WorksheetsSecondary Storage
Total questions: 15
Worksheet time: 8mins
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
What category of storage device is a HD card?
Magnetic
Optical
Solid state
Primary memory
What category of storage is a Blu-Ray disk?
Magnetic
Optical
Solid State
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 optical storage device has an average memory size of around 4.7GB?
CD
DVD
Blu-Ray
USB flash drive
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
Which of the secondary storage categories are the most durable (or strong/ toughest to break)?
Magnetic
Solid State
Optical
Primary memory
Which of the 3 categories of secondary storage are the cheapest to buy, per megabyte (MB)?
Magnetic
Optical
Solid State
