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File Management Organisation of Data

Class-VI
Objective
I. State whether the following statements are True/False:

1. We needn’t require including an extension while writing a file name. (TRUE)


2. ‘Copy and paste’ can also be referred to as moving a file. (FALSE)
3. We can play MP3/MP4/CD on the windows media player. (TRUE)
4. Windows media player allows us to play an audio CD as well as a VCD (TRUE)
5. Deleting a file means removing it from the drive. (TRUE)
6. Windows does not allow handling multiple files. (FALSE)
7. VLC player allows us to play an audio CD, a VCD and a DVD. (TRUE)

II. Fill in the blanks:


1. Information is stored in a storage device with a specific name called file.
2. A file extension is also referred as file type.
3. .psd file type represents the adobe Photoshop file.
4. Duplication of files from one drive to other is called copying a file.
5. The cut and paste option is also called moving a file.
6. Searching means locating a file among a set of files.
7. To delete a file, click the right button of the mouse on the file name and select
the delete option.
8. Specific searching can be performed by using wild card characters.

III. Name the following:


1. Two different extension file types
(a) .docx (b) .jpg
2. The extension of two audio files.
(a) .wmp (b) .wav
3. Two different packages to play movies.
(a) VLC (b) WMP
4. The extension of two video files.
(a) .mp4 (b) .wmv
IV. Match the file types with file extensions:

File Extension File type


1. .docx (a) Adobe Photoshop
2. .psd (b) Graphic files
3. .xls (c) Acrobat portable document format
4. .jpg (d) MS word document file
5. .pdf (e) MS excel spreadsheet file

Answers.
.docx - MS word document file
.psd - Adobe Photoshop
.xls - MS excel spreadsheet file
.jpg - Graphic files
.pdf - Acrobat portable document format

V. Answer in one word:


1. Name any device that contains a file: Hard disk
2. Name a portable storage device: Pen drive
3. What is the term given for duplicating a file? Copying
4. What are the characters used for specific searching? * And ?
5. Name the term used for removing a file: Delete

Subjective
I. Short answer questions
1. What is a file?
Ans: The information stored in a storage device with a specific name is called a
file.

2. Write the syntax of using a file name.


Ans: <file name>.<Extension> (Example: xyz.docx)

3. Name three categories of files.


Ans: The three categories of files are Ordinary files, Directory folder/files and
Special purpose files.
4. What is the path of a file?
Ans: Path is the route through which the user can reach from the source to the
destination of a file.

5. What is meant by moving a file?


Ans: Moving a file is the process of transferring a file from one destination to
other. It is also termed as ‘Cut and paste’. In this process a file is removed from its
original position and made available at another destination.

6. What is the use of wild card characters?


Ans: Sometimes, we need to search a file in a more specific manner. In such
situation, we can use wild card characters along with the file name to be
searched. The well-known wild card characters are * and ?.

II. Long Answer Questions:


1. Write all the steps to copy a file.
Ans: Following are the steps to copy a file.
I) Go to the location from where the file is to be copied.
II) Select the file and right click on it.
III) Select the copy option from the dropdown menu.
IV) Go to the location, where the copy of the file is to be placed.
V) Right click on the empty area and click on the paste option from the dropdown
menu.

2. Differentiate between copying a file and moving a file.


Copying a file Moving a file

It uses ‘copy’ and ‘paste’ option. It uses ‘cut’ and ‘paste’ option

The file remains in its original location. The file is removed from its original
A duplicate copy of the file is saves in location to some other location as
another location. desired
3. What is searching? Mention all the steps to search a file.
Searching is the process of finding a file on the computer. Following are the steps
to search a file.
I) Click the ‘Computer’ icon that is available on the desktop. The ‘Search Computer’
box appears at the extreme right side of the window.
II) Enter the file name to be searched in the system in the ‘Search Computer’ box.
III) The computer will look for all the files throughout the system and show the
result in the window.

4. Write all the steps:


(a) To play an audio CD/audio file on window media player.
Ans: To play an audio CD or an audio file follow these steps.
I) Insert the audio CD in the DVD drive.
II) Click the ‘Windows media player’ icon. It will open the window
media player.
III) Click ‘file’ and then ‘open’. It will display all the drives in the system.
IV) Select the drive where your favourite CD or audio file is present.
V) Click open.
VI) It will display all the audio files or folders of the selected drive.
VII Select all the audio files and click ‘open’
VII) Windows media player will start playing the songs and display the title of the
song it is playing on the screen.
(b) To play a video CD/DVD/video file on VLC

Ans: To play video files or a video CD/DVD, perform the following steps.
I) Insert the video CD/DVD in the DVD drive.
II) Click the ‘VLC media player’ icon. It will open the VLC media player.
III) Click ‘media’ and then ‘Open file’. It will display all the drives of the system.
IV) Select the drive where the video CD/DVD or the video file is present.
V) Click ‘Open’
VI) It will display all the video folders of the selected drive.
VII) Select the video folder and click ‘Open’
VIII) The VLC media player will start playing the video file.

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