Connect: Computer Chapter 7

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

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

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

Which of the following is not an example of secondary storage? RAM flash drives external hard drives RAID

Which of the following measures the amount of time required by the storage device to retrieve data and programs? capacity RAM Access speed nonvolatile media

t/f File servers are appropriate devices to use in an enterprise storage system

Which of the following characteristics about RAID is incorrect? highly reliable one high-capacity hard disk drive fast access speed expanded storage capability

t/f Disk caching uses a combination of hardware and software

t/f Hard disks use tracks, sectors, and cylinders to store and organize files

t/f Media are the actual physical material that holds the data and programs

t/f A hard crash typically occurs on an optical disc when it makes contact with particles on its surface.

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

Which of these is not a mass storage device? organizational cloud storage RAID system file server optical disc

Smartphones use which of these storage technologies?

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

t/f Blu-ray discs are designed for high definition and have a far greater capacity than DVDs.

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

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

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

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

t/f External hard disks use different technology than internal hard disks

A CD-RW disc _______

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

t/f Disk caching improves hard-disk performance by compressing files.

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

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

t/f A smoke particle, fingerprint, dust, or human hair could cause a hard disk head crash

An external hard disk _______.

t/f File compression is only available on hard-disk drives

t/f DVDs have replaced CDs as the standard optical disc

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

these discs have a capacity of 50 gigabytes on one side

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

The large capacity, high-definition optical discs designed to store hi-def video and video games are _______.

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

Which of these is not an example of solid state storage? USB drives flash memory cards digital versatile disc SSDs

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

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

t/f Facebook is an example of cloud storage.

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

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

t/f Secondary storage provides temporary or volatile storage

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

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

Optical discs use these to represent data