chapter Storage and File Structures of Database Management

Answer 1

Right answer is (d) all of the mentioned

The explanation is: Tertiary storage involves a robotic mechanism which will mount (insert) and dismount removable mass storage media into a storage device according to the system’s demands; this data is often copied to secondary storage before use.