WorksheetsCSC134_Chapter 4: Secondary Storage
Total questions: 25
Worksheet time: 13mins
USB flash drives use solid state memory.
TRUE
FALSE
A CD-ROM is re-writable.
TRUE
FALSE
Solid state hard drives have moving parts.
TRUE
FALSE
The term capacity refers to:
how shiny the device is
the amount of data you can store on the device
how easily you can damage the device
the speed of the device
The term durability refers to:
the speed of the device
the amount of data you can store on the device
how easily you can damage the device
how shiny the device is
The term portability refers to:
how easy it is to carry around/transport the device
the speed of the device
the amount of data you can store on the device
how shiny the device is
Which one of these is commonly used to measure storage capacity?
The number of text documents you can store on it
Bytes
Hertz
Amps
All secondary storage devices are external to the computer
TRUE
FALSE
If you use online storage and your internet goes down, the data is permanently lost
TRUE
FALSE
ROM is a primary storage device
TRUE
FALSE
A(n) ______ card is a credit card, entertainment card, bank card or other similar card, with a stripe that contains information identifying you and the card.
Secure Digital High Capacity (SDHC)
magnetic stripe
Secure Digital
microSDHC
A group of two or more integrated hard disks is called a _______.
backup
platter
RAID
portable hard disk
Users subscribe to a cloud storage service to ______.
access files from any computer that has Internet access
allow others to access their files
store offsite backups off data
All of the above
The process of accessing information from secondary storage devices is referred as ________.
writing
reading
backing up
restoring
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
CDs, DVDs and Blu-Rays are all types of...
Magnetic storage devices
Optical storage devices
Solid State memory
Primary memory
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
It stores microscopic images of documents on a roll or sheet film.
The following are some of devices used in Enterprise Storage System except:
File servers
RAID
Networked Attached Storage (NAS)
RFID tag
Volatile means data on a storage medium remain intact when you turn off a computer or mobile device.
TRUE
FALSE
Which definition of optical discs are FALSE?
CD-ROM can be read from but not written to
CD-R is an optical disc on which users can write once, but not erase.
CD-RW is an erasable multi-session disc
DVD-ROM is a re-writable high capacity optical disc on which users can read but not write or erase
Storage Area Network (SAN) is a high-speed network with the sole purpose of providing storage to other attached servers.
TRUE
FALSE
