Storage Quiz 2

Secondary storage devices can be grouped into three categories - what are they?

• Magnetic, Flash and Optical

• Magnetic, Optical and Solid State

• Solid State, Flash and Hard Drives

• Hard Drives, CDs and USBs

Hard Disk Drives are a type of...

• Optical storage device

• Magnetic storage device

• Solid State memory

• Primary memory

CDs, DVDs and Blu-Rays are all types of...

• Magnetic storage devices

• Optical storage devices

• Solid State memory

• Primary memory

Magnetic tape storage is what kind of device...

• Solid state memory

• Optical storage

• Magnetic storage

• Primary memory

Which of the 3 categories of secondary storage is the least durable due to its moving parts?

• Optical storage

• Primary memory

• Solid state storage

• Magnetic storage

Which category of secondary storage devices has the fastest access speeds? (i.e. quicker to read and write to)

• Magnetic storage

• Solid state storage

• Primary memory

• Optical memory

Which category of secondary storage devices has the slowest access speeds? (i.e. slower to read and write to/from)

• Magnetic devices

• Optical devices

• Solid state memory

• Primary storage

Which category of secondary storage devices uses beams of light and lasers that read "pits" and "lands" as binary 1s and 0s?

• Magnetic storage

• Optical storage

• Solid state storage

Which category of secondary storage devices uses semiconductor chips to store data? It is also known as flash memory.

• Magnetic storage

• Optical storage

• Solid state

Which of the TWO categories of secondary storage devices are highly portable? (i.e. easy to carry)

• Magnetic and Optical

• Solid state and Optical

• Solid state and Magnetic