CGS ch.8 Digital Storage Flashcards
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Which of the following can be used to store a prepaid amount of money, such as for student purchases on campus?
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smart cards
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Which of the following is NOT a common type of memory card?
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MX6
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Which of the following kinds of storage is NOT used by NAS and SAN solutions?
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Flash Memory
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A DVD-ROM uses all of the following to achieve a higher storage capacity than a CD-ROM EXCEPT ____.
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making the disc single-session
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Which of the following is true of tape?
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It is no longer used as a primary method of storage but is used most often for long-term storage and backup.
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Which of the following is true of SSDs compared to traditional hard disks?
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SSDs have faster transfer rates.
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What kind of disc is a type of storage media that consists of a flat, round, portable disc made of metal, plastic, and lacquer that is written to and read by a laser?
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optical
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Which of the following is a small, rectangular, plastic housing for tape?
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Tape Cartridge
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Which of the following is NOT a cloud storage provider?
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ecloud
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Which of the following overcomes the major disadvantage of CD-R disks, which is being able to write on them only once?
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CD-RW
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Which of the following does NOT use direct access?
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Tape
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A group of two or more integrated hard disks is referred to as which of the following?
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RAID
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Which of the following is the mechanism that reads and writes items in the drive as it barely touches the disk's recording surface?
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read/ write head
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Which of the following provides a myriad of financial reporting requirements and guidelines for public companies?
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Sarbanes-Oxley Act
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Which of the following devices is the computer hardware that records and/or retrieves items to and from a flash drive or external hard drive, for example?
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Storage
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A standard CD-ROM is referred to as this kind of disc because manufacturers write all items on the disc at one time. What is the term used?
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single-session
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Which of the following kinds of backup is another name for a selective backup?
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partial
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The inflexible, circular platters on which kind of disks use magnetic particles to store data, instructions, and information?
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hard
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Which of the following is a small sheet of film, usually about 4 X 6 inches, that stores microscopic images of documents?
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microfiche
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Which of the following kinds of interfaces sends data one bit at a time?
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serial
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What is the term for the case that contains the same adapters found on a motherboard with which to connect the internal hard drive?
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enclosure
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What do discs, like the kind shown in the accompanying figure, usually measure?
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4.75 inches in diameter and less than one-twentieth of an inch thick
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Which of the following kinds of access refers to reading or writing data consecutively?
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sequential
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Which of the following is NOT an advantage of external hard drives over internal hard drives?
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they leave data in the computer
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Which of the following kinds of backup is another name for a full backup?
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archival
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Which of the following is a multisession optical disc on which users can write, but not erase, their own items such as text, graphics, and audio?
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CD-R
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How do discs, like the one in the accompanying figure, commonly store items?
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in a single track that spirals from the center of the disc to the edge of the disc
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Which of the following kinds of devices are servers connected to a network with the sole purpose of providing storage?
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NAS
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Some computers improve hard disk access time by using which of the following, which consists of memory chips that store frequently accessed items?
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disk cache
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Which of the following interfaces sends several bits at once?
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parallel
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Which of the following is a high-capacity optical disc on which users can read but not write or erase?
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DVD-ROM
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Which of the following consists of a special-purpose chip and electronic circuits that govern the transfer of data, instructions, and information from a drive to and from the system bus and other components in the computer?
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controller
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Which of the following kinds of devices duplicates data, instructions, and information to improve data reliability?
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RAID
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What kind of storage is an Internet service that provides storage to computer or mobile users?
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cloud
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Which of the following terms is the number of bytes (characters) a storage medium can hold?
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capacity
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Which of the following is a type of optical disc that users can read from but not write to or erase?
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DVD-ROM
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Which of the following is not a characteristic of a hard disk?
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write-protect notch
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Which of the following kinds of cards stores data on an integrated circuit embedded in the card?
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smart
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Memory (chips) accesses items in which of the following units of time?
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nanoseconds
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Which of the following is the mechanism that reads and writes items in the drive as it barely touches the disk's recording surface?
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read/write head
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Which of the following is NOT a cloud storage provider that places a folder on your computer with contents you can synchronize across multiple devices?
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CloudDrive
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Which of the following is the largest from among the following?
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YB
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Storage devices access items in which of the following units of time?
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milliseconds
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Which of the following is a device that reads from and writes on memory cards?
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reader/writer
