Year 9 - ICT Test - Storage Devices & Media

Which is a method of accessing data?

• Serial and Direct access

• Serial and Parallel access

• Direct and Parallel access

• None of the above

Which is NOT optical storage media

• CD

• DVD

• Blu-bay

• Blu-ray

SSD is short from

• Super state drive

• Solid state drive

• Solid super drive

• Super service drive

Optical drives use serial access

• True

• False

What media storage is seen in the picture?

• HDD

• SSD

• Memory stick

• DVD drive

What is NOT an advantage of HDD

• They have very fast data transfer

• They have very large memory capacities

• They have fast access times

• They read/write operations are silent

Laser light is used to read data on optical drives

• True

• False

A DVD typically holds 6 GB of data.

• True

• False

What type of memory is CD-R?

• re-writable

• transferable

• read only

• download capable

What type of storage device is the following a description of?

Data is recorded by making marks in a pattern that can be read back with the aid of light, usually a beam of laser light precisely focused on a spinning disk.

• Paper

• Optical

• Magnetic

• Solid State