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Optical discs use these to represent data. |
Pits and lands |
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Which of these is not a mass storage device? |
Optical disc |
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All of the following are try of DVD-ROM drives except: |
They are also known as erasable optical discs. |
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One way to improve the storage capacity of a hard disk is to: |
Use file compression |
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The hard disk’s disk surface is scratched and some or all of the data is destroyed when there is a : |
head crash |
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Mass storage devices are specialized high-capacity secondary storage devices designed to store large amounts of data for an organization. |
True |
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Blu-ray discs are the high definition standard and have a far greater capacity than DVDs. |
True |
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Media are the actual physical material that holds the data and programs. |
True |
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The process of saving information to a secondary storage device is referred to as embedding. |
False |
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CD-ROMS are often used to archive data and to record music downloaded from the Internet. |
False |
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Hard disks store and organize files using all of the following, except_____. |
Paths |
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Solid-state storage devices are different than hard disks in that they: |
have no moving parts |
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Smartphones use which of these storage technologies? |
Flash memory card |
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A CD-RW disc: |
can be erased and rewritten. |
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The standard for high definition optical discs is: |
Blu-ray |
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This allows you to upload and store documents on the Internet. |
Cloud storage |
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This process improves system performance by acting as a temporary high-speed holding area between a secondary storage device and the CPU. |
Disk caching |
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The ____ of a secondary storage device indicates how much data the storage medium can hold. |
capacity |
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Which of the following is true about an internal hard disk? |
Fixed amount of storage |
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Which of the following measures the amount of time required by the storage device to retrieve data and programs? |
Access speed |
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Which of the following characteristics about RAID is incorrect? |
one high capacity hard disk drive |
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The process of accessing information from secondary storage devices is referred to as _____. |
reading |
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These discs have a capacity of 50 gigabytes on one side. |
Blu-Ray |
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The standard for high definition optical discs is _____. |
Blu-ray |
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What is it called when servers on the Internet supply applications as a service, rather than a product? |
Cloud computing |
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Which of these is not an example of solid state storage? |
Digital versatile disc |
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An external hard disk _____. |
usually connects to a USB or Thunderbolt port |
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Which of the following is not an example of secondary storage? |
RAM |
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