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CEA201

Total questions: 10

Worksheet time: 6mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Greater ability to withstand shock and damage, improvement in the uniformity of the magnet film surface to increase disk reliability, and a significant reduction in overall surface defects to help reduce read-write errors, are all benefits of ___________. ( Choice wrong aswer )

a)

a. magnetic read and write mechanisms

b)

b. platters

c)

c. The glass substrate

d)

d. A solid state drive

2.

In most contemporary systems fixed-length sectors are used, with _________ bytes being the nearly universal sector size.

a)

a. 64

b)

b. 128

c)

c. 256

d)

d. 512

3.

The SSDs now on the market use a type of semiconductor memory referred to as flash memory.(T/F)

a)

T

b)

F

4.

There are typically hundreds of sectors per track and they may be either fixed or variable lengths.(T/F)

a)

T

b)

F

5.

The width of a track is double that of the head.(T/F)

a)

T

b)

F

6.

The head must generate or sense an electromagnetic field of sufficient magnitude to write and read properly.

a)

T

b)

F

7.

Magnetic disks are not the foundation of external memory on virtually all computer systems.(T/F)

a)

T

b)

F

8.

The areas between pits are called _________.

a)

a. lands

b)

b. sectors

c)

c. cylinders

d)

d. strips

9.

__________ is the standardized scheme for multiple-disk database design.

a)

RAID

b)

CAV

c)

CLV

d)

SSD

10.

RAID is not a set of physical disk drives viewed by the operating system as a single logical drive.(T/F)

a)

T

b)

F