Look at the list of attributes here and on the PCGuide site. The test question will most likely take the form of Name and describe x number of possible attributes found in the MFT, where x is some number > 0 but less than 1000 ;). 5.(10) NTFS - Discuss how NTFS Master File Table works. See www.pcguide.com There is one master file table (MFT) for NTFS partiton. The MFT is a table of records with one record for every file on the partition. MFT records can be from 1 to 4K in size. But for any particular MFT, all records will be the same size. Each MFT record consists of a set of attributes. The attributes of a particular record stores various information about the file that record controls. These attributes may include: PC-Guide's list File Name - Name of file with short alias if needed. Security Descriptor - which includes the Access control list which in turn includes owner and recognized group ids and granted permissions. File's data - if small enough to fit, or pointers to blocks on partition if file too large to fit in an MFT record. Standard Information - date/time stamp of create,access and change times, and attributes carried over from dos such has hidden, archived, readonly, etc. Volume information - information about the current partition. Index Root Attribute - basically if the record represents a directory, the list of filenames in that directory if they fit. Index Allocation Attribute - if the Index Root Attribute cannot contain all filenames in directory, this lists pointers to allocated blocks on partition where overflow data stored. Bitmap - list of available blocks (clusters) on partition. Not all of the records will contain all possible attributes.