Unit S01 - Part 3 - Storage

Which of the following hardware capable of holding information either temporarily or permanently?

• CPU

• Storage media

• Printer

• RAM

What is the smallest physical storage unit on the disk ?

• Sector

• Bit

• Cluster

• File

Which one of the following is the smallest unit of space used for storing data?

• Byte

• Cluster

• File

• Sector

What contains a fixed number of bytes (generally at least 512)?

• Sector

• Byte

• RAM

• Bit

Which one of the following is broken into groups of sectors and carries one complete circle of data on one side of a hard drive platter?

• File

• Byte

• Track

• Cluster

Where do we assign a letter to a physical or logical drive?

• Cluster

• File

• Hard derive

• Drive mapping

Which is the correct order for units of storage starting from the smallest to the largest?

• Byte, Kilobyte, Megabyte

• Bit, Byte, Megabyte

• Bit, Kilobyte, Megabyte

• Byte, Megabyte, Kilobyte

Which process reads data from permanent store and writes it to the computer's main store?

• Saving data

• Loading data

• Writing data

• Reading data

Which storage drive saves the applications that are regularly used on computer?

• RAM

• ROM

• File

• HDD

Which one of the following stores the computer start-up instructions called by the BIOS ( it is a non 'volatile' memory)?

• RAM

• ROM

• File

• HDD