Chapter 7

External hard disks use different technology than internal hard disks.

RAID connects several inexpensive hard-disk drives to one another.

Disk caching improves hard-disk performance by compressing files.

The process of saving information to a secondary storage device is referred to as embedding.

One way to improve the storage capacity of a hard disk is to _______.

What is it called when servers on the Internet supply applications as a service, rather than a product?

On a hard disk each track is divided into invisible wedge-shaped sections called _______.

All of the following are true of DVD-ROM drives except:

Which of these is not a mass storage device?

A CD-RW disc _______.

Which of the following characteristics about RAID is incorrect?

Three ways to improve the performance of a hard disk include _______.

This process improves system performance by acting as a temporary high-speed holding area between a secondary storage device and the CPU.

Which of the following is not an example of secondary storage?

File servers are appropriate devices to use in an enterprise storage system.

Blu-ray discs are the high definition standard and have a far greater capacity than DVDs.

Facebook is an example of cloud storage.

Hard disks store and organize files using all the following, except _______.

This allows you to upload and store documents on the Internet.

Which of these is not an example of solid state storage?

In order to access your documents and files that are stored in the cloud, you must have an Internet connection.

Media are the actual physical material that holds the data and programs.

DVDs have replaced CDs as the standard optical disc.

Mass storage devices are specialized high-capacity secondary storage devices designed to store large amounts of data for an organization.

Secondary storage provides temporary or volatile storage.

Storage that retains its data after the power is turned off is referred to as _______.

Solid-state storage devices are different than hard disks in that they _______.

An external hard disk _______.

These discs have a capacity of 50 gigabytes on one side.

Which of the following is true about an internal hard disk?

The _______ of a secondary storage device indicates how much data the storage medium can hold.

The standard for high definition optical discs is _______.

File compression is only available on hard disk drives.

The hard disk's disk surface is scratched and some or all of the data is destroyed when there is a _______.

The process of accessing information from secondary storage devices is referred to as _______.

A hard crash typically occurs on an optical disk when it makes contact with particles on its surface.

If you have used Google Docs to create a word processing document, you have used cloud computing.

External hard drives are used primarily to complement an internal hard disk.

Optical discs use these to represent data.

CD-ROMs are often used to archive data and to record music downloaded from the Internet.

Disk caching uses a combination of hardware and software.