FC0-U71 Applications and Software Practice Question
Which of the following file extensions is associated with a compressed archive file?
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Why each option matters
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.zip
.zip is a common compressed archive format.
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.exe
Why it's wrong here
.exe denotes a Windows executable program, not a compressed archive. It is tempting because executables are binary files that can be large, and self-extracting archives also use .exe, but a plain executable stores runnable code rather than compressed data.
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.zip
Why this is correct
The .zip extension denotes a compressed archive, satisfying the stem's requirement for a file format that bundles and compresses one or more files. Unlike .txt or .exe, which hold plain text or executable code respectively, .zip uses lossless compression to reduce size, making it the standard archive format.
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.jpg
Why it's wrong here
.jpg denotes a JPEG image, a lossy-compressed picture format rather than an archive container. It is tempting because JPEG does compress data, but that compression is internal to the image encoding; archives such as .zip or .tar bundle and compress multiple files.
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.docx
Why it's wrong here
.docx is a Microsoft Word document; although it is internally a ZIP package, the extension identifies a word-processing file, not an archive. It is tempting because Office Open XML files are zipped containers, but users open them as documents rather than extracting contents.
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