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Types of Storage Devices

Total questions: 32

Worksheet time: 15mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Which of the following is most commonly found in PCs?

a)

Solid State Storage

b)

Magnetic Storage

c)

Cloud Storage

d)

Optical Storage

2.
A ______ is the main storage device in your computer.
a)
CPU
b)
Hard drive
c)
Motherboard
d)
CD-Rom
3.
Not intended to be a portable storage device.
a)
CD
b)
Flash memory
c)
DVD
d)
Internal hard disk
4.
Large organisations use this type of storage device to  back up their systems daily.
a)
CD
b)
DVD
c)
Blu-ray
d)
Magnetic tape
5.

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

a)
b)
c)
d)
6.

Which of these are magnetic storage devices? (choose all that apply)

a)
b)
c)
d)
e)
7.

These are offline storage?

a)

True

b)

False

8.

What type of storage is this device?

a)

Primary

b)

Online

c)

Offline

9.

Which type of storage is great for storing backups safely?

a)

Primary

b)

Secondary

c)

Offline

10.
Optical device, fairly fragile, easy to snap or scratch.
a)
Flash memory
b)
Magnetic Tape
c)
CD
d)
Hard disk
11.

What is a storage device?

a)

A device use for calculating data

b)

A device used to store data temporarily

c)

A device used to supply power to the computer

d)

A device used to store data permanently

12.

Which of these is RAM?

a)
b)
c)
d)
13.

Which of these is primary storage? (choose all that apply)

a)

Portable HDD

b)

SSD

c)

HDD

d)

ROM Chip

e)

RAM

14.

Which type of storage is directly accessible to the CPU?

a)

Primary

b)

Secondary

c)

Offline

15.

Which of these is primary storage?

a)
b)
c)
d)
16.

Which of these are Optical storage? (choose all that apply)

a)
b)
c)
d)
17.

Which of these are NOT optical storage? (choose all that apply)

a)
b)
c)
d)
e)
18.
Which one of these devices is solid state?
a)
USB flash memory
b)
CD
c)
DVD
d)
Magnetic stripe
19.
What type of device is this?
a)
Optical
b)
Magnetic
c)
Flash
20.
What type of device is this?
a)
Optical
b)
Magnetic
c)
Flash
21.

What type of device is this?

a)

Optical

b)

Magnetic

c)

Solid State

22.

What is offline-storage

a)

Storage which is not on the internet

b)

Storage which is volatile

c)

Storage which cannot be deleted

d)

Storage which is external (outside) the system, but must be connected to the system for data to be retrieved and stored

23.

What does HDD stand for?

a)

Hard Driving Disks

b)

Hard Drive Diagram

c)

Hard Disk Dimensions

d)

Hard Disk Drive

24.

Internal Hard Drives are...

a)

Inside an enclosure

b)

Portable

c)

Inside a computer

d)

Outside the computer case

25.

What type of Hard Drive is outside the computer in a portable enclosure?

a)

External Hard Drive

b)

Hard Disk Drive

c)

Solid State Drive

d)

Internal Hard Drive

26.
What are some examples of Optical Formats
a)
CD, DVD, Blu-Ray
b)
CD, DVD, Tape
c)
DVD, CD, Disk
d)
90hjxz8 erDVD, TV, Mouse
27.

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

28.

Hard Disk Drives are a type of...

a)

Optical storage device

b)

Magnetic storage device

c)

Solid State memory

d)

Primary memory

29.

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

a)

Magnetic storage devices

b)

Optical storage devices

c)

Solid State memory

d)

Primary memory

30.

Magnetic tape storage is what kind of device...

a)

Solid state memory

b)

Optical storage

c)

Magnetic storage

d)

Primary memory

31.

A storage DEVICE is the component that reads and writes information, and a storage MEDIA is the component that the data is read from or written to.

a)

True

b)

False

32.

Which of these are reasons for computer systems requiring secondary storage? (Tick all that apply)

a)

Secondary storage improves system performance

b)

Used to back up data stored in main memory/primary storage.

c)

Stores programs/data and files that would be lost when the power is switched off.

d)

Need for larger storage capacity (than what RAM and ROM can provide).

e)

Its required for Virtual Networks