Storage

Tick the magnetic storage device/s

• Hard disk drive

• Pen drive

• Magnetic Tape Drive

• CD

Which of the following allow/s serial access only?

• Magnetic Tape

• CD

• Hard disk

• Pen Drive

Where would direct access be ideal?

• Accessing patient records in an emergency room

• Accessing customer accounts during banking transactions

• An electricity company accessing customer accounts to produce bills

• Accessing user data on a social media platorm

A _________________ stores and organizes data and can be thought of as a type of index for all the data contained in a storage device.

Which of the following is volatile, read/write memory?

• RAM

• ROM

• both of the above

• none of the above

RAM

• allows only serial access

• is read-only

• holds running programs and data

• holds the BIOS

ROM

• allows direct access

• cannot be written to

• is non-volatile memory

• holds the BIOS

Tick the Optical Storage Device/s

• Pen Drive

• Hard Disk

• DVD

• CD

How much RAM would you expect to find on a modern PC?

• 16 MB

• 16 GB

• 256 MB

• 256 GB

What is a reasonable capacity for a modern Hard Disk?

• 1 GB

• 256 TB

• 1TB

• 256 GB