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Storage Devices

Total questions: 45

Worksheet time: 23mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

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

a)
b)
c)
d)
2.

Which of these are magnetic storage devices?

a)
b)
c)
d)
e)
3.

Solid state storage has no moving parts?

a)

True

b)

False

4.

Which type of storage uses a laser light?

a)

Magnetic

b)

Optical

c)

Solid State

5.

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

a)

Cloud

b)

Magnetic

c)

Solid State

d)

Optical

6.

Which of the following is most commonly found in PCs?

a)

Solid State Storage

b)

Magnetic Storage

c)

Cloud Storage

d)

Optical Storage

7.

A CD has one long track on it full of ...

a)

Grooves and pot holes

b)

Pits and Lands

c)

Bumps and Dots

d)

Dots and Grooves

8.
Optical device, fairly fragile, easy to snap or scratch.
a)
Flash memory
b)
Magnetic Tape
c)
CD
d)
Hard disk
9.
Not intended to be a portable storage device.
a)
CD
b)
Flash memory
c)
DVD
d)
Internal hard disk
10.
Typically has the largest storage capacity and is the cheapest per gb.
a)
Magnetic storage
b)
Solid state storage
c)
Optical storage
11.
What is the most durable?
a)
Magnetic Tape
b)
Solid State Drive
c)
Hard Drive
d)
CD
12.
What type of device is this?
a)
Optical
b)
Magnetic
c)
Flash
13.
________ storage is good because it has no moving parts.
a)
Flash
b)
Optical
c)
Magnetic
14.

What is the name of the spinning disk in a Hard Disk Drive?

a)

Cone

b)

Platter

c)

CD

d)

DVD

15.

Which storage device use a blue laser?

a)

DVD Drive

b)

Blu-Ray Drive

c)

CD Drive

d)

USB Drive

16.

What is 'volatile' storage?

a)

Storage which is deleted without power

b)

Storage which remains in memory without power

c)

Storage which cannot be changed

d)

Storage which can be changed

17.

What is unique about ROM?

a)

It can be deleted

b)

It cannot be changed

c)

It is inside the computer

d)

It cannot be accessed externally

18.

What is the main different between Blu-ray and DVD?

a)

Blu-Ray stores less data

b)

Blu-ray uses a narrower laser

c)

DVDs cannot be rewritten

d)

Blu-Rays are HD

19.

Which is an example of primary memory?

a)

RAM

b)

HDD

c)

SSD

d)

Flash Memory

20.

USB stands for...............................

a)

Uniform Serial Bus

b)

Universal Serial Bus

c)

Unique Serial Bus

21.

Which of the following is an advantage of Solid State Storage?

a)

It has spinning disks to read the data

b)

The storage device is lightweight and silent

c)

SSDs are very cheap to buy and have lots of storage

22.

ROM stands for__________________

a)

Random Only Memory

b)

Read Only Memory

c)

Access Only Memory

23.

Storage device given in the picture uses

a)

Direct Access

b)

Serial Access

c)

Parallel Access

d)

Circular Access

24.

For playing a video game which type of access is most suitable?

a)

Direct Access

b)

Serial Access

c)

Parallel Access

d)

Circular Access

25.

CD-R can be rewritten any number of times

a)

True

b)

False

26.

Optical storage device that provides protection from piracy

a)

DVD

b)

CD-ROM

c)

Blu-Ray Disc

d)

CD-RW

27.

Most expensive storage device to buy

a)

HDD

b)

CD-RW

c)

Blu-Ray

d)

SSD

28.

Optical disk having concentric tracks

a)

DVD

b)

CD

c)

DVD-RAM

d)

Blu-Ray

29.

Slowest Access time

a)

Magnetic Tape

b)

HDD

c)

CD

d)

SSD

30.

Picture is of?

a)

HDD Platter

b)

DVD-RAM

c)

CD

d)

SSD Disc

31.

Which of the following is a best practice when backing up data?

a)

Back up your data to an external device or digital media.

b)

Back up your data to a folder on the same internal drive you use on a daily basis.

c)

Back up your data to the same partition that contains the Windows operating system.

d)

Back up your data without using encryption to make sure it is readable when restored.

32.

Why back up data? Pick 3 reasons

a)

Safeguard against loss data due to the storage device failure

b)

Safeguard against virus

c)

Safeguard against hackers

d)

24/7 availability

33.

Which type of access that access each record in turn until the required record is found?

a)

Serial

b)

Direct

34.

Storage device that uses serial access and in a very slow form of data access, called?

a)

Magnetic tape

b)

CD-R/CD-RW

c)

Memory stick

d)

HDD

35.

What is RW means in CD-RW?

a)

Write once only

b)

Can only be read

c)

Can be written to or read from many times

36.

A storage medium for portable devices like digital cameras, mobiles.

a)

Memory card

b)

USB

c)

CD

d)

Hard Disk

37.

Most popular backup device.Small, lightweight plug and play device used to copy data from one computer to another

a)

DVD

b)

Hard disk

c)

CD

d)

Flash drive

38.
Which of the following is the largest file size?
a)
bit
b)
byte
c)
kilobyte
d)
Megabyte
39.

Which of the followings are TRUE about RAM?

a)

Temporarily stores data

b)

Volatile memory

c)

Non-volatile memory

d)

Data is read only

e)

Very Fast data access

40.

Select all magnetic storage devices

a)

HDD

b)

CD

c)

Blue-ray

d)

SSD

e)

Tape

41.

Select all flash storage devices

a)

SSD

b)

HDD

c)

DVD

d)

Floppy

e)

USB Memory Stick

42.

How is data stored?

a)

Binary values

b)

Black and White

c)

Red or Blue

d)

Analogue

e)

Pixels

43.

Updating the data is most difficult in

a)

HDD

b)

CD

c)

Magnetic Tape

d)

SSD

44.

A company is on budget and they need to backup their data weekly once. Speed in not their top priority. Which backup device is suitable for this company?

a)

HDD

b)

Magnetic Tapes

c)

CD-RW

d)

Cloud Backup

45.

A professional travels too much and needs a large amount of data (terabytes). He also needs to backup the data on a daily bases. Weekly once the data needs to be copied to company servers. Which storage device is most suitable?

a)
b)
c)
d)