QUIZ 8

What kind of controller uses serial signals to transfer data, instructions, and information?

Which of the following is a good practice to follow to avoid scratching or damaging a disc like the one in the accompanying figure?

Which of the following statements is not true about hard drives?

Memory (chips) accesses items in which of the following units of time?

Which of the following does NOT use direct access?

You want a storage medium that allows you to locate a particular data item immediately, without having to move consecutively through items stored in front of the desired data item or file. What kind of access will this storage medium use?

You are looking to implement a high-speed network with the sole purpose of providing storage to other attached servers. Which of the following will you implement?

A popular use of CD-RW and CD-R discs is to create audio CDs. What is the process of copying audio and/or video data from a purchased disc and saving it on digital media called?

Which of the following terms is the number of bytes (characters) a storage medium can hold?

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?

You can erase a DVD+R

Which of the following kinds of cards stores data on an integrated circuit embedded in the card?

What best describes an optical disc?

Which of the following is not a characteristic of a hard disk

A DVD-RW is a high-capacity optical disc on which users can read but not write or erase.

What does NAS stand for?

Which of the following is not true about tape storage?

Which of the following is NOT an advantage of external hard drives over internal hard drives?

Some computers improve hard disk access time by using which of the following, which consists of memory chips that store frequently accessed items?

Which of the following is the largest from among the following?

What kind of storage is an Internet service that provides storage to computer or mobile users?

Which of the following is not a characteristic of a hard disk?

Which of the following is NOT true about storage media and devices?

Which term is used to describe large businesses that require special hardware geared for heavy use, and maximum availability and efficiency to fit the needs of their hundreds or thousands of workers?

Which of the following is the mechanism that reads and writes items in the drive as it barely touches the disk's recording surface?

Which of the following overcomes the major disadvantage of CD-R disks, which is being able to write on them only once?

What technology works with specially coated optical discs to etch labels directly on the disc?

Items on a storage medium remain intact even when power is removed from the computer. What term describes this characteristic?

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?

Which of the following kinds of backup is another name for a selective backup?

Which of the following is not true about tape storage?

What is being measured using KBps, MBps, and GBps?

You are looking for the best protection against data loss. Which of the following will you use?

What causes a head crash on a hard disk?

Which of the following kinds of RFID tags contains a battery that runs the chip's circuitry and broadcasts a signal to the RFID reader?

Optical discs should be stored in a flat (horizontal) position.

What is the term for a narrow recording band that forms a full circle on the surface of a hard disk?

Which of the following is a high-capacity optical disc on which users can read but not write or erase?

RFID is more secure than contactless smart cards.

A standard CD-ROM is called a single-session disc. Why are they called single-session discs?

You want a form of backup that copies all program and data files. Which of the following will you use?

Which of the following is true of SSDs compared to traditional hard disks?

Which storage term used to measure capacity is approximately a billion bytes?

Which of the following kinds of backup is another name for a full backup?

You are looking for a term that can be used to refer collectively to hard disks and SSDs inside a computer. Which of the following can you use?

What do discs, like the kind shown in the accompanying figure, usually measure?

Which of the following provides a myriad of financial reporting requirements and guidelines for public companies?

When storage devices write data, instructions, and information on storage media, they are creating output. What best describes the process of writing data?

Some personal computer manufacturers provide a hard disk configuration that connects multiple smaller disks into a single unit that acts like a single large hard disk. What is this grouping called?

Which of the following is NOT a common type of memory card?

Which RAID level technique splits data, instructions, and information across multiple disks in the array?

The inflexible, circular platters on which kind of disks use magnetic particles to store data, instructions, and information?

Before any data can be read from or written on a hard disk, what must happen to the disk?

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?

Which of the following kinds of devices duplicates data, instructions, and information to improve data reliability?

You are looking for a backup that copies only the files that have changes since the last full backup. Which of the following will you use?

A group of two or more integrated hard disks is referred to as which of the following?

Which of the following storage devices typically stores the operating system?

Which of the following interfaces sends several bits at once?

How do discs, like the one in the accompanying figure, commonly store items?

Which of the following is a type of backup you can only perform at your large enterprise?

What is the term for the case that contains the same adapters found on a motherboard with which to connect the internal hard drive?

Which of the following can be used to store a prepaid amount of money, such as for student purchases on campus?

What does a controller control?

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?

Which of the following is NOT true about caring for optical discs?

The use of microfilm and microfiche provides all of the following advantages EXCEPT ___

Which of the following storage devices typically has the fastest transfer rate?

Users subscribe to a cloud storage service, like the kind advertised in the accompanying figure, to do all of the following EXCEPT to ___

Which of the following kinds of interfaces sends data one bit at a time?

Which of the following kinds of access refers to reading or writing data consecutively?

Which of the following is made of aluminum, glass, or ceramic and is coated with an alloy material that allows items to be recorded magnetically on its surface?

Which of the following disc types can be written onto, but not erased?

Which of the following is not a competing rewritable DVD format?

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?

Which of the following is true of tape?

What is the usual rate of speed for the platters in a hard disk?

Which of the following is a small, rectangular, plastic housing for tape?

Which of the following has a higher capacity and better quality than standard DVDs, especially for high-definition audio and video?

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?

Which of the following terms is the number of bytes (characters) a storage medium can hold?

A DVD-ROM uses all of the following to achieve a higher storage capacity than a CD-ROM EXCEPT ____.

Before any data can be read from or written on a hard disk, what must happen to the disk?

You want a form of backup that copies all program and data files. Which of the following will you use?

Which of the following is NOT an advantage of external hard drives over internal hard drives?

Which of the following is a type of optical disc that users can read from but not write to or erase?