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Secondary Storage Devices

Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 15mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

It's storage capacity is 700MB

a)

CD

b)

DVD

c)

Blu-ray

2.

DVD stands for

a)

Direct Video disk

b)

Downloaded video disk

c)

Dual Video disk

d)

Digital Versatile disk

3.

What is secondary storage?

a)

Storage that is directly accessible by the CPU

b)

Used to store data permanently

c)

Temporary storage used for processing data

d)

Storage that is used only for backup purposes

4.

Which of the following is a type of secondary storage?

a)

RAM

b)

Hard Disk Drive (HDD)

c)

CPU Cache

d)

Graphics Card

5.

Which of these is a common secondary storage device?

a)

USB Flash Drive

b)

RAM

c)

CPU

d)

Monitor

6.

What type of secondary storage is known for having no moving parts?

a)

Hard Disk Drive (HDD)

b)

Solid State Drive (SSD)

c)

Optical Disc

d)

Magnetic Tape

7.

Which of the following is a type of optical storage?

a)

SSD

b)

CD-ROM

c)

RAM

d)

USB Drive

8.

Which of the following is NOT a type of secondary storage?

a)

Blu-ray Disc

b)

RAM

c)

External Hard Drive

d)

SSD

9.

Which of the following is a characteristic of optical storage devices?

a)

They use magnetic fields to store data

b)

They use laser technology to read and write data

c)

They are volatile storage devices

d)

They are primarily used for RAM

10.

Which of the following secondary storage devices provide SEQUENTIAL ACCESS?

a)

Magnetic Tape

b)

DVD

c)

Flash Drive

d)

Cloud storage

11.

Magnetic tape is still used for ______

a)

Archiving of large data

b)

Remote storage

c)

Playstation games

d)

Music albums

12.

USB Flash Drives are NOT very portable devices.

a)

True

b)

False

13.

The storage devices shown may be found in all the following devices EXCEPT

a)

Digital Cameras

b)

Mobile Phones

c)

Game Consoles

d)

DVD players

14.

Secondary storage devices are said to be NON-VOLATILE devices.

a)

True

b)

False

15.

What type of storage is the fastest to read data from?

a)

Optical

b)

Magnetic

c)

Solid State

16.

What type of storage is HDD (Hard disk drive)?

a)

Optical

b)

Magnetic

c)

Solid State

17.

The two types of data access methods

available with secondary storage

devices are

a)

real and virtual

b)

direct and sequential.

c)

fast and slow.

d)

old and new.

18.

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

a)

Magnetic storage devices

b)

Optical storage devices

c)

Solid State memory

d)

Primary memory

19.

DVD can store more data than CDs

a)

True

b)

False

20.

Select all the primary storage devices

a)

RAM

b)

ROM

c)

Hard Disk

d)

Memory Card