CIS- Chapter 7
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Optical discs use these to represent data.
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Pits and lands
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Which of these is not a mass storage device?
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Optical disc
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All of the following are try of DVD-ROM drives except:
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They are also known as erasable optical discs.
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One way to improve the storage capacity of a hard disk is to:
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Use file compression
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The hard disk's disk surface is scratched and some or all of the data is destroyed when there is a :
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head crash
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Mass storage devices are specialized high-capacity secondary storage devices designed to store large amounts of data for an organization.
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True
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Blu-ray discs are the high definition standard and have a far greater capacity than DVDs.
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True
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Media are the actual physical material that holds the data and programs.
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True
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The process of saving information to a secondary storage device is referred to as embedding.
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False
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CD-ROMS are often used to archive data and to record music downloaded from the Internet.
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False
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Hard disks store and organize files using all of the following, except_____. a. paths b. cylinders c. tracks d. sectors
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Paths
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Solid-state storage devices are different than hard disks in that they:
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have no moving parts
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Smartphones use which of these storage technologies?
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Flash memory card
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A CD-RW disc:
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can be erased and rewritten.
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The standard for high definition optical discs is:
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Blu-ray
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This allows you to upload and store documents on the Internet.
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Cloud storage
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This process improves system performance by acting as a temporary high-speed holding area between a secondary storage device and the CPU.
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Disk caching
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The ____ of a secondary storage device indicates how much data the storage medium can hold.
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capacity
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Which of the following is true about an internal hard disk? a. Portable b. Slow c. Fixed amount of storage d. Variable amount of storage
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Fixed amount of storage
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Which of the following measures the amount of time required by the storage device to retrieve data and programs? a. Access speed b. Capacity c. RAM d. Nonvolatile media
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Access speed
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Which of the following characteristics about RAID is incorrect? a. one high capacity hard disk drive b. fast access speed c. expanded storage capability d. highly reliable
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one high capacity hard disk drive
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The process of accessing information from secondary storage devices is referred to as _____.
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reading
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These discs have a capacity of 50 gigabytes on one side.
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Blu-Ray
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The standard for high definition optical discs is _____.
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Blu-ray
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What is it called when servers on the Internet supply applications as a service, rather than a product?
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Cloud computing
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Which of these is not an example of solid state storage? a. USB drives b. SSDs c. Digital versatile disc d. Flash memory cards
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Digital versatile disc
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An external hard disk _____.
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usually connects to a USB or Thunderbolt port
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Which of the following is not an example of secondary storage? a. RAM b. Flash drives c. RAID d. External hard drives
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RAM
