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T/F Instead of, or in addition to, access time, some manufacturers state a storage device's transfer rate because it affects access time

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True

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Which of the following is made of aluminum, glass, or ceramic and is coated with an alloy material that allows items to be recorded magnetically on its surface?

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Platter

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Which storage term used to measure capacity is approximately a billion bytes?

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Gigabyte

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Which of the following storage devices typically has the fastest transfer rate?

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RAM

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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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T/F Depending on the card, manufacturers claim memory cards can last from 10 to 100 years

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True

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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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The process of copying audio and/or video data from a purchased disc and saving it on digital media is called ____

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Ripping

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Which of the following is NOT true about storage media and devices?

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Writing is the process of transferring items from storage media to memory

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What does NAS stand for?

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Network Attached Storage

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You are looking for a way to choose specific files to back up, regardless of whether or not the files have changed since the last incremental backup. Which of the following will you use?

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Selective Backup

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A popular use of CD-RW and CD-R discs is to create audio CDs. What is the process of copying audio and/or video data from a purchased disc and saving it on digital media called?

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Ripping

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Which of the following refers to the process of writing on an optical disc?

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Burning

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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 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 is NOT a cloud storage provider?

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eCloud

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Which of the following statements is NOT true about smart cards?

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Contact less smart cards communicate with a reader using Bluetooth technology

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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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What is storage media?

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The physical material on which a computer keeps data, instructions and information

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T/F The Sarbanes-Oxley Act provides a myriad of financial reporting requirements and guidelines for public companies

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True

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Which of the following is NOT true about caring for optical discs?

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Moisten a nonabrasive cloth with warm water and ammonia to clean the disc

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T/F Reading is the process of transferring data, instructions, and information from memory to a storage medium

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False

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T/F When storage devices write data on storage media, they are creating input

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False

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T/F One reason users store data and information using cloud storage is to view time-critical data and images immediately while away from a main office or location

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True

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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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T/F A screen display is considered nonvolatile because its contents disappear when power is removed

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False

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Which of the following is not true about tape storage?

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A benefit of tape is that it allows for non-sequential access

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What is the usual rate of speed for the platters in a hard disk?

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5,400 - 15,000 rpm

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T/F The greater the disk cache, the slower the hard disk

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False

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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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Laptops with solid-state drives usually have a higher storage capacity than laptops with a traditional hard disk

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False

question

Which of the following is a type of backup you can only perform at your large enterprise?

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Continuous

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You are looking to implement a high-speed network with the sole purpose of providing storage to other attached servers. Which of the following will you implement?

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SAN

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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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T/F When a user issues a command to run an application, the operating system locates the application in memory and loads it into storage

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False

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T/F A hard disk's platters may continue to spin even after power is removed from the computer

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True

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T/F External hard drives never have greater capacities than internal hard drives

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False

question

T/F M2 is an acronym for Magnetic Stick Micro

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False

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Which of the following terms is the number of bytes (characters) a storage medium can hold?

answer

Capacity

question

Which of the following kinds of backup is another name for a full backup?

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Archival

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T/F All computers can support multiple internal hard drives

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False

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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?

answer

DVD-ROM

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A group of two or more integrated hard disks is referred to as which of the following?

answer

RAID

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Which of the following is a good practice to follow to avoid scratching or damaging a disc like the one in the accompanying figure?

answer

Hold the disc by its edges

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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 disk single-session

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One exabyte is approximately one trillion bytes

answer

False

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Some personal computer manufacturers provide a hard disk configuration that connects multiple smaller disks into a single unit that acts like a single large hard disk. What is this grouping called?

answer

RAID

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You are looking for the best protection against data loss. Which of the following will you use?

answer

Archival Backup

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T/F DVD-RW is a high-capacity optical disc on which users can read but not write or erase

answer

False

question

T/F A level 1 configuration enhances storage reliability because, if a disk should fail, a duplicate of the requested item is available within the array of disks

answer

True

question

Which of the following is the mechanism that reads and writes items in the drive as it barely touches the disk's recording surface?

answer

Read/Write Head

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T/F As with a hard disk, the single track on an optical disc is divided into variably sized sectors on which items are stored

answer

False

question

Which of the following does NOT use direct access?

answer

Tape

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How do discs, like the one in the accompanying figure, commonly store items?

answer

in a single track that spirals from the center of the disc to the edge of the disc

question

Before any data can be read from or written on a hard disk, what must happen to the disk?

answer

Formatting

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T/F To meet their large-scale needs, enterprises use special hardware geared for heavy use

answer

True

question

What does a controller control?

answer

The interface between the hard disk and the system bus

question

The inflexible, circular platters on which kind of disks use magnetic particles to store data, instructions, and information?

answer

Hard

question

Your company has elected to offload all storage management to an outside organization. What is the term for this?

answer

Outsourcing

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Which of the following kinds of interfaces sends data one bit at a time?

answer

Serial

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T/F Optical discs should be stored in a flat (horizontal) position

answer

False

question

Which of the following kinds of access refers to reading or writing data consecutively?

answer

Sequential

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T/F Enterprises cannot implement both network attached storage and storage area networks

answer

False

question

Which statement best describes disk cache?

answer

memory chips on a hard disk that store frequently accessed items

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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?

answer

Smart Cards

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T/F Some DVDs are double-sided

answer

True

question

You want a storage medium that allows you to locate a particular data item immediately, without having to move consecutively through items stored in front of the desired data item or file. What kind of access will this storage medium use?

answer

Direct

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T/F Writing is the process of transferring data, instructions, and information from a storage medium into memory

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False

question

T/F You should defragment SSDs frequently because the location of the stored data has a significant impact on its access times

answer

False

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You are looking for a term that can be used to refer collectively to hard disks and SSDs inside a computer. Which of the following can you use?

answer

Internal Hard Drives

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Which of the following is true of SSDs compared to traditional hard disks?

answer

SSDs have faster transfer rate

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Memory (chips) accesses items in which of the following units of time?

answer

Nanoseconds

question

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?

answer

Controller

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T/F Disconnecting a USB flash drive while it is in use may cause damage to the files stored on the device

answer

True

question

T/F The process of writing on an optical disc is called burning

answer

True

question

Which of the following kinds of storage is NOT used by NAS and SAN solutions?

answer

Flash Memory

question

T/F One exabyte is approximately one trillion bytes

answer

False

question

T/F Laptops with solid-state drives usually have a higher storage capacity than laptops with a traditional hard disk

answer

False

question

T/F A hard disk's platters may continue to spin even after power is removed from the computer

answer

True

question

You are looking for an RFID tag that does not contain a battery because you want one that is small enough to be embedded in skin. Which of the following will you use?

answer

Passive RFID tag

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If your computer or printer does not have a built-in slot for memory cards, you can purchase a device that can access the data stored on the memory card. What is that device called?

answer

A card Reader/Writer

question

Which of the following is not a competing re-writable DVD format?

answer

DVD+R

question

Storage devices access items in which of the following units of time?

answer

Milliseconds

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T/F An allocation unit is the smallest unit of disk space that stores data and information

answer

False

question

T/F When writing or reading specific data, sequential access is much faster than direct access

answer

False

question

Which of the following is a device that reads from and writes on memory cards?

answer

Reader/Writer

question

Because a CD-R can be written on only one time, the format of these discs sometimes is called ____?

answer

WORM

question

You are looking for a backup that copies only the files that have changes since the last full backup. Which of the following will you use?

answer

Differential Backup

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T/F On an optical disc, a land causes light to reflect, which is read as binary digit 0

answer

False

question

What technology works with specially coated optical discs to etch labels directly on the disc?

answer

LightScribe

question

T/F You can erase a DVD+R

answer

False

question

Which of the following has a higher capacity and better quality than standard DVDs, especially for high-definition audio and video?

answer

Blu-Ray Disc

question

T/F The type of card you have will determine the type of card reader/writer needed

answer

True

question

T/F The images stored on microfilm and microfiche are so large that they can be read without a microfilm or microfiche reader

answer

False

question

Which of the following kinds of backup is another name for a selective backup?

answer

Partial

question

Which of the following kinds of RFID tags contains a battery that runs the chip's circuitry and broadcasts a signal to the RFID reader?

answer

Active

question

What best describes an optical disc?

answer

a flat, round portable disc that is written and read by a laser

question

What is the term for the case that contains the same adapters found on a motherboard with which to connect the internal hard drive?

answer

Enclosure

question

What happens when a computer or mobile device starts up?

answer

The computer locates operating system in storage and loads in into RAM

question

Which of the following is a multi-session optical disc on which users can write, but not erase, their own items such as text, graphics, and audio?

answer

CD-R

question

On desktops, platters most often have a size of approximately 3.5 inches in diameter. What is the size also referred to as?

answer

Form Factor

question

Users subscribe to a cloud storage service, like the kind advertised in the accompanying figure, to do all of the following EXCEPT to ____

answer

Make enterprises provide data center functions

question

What is the term for a narrow recording band that forms a full circle on the surface of a hard disk?

answer

Track

question

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?

answer

CD-R

question

Which of the following storage devices typically stores the operating system?

answer

Hard Disk/SSD

question

T/F All DVD-ROMs are single-sided

answer

False

question

What term refers to the amount of time it takes a storage device to locate an item on a storage medium?

answer

Access Time

question

Which of the following will you use if you are looking to perform backups in between full backups?

answer

Differential Backup

question

Items on a storage medium remain intact even when power is removed from the computer. What term describes this characteristic?

answer

Nonvolatile

question

Which of the following disc types can be written onto, but not erased?

answer

CD-R

question

T/F A DVD-RW is a high-capacity optical disc on which users can read but not write or erase

answer

False

question

You want to help ensure that unauthorized people will not be able to view the files on a given medium. Which of the following will you use?

answer

Encyption

question

T/F RFID is more secure than contactless smart cards

answer

False

question

Which of the following is the largest from among the following?

answer

YB

question

T/F Each part of a CD-R can be written on multiple times, and the disc's contents can be erased

answer

False

question

Which of the following is a high-capacity optical disc on which users can read but not write or erase?

answer

DVD-ROM

question

When storage devices write data, instructions, and information on storage media, they are creating output. What best describes the process of writing data?

answer

transferring items from memory to a storage medium

question

Which of the following statements is not true about hard drives?

answer

A hard disk that is mounted inside the system unit is sometimes called a permadisk

question

You want a storage medium that allows you to locate a particular data item immediately, without having to move consecutively through items stored in front of the desired data item or file. What kind of access will this storage medium use?

answer

Direct

question

T/F Instead of, or in addition to, access time, some manufacturers state a storage device's transfer rate because it affects access time

answer

True

question

Some computers improve hard disk access time by using which of the following, which consists of memory chips that store frequently accessed items?

answer

Disc Cache

question

Which of the following kinds of cards stores data on an integrated circuit embedded in the card?

answer

Smart

question

You are using an optical disc on your game console. Which of the following is it most likely to be?

answer

Mini Disc

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