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Which of the following can be used to store a prepaid amount of money, such as for student purchases on campus? |
smart cards |
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Which of the following is NOT a common type of memory card? |
MX6 |
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Which of the following kinds of storage is NOT used by NAS and SAN solutions? |
Flash Memory |
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A DVD-ROM uses all of the following to achieve a higher storage capacity than a CD-ROM EXCEPT ____. |
making the disc single-session |
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Which of the following is true of tape? |
It is no longer used as a primary method of storage but is used most often for long-term storage and backup. |
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Which of the following is true of SSDs compared to traditional hard disks? |
SSDs have faster transfer rates. |
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What kind of disc is a type of storage media that consists of a flat, round, portable disc made of metal, plastic, and lacquer that is written to and read by a laser? |
optical |
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Which of the following is a small, rectangular, plastic housing for tape? |
Tape Cartridge |
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Which of the following is NOT a cloud storage provider? |
ecloud |
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Which of the following overcomes the major disadvantage of CD-R disks, which is being able to write on them only once? |
CD-RW |
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Which of the following does NOT use direct access? |
Tape |
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A group of two or more integrated hard disks is referred to as which of the following? |
RAID |
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Which of the following is the mechanism that reads and writes items in the drive as it barely touches the disk’s recording surface? |
read/ write head |
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Which of the following provides a myriad of financial reporting requirements and guidelines for public companies? |
Sarbanes-Oxley Act |
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Which of the following devices is the computer hardware that records and/or retrieves items to and from a flash drive or external hard drive, for example? |
Storage |
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A standard CD-ROM is referred to as this kind of disc because manufacturers write all items on the disc at one time. What is the term used? |
single-session |
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Which of the following kinds of backup is another name for a selective backup? |
partial |
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The inflexible, circular platters on which kind of disks use magnetic particles to store data, instructions, and information? |
hard |
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Which of the following is a small sheet of film, usually about 4 X 6 inches, that stores microscopic images of documents? |
microfiche |
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Which of the following kinds of interfaces sends data one bit at a time? |
serial |
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What is the term for the case that contains the same adapters found on a motherboard with which to connect the internal hard drive? |
enclosure |
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What do discs, like the kind shown in the accompanying figure, usually measure? |
4.75 inches in diameter and less than one-twentieth of an inch thick |
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Which of the following kinds of access refers to reading or writing data consecutively? |
sequential |
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Which of the following is NOT an advantage of external hard drives over internal hard drives? |
they leave data in the computer |
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Which of the following kinds of backup is another name for a full backup? |
archival |
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Which of the following is a multisession optical disc on which users can write, but not erase, their own items such as text, graphics, and audio? |
CD-R |
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How do discs, like the one in the accompanying figure, commonly store items? |
in a single track that spirals from the center of the disc to the edge of the disc |
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Which of the following kinds of devices are servers connected to a network with the sole purpose of providing storage? |
NAS |
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Some computers improve hard disk access time by using which of the following, which consists of memory chips that store frequently accessed items? |
disk cache |
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Which of the following interfaces sends several bits at once? |
parallel |
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Which of the following is a high-capacity optical disc on which users can read but not write or erase? |
DVD-ROM |
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Which of the following consists of a special-purpose chip and electronic circuits that govern the transfer of data, instructions, and information from a drive to and from the system bus and other components in the computer? |
controller |
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Which of the following kinds of devices duplicates data, instructions, and information to improve data reliability? |
RAID |
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What kind of storage is an Internet service that provides storage to computer or mobile users? |
cloud |
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Which of the following terms is the number of bytes (characters) a storage medium can hold? |
capacity |
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Which of the following is a type of optical disc that users can read from but not write to or erase? |
DVD-ROM |
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Which of the following is not a characteristic of a hard disk? |
write-protect notch |
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Which of the following kinds of cards stores data on an integrated circuit embedded in the card? |
smart |
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Memory (chips) accesses items in which of the following units of time? |
nanoseconds |
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Which of the following is the mechanism that reads and writes items in the drive as it barely touches the disk’s recording surface? |
read/write head |
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Which of the following is NOT a cloud storage provider that places a folder on your computer with contents you can synchronize across multiple devices? |
CloudDrive |
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Which of the following is the largest from among the following? |
YB |
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Storage devices access items in which of the following units of time? |
milliseconds |
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Which of the following is a device that reads from and writes on memory cards? |
reader/writer |
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