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Storage Devices

Total questions: 25

Worksheet time: 13mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What does HDD stand for?

a)

Hard Driving Disks

b)

Hard Drive Diagram

c)

Hard Disk Dimensions

d)

Hard Disk Drive

2.

What does SSD stand for?

a)

Silicon Saving Device

b)

Solid Storage Device

c)

Storing Saving Drive

d)

Solid State Drive

3.

What is a storage device?

a)

A device use for calculating data

b)

A device used to store data temporarily

c)

A device used to supply power to the computer

d)

A device used to store data permanently

4.

Storage devices are generally...

a)

Volatile

b)

Non-Volatile

5.

Internal Hard Drives are...

a)

Inside an enclosure

b)

Portable

c)

Inside a computer

d)

Outside the computer case

6.

What type of Hard Drive is outside the computer in a portable enclosure?

a)

External Hard Drive

b)

Hard Disk Drive

c)

Solid State Drive

d)

Internal Hard Drive

7.

Which hard drive has no moving parts?

a)

SSD

b)

HDD

8.

Which hard drive uses spinning disks to store data?

a)

HDD

b)

SSD

9.

Optics is the branch of physics that deals with what?

a)

Motion

b)

Electricity

c)

Light

d)

Magnetics

10.

Optical drives are used to read...

a)

CDs

b)

Flash Drives

c)

Floppy Disks

d)

SSDs

11.

What do optical drives use to read data on CDs or DVDs?

a)

Flash Memory

b)

Metallic Tape

c)

Magnetic Tape

d)

Laser

12.

Binary on an optical disc is read as what?

a)

Bumps and Flat Surfaces

b)

Magnetic 1s and 0s

c)

Tiny Holes that light shines through

d)

Tiny 1s and 0s printed on the disc

13.

One of the easiest storage devices without moving parts is a...

a)

Optical Drive

b)

Flash Drive

c)

HDD

d)

Floppy Disk

14.

What must you do before removing your flash drive?

a)

Clean it

b)

Close all programs

c)

Turn off your computer

d)

Eject it

15.

A type of portable storage that is similar to Flash Drives and is used in many digital cameras.

a)

Thumb Drive

b)

SD Card

c)

SSD

d)

Memory Stick

16.

Which of these is not a type of SD Card?

a)

Micro SD

b)

SD Card

c)

X-Large SD

d)

Mini SD

17.

Which type of storage device generally has the largest capacities?

a)

Hard Drives

b)

Flash Drives

c)

SD Cards

d)

Optical Drives

18.

What year did the first flash drive come out?

a)

1965

b)

2000

c)

1993

d)

2008

19.

What does the word "obsolete" mean?

a)

Slow technology

b)

Small data storage capacity

c)

No longer in use

d)

Broken

20.

Which of these are obsolete?

a)

Floppy Disk

b)

CD

c)

Flash Drive

d)

All of these

21.

What is the storage capacity of a 3 1/2-inch Floppy?

a)

3.2 KB

b)

75 Bytes

c)

1.44 MB

d)

56.7 MB

22.

In which decade was the first floppy disk introduced?

a)

1950s

b)

1960s

c)

1970s

d)

1980s

23.

When did floppy disks stop being used in computers?

a)

Late 1980s

b)

Around 2010

c)

Mid 1990s

d)

Early 2000s

24.

Which of these is not a type of floppy disk

a)

3 1/2-inch

b)

4 3/4-inch

c)

5 1/4-inch

d)

8-inch

25.

I am wanting to use a floppy disk to store some files. What am I most likely to put on the disk?

a)

A song

b)

A few photos

c)

Some text documents

d)

All of these