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Storage Devices

Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 9mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

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

a)

Magnetic, Flash and Optical

b)

Magnetic, Optical and Solid State

c)

Solid State, Flash and Hard Drives

d)

Hard Drives, CDs and USBs

2.

Hard Disk Drives are a type of...

a)

Optical storage device

b)

Magnetic storage device

c)

Solid State memory

d)

Primary memory

3.

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

a)

Magnetic storage devices

b)

Optical storage devices

c)

Solid State memory

d)

Primary memory

4.

Magnetic tape storage is what kind of device...

a)

Solid state memory

b)

Optical storage

c)

Magnetic storage

d)

Primary memory

5.

What category of storage device is a HD card?

a)

Magnetic

b)

Optical

c)

Solid state

d)

Primary memory

6.

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

a)

Optical storage

b)

Primary memory

c)

Solid state storage

d)

Magnetic storage

7.

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

a)

Magnetic storage

b)

Solid state storage

c)

Primary memory

d)

Optical memory

8.

Which of these is a Hard Disk Drive (HDD)?

a)
b)
c)
d)
9.

Which of these are magnetic storage devices?

a)
b)
c)
d)
e)
10.

Solid state storage has no moving parts?

a)

True

b)

False

11.

Which of these are magnetic storage devices?

a)
b)
c)
d)
e)
12.

Which type of storage uses a laser?

a)

Magnetic

b)

Optical

c)

Solid State

13.

Which of the following is most commonly found in PCs?

a)

Solid State Storage

b)

Magnetic Storage

c)

Cloud Storage

d)

Optical Storage

14.
What type of device is this? USB memory stick
a)
Input
b)
Output
c)
Storage
15.
Not intended to be a portable storage device.
a)
CD
b)
Flash memory
c)
DVD
d)
Internal hard disk
16.
Large organisations use this type of storage device to  back up their systems daily.
a)
CD
b)
DVD
c)
Blu-ray
d)
Magnetic tape
17.
Typically has the largest storage capacity and is the cheapest per gb.
a)
Magnetic storage
b)
Solid state storage
c)
Optical storage
18.
Typically stores 650mb of data on it - usually music.
a)
DVD
b)
Blu-ray
c)
CD
d)
Floppy disk
19.

Cloud storage is very secure because the host has lots of security procedures in place.

a)

True

b)

False

20.

Which of the following storage devices is most suitable for use in mobile devices?

a)

Cloud

b)

Magnetic

c)

Solid State

d)

Optical